GOFAST.
“On January 22, 2015, a US Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet operating from the USS Theodore Roosevelt strike group recorded ATFLIR thermal imagery of a small object travelling at low altitude over the Atlantic Ocean.”
The cockpit audio captured during the encounter is among the most-quoted in UAP discourse: "Whoa! Got it!"; "Woo-hoo! What the f**k is that thing?"; "Oh my gosh, dude!" The radar-tracked object is shown to be a small, light-coloured shape moving rapidly and at low altitude across the camera frame. The pilots briefly track and lock the object before it disappears.
Subsequent analyses of the GOFAST footage have produced disparate conclusions on the object's actual speed. Mick West of Metabunk performed a parallax-based analysis that concluded the object's actual ground speed was relatively low — around 40 mph — and that the apparent high speed was a parallax effect of the aircraft's own movement and altitude. Other analysts, including Marik von Rennenkampff (a former DoD official) and elements within the Office of Naval Intelligence reportedly disputed the parallax-only conclusion, arguing that the object's behaviour was still anomalous.
GOFAST has been a recurring reference point in congressional UAP hearings, including the July 2023 House Oversight subcommittee hearing. Together with FLIR1 (the 2004 Tic-Tac) and GIMBAL, it constitutes the official Pentagon-released set of UAP video evidence. While the precise kinematic interpretation of GOFAST remains contested, the video's status as official US government UAP material is established by the Department of Defense's April 27, 2020 release.