{"id":206442,"date":"2020-04-29T05:47:43","date_gmt":"2020-04-29T05:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=206442"},"modified":"2020-05-01T06:49:04","modified_gmt":"2020-05-01T06:49:04","slug":"pentagon-releases-three-ufo-videos-taken-by-us-navy-pilots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=206442","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon releases three UFO videos taken by US navy pilots"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Daniel Strauss \u2013 The Guardian April 28, 2020<\/h1>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/auITEKd4sjA\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n&#8212;<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The Pentagon on Monday released three declassified videos that show US navy pilots encountering what appear to be unidentified flying objects.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The grainy videos, which the Pentagon says depict \u201cunexplained aerial phenomena\u201d, were previously leaked, with some believing they show alien <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/ufos\" data-link-name=\"auto-linked-tag\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>UFOs<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The Pentagon said it released the footage to \u201cto <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/unauthorized-aircraft-sightings-lead-navy-develop-ufo-reporting\/story?id=62625928\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">clear up any misconceptions<\/a><\/strong><\/span> 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\u201d, a statement on the Department of Defense website <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.defense.gov\/Newsroom\/Releases\/Release\/Article\/2165713\/statement-by-the-department-of-defense-on-the-release-of-historical-navy-videos\/\" data-link-name=\"in body link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>said<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cAfter a thorough review, the department has determined that the authorized release of these unclassified videos does not reveal any sensitive capabilities or systems, and does not impinge on any subsequent investigations of military air space incursions by unidentified aerial phenomena,\u201d the statement said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The videos had been \u201ccirculating in the public domain after unauthorized releases in 2007 and 2017\u201d, the statement said, adding that \u201cthe aerial phenomena observed in the videos remain characterized as \u2018unidentified\u2019\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The three videos show what the pilots saw during training flights in 2004 and 2015. Two of the videos were <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/12\/16\/us\/politics\/unidentified-flying-object-navy.html\" data-link-name=\"in body link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>published<\/strong><\/span><\/a> by the <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/12\/16\/us\/politics\/pentagon-program-ufo-harry-reid.html\" data-link-name=\"in body link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>New York Times<\/strong><\/span><\/a> in 2017. The other video was released by the To the Stars Academy of Arts and Science group, a media and private science organization.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The 2004 video shows an incident that happened 100 miles out over the Pacific, according to the New York Times. Two navy fighter pilots found an oblong object hovering above the water. It then flew quickly away. \u201cIt accelerated like nothing I\u2019ve ever seen,\u201d one of pilots, Cmdr David Fravor, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/12\/16\/us\/politics\/unidentified-flying-object-navy.html\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">told the NYT<\/a><\/strong><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The 2015 videos show objects moving quickly through the sky, one of them seeming to spin in the air. \u201cLook at that thing, dude!\u201d a pilot says. \u201cIt\u2019s rotating!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The release of the videos by the Pentagon adds to the legitimacy of the videos and will spur more speculation that humans have recently interacted with extraterrestrials. The navy has <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/04\/24\/politics\/us-navy-ufo-guidelines\/index.html\" data-link-name=\"in body link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>guidelines<\/strong><\/span><\/a> for reporting UFO sightings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">In response, the former Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid, from Nevada, tweeted the three videos \u201conly scratches the surface of research and materials available\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I\u2019m glad the Pentagon is finally releasing this footage, but it only scratches the surface of research and materials available. The U.S. needs to take a serious, scientific look at this and any potential national security implications. The American people deserve to be informed. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1XNduvmP0u\">https:\/\/t.co\/1XNduvmP0u<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Senator Harry Reid (@SenatorReid) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenatorReid\/status\/1254836730546384897?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 27, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/27\/pentagon-releases-three-ufo-videos-taken-by-us-navy-pilots\">Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid tweeted that the videos \u201conly scratches the surface of research and materials available\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":206445,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[65,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Real_Life_X-Files","category-The_Unexplained_esoteric_and_hidden_knowledge"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=206442"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":206444,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206442\/revisions\/206444"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/206445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=206442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=206442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=206442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}