A Navy Top Gun pilot chased a wingless Tic Tac off San Diego—no exhaust, mirrored his F/A-18, then vanished and reappeared 60 miles away on radar. The USS Princeton had been watching similar targets drop from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds on its SPY-1. Pentagon-verified videos (Gimbal, GoFast) and a 2022 review that explained just 1 of 144 UAP cases have pushed Congress and AARO to take UFOs seriously.