Case files / gimbal-2015
Gimbal
- When
- January 2015
- Where
- Off the U.S. East Coast
- Reported by
- Navy F/A-18 aircrew
- Released
- April 27, 2020, by the Department of Defense
- Status
- Unidentified, per the Department of Defense in 2020
The jet's infrared targeting camera tracks an object with a glow around it. On the audio, the crew talks about "a whole fleet of them" and, as the image turns, one says, "It's rotating."
Some analysts have argued that the rotation comes from the camera's own gimbal mechanism rather than the object. The Department of Defense released the video in April 2020 and called the phenomenon unidentified.