Washington (CNN) – Recently released “Risk Reports” detailing encounters between US Navy aircraft. USA and “unidentified aerial phenomena” reveal details of incidents that emerged when the Pentagon officially declassified and launched videos of three games late last month.
“The unknown aircraft appeared to be small in size, approximately the size of a suitcase and silver in color,” says a report describing an incident on March 26, 2014.
During that encounter, one of the Navy F / A-18 aircraft “passed within 1000 ′ of the object, but was unable to positively determine the identity of the aircraft,” adds the report, which says the pilot “attempted to retrieve visual contact with the aircraft, but could not. ”
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CNN on Wednesday obtained documents from the Navy Security Center, which were previously labeled “For official use only.” These appear after the Pentagon’s official release late last month of three short videos showing “unidentified aerial phenomena” that had previously been released by a private company.
The reports were first published by Drive, a website that covers news auto and military affairs, which obtained the documents through a Freedom of Information Act request.
The videos show what appear to be unidentified flying objects that move quickly while recording with infrared cameras. Two of the videos contain the reactions of naval aviators that show amazement at the speed with which objects move. A voice speculates that it could be a drone.
Objects could be drones
Recently released reports seem to share this assessment by describing many of the unidentified aircraft as “unmanned aerial systems (UAS),” the Pentagon’s official name for unmanned aircraft.
According to the report of another incident in November 2013, a Navy F / A-18 pilot “was able to visually locate a small aircraft. The aircraft had a wingspan of approximately 5 feet and was white in color with no other distinguishable characteristics. ”
“Due to the small size, the plane was determined to be a UAS,” the report said.
Another incident on June 27, 2013 indicates that the “found aircraft was white in color and approximately the size and shape of a drone or missile,” according to the report.
But reports say that while the unidentified flying objects are considered to be drones, the military was unable to identify who was operating the drone, posing a significant security challenge for Navy training aircraft in the area that it is airspace restricted to military training and stretching off the east coast of Virginia.
“After the flight, the control agency contacted numerous local UAS operators, but none claimed to have knowledge” of the unidentified aircraft, according to the November report.
“I feel it may be only a matter of time before one of our F / A-18 aircraft has an air collision with an unidentified UAS,” warned one of the authors of a report.
“In many ways, ‘drones’ pose a greater risk in the air than manned aircraft. They are often less visually significant and less apparent than manned aircraft, ”the report said.
There is also a possibility that the drones may be operated by an adversary such as Russia or China who may have been seeking to gather information on the operations of the US Army. USA
The Navy now has formal guidelines on how its pilots can report when they believe they have seen possible UFOs.
The videos of the encounters were first released between December 2017 and March 2018 by the Academy of Arts and Sciences To The Stars, a company co-founded by former Blink-182 musician Tom DeLonge who says he studies information on aerial phenomena. unidentified.
The truth is out there
The Pentagon has previously studied recordings of aerial encounters with unknown objects as part of a classified program closed ever since at the behest of former Senator Harry Reid of Nevada. The program was launched in 2007 and ended in 2012, according to the Pentagon, because they assessed that there were higher priorities that needed funding.
However, Luis Elizondo, a former head of the classified program, told CNN in 2017 that he personally believes “there is very compelling evidence that we may not be alone.”
“These aircraft, we will call them aircraft, show characteristics that are not currently in the US inventory. USA nor in any foreign inventory that we have knowledge of, ”Elizondo said of the objects they investigated. He says he resigned from the Department of Defense in 2017 in protest of the secrecy surrounding the program and internal opposition to funding it.
President Donald Trump called the recently released Pentagon video a “great video” and told Reuters he was wondering “if it is real.”
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“I wonder if it’s real,” Trump said of the videos. “That is a great video.”
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