Channel Islands and UFOs

Unexplained UFO Encounters: US Warships Tracked by Mysterious Objects off

For a long time, several weeks in 2019, mysterious objects almost daily, openly pursued US warships off the coast of southern California in the Pacific Ocean.

According to the documents, the first reports of unidentified objects hovering, hovering and flying near Navy ships for the first time caused a large-scale investigation at the highest level. The Navy, working with the FBI and Coast Guard, has ruled out any civilian activity or U.S. own military operations as a plausible explanation for the largely dangerous and close encounters. This leaves two plausible explanations, each of which may have extraordinary consequences.

  1. either the enemy is spying on Navy ships near the Channel Islands (which lie west of Los Angeles and San Diego), probably Russia or China.
  2. or these really objects of unknown origin, which with impunity monitor the ships of the United States (and their allies) with unspecified purposes.

We agreed that in both cases these are intelligence actions. The consequences of a foreign power deploying drones to spy on American warships off the coast of California are enormous. Firstly, this scenario assumes a grand failure of US counterintelligence. Moreover, such a brazen and technically sophisticated intelligence operation is a dangerous gamble for a hostile nation. Destruction of a foreign reconnaissance drone (if its ownership is proven) so close to the shores of the United States — would entail large-scale geopolitical consequences.

It is important to note that if the UFOs that were chasing Navy warships were part of enemy intelligence gathering activities, then the operators of these objects did not make much effort to hide their presence. As already noted, unknown objects behaved "brazenly" without hiding.

Moreover, such a brazen and technically sophisticated intelligence operation is a dangerous gamble for a hostile nation. Destruction of a foreign reconnaissance drone (if its ownership is proven) so close to the shores of the United States — would entail large-scale geopolitical consequences.

It is important to note that if the UFOs that were chasing Navy warships were part of enemy intelligence gathering activities, then the operators of these objects did not make much effort to hide their presence. As already noted, unknown objects behaved "brazenly" without hiding.

A video taken from a US vessel shows how an unidentified object passing a parallel course increases brightness and flashes. At the same time, Navy radar operators easily tracked objects, expressing surprise when the "object" performed abnormal maneuvers impossible for modern aircraft. In another video, a spherical object (which has remarkable parallels with UFOs observed by fighter pilots off the east coast of the United States) slowly descends into the ocean.

UFO sightings

Of course, intelligence analysts should take seriously the possibility that a foreign power is spying on US warships located a stone's throw from major American cities. But based on what is known about these strange incidents, investigators should also take into account the long history of UFO sightings around the Channel Islands. Decades of reports perceived as anecdotal are now backed up by the most reliable and documented encounters in history.

During a remarkable incident in 2004, air traffic controllers aboard a Navy missile cruiser observed mysterious radar tracks suddenly appear around the island of San Clemente. That is, all the actions of unidentified objects were documented and are not figments of the imagination.

UFO sightings

Radar operators were surprised by what was happening and became increasingly concerned as the UFOs moved south at a bizarrely low speed, stopping and circling in close proximity to the ships. Since the American planes were supposed to conduct air defense exercises in the same area as the unknown objects, the controllers sent two F/A-18 fighter jets to investigate the nearest radar contact.

As the planes approached, all four pilots aboard the two-seat fighters noticed an object in the form of a "Tic-Tac" that was hovering and moving in an unusual way right above the surface of the ocean. The object, which had no externally noticeable engines, rotors and wings, mirrored, as if in mockery, the maneuvers of the leading fighter, before instantly accelerating, disappearing from sight.

Descending tens of thousands of meters in less than a second, the object reappeared on the radar 90 kilometers away, which indicates unimaginably high speeds and overloads that a human or any terrestrial mammal could hardly withstand. For this reason, American intelligence analysts have ruled out Chinese or Russian planes as a plausible explanation for the strange encounters. For their part, the four pilots who observed the objects also believe that they were "not from this world."

Background of the issue

There were indeed more sightings of unidentified objects in this area than in other places. 

Half a century ago, one of the most talented and prolific engineers in the history of aviation observed a UFO over the Channel Islands. His story is confirmed by four of the most experienced American test pilots and aerospace engineers. Among the many noteworthy contributions to American aviation, Clarence "Kelly" Johnson developed the legendary U-2 and SR-71 reconnaissance aircraft as the first head of Lockheed Martin's famous "Skunk Works" division. For more than forty years, he led Skunk Works, the research division of Lockheed, where he earned a reputation as an "organizational genius." In general, this is the most authoritative specialist, of all possible authorities.

On December 16, 1953, Johnson and his wife watched as a UFO with no visible control surfaces like rudder, tail, ailerons or engines hovered for several minutes in the vicinity of Santa Cruz Island. Then the object quickly disappeared from view.

Johnson did not know that the Lockheed flight test team, which included the company's chief engineer for aerodynamics, chief flight test engineer and two experienced test pilots, also observed the same object flying northwest along the Los Angeles coastline. All this is documented. In a letter informing the BBC of the Channel Islands collision (and another UFO sighting two years earlier), Johnson writes that the incidents made him "more firmly convinced than ever that extraterrestrial objects exist."

It is important to note that the descriptions of the incident in December 1953 by Lockheed engineers and pilots refer to another reliable observation over the Channel Islands. In 1951, one of the company's top test pilots, Roy Wimmer, "saw several lights over Catalina Island," which reportedly "stood still for a while" before disappearing. The parallels with the movement of "drones" that followed US warships deserve attention.

A decade after the Lockheed collisions in the 1950s, a Navy photographer videotaped a UFO slowly moving over Catalina Island. Digitally processed footage shows that the object has no control organs or engines, which is similar to a strange object seen by pilots in 2004.


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Ufologist, PhD, blogger, I go on my own expeditions for UFOs. I use scientific methods to investigate the UAP phenomenon

Serg Toporkov

Ufologist, Ph.D., blogger, I go on my own expeditions for UFOs. I use scientific methods to investigate the UAP phenomenon. Write to me


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