Update: The Pentagon has now officially released three videos that show “unidentified aerial phenomena”. A private company had previously released the videos.
Pentagon spokesperson Sue Gough says, “After a thorough review, the department has determined that the authorized release of these unclassified videos does not reveal any sensitive capabilities or systems.”
She continued, “And does not impinge on any subsequent investigations of military air space incursions by unidentified aerial phenomena.”
Why would the United States Navy work so hard to erase public knowledge about the existence of aliens? UFO researcher Christian Lambright is helping to shed light on the matter after he reached out to the Navy via a Freedom of Information Act request.
What he found out is pretty shocking, and the general consensus is that the government definitely knows something, and doesn’t want anyone to see it.
Lambright’s mission was to seek more information about a 2004 sighting of an object located off the California coast. The object has been referred to as the “Tic Tac”. This is because of the way it was shaped. It was tracked by the U.S. military in released footage.
Chad Underwood, the pilot who filmed the encounter, told New York magazine, “The part that drew our attention was how it wasn’t behaving within the normal laws of physics.” Within seconds, the object was able to descend from 60,000 feet to 50 feet.
In response, Lambright sent the Freedom of Information Act request to the U.S. Navy. They replied saying they had found “certain briefing slides that are classified TOP SECRET.” There was also a “video classified SECRET,” so they were unable to release the info as a result.
The documents were labeled as such by the agencies that provided them. A spokesperson from the Navy’s Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) said that sharing the information publicly “would cause exceptionally grave damage to the National Security of the United States.”
Copies of the letter that the U.S. Navy sent to Lambright have been posted on the UFOs – Documenting the Evidence blog, as a result.
A Pentagon spokesperson, Susan Gough, told Vice that “[A]s the investigation of UAP sightings is ongoing. We will not publicly discuss individual sighting reports/observations.”
UAP refers to unidentified aerial phenomena. The military does not refer to these types of objects as UFOs.
Gough also revealed that the leaked footage has the same duration as the military’s footage of the event. However, she didn’t go into further details about whether there was any audio involved or if the resolution also matched.
When the footage was leaked last year, the military did confirm that it was legit. But, they said it wasn’t supposed to have been leaked. The clip was first obtained by To the Stars Academy of Arts and Science. They are a private media and research team that was co-founded by former Blink 182 rocker, Tom DeLonge.
However, they should have used a better password manager if they didn’t want the clip to be leaked, you’d think?
