Military Ranger Saw Triangle UFO During Secret Test

Another military whistleblower has come forward to investigative journalist Jeremy Corbell with extraordinary testimony about a 2006 sighting at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida. Army Ranger Daniel Gockerell witnessed a massive 300-foot triangular craft performing what appeared to be organized military test runs, an account that raises critical questions about classified aerospace technology and bears striking similarities to recent congressional testimony from whistleblower Dylan Borland.

According to Gockerell’s testimony on the Weaponized podcast, the incident occurred in February 2006 while he was recovering from catastrophic injuries sustained during Ranger School. A spine compression fracture and traumatic brain injury had left him confined to a medical facility at Eglin Air Force Base when a powerful sound shook the building late one night. Despite his injuries, Gockerell made his way outside where he observed an extraordinary scene approximately 300 yards away. High-mast portable generator lights illuminated a secured perimeter where military personnel, Humvees, and black SUVs surrounded a hovering aircraft unlike anything in the public aerospace inventory.

Gockerell described the craft as approximately 300 feet in length with no visible cockpit, fuselage, or engine housing. Most significantly, he observed the object hovering with perfect stability and complete silence. “When I say hover, I don’t mean in a traditional sense,” Gockerell explained on the podcast. “Any fixed-wing aircraft, any bird that we have known to man right now, even a rotary bird, it oscillates when it hovers. This just goes straight up and it’s dead quiet. Nothing, not a sound. I could hear the buzzing from the generator lights.” When the craft banked, he gained a clear profile view revealing a perfect triangle with white lights at each apex and a large white light in the center.

The departure sequence presents what aerospace researchers would consider a significant technical anomaly. According to Gockerell’s account, the craft accelerated to supersonic speeds without producing a sonic boom — a physical impossibility for conventional aircraft. Military jets breaking the sound barrier produce shockwaves that can shatter windows miles away, yet Gockerell heard nothing. The craft then performed what appeared to be repeated test runs, accelerating out of sight, returning to canopy level, pausing momentarily, then departing again in the same direction. The staff duty specialist on watch casually attributed the activity to “the Aurora project” and dismissed it as routine Air Force testing.

Daniel Gockerell

Eglin Air Force Base has emerged as a focal point in congressional UAP investigations, making Gockerell’s testimony particularly significant. According to testimony from Representative Matt Gaetz at the 2023 UFO hearing, he along with Representatives Anna Paulina Luna and Tim Burchett visited Eglin seeking briefings on UAP incidents and were met with extraordinary resistance. Gaetz stated they were initially denied access to flight crew members and evidence, and only after discussing “how authorities flow in the United States of America” were they permitted to see one image. Gaetz described the image as showing something he could not “attach to any human capability, either from the United States or from any of our adversaries.” Representative Tim Burchett later confirmed on the Sean Ryan show that officials unanimously stated no country possessed such craft.

In 2024, Gockerell attended a private meeting in Pentagon City with congressional investigators where he met other military whistleblowers. These individuals described the exact same craft, “just going down the list and checking off every characteristic of what I had seen.” This corroboration connects to testimony from Dylan Borland, whose congressional account described a similar triangular craft, though Borland’s included a distinctive gold lava-like substance that Gockerell did not observe, suggesting either multiple variants or different operational modes.

Gockerell expressed hope that the craft represents American technological achievement, stating he was “optimistic that the government has some control over this technology.” However, his testimony reveals a critical question: if this technology has existed since at least 2006, why has it never been deployed in military operations or used to revolutionize transportation and energy generation? The fact that congressional representatives with oversight authority were stonewalled at the same facility where such testing allegedly occurred nearly two decades earlier suggests classification levels that extend beyond standard special access programs. Gockerell never signed a non-disclosure agreement, and no containment measures were taken following his observation, raising questions about either the security protocols surrounding such operations or the impracticality of containing observations of openly conducted tests.

Sources

Jeremy Corbell. (2025, October 9). The UAP witness that didn’t testify — Congress wanted you to hear this : WEAPONIZED : EP #92 [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSvcr6kfNRk