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Wall Street Journal
3 days ago
- Politics
- Wall Street Journal
How the Houthis Rattled the U.S. Navy—and Transformed Maritime War
The evening of May 6, an F/A-18 Super Hornet was coming in for a landing on the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier in the Red Sea. An onboard mechanism to slow down the fighter jet failed, and the $67 million aircraft slid off the carrier's runway and into the water. It was the third fighter jet that the Truman had lost in less than five months, and came hours after President Trump surprised Pentagon officials with the announcement that the U.S. had reached a truce with the Houthis in Yemen. The Truman had arrived at the Red Sea in December 2024 to battle the Iran-aligned militants—joining a campaign filled with heavy exchanges and close calls that strained the U.S. Navy.
Daily Mail
20-05-2025
- Science
- Daily Mail
UFO crashes into U.S. Air Force fighter jet over Arizona during terrifying encounter
A UFO slammed into a U.S. fighter jet over Arizona, cracking the canopy protecting the pilot, and forcing the $63million plane to land, new reports have revealed. According to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the F-16 Viper fighter jet was hit by an 'orange-white UAS' - which stands for uncrewed aerial system, better known as a drone - on January 19, 2023. Within a day of this collision, there were three more unidentified aircraft sightings over the Air Force's Barry Goldwater Range, where the fighter was damaged, the documents stated. Barry Goldwater Range is an expanse of desert along the Arizona-Mexico border where the military practices air-to-air and ir-to-ground combat. The FAA's report of the F-16 collision revealed that the fighter was flying in restricted airspace near Gila Bend, Arizona, when it was hit by the object in the rear of the canopy, the glass bubble which protects the pilot. No injuries were reported. The Air Force did not reveal how much damage the jet suffered, but the plane was grounded for repairs. These new details come as a stunning report from the Department of Defense's All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) shows there have been hundreds of UFO reports made in recent years and Arizona is becoming the nation's new UFO hotspot. AARO serves as a centralized department which looks into all things related to Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) sightings and reports which could impact national security or air safety. The F-16 collision is just one of 22 incidents involving Air Force fighter pilots seeing or crashing into strange objects between October 2022 and June 2023, according to Most of the encounters took place within 100 miles of Luke Air Force Base, where many of the F-16 fighter jets using Barry Goldwater Range launch from. Although the FAA said there's no evidence that the collision involved something extraterrestrial, it's one of several recent UFO incidents that have plagued U.S. airspace over Arizona. In fact, some of these strange sightings involved swarms of up to eight mysterious objects flying over Air Force training bases along the US border with Mexico. Between 2016 and 2020, military pilots reported seeing unidentified drone-like objects over the state eight times. The new FAA details come as another government report shows that there were 757 sightings of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) worldwide reported between May 2023 and June 2024 alone - and only 49 of these cases have been solved. When incidents like the F-16 collision occur, the pilot files a report, which the FAA investigates using radar and other data. If the incident involves a UFO, it's sent to AARO for further investigation. At least 410 of these 757 new UAP reports from around the world occurred over the US, with the vast majority being sent in by the FAA between May 1, 2023 and June 1, 2024. However, many more of these encounters took place over restricted military airspace, and the AARO report did not reveal where exactly these sightings occurred. Despite the secrecy, UFO whistleblowers are revealing that many are taking place in Arizona. That includes Luis Elizondo, a former government intelligence officer who investigated these cases before leaving the Pentagon. 'A lot of people reporting a lot of things out of Arizona, particularly on the border,' Elizondo disclosed. Bob Thompson, who spent 14 years with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), also recently shared never-before-seen videos of UFOs spotted over Arizona. 'I've seen orbs that were off in the distance. I've seen crafts that were cigar-shaped, I've seen triangles,' the whistleblower told NewsNation. Thompson added that over 100 CBP agents have confessed to him that they have seen strange and unidentified objects flying along the US border. Specifically, there's a growing belief that the surge in unidentified drone sightings is due to drug cartels launching high-tech spy missions into the U.S. 'We're seeing drones… used as scouting patrols, to watch Border Patrol,' NewsNation's border report Ali Bradley explained. Unlike drones which the U.S. government believed were launched by China, these new drones are harder to detect and also larger so they can potentially carry bigger packages of drugs across the border. Trump Administration border czar Tom Homan has added that many of these sightings are likely high-tech drones spying on U.S. military bases in Arizona. Bradley noted that one of the cartels' top goals is to infiltrate U.S. military facilities, so they can stay one step ahead of patrols enforcing illegal immigration and drug trafficking. Of the 49 AARO investigations that have been closed, the UFOs were determined to be airplanes, balloons, birds, drones, and satellites that were mistaken as alien aircraft. AARO has recommended that another 243 cases be closed for the same reasons.
