The US Navy finally starts to talk about UFOs
For many years the entire US defence establishment has systematically denied any knowledge of UFOs, or UAPs as they are now called by some in official circles.
There have specifically been rumours that the US Navy has in recent decades been responsible for much UFO research because of its utilisation of offshore bases away from the USA mainland, and therefore away from the interested eyes of the American public. Military insiders who have claimed to be involved in UFO research have also claimed that the US Navy was involved in their research and analysis of UFO data.
It is therefore of interest that the US Navy, via the Pentagon, has officially released in 2020 several videos taken by the jet fighters which fly from its aircraft carriers. Specifically in this case the carriers USS Nimitz and USS Theodore Roosevelt.
The videos show luminous flying objects with no engines, wings, cockpit or external features which resemble neither helicopters or aeroplanes. The objects travel and manouvre at tremendous speeds.
One of the pilots, Lieutenant Commander Chad Underwood, attempted to intercept the UFOs in an F/A-18 Hornet jet fighter. He took a video using the aircraft's forward looking infra-red video camera (FLIR). This shows a 40 foot wide white oval flying object which he called a 'tic tac'. The object was one of several which had been tracked on radar descending from high altitude and hovering over the Pacific ocean off of the coast of southern California. The fighter planes were not able to get too close to the objects, which executed evasive manoeuvres.
A full account of the incidents are here.
The significance of this admission by the US Navy, that they have encountered UFOs, is tremendous and could be part of a changed strategy to engage with the subject itself and the public. The videos were in fact originally released in 2017 without authorisation by a UFO research group and perhaps this left the navy with no option but to release them, which was done under a Freedom of Information Act request.
It is rumoured, to put it mildly, that the Pentagon knows much more about UFOs than it has revealed, so any steps towards more openness can only be good.
Some Ufologists predicted an avalanche of UFO information to be released by the Pentagon, and possibly even full discolsure. Alas in 2024 we seem no closer to that.