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In late 2017 and early 2018, a company named "[[To the Stars (company)|To the Stars]]" released two [[infrared]] video recordings by an [[Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet|F/A-18 Super Hornet]] from the ''Roosevelt'' and a third related to another [[USS Nimitz UFO incident|UFO incident involving USS ''Nimitz'']] in 2004.<ref name=":2" /><ref name="NYT-20171216-B">{{cite news|last1=Cooper|first1=Helene|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/16/us/politics/pentagon-program-ufo-harry-reid.html|title=Glowing Auras and 'Black Money': The Pentagon's Mysterious U.F.O. Program|date=December 16, 2017|work=The New York Times|access-date=December 17, 2017|last2=Blumenthal|first2=Ralph|last3=Kean|first3=Leslie}}</ref> The videos were part of a campaign by former intelligence officer [[Luis Elizondo]] who said that he wanted to shed light on a secretive [[United States Department of Defense|Department of Defense]] operation to analyze reported UFO sightings, the [[Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program]].<ref name="Politico-20171216">{{cite web|url=https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/12/16/pentagon-ufo-search-harry-reid-216111|title=The Pentagon's Secret Search for UFOs|last=Bender|first=Bryan|date=December 16, 2017|website=[[Politico]]|access-date=December 17, 2017}}</ref><ref name="WP-20171216">{{Cite news|last=Warrick|first=Joby|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/head-of-pentagons-secret-ufo-office-sought-to-make-evidence-public/2017/12/16/90bcb7cc-e2b2-11e7-8679-a9728984779c_story.html|title=Head of Pentagon's secret 'UFO' office sought to make evidence public|date=December 16, 2017|work=[[The Washington Post]]|access-date=December 21, 2017|authorlink=Joby Warrick}}</ref><ref name="WP-20180309">{{cite news|last=Mellon|first=Christopher|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/the-military-keeps-encountering-ufos-why-doesnt-the-pentagon-care/2018/03/09/242c125c-22ee-11e8-94da-ebf9d112159c_story.html|title=The military keeps encountering UFOs. Why doesn’t the Pentagon care?|date=March 9, 2018|work=[[The Washington Post]]|access-date=March 12, 2018|authorlink=Christopher Mellon}}</ref> The two videos were reported by ''The New York Times'' to have been taken a few weeks apart<ref name="NYT" /> with the audio of the pair including voices of military personnel who were questioning what they were observing.<ref name="NYT" /><ref name=":2" /> The Navy confirmed the authenticity of the videos stating only that they depict what they consider to be "[[unidentified aerial phenomena]]".<ref name="WP-20190918">{{Cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2019/09/18/those-ufo-videos-are-real-navy-says-please-stop-saying-ufo/|title=Those UFO Videos are Real, the Navy Says, but Please Stop Saying 'UFO'|last=Epstein|first=Kayla|date=2019-09-18|website=Washington Post|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190919122707/https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2019/09/18/those-ufo-videos-are-real-navy-says-please-stop-saying-ufo/|archive-date=2019-09-19|access-date=2020-02-25}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://time.com/5680192/navy-confirms-ufo-videos-real/|title=Navy Confirms Existence of 'Unidentified' Flying Objects Seen in Leaked Footage|website=Time|access-date=2020-02-25}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/navy-confirms-videos-did-capture-ufo-sightings-it-calls-them-n1056201|title=Yep, those are UFOs, Navy says about 3 videos of strange sightings|website=NBC News|access-date=2020-02-25}}</ref> Susan Gough, a [[The Pentagon|Pentagon]] spokeswoman, confirmed that the three videos were made by naval aviators and that they are "part of a larger issue of an increased number of training range incursions by unidentified aerial phenomena in recent years."<ref name=":8">{{Cite news|last=Taylor|first=Derrick Bryson|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/26/science/tom-delonge-ufo-research.html|title=How Blink-182’s Tom DeLonge Became a U.F.O. Researcher|date=2019-09-26|work=The New York Times|access-date=2020-03-27|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> In April 2020, the two videos were declassified and officially released by the Department of Defense, alongside footage from the ''Nimitz'' incident.