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 The Pentagon Released U.F.O. Videos. Don’t Hold Your Breath for a
Breakthrough

On Monday, the Department of Defense formally released three Navy videos that contain
“unidentified aerial phenomena.” Enthusiasts were encouraged, though there was nothing new.

The Department of Defense confirmed what seekers of extraterrestrial life have long hoped to be
true: They’re real.

At least, these three videos are. What the videos show? The government isn’t so sure there.

On Monday, the Pentagon released three Navy videos that have driven speculation about
unidentified flying objects for years, saying it meant to “clear up any misconceptions” about
whether the unclassified footage was real or complete.

It’s real, the Pentagon said, including links so the curious could download the footage for
themselves.

The videos, captured by naval aviators, show objects hurtling through the sky, one rotating
against the wind, and pilots can be heard expressing confusion and awe. When they first
appeared online, they breathed new life into the decades-long conversation about whether
interstellar visitors had ever come to Earth.
The US Department of Defense has released three declassified videos of "unexplained aerial
phenomena".

The Pentagon said it wanted to "clear up any misconceptions by the public on whether or not the
footage that has been circulating was real".

The videos had already been leaked in 2007 and 2017.

Two were published by the New York Times, while the third was leaked by an organisation co-
founded by former Blink-182 singer Tom DeLonge.

After they were first leaked, some people claimed the videos showed alien unidentified flying
objects (UFOs).

What's in the videos?

According to the New York Times, a clip from 2004 was filmed by two navy fighter pilots and
shows a round object hovering above the water, about 100 miles (160 km) out into the Pacific
Ocean.

Two other videos filmed in 2015 show objects moving through the air, one of which is spinning.
In one, a pilot is heard saying: "Look at that thing, dude! It's rotating!"

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In its statement, the Pentagon said: "After a thorough review, the department has determined that
the authorised release of these unclassified videos does not reveal any sensitive capabilities or
systems, and does not impinge on any subsequent investigations of military air space incursions
by unidentified aerial phenomena.

"DOD [Department of Defense] is releasing the videos in order to clear up any misconceptions
by the public on whether or not the footage that has been circulating was real, or whether or not
there is more to the videos. The aerial phenomena observed in the videos remain characterized as
'unidentified'."

The fascination with the unexplained never goes away. And the UFO phenomenon is perhaps
one of the most potent of these stories, linking uncertainty about worlds beyond our own to
conspiracy theories about government and especially the US government.

Down the centuries people have looked to the sky and tried to explain mysterious lights and
objects. But the modern UFO story took root in 1947 when a farmer discovered debris at
Roswell, New Mexico, initially described as a flying disc, but now thought to be part of a
secretive balloon programme to monitor the Soviet Union.

Subsequently the testing base for advanced aircraft, known as Area 51 in Nevada, became the
alleged centre for UFO research. For the conspiracy theorists this was where the US government
sought to harness advanced alien technology.

Over the years many of the most outlandish theories have been debunked. But in 2017, the
Pentagon did finally admit that it had a long-standing programme, now terminated, investigating
alleged UFOs.
Today, the US Navy prefers to call these unexplained sightings "Unidentified Aerial
Phenomena". But that's not going to supplant an acronym which has entered into our collective
sub-conscious, prompting that fundamental question: are we really alone in the universe?

The Pentagon on Monday released three declassified videos that show US navy pilots
encountering what appear to be unidentified flying objects.

The grainy videos, which the Pentagon says depict “unexplained aerial phenomena”, were
previously leaked, with some believing they show alien UFOs.

The Pentagon said it released the footage to “to clear up any misconceptions by the public on
whether or not the footage that has been circulating was real or whether or not there is more to
the videos”, a statement on the Department of Defense website said.

“After a thorough review, the department has determined that the authorized release of these
unclassified videos does not reveal any sensitive capabilities or systems, and does not impinge
on any subsequent investigations of military air space incursions by unidentified aerial
phenomena,” the statement said.

The videos had been “circulating in the public domain after unauthorized releases in 2007 and
2017”, the statement said, adding that “the aerial phenomena observed in the videos remain
characterized as ‘unidentified’”.

The three videos show what the pilots saw during training flights in 2004 and 2015. Two of the
videos were published by the New York Times in 2017. The other video was released by the To
the Stars Academy of Arts and Science group, a media and private science organization.
The 2004 video shows an incident that happened 100 miles out over the Pacific, according to the
New York Times. Two navy fighter pilots found an oblong object hovering above the water. It
then flew quickly away. “It accelerated like nothing I’ve ever seen,” one of pilots, Cmdr David
Fravor, told the NYT.

The 2015 videos show objects moving quickly through the sky, one of them seeming to spin in
the air. “Look at that thing, dude!” a pilot says. “It’s rotating!”

The release of the videos by the Pentagon adds to the legitimacy of the videos and will spur more
speculation that humans have recently interacted with extraterrestrials. The navy has guidelines
for reporting UFO sightings.

In response, the former Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid, from Nevada, tweeted the three
videos “only scratches the surface of research and materials available”.