RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – The Pentagon on Tuesday, April 13, confirmed leaked videos showing unidentified flying objects buzzing over U.S. Navy warships off the coast of California. The footage was gathered by the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) Task Force and leaked to filmmaker Jeremy Corbell.
“I can confirm that the videos mentioned were recorded by Navy personnel,” U.S. Department of Defense spokeswoman Sue Gough told science and technology portal Futurism.
One of the videos recorded in 2019 shows what appears to be pyramid-shaped objects hovering above a Navy destroyer. Corbell said the video was taken on deployment from the USS Russell.
She said she verified the video’s authenticity after gaining information from a Pentagon intelligence briefing in which officials confirmed the footage was shot by U.S. Navy personnel, according to the New York Post.
The 18-second video taken by a night vision device shows the objects flying and glowing over the USS Russell, a U.S. destroyer. Due to their aerodynamically inefficient shape, the possibility of it being a plane or helicopter was ruled out. Initially the objects were described as drones, but the description was changed.
In April 2020, the Pentagon lifted its secrecy and released three videos of “unidentified aerial phenomena” after years of speculation. The videos, captured by Navy cameras with infrared systems, show pilots surprised by dark objects flying and speeding across the sky.
In an interview with U.S. magazine Newsweek last July, Luis Elizondo, former head of the U.S. Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, said that there are many additional videos that have yet to come to light.
Despite confirming the authorship of the footage, the Pentagon spokeswoman said that the incidents concern an ongoing investigation. The disclosure comes a week after Admiral Michael Gilday, chief of naval operations, said he was unaware of the flying objects’ origin, allegedly drones, that chased the Navy destroyers.
Pentagon declassifies three previously leaked top secret U.S. Navy videos of "unexplained aerial phenomena"—and that some believe could show UFOs. https://t.co/SgE0JDGtej pic.twitter.com/yhv8ZBDR0p
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In March, John Ratcliffe, former Director of Intelligence during Donald Trump’s administration, stated “there is a lot more out there than we realize” and that more of such events occur than publicized.
“There is a lot more out there than you realize. (…) When we talk about sightings, we’re talking about objects that have been seen by Navy or Air Force pilots, or captured by a satellite image, and that are generally difficult to explain since they move very fast at speeds that exceed the sound barrier without a sonic boom,” he said.
A comprehensive report on UFOs is due in early June, according to a clause in a Covid-19 relief and spending package signed by Trump shortly before he left office.
Source: Veja