GoFast UFO incident
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The GoFast UFO incident is a 2015 U.S. Navy encounter in which fighter jet sensors recorded a fast-moving, low-altitude unidentified object over the ocean, later publicized as one of the Pentagon’s notable military UFO videos.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Gimbal UFO incident | 1 |
| GoFast UFO incident canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13350126 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: GoFast UFO incident Context triple: [2014–2015 USS Theodore Roosevelt incidents, hasPart, GoFast UFO incident]
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A.
1997 Phoenix Lights
The 1997 Phoenix Lights were a widely witnessed mass UFO sighting over Arizona, famous for its large V-shaped formation of lights and enduring mystery.
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B.
1947 Roswell UFO incident
The 1947 Roswell UFO incident is a famous event in New Mexico involving the alleged crash of an unidentified flying object, which sparked decades of conspiracy theories and popular interest in extraterrestrial life.
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C.
UFO
"UFO" is a British science fiction television series created by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson, set in a near-future world where a secret military organization defends Earth against alien invaders.
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D.
Project U.F.O.
Project U.F.O. is a late-1970s American television series that dramatizes investigations into alleged UFO sightings, inspired by real-life government case files.
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E.
Altmark Incident
The Altmark Incident was a 1940 World War II naval confrontation in Norwegian waters, where British forces boarded the German tanker Altmark to free imprisoned Allied sailors, heightening tensions during the early "Phoney War" period.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: GoFast UFO incident Target entity description: The GoFast UFO incident is a 2015 U.S. Navy encounter in which fighter jet sensors recorded a fast-moving, low-altitude unidentified object over the ocean, later publicized as one of the Pentagon’s notable military UFO videos.
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A.
1997 Phoenix Lights
The 1997 Phoenix Lights were a widely witnessed mass UFO sighting over Arizona, famous for its large V-shaped formation of lights and enduring mystery.
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B.
1947 Roswell UFO incident
The 1947 Roswell UFO incident is a famous event in New Mexico involving the alleged crash of an unidentified flying object, which sparked decades of conspiracy theories and popular interest in extraterrestrial life.
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C.
UFO
"UFO" is a British science fiction television series created by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson, set in a near-future world where a secret military organization defends Earth against alien invaders.
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D.
Project U.F.O.
Project U.F.O. is a late-1970s American television series that dramatizes investigations into alleged UFO sightings, inspired by real-life government case files.
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E.
Altmark Incident
The Altmark Incident was a 1940 World War II naval confrontation in Norwegian waters, where British forces boarded the German tanker Altmark to free imprisoned Allied sailors, heightening tensions during the early "Phoney War" period.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
U.S. military UFO video
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UFO incident ⓘ unidentified aerial phenomenon sighting ⓘ |
| altitudeCharacteristic | low altitude ⓘ |
| associatedWithProgram |
Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program
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UAP Task Force ⓘ |
| classificationByUSNavy | unidentified aerial phenomena ⓘ |
| classifiedAsBy |
U.S. Navy
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linked to:
United States Navy
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| confirmationDate | 2020-04-27 ⓘ |
| confirmationType | authenticity of video acknowledged ⓘ |
| confirmedBy |
U.S. Department of Defense
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linked to:
Department of Defense
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| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| debatedExplanation |
conventional aircraft or balloon misperception
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parallax effect and wind drift ⓘ |
| featuresObject |
low-altitude unidentified object
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unidentified flying object ⓘ |
| groupedWith |
FLIR1 (Tic Tac) UFO incident
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linked to:
Nimitz UFO incident
Gimbal UFO incident ⓘ
linked to:
Nimitz UFO incident
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| hasAlternativeName |
Go Fast UFO video
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GoFast video ⓘ |
| involvesOrganization |
Pentagon
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U.S. Department of Defense ⓘ
linked to:
Department of Defense
United States Navy ⓘ |
| languageOfAudio | English ⓘ |
| locationQualifier | off U.S. East Coast ⓘ |
| madePublicBy |
The New York Times
ⓘ
To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science ⓘ |
| mediaType |
cockpit sensor footage
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infrared video ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
object appears to skim rapidly over water surface
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pilots express surprise at object speed ⓘ |
| objectStatus | unidentified ⓘ |
| occurredInYear | 2015 ⓘ |
| occurredOn | 2015-01-21 ⓘ |
| platform |
U.S. Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet
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linked to:
Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet
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| publicationYear | 2017 ⓘ |
| publicizedAs | one of three major Pentagon UFO videos ⓘ |
| recordedBy |
Forward-Looking Infrared (FLIR) targeting pod
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linked to:
FLIR turret
U.S. Navy fighter jet sensors ⓘ |
| sensorMode |
infrared
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lock-on tracking ⓘ |
| speedCharacteristic | fast-moving ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
U.S. congressional interest in UAP
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media coverage on unidentified aerial phenomena ⓘ |
| tookPlaceOver |
Atlantic Ocean
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ocean ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: GoFast UFO incident Description of subject: The GoFast UFO incident is a 2015 U.S. Navy encounter in which fighter jet sensors recorded a fast-moving, low-altitude unidentified object over the ocean, later publicized as one of the Pentagon’s notable military UFO videos.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: GoFast UFO incident