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“The Navy considers the phenomena contained/depicted in those three videos as unidentified,” spokesman Joseph Gradishertold ViceTuesday.
Gradisher’s statement appears to mark the first time that the Navy has acknowledged that the objects in the videos are in fact real, theSan Diego Union-TribunereportedTuesday.
The Navy did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment.
In one video, titled “Gimbal” and recorded in 2015, fighter pilots try to make sense of what they are seeing and are seemingly unable to figure out what the objects are.
“It’s a f— drone, bro,” one pilot says in the video.
“There’s a whole fleet of them, look on the ASA,” the other pilot says.
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“My gosh, they’re all going against the wind, the wind’s 120 knots out of the west,” one of the pilots then says. “Look at that thing, dude!”
The object in question appears in the video as a black, oval aircraft, and at one point begins to rotate, puzzling both pilots.
In another video, titled “Go Fast,” a flying object appears, moving very fast.
“What the f— is that thing?” one of the pilots asks, after a few attempts to capture the object on their sensor.
“Wow, what is that man? Look at it fly!” another says.
The Navy drafted new guidelines for its pilots to report encounters with “unidentified aircraft” earlier this year,Politico reportedin April. The outlet called it “a significant new step in creating a formal process to collect and analyze the unexplained sightings.”
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“There have been a number of reports of unauthorized and/or unidentified aircraft entering various military-controlled ranges and designated air space in recent years,” the Navy said in a statement to Politico at the time. “For safety and security concerns, the Navy and the [U.S. Air Force] takes these reports very seriously and investigates each and every report.”
source: people.com
