Black Cubes in the Sky

People see strange shapes in the sky. Disks, triangles, and lately black cubes. Some claim they’ve been around forever, hiding in tribal paintings or medieval art. It’s a tidy story. The truth is both narrower and more unsettling.

The most credible account comes from US Navy pilots off the Virginia coast in 2014–2015. Ryan Graves, an F/A-18 pilot, described encounters almost daily with what looked like a dark cube suspended inside a clear sphere, the corners pressed against the inner surface. This wasn’t a lone sighting. Other aircrews reported the same thing, tracked them on sensors, and flagged them as near misses. Graves later gave the same description under oath in Congress.

This wasn’t brushed off. The Navy took it seriously enough to issue new reporting guidance so pilots could log these incidents without being laughed out of the ready room. The Pentagon also confirmed that other Navy-captured footage, the Tic Tac, the Gimbal, the Go-Fast, was real, unclassified, and unexplained. Not cubes, but proof that anomalous craft are being seen, filmed, and acknowledged at the highest levels. The Air Force, for its part, has been less open, but former personnel have confirmed off record that similar sightings are logged and quietly investigated. At minimum, it’s clear the US military treats these objects as real flight safety hazards.

So that’s the hard ground: multiple trained observers, consistent descriptions, corroborated by sensors, and documented in official testimony. Credible.

Then there’s everything else. The claims about cubes in cave paintings or biblical frescoes? Art historians roll their eyes. Medieval suns and angels aren’t spacecraft. The 1561 Nuremberg “sky battle” looks a lot like an atmospheric optical event dressed up as divine warning. The 10,000-year-old “alien art” in India hasn’t stood up to serious archaeological review. Entertaining, but weak.

And that’s where the line sits. We don’t need to backfill history with cubes to make this story concerning. It’s already enough that modern fighter pilots have described black cubes in clear spheres in restricted airspace, and that the Navy logged them as real events.

If you need a headline: the world’s most advanced air force has “dark cube in a glass bubble” in its official files. That alone should be enough to keep us awake.