In December 2017, two videos emerged that showed Navy pilots encountering mysterious spherical objects that appeared, at first glance, to move through the air in ways that baffled experts! Videos for Navy Admits UFO Videos Are Real , But 0:58 US Navy admits that leaked videos of UFO sightings are real (and shouldn't have been made public) YouTube!! A third, released in March 2018, depicted a similar encounter.
Everyone who watched — including the pilots who filmed them — had the same question: What, exactly, are these things?
Last week, a Navy official publicly called these mysterious objects "Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP)," giving name to the inscrutable little dots and reigniting scrutiny around the unidentified flying objects (a term the Navy does not want to use even though the objects that are flying cannot be identified.)
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"The Navy designates the objects contained in these videos as unidentified aerial phenomena," Joseph Gradisher, spokesman for the deputy chief of naval operations for information warfare, told the Black Vault blog , a massive civilian repository of government documents mostly obtained by Freedom of Information Act requests.
Many things are taking place:
Alien Research Group Started by Blink-182 Singer Says It's Found 'Exotic UFO Material'
And he apparently now has something to show for it. In a recent Q&A with The New York Times , a reporter asked whether the group had obtained "exotic material samples from UFOs."
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It's still unclear what precise materials the Academy has gotten its hands on, and whether they relate in any way to the three videos it obtained of "unidentified aerial phenomena" that a spokesperson for the Navy recently revealed to be legitimate.
"What we have been doing is trying to find the most qualified individuals at the most respectable institutions to conduct scientific analysis," Luis Elizondo, the director of global security and special programs for DeLonge's group, told the Times .
"That scientific analysis includes physical analysis, it includes molecular and chemical analysis and ultimately it includes nuclear analysis."
How Blink-182's Tom DeLonge Became a U.F.O. Researcher - The New York Times
For decades, the discussion of whether or not U.F.O.s exist has been debated in American pop culture and within science communities.
That all reached a fever pitch last week when the United States Navy confirmed that three widely shared videos captured by naval aviators in 2004 and 2015 were indeed real and showed what it called "unidentified aerial phenomena." The "unidentified" part of that statement sparked excitement among U.F.O. enthusiasts.
The three videos show mysterious objects in the sky and contain audio of pilots trying to make sense of what they were seeing! 3:49 Michio Kaku says the burden of proof has shifted to the government to demonstrate UFOs don't exist MSN!! They had gained notoriety since being published in 2017 and 2018 by The New York Times and a company called To the Stars Academy of Arts & Sciences . Founded in 2017, it is run by a team of 12, including several former government employees, who try to advance society's understanding of scientific phenomena through the lenses of entertainment, science and aerospace.
Cluster of lights of Outer Banks, North Carolina sets off UFO debate | Charlotte Observer
A man visiting the Outer Banks, North Carolina recorded a cluster of lights in September 2019 that many people claim are UFOs. Others believe they are military flares.
Quite a lot has been going on:
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Canadian mint releases UFO-themed glow-in-the-dark coin - BBC News
Over 50 years ago, on the night of 4 October, strange lights appeared over the sky of a small Canadian fishing village.
Witnesses watched as the lights flashed and then dived towards the dark waters off the coast of Nova Scotia.
Now, what some believe to have been a UFO sighting has been commemorated by the Royal Canadian Mint.
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The scene on the glow-in-the-dark coin depicts a specific moment described by various eyewitnesses.
After seeing four strange flashing lights in the offshore night sky, they spotted an object 60-feet in length flying low, which dropped down at a 45 degree angle.
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), which had received numerous calls reporting a plane crash in the harbour, along with local fishermen, tried to reach the object before it sank.
