The videos, which had been leaked and seen before, show Navy pilots interacting with what the Pentagon has called 'unidentified aerial phenomena.'
The Department of Defense has officially releasedMonday, the Pentagon said that following a"thorough review" they had determined that the videos do not reveal"any sensitive capabilities or systems" and that their release"does not impinge on any subsequent investigations of [these types of] military air space incursions."
Of the three incidents seen in these videos, the first occurred in November 2004, and the other two in January 2015.In its statement, the Pentagon acknowledged the fact that these clips had been leaked into the public domain years ago. A Department of Defense spokesperson said that they were releasing the videos"in order 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."published Dec. 16, 2017, which included interviews with the two pilots who observed the encounter.The airmen described seeing an oblong object about 40-feet long hovering about 50 feet above the water.
When they approached, the object rapidly ascended into the air and out of sight. “It accelerated like nothing I’ve ever seen,” one of the pilots said in the interview.Following the story's publication, the Pentagon acknowledged the existence of its , which was founded in 2007 and disbanded in 2012. The purpose of the program, which received $22 million in funding, was to study reports of unidentified flying objects.
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