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A group linked to Luis Elizondo, the former leader of the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, as well as other former military and government officials, has released a video showing a 2015 UFO encounter involving U.S. Navy pilots:
A newly-released video which shows U.S. Navy pilots encountering an unidentified flying object (UFO) in 2015 has garnered calls for more research into what these mysterious objects could be. "What the f--- is that thing?" one pilot can be heard saying in the video. "Wow, what is that, man?" the pilot adds. "Look at that flying!"
The footage was released Friday by To the Stars Academy of Arts and Science (TTSA), a private scientific research and media group. It is led by Dr. Hal Puthoff, a NASA and U.S. Department of Defense adviser and James Semivan, a former U.S. Central Intelligence Agency service member. The clip is said to be "an authentic DoD video that captures the high-speed flight of an unidentified aircraft at low altitude" and "reveals a previously undisclosed Navy encounter that occurred off the East Coast in 2015," according to a statement from TTSA.
From my work with To the Stars Academy, which seeks to raise private funds to investigate incidents like the 2004 Nimitz encounter, I know they continue to occur, because we are being approached by military personnel who are concerned about national security and frustrated by how the Defense Department is handling such reports. I am also familiar with the evidence as a former Pentagon intelligence official and a consultant who began researching the issue after the Nimitz incident was brought to my attention. On several occasions, I have met with senior Pentagon officials, and at least one followed up and obtained briefings confirming incidents such as the Nimitz case. But nobody wants to be "the alien guy" in the national security bureaucracy; nobody wants to be ridiculed or sidelined for drawing attention to the issue. This is true up and down the chain of command, and it is a serious and recurring impediment to progress.
Also at USA Today and NextBigFuture.
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(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 13 2018, @04:29PM
I call the hoax on this one. Cruise speed of fighter plane allegedly rushing forward to intercept unknown intruder is 0.55 Mach? Get out of here!
The final frames are consistent with recording aircraft avoiding and *passing* the target, leaving it behind over the left flank. Camera plane is flying approximately toward West-southwest (Azimuth 247 degrees) at the start of the footage, and during the flight turns slightly clockwise, increasing the azimuth to 252 and finally the footage ends when azimuth is straight 253. If you imagine, or draw that on paper, you will see a trajectory of aiming at the target, then avoiding the collision and passing it, slightly to the right.
I think this was just a training footage, with a dramatic overlay representing it as an UFO encounter.