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US Navy Spokesman Acknowledges UFO Videos

posted by janrinok on Thursday September 19 2019, @04:33PM   
from the what-is-it? dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/8xw83b/the-navy-says-the-ufos-in-tom-delonges-videos-are-unidentified-aerial-phenomena

In official statements, the US Navy has for the first time officially stated that the three UFO videos made public by former Blink-182 singer Tom DeLonge's UFO research organization are footage of real "unknown" objects violating American airspace.

Navy spokesperson Joseph Gradisher told Motherboard that "the Navy considers the phenomena contained/depicted in those 3 videos as unidentified." Previously, the Navy never addressed the content of the videos. The terminology here is important: The UFO community is increasingly using the terminology "unidentified aerial phenomena" to discuss unknown objects in the sky.

John Greenwald, author and curator of The Black Vault, the largest civilian archive of declassified government documents, originally reported the news. Greenwald requested information in August from the Navy regarding the content of the three popular videos purporting to show anomalous aerial objects.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/59w3zq/tom-delonge-nytimes-ufo-aliens-comparison

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• Re:English Re:English (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 19 2019, @05:12PM (1 child)

  by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 19 2019, @05:12PM (#896164)

  I saw a UFO once. It was late at night moving across the sky with a short bright yellow trail behind it. I got out my 20x50 binoculars for a better look. It was a rocket doing a suborbital burn maneuver.

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• I once saw a ufo! (Score: 4, Interesting) by bart on Thursday September 19 2019, @05:25PM

  by bart (2844) on Thursday September 19 2019, @05:25PM (#896176)

  I once saw a really cool sort of nested square of lights ufo in the French Luberon region at dusk. I somehow could tell it was really big, and came up out of the valley. My mind went like "no way, no way, that's not a plane, that's not a balloon, not Venus, not anything...". My heart was pounding, because it was so unreal.

  Then it got closer, and I started to hear the sound of jet engines. Then they flew over me, and I could see that it was the "Patrouille the France" national fighter jet demonstration team flying in close formation. The sun had already set, so they were probably practicing formation flying in the dark.

  It was really cool, and if it had been a little farther away, I would never have guessed the actual solution.

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