Daily Mail
19-05-2025
- Science
- Daily Mail
UFO crashes into US Air Force fighter jet over Arizona during terrifying encounter
A UFO slammed into a US fighter jet over Arizona, cracking the canopy protecting the pilot, and forcing the $63 million plane to land, new reports have revealed. According to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the F-16 Viper fighter jet was hit by an 'orange-white UAS' - which stands for uncrewed aerial system, better known as a drone - on January 19, 2023. Within a day of this collision, there were three more unidentified aircraft sightings over the Air Force's Barry Goldwater Range, where the fighter was damaged, the documents stated. Barry Goldwater Range is an expanse of desert along the Arizona-Mexico border where the military practices air-to-air and air-to-ground combat. The FAA's report of the F-16 collision revealed that the fighter was flying in restricted airspace near Gila Bend, Arizona, when it was hit by the object in the rear of the canopy, the glass bubble which protects the pilot. No injuries were reported. The Air Force did not reveal how much damage the jet suffered, but the plane was grounded for repairs. These new details come as a stunning report from the Department of Defense's All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) shows there have been hundreds of UFO reports made in recent years and Arizona is becoming the nation's new UFO hotspot. AARO serves as a centralized department which looks into all things related to Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) sightings and reports which could impact national security or air safety. The F-16 collision is just one of 22 incidents involving Air Force fighter pilots seeing or crashing into strange objects between October 2022 and June 2023, according to Most of the encounters took place within 100 miles of Luke Air Force Base, where many of the F-16 fighter jets using Barry Goldwater Range launch from. Although the FAA said there's no evidence that the collision involved something extraterrestrial, it's one of several recent UFO incidents that have plagued US airspace over Arizona. In fact, some of these strange sightings involved swarms of up to eight mysterious objects flying over Air Force training bases along the US border with Mexico. Between 2016 and 2020, military pilots reported seeing unidentified drone-like objects over the state eight times. The new FAA details come as another government report shows that there were 757 sightings of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) worldwide reported between May 2023 and June 2024 alone - and only 49 of these cases have been solved. When incidents like the F-16 collision occur, the pilot files a report, which the FAA investigates using radar and other data. If the incident involves a UFO, it's sent to AARO for further investigation. At least 410 of these 757 new UAP reports from around the world occurred over the US, with the vast majority being sent in by the FAA between May 1, 2023 and June 1, 2024. However, many more of these encounters took place over restricted military airspace, and the AARO report did not reveal where exactly these sightings occurred. Despite the secrecy, UFO whistleblowers are revealing that many are taking place in Arizona. That includes Luis Elizondo, a former government intelligence officer who investigated these cases before leaving the Pentagon. 'A lot of people reporting a lot of things out of Arizona, particularly on the border,' Elizondo disclosed. Bob Thompson, who spent 14 years with US Customs and Border Protection (CBP), also recently shared never-before-seen videos of UFOs spotted over Arizona. 'I've seen orbs that were off in the distance. I've seen crafts that were cigar-shaped, I've seen triangles,' the whistleblower told NewsNation. Thompson added that over 100 CBP agents have confessed to him that they have seen strange and unidentified objects flying along the US border. These sightings included US border agents witnessing terrifying 'portals' opening into the sky. 'I got told that they witnessed a portal opening up in the sky and there were pictures of it on a camera that I was able to see,' Thompson revealed. Although hundreds of these strange sightings sent to AARO are still marked as open investigations, many in the government are blaming Mexico - not aliens. Numerous 'car-sized' drones first appeared over New Jersey in mid-November, and have since been reported by eyewitnesses all across the Northeast. Similar drone sightings have been taking place along the US southern border, with government officials suspecting Mexican cartels may be involved Specifically, there's a growing belief that the surge in unidentified drone sightings is due to drug cartels launching high-tech spy missions into the US. 'We're seeing drones… used as scouting patrols, to watch Border Patrol,' NewsNation's border report Ali Bradley explained. Unlike drones which the US government believed were launched by China, these new drones are harder to detect and also larger so they can potentially carry bigger packages of drugs across the border. Trump Administration border czar Tom Homan has added that many of these sightings are likely high-tech drones spying on US military bases in Arizona. Bradley noted that one of the cartels' top goals is to infiltrate US military facilities, so they can stay one step ahead of patrols enforcing illegal immigration and drug trafficking. Of the 49 AARO investigations that have been closed, the UFOs were determined to be airplanes, balloons, birds, drones, and satellites that were mistaken as alien aircraft.
