Retired U.S. Navy pilot commander David Fravor claimed on Oct. 5 that a mystery “dark mass” emerged from the ocean depths and swallowed a torpedo whole.
Fravor, who has publicly stated his account in a UFO sighting, said on Joe Rogan’s popular
podcast that a pilot had a similar experience in the late 1990s off the coast of Puerto Rico.
“They’re 50 feet (15 metres) above the water, he sees this kind of dark mass coming up from the depths,” he said, as transcribed by the
Daily Star.
“As they hoist the BQM [torpedo] up, he’s looking at this thing going, ‘What the hell is that?’ And then it just goes back down underwater.
“Once they pull the kid and the BQM out of the water, this object descends back into the depths.”
While the other pilot thought the incident was strange, indicating some skepticism, the same thing happened a few months later, Fravor claimed.
“He’s out picking up a torpedo, they hook the diver up on the winch, and as they’re lowering him down, he sees this big mass,” Fravor said. “He goes, ‘It’s not a submarine,’ he’s seen submarines before, once you’ve seen a submarine you can’t confuse it with something else.”
“This big object, kind of circular, is coming up from the depths and he starts screaming through the intercom system to tell them to pull the diver up, and the diver’s only a few feet from the water,” he added.
“They reverse the winch and the diver’s thinking: ‘What the hell is going on?’ And all of a sudden he said the torpedo just got sucked down underwater, and the object just descended back down into the depths.”
Fravor said they never recovered the torpedo and the helicopter pilot was adamant that the torpedo “didn’t sink” as it “literally looked like it got sucked down.”