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
(Score: 3, Touché) by ikanreed on Thursday September 19 2019, @05:38PM (1 child)
You're exactly as annoying and addicted to classification as the US government.
Paranoia isn't policy.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 19 2019, @06:05PM
I'm not addicted to classification in any sense of the phrase. I believe we should know about these kind of phenomenon - it has no use being locked up in god knows where. I also am able to understand why the government wants to keep the edge on their investment in defense/offensive capabilities. At the end of the day the govt sees little value in educating you on UFOs and much more value in protecting their own asses. I believe their response to be relatively conservative - they know somewhat what they are giving up and some of these things they can redact / cut out so not to expose whatever is getting their panties in a bind - and somethings they fear they will overlook or perhaps they realize they can not know ahead of time what leaking certain pieces of information will add up to,, so their default is just to say classified and not worry about what they can potentially leak.
I'm not saying I agree with this. I just see the logic in it on their part.