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GoFast Case Resolution

All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office · 26 pages · text from the file's own layer

The All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office of the U.S. Department of Defense issued this case resolution on the "Go Fast" video on February 6, 2025. It covers a January 2015 FLIR recording made by a U.S. Navy F/A-18F off Florida's eastern coast. From the public 34-second video, AARO puts the object at about 13,000 feet, moving at 5 to 92 mph relative to the wind. It attributes the apparent high speed to motion parallax and has high confidence the object showed no anomalous performance.

  • p. 2 …the aircraft’s altitude (25,000 feet), as measured near the time and location of the…
  • p. 6 …the target, the F/A-18 altitude, the F/A-18 speed, and relative frame times…
  • p. 7 …An average aircraft altitude of 7,621 m was assumed over this time frame. The speed…
  • p. 13 …The distance traveled at each point in time was the elapsed frame time multiplied by the…
  • p. 14 …The sensor azimuth “change frame” data points are plotted vs frame time. The dotted line was…
  • p. 15 …The sensor elevation “change frame” data points are plotted vs frame time. The dotted line was…
  • p. 16 …The position of the UAP in the x-y plane is shown over the time considered…
  • p. 17 …20 minutes of the time reported with the “Go Fast” event. The windspeed and direction are…
  • p. 26 …the location, speed, and heading of the “Go Fast” UAP was not available at the time…
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Figure 8: The sensor elevation “change frame” data points are plotted vs frame time. The dotted line was fit to the
points to estimate the elevation for all frames in the time interval.
Figure 9: The range to target “change frame” data points are plotted vs frame time. The dotted line was fit to the
points to estimate the range for all frames in the time interval.
With values estimated for all frames and times, the vector rotation and point translation
methodology described in the previous section were applied to find the UAP’s three-dimensional
flight path. The resulting path through the x-y plane is plotted in Figure 8. The UAP’s direction
of travel is a relatively straight path from the top left to the bottom right. The altitude profile is
provided in Figure 9 and shows the UAP rising about 10 m (30 ft) with a slow, curving descent

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