<ref>[https://www.defense.gov/Newsroom/Releases/Release/Article/2165713/statement-by-the-department-of-defense-on-the-release-of-historical-navy-videos/ "Statement by the Department of Defense on the Release of Historical Navy Videos"], Department of Defense. Retrieved April 27, 2020.</ref>[[File:F-18F of VFA-11 is lands on USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71) in October 2014.JPG|alt=A fighter jet landing on an aircraft carrier|thumb|A U.S. Navy Boeing F/A-18F ''Super Hornet'' assigned to Strike Fighter Attack Squadron (VFA) 11 "Red Rippers" landing on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS ''Theodore Roosevelt'' (CVN-71) in the Atlantic Ocean during training on October 8, 2014]]Five pilots from the [[VFA-11|VFA-11 “Red Rippers” fighter squadron]] interviewed by the ''[[The New York Times]]'' have reported sighting [[Unidentified flying object|unidentified flying objects]] "almost daily" while training for a deployment to the [[Persian Gulf]].<ref name="NYT" /><ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://www.livescience.com/65585-ufo-sightings-us-pilots.html|title='Fleet of UFOs' Followed US Aircraft, Navy Pilot Says|last=May 2019|first=Mindy Weisberger 29|website=livescience.com|language=en|access-date=2020-04-26}}</ref> Three of those pilots have chosen to remain anonymous, while two, Lieutenants Ryan Graves and Danny Accoin, have given interviews and appeared on a [[History Channel]] program about UFOs.<ref name="NYT" /> [[Radar]] contacts, [[infrared]] detections, and visual sightings by the pilots and [[Weapon systems officer|weapon systems officers]] have been reported. According to Accoin the objects had "no distinct wing, no distinct tail, no distinct exhaust plume."<ref name=":0" /> One pilot described something "like a sphere encasing a cube".<ref name="NYT" /><ref name=":5">{{Cite web|url=https://aerospaceamerica.aiaa.org/features/mystery-of-the-damn-things/|title=Mystery of the 'Damn Things'|last1=Tegler|first1=Jan|last2=Hofacker|first2=Cat|date=November 2019|website=Aerospace America|publisher=American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics|access-date=2020-04-17}}</ref> Accoin said that "multiple sensors [were] reading the exact same thing."<ref name=":0" /> Graves stated that the objects were showing up at 30,000 feet as well as sea level and could accelerate, slow down and hit [[Hypersonic speed|hypersonic speeds]] with manoeuvres "beyond the physical limits of a human crew."<ref name="NYT" /> The pilots also reported that the objects persisted in the air for long periods of time and would "be out there all day".<ref name="NYT" /> When one of those sightings was made, “usually we’d just say, ‘we’re seeing one of those damn things again”, stated Graves.<ref name=":5" /> Once, pilots reported an object almost collided with two jets prompting the VFA-11 fighter squadron to submit an aviation flight safety report.<ref name="NYT" /><ref name=":5" /> According to the pilots, the squadron had previously speculated that the sightings could have been a classified [[Unmanned aerial vehicle|drone]] development program, but the near miss angered the pilots and convinced them that this was a safety issue and not a [[black project]].<ref name="NYT" />
In late 2017 and early 2018, a company named "[[To the Stars (company)|To the Stars]]" released two [[infrared]] video recordings by an [[Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet|F/A-18 Super Hornet]] from the ''Roosevelt'' and a third related to another [[USS Nimitz UFO incident|UFO incident involving USS ''Nimitz'']] in 2004.<ref name=":2" /><ref name="NYT-20171216-B">{{cite news|last1=Cooper|first1=Helene|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/16/us/politics/pentagon-program-ufo-harry-reid.html|title=Glowing Auras and 'Black Money': The Pentagon's Mysterious U.F.O. Program|date=December 16, 2017|work=The New York Times|access-date=December 17, 2017|last2=Blumenthal|first2=Ralph|last3=Kean|first3=Leslie}}</ref> The videos were part of a campaign by former intelligence officer [[Luis Elizondo]] who said that he wanted to shed light on a secretive [[United States Department of Defense|Department of Defense]] operation to analyze reported UFO sightings, the [[Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program]].