Sighing of UFOs [Unidentified Flying Objects], now called Unidenfifed Aerial Phemonena [UAP], have gone on for decades in the U.S. Air Force recording top secret images of saucer-like objects traveling at inordinate speeds, often for brief periods before disappearing. U.S. intelligence community is due to brief Congress on UFOs sometime soon, thought the date of the briefing keeps changing. Department of Defense declassified in 2019 three Navy videos showing UFOs, completely unexplained. Last August, the Department of Defense created the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force designed to research and report on the Pentagon’s collection of videos largely from Air Force test pilots taken over the decades. Declassifying three videos, one from 2004 and two from 2015 shows mysterious flying objects recorded by Navy pilots flying at high speeds then disappearing from sight.
Pentagon officials confirmed that the objects contained the videos remain unidentified or of unknown origin. “The aerial phenomena observed in the videos remain characterized as unidentified,” Pentagon officials reported in a written statement. At 2019 UFO sightings from the San Diego areas was recently released by a documentary filmmaker showing a mysterious object flying at high speed for a few minutes before disappearing. CBS’ “60 Minutes” interviewing two former Navy pilots that witnessed firsthand UFO sightings. Cmdr. Dave Fravor and Lt. Cmdr. Alex Dietrich. Both could not explain or identify what they observed. Fravor said it looked the shape of a flying Tic-Tac. “Little white Tic-Tax-looking object,” Fravor said, reporting he saw no wings or an exhaust plume, watching the objects bounce around like a ping-pong balls. “The strangest, most obscure thing I’ve ever seen flying,” Fravor said.
Fravor was quite specific describing what he observed flying at high speed over the Pacific Ocean. “As soon as we locked down, we see the whitewater, and then we see this little white Tic-Tax,” Fravor told NBC News. “It’s pointing north-south, and it’s just going forward, back, left, right,” Fravor said, adding it was bouncing around “like a ping –pong ball.” Fravor said when he approached to mysterious object, it sped off at high speed and disappeared. U.S. Defense Department established under the radar the $22 million Aerospace Threat Identification Program, designed to investigate UFOs. While the program was de-funded in 2012, it was reported in 2017. Former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid pushed for the program. Fearing the UFO sightings had no structure, the Navy offered some reporting guidelines for pilots in the field. Navy officials hoped to limit UFO sighting to official reporting standards.
Navy officials said the too many UFO sighting were documented that lacked specific criteria to ascertain credibility. “A number of reports of unauthorized and/or unidentified aircraft entering various military-controlled ranges and designated air space in recent years,” said Navy officials. “I believe that an unofficial taboo regarding the frank discussion of encounters could harm our national security and stymie opportunities for technical advancement,” Reid wrote in the New York Times today. Reid admitted in his Times article that the government has collected considerable data on UFO sightings over the decades that should be open to the public. “The American people deserve to know more—and hopefully they will soon” with the expected release of the UFO report to the Senate Intelligence Committee. Reid admitted to visiting Area 51 in Nevada raising more of his interests in UFOs.
Reid refused to disclose what he learned at Area 51, near Groom Lake salt flats, in New Mexico, where the Air Force tested top secret aircraft . “What I saw fascinated me, though much of it must remain classified,” raising more speculation over Area 51 where reports of a an alien spaceship crashed with alien specimens found by Pentagon officials sworn to secrecy. Knowing that a Pentagon UFO report was pending, former President Barack Obama spoke on CBS’ Late, Late Show with James Corden. “What is true, and I’m actually being serious here, is footage and records of objects in the skies that we don’t know exactly what they are,” Obama told Corden, creating more anticipation of the Pentagon’s report to the Senate Intelligence Agency. Obama told Corden that there’s much to report of UFOs that have no scientific explanation, with Pentagon officials taking the recordings seriously.
When the 51-year-old Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines and 68-year-old Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin report to Congress on UFOs, it’s going to get intense media interest. Obama and Reid only spurred more interest talking about what they know, or, in Reid’s case, saying what he couldn’t share with the public. With so much speculation surrounding Area 51, the public has an insatiable appetite for the latest information on UFOs, believing there’s just too much information public to dismiss it as just another conspiracy theory. “I want to take it seriously and have a process to take it seriously,” said Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fl.). “My hope is that this administration will provide our military people the support they deserve,” said Christopher Mellon, a former top defense official with the Bill Clinton and George W. Bush administrations. Mellon hopes the stigma attached to discussing UFOs ends.
