Status: Resolved by AARO (2025) — assessed as showing no anomalous speed or behavior; the apparent speed is an effect of the aircraft's own motion.
Credit: U.S. Navy / Department of Defense (via DVIDS, video ID 956683) · Licence: Public domain (U.S. government work) · Source
The “GoFast” video is a 34-second infrared clip recorded by the aircrew of a Navy F/A-18F in 2015, associated with the USS Theodore Roosevelt carrier strike group's operations off the East Coast. It shows a small object that seems to skim just above the sea surface at high speed while the camera tracks it, and aircrew can be heard reacting. The Pentagon released it officially in 2020.
The clip's apparent speed made it famous, but the video alone does not show speed. In February 2025, the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) published an analysis of the sensor data. It estimated that the object was at about 13,000 feet, that it appeared to move at roughly 72 to 161 mph, and that its actual speed, once wind was taken into account, was much lower, in the range of about 5 to 92 mph. AARO said the object generally moved with the wind, never against it, and that the sense of speed came from the camera's own motion relative to the object, known as parallax.
AARO's pixel analysis suggested that the object was one meter or less across, which it described as comparable to a small drone or bird. AARO found no anomalous performance characteristics.
Sources: DVIDS: GOFAST — UAP · AARO: Official UAP imagery
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