“Unidentified Aerial Phenomena”
Pilots with the U.S. Navy reported multiple UFO sightings during training maneuvers.
(Image: © Copyright History 2019)
In 2004, and then between 2014 and 2015, pilots in the U.S. Navy experienced a number of strange encounters with ‘unidentified aerial phenomena’ during training missions over the Atlantic. During the flights, their aircraft’s sensors detected objects flying at hypersonic speeds making impossible maneuvers at altitudes up to 30,00 feet with no visible means of propulsion.
With the cat out of the FOIA bag, the Navy has released videos of these encounters.
Pentagon officially releases 3 UFO videos – see them here
Pentagon authorized the release of three new videos containing footage of “unidentified aerial phenomena” on Monday.
The Pentagon said that after a review of the three videos, it determined that the videos do not “reveal any sensitive capabilities or systems, and does not impinge on any subsequent investigations of military air space incursions by unidentified aerial phenomena.” In one video, a U.S. Navy pilot exclaims there is a “whole fleet” of the unidentified objects.
The videos were made available by a U.S. Navy freedom of information website. There is one video from a November 2004 event and two videos from a January 2015 event. The videos have been circulating since 2007 and 2017 respectively, as a result of unauthorized releases.
The Pentagon said it released the footage 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.”
“The aerial phenomena observed in the videos remain characterized as ‘unidentified,’” the Pentagon press statement added.
The U.S. Navy previously raised concerns about the 2004 footage, claiming its release could cause “grave damage” to U.S. national security. The footage was previously obtained and published by former Blink-182 guitarist Tom DeLonge at his company “To the Stars Academy.”
The footage from the 2004 incident was previously reported on by the New York Times and appears to show an oblong 40 foot object hovering about 50 feet above the water, which U.S. Navy pilots said quickly ascended and flew away when they attempted to approach.
“It accelerated like nothing I’ve ever seen,” one of the pilots told the Times.
The 2015 footage shows various 2013 incidents, in which multiple other flying objects are observed. The first 2015 shows an object speeding across the ocean at high speeds, prompting one pilot to ask “What the fuck is that?”
In the second 2015 video, one of the pilots says “Dude, this is a fucking drone, bro.”
Another pilot says, “there’s a whole fleet of them.”
The first pilot also noted that the objects are flying against the wind, which he said was going “120 knots to the west.”
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Pretty impressive performance for ONR drones. Read the entire article here: American Military News
Didn’t Pentagon stop funding for UFO research?
Allegedly
They stopped funding the program that was discovered (Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program) in 2012.
It’s a virtually guarantee there is some other program with a boring name unrelated to the topic researching it.
And yet, the resolution is no better than the pie plates of the 1950s.
Or bigfoot.
People have been claiming to have seen
mountain lions in Maine. Some pretty good
photos have been submitted over the last few
decades and published. One day while driving
home from work (circa mid 70’s) a coworker
and I witnessed a mountain lion leap off a
ledge next to the road and cross in front of us.
My friend grew up in AZ and had seen mountain lions
before moving to Maine so there was no doubt about
what we saw. A few moths later a woman just a few
miles away witnessed it and reported it but the
offical word from Maine Inland Fisheries and Game
is that there are no confirmed sightings of
mountain lions in Maine. And there never will be….
The big kitty’s are extinct in Vermont also, BUTT we see them, Fish and Game says they are just pets released into the wild.
trust your government.
Carole Fucking Baskin.
I am here trying to equate mountain lions to ufos.
Nope. I got nothing.
One have to survive in the wild. The other has to cross a shit ton of light years.
It’s an analogy, SJ. Replace the cats with UFOs, and Fish and Game with Big Government. “I know what I’ve seen, but the government won’t admit they exist.”
Better?
Too bad they’re advanced drones from DARPA or ONR.
Natick Labs
Yep. I can see a little comic skunk painted on the sides of some of that stuff along with the word “Lockheed.”
Arizona game and fish provided a spectacular example of big government at work a few years ago. The bighorn sheep population above Tucson was shrinking at an alarming rate, so it was decided to import more bighorns into the area to increase the numbers, facilitate breeding, etc. However, the native mountain lion population was not considered or consulted, and promptly feasted on most of the new arrivals. Oops. Outrage rapidly ensued among the local tree-hugger population. Mean old lions.
Back in the 80’s my Father was cutting firewood in Northern Indiana when he heard what sounded like loud purring (as he put it). He went and investigated. My Dad was a brave and large man (the patriarch on Homestead Rescue reminds me a lot of him) and when he saw what he claimed was a mountain lion he hauled ass out of the area and was done cutting firewood for that day. He didn’t go back to that area for months. My Father was the most honest man that I have ever met, some say brutally honest, and nobody believed him. Now there are plenty of reports of mountain lions in that area.
Beans, we have ongoing big kitty sightings in Arkansas but the wildlife authorities claim we have none, attributing the incidents to transient cats passing through our state from Tennessee or Oklahoma.
I don’t suppose any of those “transients” have ever decided to hang around in our heavily forested mountains with plentiful small game and fresh-water streams and lakes, hmm?
Bureaucrats and experts–sheez!!!
They’re there… if there’s whitetail deer, cats won’t be far behind.
marinedad61, maybe if Maverick driving his Tomcat was in the area, he could have done an inverted maneuver with Goose taking better pictures with his Polaroid.
(Sorry AW1Ed, it was just there for the taking and I had to do it.) (grin)
*facepalm*
I hate you.
I hate you, too.
marinedad61:
“And yet, the resolution is no better than the pie plates of the 1950s.”
