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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. 8 …The angle of rotation about the x-axis is the aircraft roll and is denoted by…
  • p. 9 UNCLASSIFIED 9 UNCLASSIFIED elevation and denoted by β; the angle of rotation about the z-axis…
  • p. 10 …This rotation away from the axis can be represented as a yaw angle of φ relative…
  • p. 11 …The additional yaw of the F/A-18 of -9.6° required one additional rotation.5…
  • p. 12 …0 (9𝑎) = 5158 0 3612 (9𝑏) The rotation about the z-axis by -57° to account…
  • p. 15 …With values estimated for all frames and times, the vector rotation and point translation methodology described…
  • p. 26 …more details on matrix multiplication and angle rotations about the cartesian axes. 7. Refer to Section…
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near the end. The bends at the end of both curves may indicate a slight change of direction but is
more likely due to residual error in the estimation of the F/A-18 flight path.
Figure 10: The position of the UAP in the x-y plane is shown over the time considered. The direction of flight is
from the upper left to the lower right.
Figure 11: The altitude of the UAP as a function of time indicates a slow rise over most of the
path with a slight descent in the last few seconds.
The beginning and end points of the path defined by Figures 8 and 9 were compared to the
results from the end-point analysis in the previous section to verify the path calculations are
consistent and that the methodology was correctly applied. The results are provided in Table II

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