<ref name="Politico-20171216">{{cite web|url=https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/12/16/pentagon-ufo-search-harry-reid-216111|title=The Pentagon's Secret Search for UFOs|last=Bender|first=Bryan|date=December 16, 2017|website=[[Politico]]|access-date=December 17, 2017}}</ref><ref name="WP-20171216">{{Cite news|last=Warrick|first=Joby|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/head-of-pentagons-secret-ufo-office-sought-to-make-evidence-public/2017/12/16/90bcb7cc-e2b2-11e7-8679-a9728984779c_story.html|title=Head of Pentagon's secret 'UFO' office sought to make evidence public|date=December 16, 2017|work=[[The Washington Post]]|access-date=December 21, 2017|authorlink=Joby Warrick}}</ref><ref name="WP-20180309">{{cite news|last=Mellon|first=Christopher|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/the-military-keeps-encountering-ufos-why-doesnt-the-pentagon-care/2018/03/09/242c125c-22ee-11e8-94da-ebf9d112159c_story.html|title=The military keeps encountering UFOs. Why doesn’t the Pentagon care?|date=March 9, 2018|work=[[The Washington Post]]|access-date=March 12, 2018|authorlink=Christopher Mellon}}</ref> The two videos were reported by ''The New York Times'' to have been taken a few weeks apart<ref name="NYT" /> with the audio of the pair including voices of military personnel who were questioning what they were observing.<ref name="NYT" /><ref name=":2" /> The Navy confirmed the authenticity of the videos stating only that they depict what they consider to be "[[unidentified aerial phenomena]]".<ref name="WP-20190918">{{Cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2019/09/18/those-ufo-videos-are-real-navy-says-please-stop-saying-ufo/|title=Those UFO Videos are Real, the Navy Says, but Please Stop Saying 'UFO'|last=Epstein|first=Kayla|date=2019-09-18|website=Washington Post|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190919122707/https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2019/09/18/those-ufo-videos-are-real-navy-says-please-stop-saying-ufo/|archive-date=2019-09-19|access-date=2020-02-25}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://time.com/5680192/navy-confirms-ufo-videos-real/|title=Navy Confirms Existence of 'Unidentified' Flying Objects Seen in Leaked Footage|website=Time|access-date=2020-02-25}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/navy-confirms-videos-did-capture-ufo-sightings-it-calls-them-n1056201|title=Yep, those are UFOs, Navy says about 3 videos of strange sightings|website=NBC News|access-date=2020-02-25}}</ref> Susan Gough, a [[The Pentagon|Pentagon]] spokeswoman, confirmed that the three videos were made by naval aviators and that they are "part of a larger issue of an increased number of training range incursions by unidentified aerial phenomena in recent years."<ref name=":8">{{Cite news|last=Taylor|first=Derrick Bryson|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/26/science/tom-delonge-ufo-research.html|title=How Blink-182’s Tom DeLonge Became a U.F.O. Researcher|date=2019-09-26|work=The New York Times|access-date=2020-03-27|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> In April 2020, the two videos were declassified and officially released by the Department of Defense, alongside footage from the ''Nimitz'' incident.<ref>[https://www.defense.gov/Newsroom/Releases/Release/Article/2165713/statement-by-the-department-of-defense-on-the-release-of-historical-navy-videos/ "Statement by the Department of Defense on the Release of Historical Navy Videos"], Department of Defense. Retrieved April 27, 2020.</ref>[[File:F-18F of VFA-11 is lands on USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71) in October 2014.JPG|alt=A fighter jet landing on an aircraft carrier|thumb|A U.S. Navy Boeing F/A-18F ''Super Hornet'' assigned to Strike Fighter Attack Squadron (VFA) 11 "Red Rippers" landing on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS ''Theodore Roosevelt'' (CVN-71) in the Atlantic Ocean during training on October 8, 2014]]Five pilots from the [[VFA-11|VFA-11 “Red Rippers” fighter squadron]] interviewed by the ''[[The New York Times]]'' have reported sighting [[Unidentified flying object|unidentified flying objects]] "almost daily" while training for a deployment to the [[Persian Gulf]].