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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 19 2019, @08:01PM (1 child)
Uhh... no.
Let's say the government of Freedomland is trying to create a new plane which can go mach 15. They forecast it will be ready in 2020, but as everybody in the workforce knows, projects are always behind schedule and over budget (both government and in the commercial world). They are currently doing test flights.
Do you as a citizen of Freedomland want the world (including your potential enemies) to know that their new military equipment is having problems turning left, or flying in the rain, or is likely not going to be combat ready until 2025?
If Google can keep their technology of how to find the best funny cat videos a secret, I'd think military technology is at least as valuable and important.
(Implicit, that a non-trivial number of these UFOs are government projects which are classified for above stated reasons.)
(Score: 2) by ikanreed on Friday September 20 2019, @01:14AM
As I've said elsewhere in the thread, photographs aren't particularly high-quality intel, especially not comparable to technical details of imaginary super-tech that doesn't exist.