The Pentagon on Monday authorized
the release of three grainy videos taken by the United States Navy pilots which
shows unidentified mysterious flying objects. Releasing the statement, the US
Department of Defence declassified the three videos and said that the aerial
phenomena in the videos can be characterized as
"unidentified".
As per the statement, one of the
videos was taken in November 2004, which the other two were taken by the US Navy
in January 2005 during the pilot training. They were making rounds in the
public domain after unauthorized release in 2007 and 2017.
According to the Pentagon, the
videos were released after a thorough review 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." Furthermore, it has
been noted by the Pentagon that the release of
these footages do not reveal any
sensitive capabilities or systems of the department. It further added the
videos do not affect any "subsequent investigations of military air space
incursions by unidentified aerial phenomena."
The videos show unidentified objects
flying at high speeds in Earth's atmosphere. There are also voices of the US Navy
pilots in the footage expressing surprise upon discovering the unfamiliar
objects. These videos were initially leaked in 2007 and 2017. Two of the videos
came to public light after they were published in the New York Times in 2017.
Addressing to the leaks, the
Pentagon also clarified that the "US Navy had previously acknowledged that these
videos circulating in the public domain were indeed Navy videos."
With this statement, the US Department
of Defence has cleared any speculation over the grainy videos released by
it's Navy. As per media reports, the US Navy also started drafting guidelines in
2019 for pilots and other personnel to report their encounters or sightings of
"unidentified aircrafts".
In the past couple of years, reports
have emerged wherein an unauthorized and/or unidentified aircraft has
been sighted around military-controlled ranges and designated air space. Therefore,
in order to analyze these unprecedented incidents and destigmatize them, the
US Defence force launched the initiative. The Pentagon has also previously
funded a number of projects to investigate the enigmatic sightings of aerial
objects.
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