<ref name="NYT" /><ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://www.livescience.com/65585-ufo-sightings-us-pilots.html|title='Fleet of UFOs' Followed US Aircraft, Navy Pilot Says|last=May 2019|first=Mindy Weisberger 29|website=livescience.com|language=en|access-date=2020-04-26}}</ref> Three of those pilots have chosen to remain anonymous, while two, Lieutenants Ryan Graves and Danny Accoin, have given interviews and appeared on a [[History Channel]] program about UFOs.<ref name="NYT" /> [[Radar]] contacts, [[infrared]] detections, and visual sightings by the pilots and [[Weapon systems officer|weapon systems officers]] have been reported. According to Accoin the objects had "no distinct wing, no distinct tail, no distinct exhaust plume."<ref name=":0" /> One pilot described something "like a sphere encasing a cube".<ref name="NYT" /><ref name=":5">{{Cite web|url=https://aerospaceamerica.aiaa.org/features/mystery-of-the-damn-things/|title=Mystery of the 'Damn Things'|last1=Tegler|first1=Jan|last2=Hofacker|first2=Cat|date=November 2019|website=Aerospace America|publisher=American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics|access-date=2020-04-17}}</ref> Accoin said that "multiple sensors [were] reading the exact same thing."<ref name=":0" /> Graves stated that the objects were showing up at 30,000 feet as well as sea level and could accelerate, slow down and hit [[Hypersonic speed|hypersonic speeds]] with manoeuvres "beyond the physical limits of a human crew."<ref name="NYT" /> The pilots also reported that the objects persisted in the air for long periods of time and would "be out there all day".<ref name="NYT" /> When one of those sightings was made, “usually we’d just say, ‘we’re seeing one of those damn things again”, stated Graves.<ref name=":5" /> Once, pilots reported an object almost collided with two jets prompting the VFA-11 fighter squadron to submit aviation flight safety report.<ref name="NYT" /><ref name=":5" /> According to the pilots, the squadron had previously speculated that the sightings could have been a classified [[Unmanned aerial vehicle|drone]] development program, but the near miss angered the pilots and convinced them that this was a safety issue and not a [[black project]].<ref name="NYT" />
UFO skeptic [[Robert Sheaffer]] has criticized stories of Navy UFO reports appearing in ''The New York Times'' as "crafted by UFO believers to appear neutral and objective when it is anything but". Sheaffer notes that authors Leslie Kean and Ralph Blumenthal have a history of promoting UFOs.<ref name="Sheaffer">{{cite journal |last1=Sheaffer |first1=Robert |title=The Pentagon’s UFOs, How a Multimedia Entertainment Company created a UFO news story |url=https://www.skeptic.com/reading_room/pentagon-ufos-to-the-stars-academy-ttsa-ufo-media-frenzy/ |website=Skeptic Magazine, Vol. 24, Issue 3 |publisher=Skeptic Magazine |accessdate=24 March 2020}}</ref> Skeptical investigator [[Benjamin Radford]] wrote that Kean "has a documented history of championing UFO reports that turned out to be mistakes and hoaxes."<ref name="Radford">{{cite journal |last=Radford |first=Benjamin |title=Newly Revealed Secret DoD 'UFO' Project Less Than Meets the Eye |website=Skeptical Inquirer Magazine, Vol. 42, No. 2 |publisher=Commitee for Skeptical Inquiry}}</ref>
UFO skeptic [[Robert Sheaffer]] has criticized stories of Navy UFO reports appearing in ''The New York Times'' as "crafted by UFO believers to appear neutral and objective when it is anything but". Sheaffer notes that authors Leslie Kean and Ralph Blumenthal have a history of promoting UFOs.<ref name="Sheaffer">{{cite journal |last1=Sheaffer |first1=Robert |title=The Pentagon’s UFOs, How a Multimedia Entertainment Company created a UFO news story |url=https://www.skeptic.com/reading_room/pentagon-ufos-to-the-stars-academy-ttsa-ufo-media-frenzy/ |website=Skeptic Magazine, Vol. 24, Issue 3 |publisher=Skeptic Magazine |accessdate=24 March 2020}}</ref> Skeptical investigator [[Benjamin Radford]] wrote that Kean "has a documented history of championing UFO reports that turned out to be mistakes and hoaxes."<ref name="Radford">{{cite journal |last=Radford |first=Benjamin |title=Newly Revealed Secret DoD 'UFO' Project Less Than Meets the Eye |website=Skeptical Inquirer Magazine, Vol. 42, No. 2 |publisher=Commitee for Skeptical Inquiry}}</ref>


