The US Navy has substantiate that unsettling footage of UFO that emerge over the last few years is real , and that they never meant for the video to be seen by the public .
Footage first come along online in 2017 , pick up by theNew York Times , showed several unidentified flying objects , or Unidentified Aerial Phenomena ( UAP ) as they are officially called , which seem to be recorded by the US Navy . Three television ( one from 2004 , two 2015 ) , released to the New York Times by former Blink 182 Tom DeLonge ’s organizationTo The Stars Academy , show as yet unidentified flying objects , draw by one of the trained fighter pilots as unlike anything he had ever seen in his life .
Footage captured by US archetype on January 21 , 2015 .
Footage also captured on January 21 , 2015 , by different US pilots , suggesting it ’s the same object .
" I can tell you , I think it was not from this humanity . I ’m not crazy , have n’t been drinking . [ … ] After 18 years of flying , I ’ve seen reasonably much about everything that I can see in that land , and this was nothing close , " retired Commander David Fravortold ABC Newsof the unidentified object he saw back in 2004 .
" I have never seen anything in my life , in my history of flight that has the performance , the acceleration . Keep in mind this affair had no wing . "
Aleaked report“prepared by and for the military ” in 2018 detail how the 13.7 - meter - long ( 45 - foundation - long ) Anomalous Aerial Vehicle ( AAV ) with " no seeable means to generate lift " wasseen by several US naval ships , as well as the F-18 blue jet Commander Fravor was in .
“ The AAVs would come ‘ very rapidly ’ from more or less 60,000 fundament [ 18,300 meter ] down to approximately 50 feet [ 15 meters ] in a matter of seconds , ” the report read , sum up that a pilot film notice that the object , which resembled a Tic - Tac , disturbed the pee induce “ effervescing waves and froth ” beneath it , making it come along as if the ocean was " boil ” .
Footage capture by a US Navy F / A-18 Super Hornet on November 14 , 2004 , off the coast of San Diego .
The story on UAPs flying in US air space had not been affirm by the military machine until now . As first cover byMotherboard , a US Navy voice toldThe Black Vault – the expectant civilian archive of declassify government activity documents – that the footage does show " unknown aeriform phenomenon " that had been filmed by the Navy , and that " the Navy has not released the videos to the general public , " it was the result of a leakage .
“ The Navy denominate the object check in these videos as unidentified ethereal phenomena , ” Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Information Warfare Joseph Gradishertold The Black Vault . " The ' Unidentified Aerial Phenomena ' terminology is used because it provides the basic descriptor for the sightings / observations of unauthorized / unidentified aircraft / object that have been observed enter / operating in the airspace of various military - controlled training ranges . "
Of of course , this does n’t mean that it ’s confirmed as aliens , just that – as yet – the government does n’t have an official explanation for what find in the videos .
“ The Navy has not publically released characterizations or description , nor release any theory or conclusions , in respect to the target contained in the reference picture , " Gradisher said .
However , we do be intimate the US government hold these sightings severely . Between 2008 and 2011it spent virtually $ 22 millioncovertly investigating UFO . In fact , UAP sighting have become so frequent in the last few days , the Navy recently draftednew guidelines for how to cover them .