https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/6390043/tic-tac-ufo-us-aircraft-carrier-pentagon-report/

The object -which could reportedly hover in mid air and make itself invisible - bamboozled US Navy fighter pilots during a training exercise in the Pacific Ocean

The leaked report - obtained by Las Vegas's KLAS tv station - tells how the USS Princeton, a Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruiser, had multiple radar contacts with what it dubbed a Anomalous Aerial Vehicle (AAV)

In November 2004, the ship's ultra-advanced AN/SPY-1 multifunctional phased-array radar caught the object hovering at 60,000ft before nosediving to the ocean surface in a matter of seconds.

It then sped off so rapidly that crew members thought it was a ballistic missile.

It appeared again two days later, and a pair of high-tech F-18 jets were scrambled to intercept it - but pilots reported that the object had turned itself invisible.

Days later a second jet spotted the same disturbance - and this time saw the UFO hovering above it "like a Harrier [jump jet]".

When the two pilots returned to the ship, crewmates put on tin-foil hats to greet them and asked eager questions about their "UFO flight".