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USS Theodore Roosvelt UFO incidents
A modern aircraft carrier at sea with five aircraft flying in formation overhead
USS Theodore Roosevelt underway in the Atlantic Ocean in March 2015
DateJune 2, 2014 – March 10, 2015 (2014-06-02 – 2015-03-10)
LocationEast Coast of the United States

The USS Theodore Roosevelt UFO incidents were a series of radar-visual encounters of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) by United States Navy fighter pilots of the USS Theodore Roosevelt carrier strike group that occurred between the summer of 2014 and March 2015 along the East Coast of the United States.[1][2] Videos of the incidents were initially released in 2017 by a company named "To the Stars" and by former intelligence officer Luis Elizondo to shed light on a secretive United States Department of Defense operation to analyze reported UFO sightings, the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program.[3][4][5] In April 2020 the footage was declassified and officially released by the Department of Defense.[6]

The aerial phenomena observed in the videos is characterised as "unidentified" by the Department of Defense.[6]

History

'Go Fast' video released by US Department of Defense
'Gimbal' video released by US Department of Defense

In late 2017 and early 2018, a company named "To the Stars" released two infrared video recordings by an F/A-18 Super Hornet from the Roosevelt and a third related to another UFO incident involving USS Nimitz in 2004.[2][7] The videos were part of a campaign by former intelligence officer Luis Elizondo who said that he wanted to shed light on a secretive Department of Defense operation to analyze reported UFO sightings, the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program.[8][9][10] The two videos were reported by The New York Times to have been taken a few weeks apart[1] with the audio of the pair including voices of military personnel who were questioning what they were observing.[1][2] The Navy confirmed the authenticity of the videos stating only that they depict what they consider to be "unidentified aerial phenomena".[11][12][13] Susan Gough, a Pentagon spokeswoman, confirmed that the three videos were made by naval aviators and that they are "part of a larger issue of an increased number of training range incursions by unidentified aerial phenomena in recent years."[14] In April 2020, the two videos were declassified and officially released by the Department of Defense, alongside footage from the Nimitz incident.[15]

A fighter jet landing on an aircraft carrier
A U.S. Navy Boeing F/A-18F Super Hornet assigned to Strike Fighter Attack Squadron (VFA) 11 "Red Rippers" landing on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71) in the Atlantic Ocean during training on October 8, 2014

