Elizondo and other participants say the program - parts of it remain classified - has continued in other forms. But the Navy recently said it currently investigates military reports of U.F.O.s, and Mr. The program, which began in 2007 and was largely funded at the request of Harry Reid, the Nevada Democrat who was the Senate majority leader at the time, was officially shut down in 2012 when the money dried up, according to the Pentagon. Lieutenant Graves and four other Navy pilots, who said in interviews with The New York Times that they saw the objects in 20 in training maneuvers from Virginia to Florida off the aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt, make no assertions of their provenance. No one in the Defense Department is saying that the objects were extraterrestrial, and experts emphasize that earthly explanations can generally be found for such incidents. Some of the incidents were videotaped, including one taken by a planeвЂ™s camera in early 2015 that shows an object zooming over the ocean waves as pilots question what they are watching. In late 2014, a Super Hornet pilot had a near collision with one of the objects, and an official mishap report was filed. With the speeds we observed, 12 hours in the air is 11 hours longer than weвЂ™d expect.вЂќ вЂњKeeping an aircraft in the air requires a significant amount of energy. Ryan Graves, an F/A-18 Super Hornet pilot who has been with the Navy for 10 years, and who reported his sightings to the Pentagon and Congress.

вЂњThese things would be out there all day,вЂќ said Lt. Navy pilots reported to their superiors that the objects had no visible engine or infrared exhaust plumes, but that they could reach 30,000 feet and hypersonic speeds. WASHINGTON - The strange objects, one of them like a spinning top moving against the wind, appeared almost daily from the summer of 2014 to March 2015, high in the skies over the East Coast.

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