This Monday, the Pentagon released three declassified videos that show US Navy pilots encountering what appears to be unidentified flying objects. The grainy black and white videos depict “unexplained aerial phenomena”, as the Pentagon reports, which were leaked previously with many believing they show none other than the aliens themselves.
The statement released on the Department of Defense website said that it was done “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.” Of the three events that were captured on camera, the first one occurred back in November 2004, and the other two in January 2015.
“After a thorough review, the department has determined that the authorized release of these unclassified videos does not reveal any sensitive capabilities or systems, and does not impinge on any subsequent investigations of military air space incursions by unidentified aerial phenomena,” the statement on the Department of Defense website said.
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The videos had been “circulating in the public domain after unauthorized releases in 2007 and 2017”, the statement read. “The aerial phenomena observed in the videos remain characterized as ‘unidentified.’”
The Navy videos were first released in 2017 by The Stars Academy of Arts & Sciences, a company co-founded by former Blink-182 musician Tom DeLonge. The company studies information about unidentified aerial phenomena.
The footage from 2004 was also shared in a New York Times story published in 2017, which included interviews with the two pilots who witnessed the incident. One of them said that the spotted aircraft “accelerated like nothing I’ve ever seen.” He added that he was “pretty weirded out.”
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