{"id":17734,"date":"2020-04-27T23:36:05","date_gmt":"2020-04-27T15:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/u-s-navy-officially-releases-ufo-videos-years-after-they-were-unofficially-leaked\/"},"modified":"2020-04-27T23:36:05","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T15:36:05","slug":"u-s-navy-officially-releases-ufo-videos-years-after-they-were-unofficially-leaked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/u-s-navy-officially-releases-ufo-videos-years-after-they-were-unofficially-leaked\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Navy officially releases UFO videos, years after they were unofficially leaked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"Videos Of UFO Encounters Released By Pentagon | TODAY\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8jOAHWmNk8o?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\" data-width=\"800\" data-height=\"450\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px; width: 800px; height: 450px;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Defense Department has authorized the release of three unclassified Navy videos, captured in 2004 and 2015, that purport to show unidentified flying objects \u2014 or to use the Pentagon\u2019s preferred term, unidentified aerial phenomena.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>UFO fans have long known about these videos, known by the filenames FLIR, GOFAST and GIMBAL, thanks in part to a highly publicized leak&nbsp;in 2017. In a statement issued today, the Defense Department noted that the videos have been \u201ccirculating in the public domain after unauthorized releases in 2007 and 2017.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>The Defense Department said the videos captured by Navy pilots, which appear to show fast-moving objects on tracking screens, don\u2019t reveal any sensitive military capabilities or impinge upon any subsequent investigations. \u201cThe aerial phenomena observed in the videos remain characterized as \u2018unidentified,\u2019 \u201d the Pentagon said. Last year, the Navy updated its guidelines for reporting such phenomena.<\/li>\n<li>In a Twitter update, former Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., who facilitated federal funding for UFO investigations while he was Senate majority leader, said he was \u201cglad the Pentagon is finally releasing this footage, but it only scratches the surface of research and materials available.\u201d U.S. officials need to \u201ctake a serious, scientific look at this and any potential national security implications,\u201d he said. \u201cThe American people deserve to be informed.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Defense Department has authorized the release of three unclassified Navy videos, captured in 2004 and 2015, that purport to show unidentified flying objects \u2014 or to use the Pentagon\u2019s preferred term, unidentified aerial phenomena. UFO fans have long known about these videos, known by the filenames FLIR, GOFAST and GIMBAL, thanks in part to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[439,3539,4651,4552],"class_list":["post-17734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-military","tag-navy","tag-u-s-navy","tag-ufo"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17734"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}