it's intentions and capabi capabilities. >> reporter: it was part of a $22 million program sponsored by then senator majority leader harry reed to investigate ufos. when he took over in 2010, he focused on the national security implications of unidentified aerial phenomenon, documented by u.s. service is members. >> imagine a technology that can do 600-700g forces and fly at 13,000 miles an hour, that can evade radar, and fly through air and water and possibly space. and oh, by the way, has no signs of propulsi no and wings and still def theravity o it w aooi scists.lince experts often working part time. they combed through data and records and analyzed videos like

this. >> oh! got it! >> reporter: a navy air crew struggles to lock to a fast moving object off the u.s. atlantic coast in 2015. >> oh, man. it's flying. >> reporter: recently rehe'sed images may not convince ufo skeptics, the pentagon admits it does not know what in the world this is. or this. or this. >> look. >> reporter: what do you say to the skeptics? it's refracted light, a rocket being launched and venus? >> in some cases there's simple explanations for what people are witnessing. but there are some that are not. we are not simply jumping to a conclusion saying oh, it's a uap out there. we are going through due diligence. maybe it's a cruise missile

intelligence, or high altitude balloon, ultimately when you have exhausted the what-ifs and you are left with, the fact that this is in our air space and it's real, that's when it becomes compelling and that's when it becomes problematic. >> reporter: former native pilot called whatever is out there a security risk. he told us his f-18 squad began seeing uaps hovering over restricted air space southeast of virginia beach in 2014 when they update today jets' radar, making it possible to zero in with infrared targeting cameras. so you are seeing it both with the radar and the infrared and that tells you that there's something out there? >> hard to spoof that. >> reporter: these photographs were taken in 2019 in the same area. this pentagon confirms these are images of objects it can't identify. lieutenant graves told us pilots

training off the atlantic coast see things like that all the time. >> every day. every day for at least a couple of years. >> reporter: wait a minute, every day for at least a couple of years if? >> hm-mm. i don't see an exhaust plume. >> reporter: including this one off the on coast of jackson jacksonville, florida, captured on a targeting camera are by members of graves squadron. >> it's rotating. >> my gosh. >> it's going against the wind. the wind is 120 knots to the west. look at that thing, dude. >> reporter: you can hear the surprise in their voices. >> yeah, you certainly can. they are out of character and we are amazed at what they were seeing. >> what do you think when you see something like ? >> it's a difficult one to explain. you have rotation, you have high altitudes and propulsion, and i don't know what it is frankly. >> reporter: the pilots speculate they are one of three

things. secret u.s. technology, an adversary spy vehicle or something other worldly. >> i would say, you know, the highest probability is it's a threat observation program. >> reporter: could it be russian or chinese technology? >> i don't see why not? >> reporter: are you alarmed? >> i am worried, frankly. if these were from other countries that would be hanging out up there, it's a massive issue. because it looks slightly different we are not willing to look at the problem in the face, we are happy to ignore they are out there watching us every day. >> reporter: the government has ignored it since1965. that changed in 2004, after an incident that was documented by radar, camera and four naval aviators. we spoke to two of them. david fraver, a graduate of the top gun naval flight school and

flying in his wing, lieutenant alex dietrich who has never spoken publically about the encounter. >> i never wanted to be on national tv. no offense. >> reporter: so why are you doing this? >> because i was in a government aircraft, because i was on the clock. and so, i feel a responsibility to share what i can. and it is unclassified. >> reporter: it was november 2004, and the u.s.snimitz carrier strike group was training 100 miles southwest of san diego. for a week the advanced new radar on a nearby ship, the uss princeton, detected what operators called multiple anomolous aerial vehicles, descending 80,000 feet in less than a second. on november 14th, fraver and dietrich are, each with a weapon's system officer in a back seat were diverted to investigate. they found an area of white

water the size of a 737 in an otherwise calm blue sea. so as we are looking at this, her back seater said, hey, skipper do you? and about that got out and i said, dude, do you see that ng above the white water. >> reporter: as he circled above, fraver went in. you went down? >> yeah, and it went south and turns and starts mirroring me. as i'm coming down, it's coming up. gloo so i-- >> reporter: so it's mimicing your moves. it's had no markings, no wings, noex hauf no exhaust plume s. >> it got thncht of me and disappears. >> it sped off.

