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Pentagon confirms existence of $22m UFO program, releases incident videos

Global News · 1.4M views · 2017-12-18 · 2:58

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A short Global News report on the Pentagon confirming a $22 million UFO investigation program and releasing Navy infrared footage from the 2004 Nimitz encounter.

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HN cites it as the source of the released UFO footage, though commenters often debate whether the video shows anything beyond camera artifacts.

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TeMPOraL · 2019-06 · Criticism

It was. But the video looks like the camera software is trying to track something that's on or within the camera, thus doing a steady rotation at roughly uniform rate. In plane's frame of reference, this footage would correspond to an object trajectory shaped like a circle centered around the plane. That's a pretty weird trajectory to have. See for yourself: [VIDEO] . And tell me, why would the UFO start rotating exactly at the moment the camera is about to cross 0 degrees, and persist through what looks like camera axis reorientation, continuously rotating at the rate about 2x of the rate camera axis rotates?

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soulofmischief · 2019-05 · Reference

Isn't this most likely just a response to the surge of drones over the last half decade? I imagine UFO sightings have proportionally increased and thus the number of ad-hoc reported sightings within the Navy finally crossed the threshold. It could even be a foreign government or spy agency doing amateur reconnaissance with new tech. As the article states, > The lack of a structured procedure and classification system, and the nebulous fear of being stigmatized by reporting things like UFOs [is] something that has long plagued the military and private sectors alike There is also the nebulous fear of people overreacting whenever you finally decide to implement these common-sense policies. You must be hiding something, even if you were ironically just trying to be more transparent. I don't mean to sound like a denier. The released IR footage from the same observation period [0] is incredible and, if real, proves that high-G maneuvers without exhaust or aerofoils exist and we are still lacking some very fundamental understanding about the nature of gravity. I also found the article to be well thought-out and that it covered most of the most obvious answers without trying to paint a particular picture. I'll have to pay more attention to Rogoway. Speculating on the shape of the aircraft, would the round tic-tac shape provide the least average air resistance in every direction provided an aerofoil is not needed for flight? [0] [VIDEO]

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themodelplumber · 2019-04 · Reference

I wonder if this video release impacted the decision? [VIDEO] I remember when it came out it caused quite a stir. Edit: Here's the Wikipedia page: [LINK]

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