#AliensExist and #UFO2020 have become trending topics on Twitter following the official acknowledgment by the Pentagon of a video capturing a strange flying craft, which many people believe is evidence of alien activity.
In 2017, leaked US Navy radar footage revealed a mystery object with a “glowing aura” flying erratically, grabbing global headlines.
The debate over Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) escalated when footage emerged, suggesting the presence of an alien craft.
One particular instance recorded footage from a Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet, showing an unidentified aircraft surrounded by a glow.
The object, which traveled at high speed and rotated as it moved, prompted the onboard pilots to remark, “there’s a whole fleet of them”.
While the US Navy acknowledged the incident, officials at the Pentagon remained silent.
However, after confirming the authenticity of the footage years ago, the Pentagon has now officially acknowledged and released three videos documenting separate encounters between Navy pilots and unidentified flying objects.
The videos, two of which were recorded in January 2015 and the third in November 2004, were released “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,” said Pentagon spokesperson Sue Gough.
One of the UFO videos released by the Pentagon.
“Dude, this is a f—king drone, bro,” one pilot says, forever immortalizing himself as a dude-bro.
— Observation Post (@MilitaryTimesOP) April 28, 2020
The Department of Defense stated that they withheld the official release of the footage partly to ensure that nothing in the video required ongoing secrecy. Now, all three videos have been posted on the official page of Naval Air Systems Command.
“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,” said Pentagon spokesperson Sue Gough.
The pilot who had the mysterious encounter in 2017, Chad Underwood, recently shared insights into the unusual behavior of the craft, which flew against strong winds while rotating, as seen in the leaked video.
He told New York Magazine’s Intelligencer in December: “You’re not going to see it with your own eyes until probably 10 miles, and then you’re not going to be able to visually track it until you’re probably inside of five miles, which is where [commanding officer, who first made visual confirmation of the UFO,] Dave Fravor said that he saw it.
“The thing that stood out to me the most was how erratic it was behaving.
“It was just behaving in ways that aren’t physically normal. That’s what caught my eye. Because, aircraft, whether they’re manned or unmanned, still have to obey the laws of physics.”
Mr. Underwood added that the UFO, nicknamed Tic Tac, was unlike anything he had ever seen before.
He said: “Well, normally, you would see engines emitting a heat plume. This object was not doing that.
“You don’t see birds at 5,000 or 10,000 or 20,000 feet. That’s just not how birds operate.”
One of the videos from 2015 depicts what one pilot referred to as “a fleet” of high-speed objects that, at one point, begin rotating in a static position.
“Look at that thing, dude!” one pilot says in the video. “It’s rotating!”
When the footage emerged, a former Pentagon employee Luis Elizondo, who headed up a secret official UFO program, said it was “compelling evidence” we might not be alone in the universe.
Mr. Elizondo said: “These aircraft – we’ll call them aircraft – are displaying characteristics that are not currently within the US inventory nor in any foreign inventory that we are aware of.
“Things that don’t have any obvious flight services, any obvious forms of propulsion, and maneuvering in ways that include extreme maneuverability beyond, I would submit, the healthy G-forces of a human or anything biological.”
The Navy previously acknowledged the authenticity of the footage, with officials drafting guidelines in 2019 to establish a formal process for pilots and military personnel to report UFO sightings, following a series of advanced aircraft intrusions on Navy carrier strike groups.
With the Pentagon acknowledging the sightings, Twitter users have sparked discussions about aliens and UFOs.
Below is the video released by the Pentagon.
