A fighter pilot whose UFO footage made headlines around the world at first assumed the sighting was part of a training exercise, a sensational government report shows.
The F-18 pilot apparently locked onto the 'Gimbal', as it has come to be named, thinking it was an adversary, the Daily Star reports.
The US serviceman, who has not been named, is believed to have given evidence of the sighting when reporting to the US Senate Armed Services Committee in 2019.
