The U.S. Navy has for the first time reportedly verified the authenticity of a series of three UFO videos leaked over the past two years and insisted the footage never should’ve been made public.
Joseph Gradisher, spokesperson for the deputy chief of Naval Operations for Information Warfare, told The Black Vault, a website dedicated to exposing secrets and revealing declassified government documents:
The Navy designates the objects contained in these videos as unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP).
The statement was later confirmed by Motherboard.
The military increasingly prefers the “UAP” phrasing over UFO.
Gradisher said that the term UAP "provides the basic descriptor for the sightings/observations of unauthorized/unidentified aircraft/objects that have been observed entering/operating in the airspace of various military-controlled training ranges." The website also reported that while the Navy now considers the footage “unclassified,” it has not yet been formally cleared for release to the public.
The videos ”FLIR1,” “Gimbal” and “Go Fast”, posted by To the Stars Academy of Arts and Sciences (TTSA), a private research and media firm co-founded by rocker Tom DeLonge, formerly of Blink 182, caused a sensation at that time.
In one video, two Navy pilots tracked an unidentified object flying off the East Coast in 2015.
And in a 2014 incident, a U.S. Navy Super Hornet pilot almost collided with an unidentified flying object during a mission near Virginia Beach.
Although the Defense Department had no comment about the videos at the time, Luis Elizondo, the former military intelligence official who led a government UFO program, said there was even more information out there that the public has not yet seen. Elizondo, who is now part of the TTS Academy, told CNN in 2017:
My personal belief is that there is very compelling evidence that we may not be alone.
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