The Pentagon has publicly released three brief videos depicting “unidentified airborne anomalies” originally produced by a private corporation.
Videos display what seems to be unidentified flying objects traveling quickly when infrared cameras are being filmed. Two of the videos include members of the service who respond with surprise to how quickly the items are going. One voice is speculating that it may be a helicopter.
The Navy previously accepted the reality of the videos in September of last year. They’re finally publishing them now,
“in order to clear up any misconceptions by the public on whether or not the footage that has been circulating was real, or whether or not there is more to the videos,” according to Pentagon spokesperson Sue Gough.
“After a thorough review, the department has determined that the authorized release of these unclassified videos does not reveal any sensitive capabilities or systems,” said Gough in a statement, “and does not impinge on any subsequent investigations of military air space incursions by unidentified aerial phenomena.”
The Navy now has clear instructions on how its pilots should communicate when they think they have seen suspected UFOs.
Navy videos were first released between December 2017 and March 2018 by To The Stars Academy of Arts & Sciences, a company co-founded by former Blink-182 guitarist Tom DeLonge who claims he is researching details about unexplained aerial phenomena.
In 2017, one of the pilots who saw one of the unexplained objects in 2004 told News Media that it had changed in directions that he could not describe.
“As I got close to it … it rapidly accelerated to the south, and disappeared in less than two seconds,” said retired US Navy pilot David Fravor. “This was extremely abrupt, like a ping pong ball, bouncing off a wall. It would hit and go the other way.”
The Pentagon has previously analyzed videos of aerial collisions with unknown artifacts as part of a secret effort undertaken at the request of former Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada. The initiative was initiated in 2007 and terminated in 2012, according to the Pentagon, as it determined that there were other priorities that needed funding.
However, in 2017, Luis Elizondo, the former director of the secret system, told CNN that he actually felt that “there is very clear possibility that we might not be alone.”
“These aircraft — we’ll call them aircraft — are displaying characteristics that are not currently within the US inventory nor in any foreign inventory that we are aware of,” Elizondo said something about the artifacts they were studying. He claims he resigned from the Defense Department in 2017 in protest against the program’s secrecy and internal resistance to financing it.
Reid tweeted Monday that the Pentagon formally released recordings, but that “it just touches the surface of available science and resources. The U.S. needs to take a thorough, analytical look at this and its possible national security consequences.” And some members of Congress are also involved in the topic, with senators getting a confidential briefing from Navy officials.
“If pilots at Oceana or elsewhere are reporting flight hazards that interfere with training or put them at risk, then Senator Warner wants answers. It doesn’t matter if it’s weather balloons, little green men, or something else entirely — we can’t ask our pilots to put their lives at risk unnecessarily,” Rachel Cohen, spokeswoman for Democratic Virginia Sen. Mark Warner.
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