UFO videos from US warplane & warship played to Congress as 400 sightings reported in landmark hearing on phenomena
UFO videos were played to a landmark committee hearing as intelligence chiefs confirmed they are now investigating 400 sightings reported by US military.
Two videos were played and one picture were shown by officials as the historic committee meeting began in Washington DC – the first of its kind 50 years.
“We have very fleeting data on these objects,” said Ronald S Moultrie, under secretary of defence for intelligence and security.
The brief clips were show as intelligence officials attempting to display the difficult in reporting and identifying the craft.
One of the clips – showing green triangles appearing to be flying over a US warship – and another similar picture from a separate incident were shown.
Scott W. Bray, deputy director of naval intelligence, said these images are believed to unidentified drones from a “swarm” which was flying near the vessel.
And another clip taken from a US Navy warplane’s cockpit shows a “spherical” silver object flying the sky in a very brief piece of footage.
The clip’s file name is seen as Video 1 2021 Flyby.mov – and Mr Bray confirmed it remains unexplained.
And the 400 unexplained sightings are up from the 144 in last year’s Pentagon report on the topic which was released in June.
The House Intelligence Counterterrorism, Counterintelligence and Counterproliferation subcommittee is holding hearing on UFOs.
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It is chaired by US Congressman Andre Carson and US Congressman Adam Schiff and is receiving
Ronald S. Moultrie, under secretary of defence for intelligence and security, and Scott W. Bray, deputy director of naval intelligence, are answering questions on the highly controversial topic.
The new office to look into UFOs— the Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group (AOIMSG) — was created within Moultrie’s office
And after today’s hearing lawmakers will received a closed door classified briefing on the topic – now more commonly referred to in Washington as Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP).
It comes as UFOs have returned to centre stage in Washington DC after a string of leaked videos from the US Navy.
The clips show fighter planes tracking UFOs which appeared to move in ways impossible for all known human technology.
US military servicemen and former defence officials have all also come out and gone on record regarding their own experiences.
The debate is still open as to what the phenomena caught on film were – but it made clear to everyone, something is in the skies.
Perhaps the most striking was a video known as the “Tic Tac” – which showed an unidentified object being pursued by fighter planes.
The US also confirmed the existence of the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) – a Pentagon programme set up to study UFOs before being disbanded in 2017.
It was headed up by whistleblower Lue Elizondo, who has since become a leading voice in the discussion around UFOs.
However, it was replaced by the UAP Task Force in June 2020 after a vote by the US Senate Intelligence Committee.
Defence chiefs have since confirmed a number of leaked UFO videos and photos which were submitted to the Task Force for investigation.
Why this sudden rush for transparency?
No one outside the secretive wings of the US government currently knows for sure.
And as a tacked on addendum to a 5,500 page Covid relief bill passed in December, the the Director of National Intelligence’s office was ordered to compile a report on UFOs within 180 days.
The UAP report dropped as expected on June 25, and while not giving much away – it did not rule anything out either as much of it remains classified.
The US appear to have acknowledged that UFOs – whatever they are – are real and are a potential threat to national security as they appear to be able to enter restricted airspace with total impunity.
Is it aliens? Officially the US position is simply, “we don’t know yet” as further disclosure is expected in the coming months and years.