Merrick Deneen
Staff reporter
On late Monday, April 27th the Pentagon declassified and released three videos of unidentified flying objects, one of which was taken in 2004 and the other two taken in 2015. The footage was taken by navy pilots and contains flying objects traveling at high speeds and making seemingly impossible aerial maneuvers. The Pentagon stated that the release of the videos was meant to ‘clear up any misconceptions by the public on whether or not the footage that has been circulating was real, or whether there is more to the videos.”. These videos were caught on infrared camera and contain the Navy pilot’s reaction to the areal phenomena.
One of the pilots who spotted the craft described in a CNN interview. “As I got close to it ... it rapidly accelerated to the south, and disappeared in less than two seconds,” said retired 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 former head of the Pentagons research program, Luis Elizondo, told CNN that “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”. He stated that “There is very compelling evidence that we may not be alone.”. Elizondo resigned from the department of defense in 2017 in protest over the secrecy surrounding the program. Former senator Harry Reid of Nevada Tweeted that he was “glad” the Pentagon officially released the videos, but that it “only scratches the surface of research and materials available.”
Since then the videos have gotten lost amidst the pandemic and there have been no other updates from the Navy pilots, program researchers, and the Pentagon. What may have been seen as fiction before has some real credibility behind it now.
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