File 066 · 2015
GoFast FLIR
Off the U.S. East Coast, United States · Region, not street
Opened 9/4/2026
Ledger illustration of the file — not a photograph of the object. Ledger illustration of the report. Open water, the kind of field the ATFLIR was looking at. — Night Ledger illustration of the file
Standing
Unidentified
On the public record, and still open. A claim, paper, or film — not a finding that it was ours, and not a finding that it was not.
GoFast — official Navy ATFLIR
U.S. Navy / Department of Defense, authorized release 27 April 2020.
Original tape · original language kept
English writing · original voice kept
English radio on the GoFast tape, 2015, east-coast Navy training. Crew comment on a small object that looks fast and low over the water. AARO later said parallax and altitude make it far less fast and low than it looks. The clip is genuine Navy film. It is not a recovered craft.
What was claimed
A Navy clip appears to show a small object racing just above the water.
What is on the record
Officially released in 2020. AARO later published an assessment that parallax and altitude make the object far less “fast and low” than it looks. Still filed as UAP footage, not as a known aircraft.
The GoFast video, authenticated by the Pentagon with Gimbal and FLIR1, is a short infrared clip of a small object apparently racing just above the water while an F/A-18 crew comments on its speed. The WOW from the back seat is part of the public record.
Independent analyses using the ATFLIR range readout have argued the object was several thousand feet up and moving at a few hundred knots — unusual, not impossible. The crew’s visual impression was of something they could not catch or classify.
Like Gimbal, GoFast is a sensor document more than a story. It is in the catalogue because the Navy says the object was unidentified at the time, and because it is one of the few moving images the government has been willing to put on a letterhead.
Could this have been ours?
The known sky, that night.
The station was flying. Starlink was not. A string of orbs in this year is usually not a train.
1998 —
International Space Station
A bright, steady moving star. A few minutes to cross. No strobe. Occupied since 2000. NASA publishes the pass times. Not unidentified.
Always
Venus and the bright planets
A fixed brilliant point. Does not streak. Does not hover over a street then leave. Often the first misread light in a rural report.
Always
Aircraft, balloons, meteors
Landing lights, flares, lanterns, reentries, fireballs. They are on the known sky. They do not close a file by themselves — they are what a serious look has to hold the claim against.
Orbit · Space — the desks for lights that are already named.
Sources
Paper on this file
Official or public documents that belong with this case — not a verdict.
27 April 2020
Pentagon UAP video release
U.S. Department of Defense · United States
The Pentagon authenticated three Navy infrared videos — FLIR, GIMBAL, and GoFast — as real UAP recordings, already in circulation.
June 2021
Preliminary Assessment: Unidentified Aerial Phenomena
Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) · United States
Preliminary assessment submitted to Congress on UAP reported by U.S. government sources, primarily military aviators, between 2004 and 2021. It evaluates potential explanations and national security implications without addressing historical crash or occupant claims.
Related files
Same craft, same place, same years. A neighbor in the catalogue — not a conclusion.
Same craft · Nearby · Same year · January 2015
GOFAST
Off the East Coast (Atlantic Ocean) · United States
Unidentified
U.S. Navy F/A-18 ATFLIR infrared video of a small object appearing to skim above the ocean surface at high speed. Later AARO analysis attributed the apparent speed primarily to parallax effect from the aircraft's motion.
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Gimbal FLIR
Off the U.S. East Coast · United States
Unidentified
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Unidentified
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