US Navy Admits It Has More UFO Videos
Source:
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The US Navy holds unseen videos of unidentified flying objects
(UFOs) - or unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), as the Department
of Defense (DOD) prefers to call them - but will not release the
footage publicly because it would "harm national security," a Navy
spokesperson wrote Wednesday (Sept. 7).
The admission came in response to a Freedom of Information Act
(FOIA) request filed by the government transparency site The Black
Vault, which has previously shared thousands of pages of UFO-related
documents received via FOIA requests to the CIA and other government
agencies.
The Black Vault filed the FOIA request to the US Navy in April 2020
- just one day after the Navy declassified three now-infamous videos
shot by Navy pilots showing high-tech aircraft moving in seemingly
impossible ways.
The Black Vault requested that the Navy now turn over any and all
other videos related to UAP.
More than two years later, the government responded with a letter
that both confirmed that more UAP videos exist and denied the request
to turn them over due to national security concerns.
"The release of this information will harm national security as it
may provide adversaries valuable information regarding Department
of Defense/Navy operations, vulnerabilities, and/or capabilities,"
Gregory Cason, deputy director of the Navy's FOIA office, wrote
in a response letter. "No portions of the videos can be segregated
for release."
Cason added that the Navy was able to declassify the three UAP
videos released in April 2020 only because the videos had been
previously leaked to the media and had already been "discussed
extensively in the public domain."
The Navy deemed it possible to officially release the footage
"without further damage to national security," Cason wrote.
Interestingly, in its response to The Black Vault's request, the
Navy did not make any attempts to conceal the existence of
additional UAP videos.
There are clearly more videos of inexplicable UFO encounters
in the Navy's archives, but how many and what they depict will
have to remain a mystery for now.
It's clear, however, that the US military takes the potential threat
of UAP very seriously.
In May 2022, the DOD held its first public hearing on UFOs
since the 1960s. The hearing primarily discussed a June 2021
Pentagon report that revealed US Navy pilots had reported 144
UAP sightings since 2004.
More recently, the DOD announced that it will receive federal
funding to open a new office focused exclusively on managing
reports of UFO sightings by the US Army, Navy, and Air Force.