One of the reasons for the somewhat degraded resolution in the imagery posted above is that the targets are being tracked/filmed with aircraft FLIR. (HUD symbology also shows that FLIR is being used.) While watching the imagery, one can see the aircrew switching back and forth between “white hot” and “black hot” in order to try to get better looks at the targets. The range from the aircraft to the target can also affect resolution when using FLIR, as can target aspect.
Current aircraft FLIR technology is quite good, but it often doesn’t produce the sharp image clarity that one typically finds in aircraft Electro-Optical (EO) systems.
What Mick said. FLIR is more of a search and detect sensor, though the resolution improves as the relative range decreases. Used it all the time in the P-3 during night Diesel hunts- first contact was a small blob (black or white, depending). I could call sub or surface ship pretty quickly, but we needed to get a bit closer before I could get a positive ID.
Alien 1: “Dude, watch this. They actually think they can catch us. It’s funny as hell!”
Alien 2: “Bro, why the hell are we screwing with Earth’s airplanes again? This is like the 84th time!”
Wonder how you say, “Dude, hold my beer,” in Alienese…
I have “floaters” in my eyes that sometimes
move around. This time of year the Black Flies
come out and I often myself swiping at the
floaters thinking they are Black Flies.
If I try to look away they just follow my line
of sight in the blink of an eye.
It’s not an anomally of vision, they are actually there.
And they are following me!
But then again, they have been identified unlike
the blurry flying saucers in the video.
You see them too? Thank God, I thought it was just me!
Is it coincidence that they look like bats?
Damn Chicoms shouldn’t have eaten them…
https://youtu.be/82g0gZgptJ4
Jimmy Carter ran on a promise to release all
the information the goverment had on UFO’s.
That’s why I voted for him.
Soon after he was elected he said there was
nothing to release. I was young and stupid.
I voted for Jimmy Carter because…UFO’s.
Yeah, color me skeptical.
I am sure most of us here agree that Jimmy Carter was the 2nd worst President in American history.
That doesn’t mean UFO are aliens.
The more I study UFOs the more it seems to me that it is misunderstood natural occurring phenomena.
“seems to me that it is misunderstood natural occurring phenomena”
That would be my guess as well.
About all those personal experiences and encounters with aliens, people lie all the time for a multitude of reasons.
When it come to stolen valor, you can request a FOIA and demonstrate when someone is lying, but how do you that with people claiming alien encounters?
People lie. That’s the sad reality.
Beans, “Jimmah” once lusted in his heart for Miz Poe–or so I suspect.
My 20-something, blonde hottie was waiting for the elevator one day at the law offices where she worked when the door opened and there stood Peanut, surrounded by ass-kissing lawyers.
He broke into a huge, toothy grin as they made room for her and the future prez said something to the effect, “Well now, aren’t you just somethin’ lovely to behold on this fine Florida morning.”
She had no idea who the BS artist was until her boss informed her and she told me about it that evening. When Carter later confessed to looking at attractive women and “lusting in his heart,” I teased her (still do) that I was one of but a few men whose wives had been lusted after by an American president.
Until Clinton came along…
So you beat out Carter in the looks department. It’s not that hard really, but you’ve still got that going for ya! 🙂
I don’t know Mason, might not of just been looks. Coulda had something to do with that whole Army beats Navy…again. Or, maybe, there was another reason they referred to Jimmuh as “Mr. Peanut.” 😆 😆
“…whole Army beats Navy…again.”
Pipe down, doggie. This makes twice in my own post you dirt-diggers have dissed me. Running out of nerves; you and Jumps-From-Sky are on one of the last.
Grrrr…in.
(tee hee hee hee hee hee hee)
I believe that it was clinton who said that he saw a UFO at one time and he followed the UFO peeps in their investigations and when he got into office, he promised to get the truth out, so when he went to the NSA and asked about the UFO’S, he was told the following: Mr President, what you asked are on a need to know basis and you don’t need to know.
They aren’t space aliens’ spaceships, but they ARE alive.
They haven’t flown over my house yet, but if they do, I’ll get photos fer y’all.
All this X-Files stuff is fun n’ games until you’re the one abducted and probed.
A motivating plot point (about the Randy Quaid character)
in the movie Independence Day.
(Redneck witness)-
“When they took him up in the space ship,
the aliens…. abused him… sexually.”
Nothing to see here citizen. Move along, the bread line is to the right, anal probing to the left.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpKllvExMe8
The Truth is out there.
“make it a happy memory”
Remember when the Jets were scrambled and chased the UFO’S along the Hudson River. Chris Columbus’s ships log has lights coming out of the water while they were sailing. I guess the govt now thinks that we are all adults and won’t panic and upset everyone and can now finally admit that there are other peeps out there.
Descriptions of the three videos here:
History.com
AW1Ed…here is an alien looking ship:
https://bangordailynews.com/2020/04/28/news/midcoast/biws-first-zumwalt-destroyer-officially-presented-to-navy/
Might make a good post
As much as I love a good UFO/Alien conspiracy theory, there’s always a rational explanation to such occurrences. Take for example John Glenn’s Friendship 7 flight. In space, Glenn reported his capsule was surrounded by “fireflies” which reacted to his banging on the capsule wall.
Later that year Scott Carpenter experienced the same phenomena. Luminous space bugs greeting our first orbital pilots? Nope, just flakes of frozen condensate coming off the capsule’s skin.
Um, Mason, not “always.”
Touche. We just haven’t found the rational explanation for some things.
“To Serve Humans”
” To Serve Man”… correction. Sorry, caffiene deprived brain fart.
“To serve Man”…Taste like chicken…or pork?
Well, old sailors referred to man as “long pig”
That’s why some cannibals call it “long pig.”
I can say when it’s on fire it smells a lot like pork.
I bet MUFON is having a field day.
Where’s SHADOW when we need them?
I’ll just leave this here.
https://www.shadolibrary.org/