USS Paul Hamilton (DDG-60)

USS Paul Hamilton (DDG-60), commissioned in 1997, is a United States government Arleigh Burke-class (Flight I) Aegis guided-missile destroyer named after Paul Hamilton, third U.S. Secretary of the Navy. Built at Bath Iron Works, Maine, and initially based in Pearl Harbor, it is now homeported in San Diego, California. Key activities include deployments to the Persian Gulf for Operations Iraqi Freedom and Shock and Awe, airstrikes against ISIL with HMS Duncan in 2015, multinational exercises like CARAT, and joint operations with the Indian Navy. In UAP/UFO context, it hosted a U.S. Navy UAS wide-area mission demonstration in 2015 and was incident to a 2019 drone swarm event off Southern California, where four unidentified aerial systems approached within 200 yards for over two hours, illuminating the bridge—no direct ties to formal UAP government programs. Currently active in U.S. 7th Fleet operations.