Yahoo
11-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Trump wants to upend American holidays
It may be no surprise that President Donald Trump, who did not serve in the active-duty military, would rather celebrate victory than veterans. In multiple social media posts this month, Trump said he would declare November 11 as Victory Day for World War I. He didn't mention that it's already a federal holiday: Veterans Day. In a similar vein, Trump wants a military parade that could cost tens of millions of dollars to celebrate the US Army's 250th birthday, which so happens to fall on his birthday, June 14. It's also Flag Day, when the Continental Congress adopted the American flag. 'I view it for Flag Day, not necessarily my birthday,' Trump told NBC News in a recent interview. 'Somebody put it together.' It could be the same kind of coincidence by which the expensive new fighter jet the Pentagon is developing will be the F-47 and Trump is the 47th president. Nobody at the White House appears to have put together that the day Trump wants to celebrate Victory in World War II Day, May 8, when Germany surrendered in Europe, was not the end of World War II. Americans continued fighting and dying in the Pacific theater until August, when the US dropped nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan. Trump said it's important for the US to celebrate these days. It sounds quite similar to Victory Day in Russia, a cringe-worthy idea for anyone who does not want to put the US government alongside Russia's. But on the other hand, the president is not calling for full-on federal holidays. There are too many already, he said. (It would also take an act of Congress.) The rhetorical idea of superimposing a celebration of victory over veterans is noteworthy. It's quite the evolution for a holiday that used to commemorate armistice when it was first observed by Woodrow Wilson in 1919, a year after the truce that ended the war: A few years later, in 1923, just before his death, a frail Wilson would chastise Americans in an Armistice Day radio address for turning toward isolationism and not joining the League of Nations, a sentiment still relevant today as Trump disrupts the post-World War II economic and diplomatic order. The president most associated with that post-World War II order, Dwight Eisenhower, is also the one who proclaimed that Armistice Day should become Veterans Day. 'Let us solemnly remember the sacrifices of all those who fought so valiantly, on the seas, in the air, and on foreign shores, to preserve our heritage of freedom, and let us reconsecrate ourselves to the task of promoting an enduring peace so that their efforts shall not have been in vain,' Eisenhower wrote. He may be better remembered for a farewell speech warning of a military-industrial complex, which also echoes across history now that Trump, unlike Eisenhower, wants to parade military hardware through the nation's capital. 'We have the greatest missiles in the world,' Trump told NBC News. 'We have the greatest submarines in the world. We have the greatest army tanks in the world. We have the greatest weapons in the world. And we're going to celebrate it.'
Fox News
07-05-2025
- General
- Fox News
Second Navy fighter jet goes overboard from Truman aircraft carrier, pilots ejected
Two U.S. Navy pilots ejected while attempting to land a fighter jet on an aircraft carrier on Tuesday, resulting in the aircraft being lost in the Red Sea, the second such incident in a week, Department of Defense officials said. An F/A-18F Super Hornet, attached to Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 11, was landing on the flight deck of USS Harry S. Truman "when the arrestment failed, causing the aircraft to go overboard," the official told Fox News Digital. NAVY DEPLOYS ADDITIONAL WARSHIP TO CURB ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION, DRUG SMUGGLING AT THE SOUTHERN BORDER Both pilots in the aircraft ejected and were rescued. The warplane went overboard into the sea and has not been recovered. "The aviators were evaluated by medical personnel and assessed to have minor injuries. No flight deck personnel were injured," the official said. The incident occurred just over a week after another F/A-18F Super Hornet went overboard on the USS Truman. TRUMP'S USE OF WARSHIP FOR BORDER ENFORCEMENT A 'SMART' USE OF MILITARY FORCE, EXPERT SAYS The $67.4 million aircraft was lost when it was actively under tow in a hangar bay when the crew lost control of the aircraft . Sailors towing the aircraft took "immediate action" to move clear of the aircraft before it fell overboard, the Navy said. At the time, officials said the Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group, a coalition of U.S. warships deployed to the Red Sea, and an air wing remained fully mission-capable. CLICK TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP The strike group comprises the Truman aircraft carrier and nine squadrons of Carrier Air Wing 1, three guided-missile destroyers of Destroyer Squadron 28, and the Ticonderoga-class cruiser USS Gettysburg. The carrier has been operating in the Red Sea, where it has launched strikes against Iran-backed Houthi terrorists based in Yemen. On Tuesday, Trump announced a ceasefire with the terror group.
