The U.S. Navy holds unseen movies of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) — or unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), because the Division of Protection (DOD) prefers to name them — however is not going to launch the footage publicly as a result of it might “hurt nationwide safety,” a Navy spokesperson wrote (opens in new tab) Wednesday (Sept. 7).
The admission got here in response to a Freedom of Data Act (FOIA) request filed by the federal government transparency web site The Black Vault, which has beforehand shared thousands of pages of UFO-related documents (opens in new tab) obtained through FOIA requests to the CIA and different authorities companies. The Black Vault filed the FOIA request to the U.S. Navy in April 2020 — only one day after the Navy declassified three now-infamous videos (opens in new tab) shot by Navy pilots displaying high-tech plane shifting in seemingly inconceivable methods. The Black Vault requested that the Navy now flip over any and all different movies associated to UAP.
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Greater than two years later, the federal government responded with a letter that each confirmed that extra UAP movies exist and denied the request to show them over attributable to nationwide safety considerations.
“The discharge of this info will hurt nationwide safety as it could present adversaries helpful info relating to Division of Protection/Navy operations, vulnerabilities, and/or capabilities,” Gregory Cason, deputy director of the Navy’s FOIA workplace, wrote in a response letter. “No parts of the movies may be segregated for launch.”
Cason added that the Navy was in a position to declassify the three UAP movies launched in April 2020 solely as a result of the movies had been beforehand leaked to the media and had already been “mentioned extensively within the public area.” The Navy deemed it doable to formally launch the footage “with out additional harm to nationwide safety,” Cason wrote.
Apparently, in its response to The Black Vault’s request, the Navy didn’t make any makes an attempt to hide the existence of further UAP movies. There are clearly extra movies of inexplicable UFO encounters within the Navy’s archives, however what number of and what they depict should stay a thriller for now.
It is clear, nevertheless, that the U.S. navy takes the potential risk of UAP very critically. In Could 2022, the DOD held its first public listening to on UFOs for the reason that Sixties. The listening to primarily mentioned a June 2021 Pentagon report (opens in new tab) that exposed U.S. Navy pilots had reported 144 UAP sightings since 2004. Extra just lately, the DOD introduced that it’s going to obtain federal funding to open a brand new workplace centered completely on managing reports of UFO sightings (opens in new tab) by the U.S. Military, Navy and Air Drive.
Initially printed on Stay Science.