Five pilots from the VFA-11 “Red Rippers” fighter squadron interviewed by the The New York Times have reported sighting unidentified flying objects "almost daily" while training for a deployment to the Persian Gulf.[1][16] Three of those pilots have chosen to remain anonymous, while two, Lieutenants Ryan Graves and Danny Accoin, have given interviews and appeared on a History Channel program about UFOs.[1] Radar contacts, infrared detections, and visual sightings by the pilots and weapon systems officers have been reported for several months. According to Accoin the objects had "no distinct wing, no distinct tail, no distinct exhaust plume."[16] One pilot described something "like a sphere encasing a cube".[1][17] Another source has confirmed to "The War Zone" that that same description was reported by several other pilots and that encounters were commonplace among multiple squadrons including the nearby E-2 Hawkeye squadrons from Naval Station Norfolk.[18] Accoin said that "multiple sensors [were] reading the exact same thing."[16] Graves stated that the objects were showing up at 30,000 feet as well as sea level and could accelerate, slow down and hit hypersonic speeds with manoeuvres "beyond the physical limits of a human crew."[1] The pilots also reported that the objects persisted in the air for long periods of time and would "be out there all day".[1] When one of those sightings was made, “usually we’d just say, ‘we’re seeing one of those damn things again”, stated Graves.[17] Once, pilots reported an object almost collided with two jets prompting the VFA-11 fighter squadron to submit a NOTAM aviation flight safety report.[1][17][18] According to the pilots, the squadron had previously speculated that the sightings could have been a classified drone development program, but the near miss angered the pilots and convinced them that this was a safety issue and not a black project.[1]

UFO skeptic Robert Sheaffer has criticized stories of Navy UFO reports appearing in The New York Times as "crafted by UFO believers to appear neutral and objective when it is anything but". Sheaffer notes that authors Leslie Kean and Ralph Blumenthal have a history of promoting UFOs.[19] Skeptical investigator Benjamin Radford wrote that Kean "has a documented history of championing UFO reports that turned out to be mistakes and hoaxes."[20]

Aftermath and analysis

After the incidents became public, classified congressional hearings were conducted with the goal of understanding and identifying the potential threat to the safety and security of aviators.[21][22][23] The Navy has confirmed that, in response to inquiries by members Congress, they have provided a series of briefings by senior naval intelligence officials as well as testimony from "aviators who reported hazards to aviation safety".[24] The contents of those briefings are classified, but Senator Mark Warner, the vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, who attended one of those briefings, released a statement requesting further research into "unexplained interference in the air" that could pose safety concerns for naval pilots.[21] According to Popular Mechanics, "insiders also say" Brigadier General Richard Stapp, Director of the DoD Special Access Program Central Office, testified to the Senate Intelligence Committee that "mysterious objects being encountered by the military were not related to secret U.S. technology".[23] President Donald Trump has also been briefed on the issue and has stated "I did have one very brief meeting on it. But people are saying they're seeing UFOs. Do I believe it? Not particularly."[25][26]

Following the hearings, the Navy announced it had updated the way pilots were to formally report UFO incidents, in order to encourage pilots to flag disturbances which "have been occurring regularly since 2014."[11] According to Joseph Gradisher, spokesman for the deputy Chief of Naval Operations, the new guidance was an update of instructions that went out to the fleet in 2015, after the Roosevelt incidents and stated that: "we don’t know who's doing this, we don't have enough data to track this. The intent of the message to the fleet is to provide updated guidance on reporting procedures for suspected intrusions into our airspace."[1] Regarding the new guidelines, he said that one possible explanation for the increase in reported intrusions could be the rise in availability of unmanned aerial systems such as quadrocopters.[11]

A Raytheon ATFLIR Targeting Pod mounted on an Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet

