In mid-2014, during training flights off the coast of Virginia Beach, Virginia, F/A-18 pilot and U.S. Navy Lieutenant Ryan Graves began to notice something strange. “We started treating it as a safety issue.”Over the next year, Graves’s squadron recorded sightings of unidentified objects almost daily. This was global.”Since at least the 1950s, military sources have reported strange objects plunging into the ocean—what they call USOs (unidentified submerged objects). Caribbean Sea, Unspecified dateIn the 1990s, a Navy CH-53 Sea Stallion pilot was flying off the coast of Puerto Rico when he saw something he couldn’t explain. A video frame from 2019 footage taken aboard a U.S. Navy ship off San Diego shows an unidentified spherical object flying in the air before disappearing into the ocean.