My father was stationed in Virginia and assigned to the USS Iwo Jima in the mid to late 80’s. Over 5 years served, he had several 2-3 month deployments at sea. During one deployment, all personnel was ordered indoors and told to remain until further notice.
He said he found it very odd to receive orders like that without being called to battle stations, but didn’t think much of it and went to his barracks as they were told to.
One of his closer friends came and grabbed him by the arm and said “You’ve gotta see this.” and took him to a small service dock on the side of the ship.
They watched a bright orange glowing saucer for about 5 minutes performing very abrupt, high speed maneuvers bouncing across the ocean’s horizon like a ping pong ball until someone in civilian attire, kind of nerdy and obviously not Navy (which again was very odd to see on a deployment) walked by and said “You guys probably shouldn’t be out here.” and they went back inside.
He says the closest video he has seen that resembled the craft they witnessed that day was the White Sands UFO crash video on YouTube.
He later went into a 28 year career in law enforcement and retired with a pension after serving 5 years honorably in the Navy, so this is someone credible.
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