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Seems that some people on various forums have suggested that this may have been an AI driven craft. This may make sense as something without a human pilot could certainly make very sharp turns and potentially accelerate but does not explain the more unusual features.

It might have been some experimental aircraft belonging to a foreign government but if so then surely they would have mentioned something. One does not simply "Buzz" a state of the art destroyer and jets for fear of the super secret technology falling into enemy hands. A slim possibility is that some people knew what it was but were sworn to secrecy as it was "One of ours!". — Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.190.161.223 ( talk) 06:50, 29 February 2020 (UTC) reply

Some sort of test drone for evaluating radar performance would be possible but surely it would be recorded as such. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.190.161.223 ( talk) 22:38, 6 April 2020 (UTC) reply

Video now on navy website as FLIR.mp4:

https://www.navair.navy.mil/foia/documents

if no one else gets there first I'll convert it to wikipedia format when I get time. ©Geni ( talk) 21:45, 27 April 2020 (UTC) reply

The recent warring here and elsewhere has been reported at WP:ANI#Ufology sprawling edit war. — Cheers, Steelpillow ( Talk) 12:35, 10 May 2020 (UTC) reply

At Talk:USS Theodore Roosevelt UFO incidents#Combine and rewrite to avoid fringe, I have proposed merging these two articles and rewriting them. To keep discussion in one place, please discuss this there. Levivich  ^{dubious – discuss} 18:46, 10 May 2020 (UTC) reply