>> what yare you thinking? >> your mind trys to make sense of it, maybe it's a helicopter or a drone. when it disappeared, it was like -- >> reporter: did your back seaters see it? >> oh, yes. we were rough -- we were watching it roughly five minutes. >> reporter: another crew managed to briefly lock to it with a targeting camera before it zipped off again. >> you know, i think that over the years we have said, hey, man, if i saw this solo, i don't know that i wld he come back an sounds crazy when i say it. >> reporter: you understand that reaction? >> i do. people told me , when you say that, you sound crazy. i will be honest, i am not a ufo guy. >> reporter: from what i hearsaying, there's something. >> yes. >> there's definitely something. i don't know who is building it, who has the technology or

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really didn't talk about it. in fact, he kept the gold medal in a sock in a shoe box. >> reporter: what followed were degrees from berkley and mechanical engineering and meteorologist from ucla, roal a tuskegee airmen. >> his greatest accomplishment was being a high school teacher and getting to those kids. he was a black man and they loved him. >> reporter: he died at the age of 78. and may have gone overlooked except someone voted to change it. you 79 names out there. archie williams comes to the top. >> it was an amazingly fortunate situation for us to have a local hero, somebody who impacted so many people across such a long period of time. >> reporter: and for students they will have the opportunity to learn about a man who achieved theeengly impossible and know what i takes to succeed. for cbs news, vergne glen, san

francisco. >> and archie williams would be proud to know that the high school that bears his name has a graduation rate of 99%. you

through thick and thin, a couple of musicians in nashville have managed to maintain a unique friendship. >> every week andy goes for a walk. and every ever week, about a mile and a half away, his friend gabe scott does the same thing, at the same time. they walk toward each other and when they meet, it's the weirdest thing. you see that? clap snap high five. then, often they simply walk home. the whole exercise, their way of saying hi. you realize people have telephones and that you can just call your buddy? >> you are right, we should have been doing that this whole time. pick up the phone is great.

i have are a friend who literally will walk through the rain and snow to give me a high five and i wish everyone could feel that feeling. >> reporter: andy and gabe are musicians in nashville. they met in a concert in 2000, and became friends. they got together on occasion. but not as often as they would have liked so they invented this bit of silliness a few years ago as a way of guaranteeing that they see each other once a week. >> this is high five general. >> reporter: andy has a willing of every encounter, including the one that was nearly their last. >> it was high five number 312. >> reporter: gabe was hospitalized with a severe form of encepholitis, it caused his brain to swell and robbed him of his past. >> i forgot my life. >> reporter: your whole life? >> yep. >> reporter: and that's when his buddy, andy, a virtual stranger came to visit. >> he said, gabe, it's going to sound weird, but i need you to do something for me.

>> whenedbo did what i heen dng sebe and since thenned and few more cherished than the sims sims simmy -- the silly traditionetr but it does not seem silvay now. >> it is wonderful to have something so consistent in my life, this. >> reporter: and andy wrote a song about the ritual. >> take a walk with me on monday morning. >> reporter: it's a reminder that going out of your way for someone is still the straighttrt path to an everlasting friendship. ♪ ♪ it's really no small thing. >> reporter: steve hartman, cbs news, on the road.

>> that's the overnight news for this tuesday, che thi morning. reporting from the nation's capitol. ♪ ♪ it's tuesday, may 18th, 2021. this is the "cbs morning news." no halt in the mideast violence. new rocket attacks in the deadly fight between israel and hamas as the pressure grows for the white house to get involved. returning to prepandemic life. mask mandates are being lifted across the nation and one state is even closing the books on remote learning in the fall. the fight over abortion rights. the supreme court is taking up a case that would challenge roe v. wade. well, good morning. good to be with you, i'm anne-marie green.

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