The Go Fast video is a 2015 U.S. Navy infrared recording showing an aerial object whose identity has not been determined.
The Go Fast video is an infrared recording made by the U.S. Navy in 2015 from an F/A-18 using the ATFLIR targeting system. It is associated with aerial encounters off the eastern coast of the United States. The video became public in 2017 and was officially acknowledged and released by the Department of Defense in April 2020. The object was initially classified as a UAP, or UFO (the term commonly typed into Google searches), but the video does not identify it as any particular type of object.
The impression that the object was moving very fast at low altitude is generally attributed to parallax and sensor geometry, not taken as proof of extraordinary speed. An analysis by NASA’s research team estimated that the object was at an altitude of about 13,000 feet and traveling at about 40 miles per hour. In 2024, the director of AARO, the U.S. office that investigates unidentified aerial phenomena, said the case had been resolved: geographic and trigonometric analysis showed that the object was not as close to the water as it appeared in the video.
The reported official position is that the footage is an authentic military recording, but its seemingly unusual motion does not prove exceptional performance. There is no public official confirmation that the object was a balloon, an aircraft, a drone, or a nonhuman craft. Some commentators still describe it as unexplained, but that is not an officially confirmed conclusion.
It shows infrared footage of an aerial object whose identity has not been determined. The video itself does not identify it as a balloon, aircraft, drone, or any other kind of craft.
There is no proof that it was traveling at an unusual speed. Its apparent speed is generally explained by parallax and sensor geometry.
NASA’s research team estimated that the object was at an altitude of about 13,000 feet and traveling at about 40 miles per hour.
No official identification of the object has been released. In 2024, the director of AARO said the case had been resolved in terms of the impression that the object was close to the water, but the object’s identity was not publicly established.