According to astrophysicist Leon Golub, the reports have a number of possible mundane explanations such as "bugs in the code for the imaging and display systems, atmospheric effects and reflections, neurological overload from multiple inputs during high-speed flight."[1] In a similar vein, physicist Don Lincoln pointed out that while the pilots may have thought they saw what they believed to be an "unidentified flying object", since far more plausible explanations exist, he proposed that "what these pilots were seeing is something with a more ordinary explanation, whether it be an instrumental glitch or some other unexplained artifact."[27] Raytheon has confirmed those videos have been captured by one of their ATFLIR targeting pods mounted on the fighter jets.[28] They stated that "video images are not definitive proof that the jet pilots were chasing an actual UFO."[28] Steve Cummings, vice president of Technology Development and Execution, stated that "To really be sure, we would need the raw data", "visual displays alone are not the best evidence" and that one way to exclude any anomaly would be to observe "the same target, behaving the same way on multiple sensors."[28]

See also

References

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  2. ^ a b c McMillan, Tim (2020-01-17). "The Tale of the Tape: The Long, Bizarre Saga of the Navy's UFO Video". Popular Mechanics. Retrieved 2020-02-24.
  3. ^ Bender, Bryan. "The Pentagon's Secret Search for UFOs". POLITICO Magazine. Retrieved 2020-05-01.
  4. ^ Warrick, Joby (2017-12-16). "Head of Pentagon's secret 'UFO' office sought to make evidence public". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2020-05-01.
  5. ^ Clinton, Christopher Mellon Christopher Mellon served as deputy assistant secretary of defense for intelligence in the; investor, George W. Bush administrations He is a private equity; Arts, an adviser to the To the Stars Academy for; Science. "Perspective | The military keeps encountering UFOs. Why doesn't the Pentagon care?". Washington Post. Retrieved 2020-05-01.
  6. ^ a b "Statement by the Department of Defense on the Release of Historical Na". U.S. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE. Retrieved 2020-05-01.
  7. ^ Cooper, Helene; Blumenthal, Ralph; Kean, Leslie (December 16, 2017). "Glowing Auras and 'Black Money': The Pentagon's Mysterious U.F.O. Program". The New York Times. Retrieved December 17, 2017.
  8. ^ Bender, Bryan (December 16, 2017). "The Pentagon's Secret Search for UFOs". Politico. Retrieved December 17, 2017.
  9. ^ Warrick, Joby (December 16, 2017). "Head of Pentagon's secret 'UFO' office sought to make evidence public". The Washington Post. Retrieved December 21, 2017.
  10. ^ Mellon, Christopher (March 9, 2018). "The military keeps encountering UFOs. Why doesn't the Pentagon care?". The Washington Post. Retrieved March 12, 2018.
  11. ^ a b c Epstein, Kayla (2019-09-18). "Those UFO Videos are Real, the Navy Says, but Please Stop Saying 'UFO'". Washington Post. Archived from the original on 2019-09-19. Retrieved 2020-02-25.
  12. ^ "Navy Confirms Existence of 'Unidentified' Flying Objects Seen in Leaked Footage". Time. Retrieved 2020-02-25.
  13. ^ "Yep, those are UFOs, Navy says about 3 videos of strange sightings". NBC News. Retrieved 2020-02-25.
  14. ^ Taylor, Derrick Bryson (2019-09-26). "How Blink-182's Tom DeLonge Became a U.F.O. Researcher". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-03-27.
  15. ^ "Statement by the Department of Defense on the Release of Historical Navy Videos", Department of Defense. Retrieved April 27, 2020.
  16. ^ a b c May 2019, Mindy Weisberger 29. "'Fleet of UFOs' Followed US Aircraft, Navy Pilot Says". livescience.com. Retrieved 2020-04-26.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  17. ^ a b c Tegler, Jan; Hofacker, Cat (November 2019). "Mystery of the 'Damn Things'". Aerospace America. American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Retrieved 2020-04-17.
  18. ^ a b Rogoway, Tyler. "Recent UFO Encounters With Navy Pilots Occurred Constantly Across Multiple Squadrons". The Drive. Retrieved 2020-05-09.
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