What is the GOFAST video and was it resolved?

“The 2017 Navy GOFAST video was resolved by AARO in 2026: the object was at ~13,000 feet, not skimming the ocean — parallax explained the apparent low altitude and high speed.”

The GOFAST video is a 35-second F/A-18 Super Hornet ATFLIR clip recorded off the U.S. East Coast in 2015 by the USS Theodore Roosevelt strike group. For nearly a decade it was treated as a marquee unresolved Navy UAP case because the object appeared to skim just above the ocean surface at high speed. In 2026, AARO Director Dr. Jon Kosloski announced the case as resolved. AARO's geospatial-intelligence analysis used the aircraft's known altitude, sensor angle, and the object's apparent ground track to triangulate the true position: approximately 13,000 feet altitude, not low-level. The illusion of low altitude and high speed was a parallax artifact — the same effect that makes a passenger jet appear to crawl across the sky. AARO classified the GOFAST encounter "resolved" in PURSUE Release 01.