A videographer has cast a fresh eye on unidentified anomalous phenomena filmed by the US military (Picture: AARO/US Department of Defense)
A retouched video of UFO footage captured by astonished US Navy pilots and a military drone has thrown new light on the mysteries.
A videographer’s cut gives a fresh focus on the objects – known by the Pentagon as unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) – shown at speeds and angles beyond the limits of any known human-made craft.
In 2020, the US Department of Defense piqued global interest in UFOs by officially releasing three videos showing unexplained encounters.
The declassified footage is now part of a library of eight clips hosted online by the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), a team of experts who are leading the US government’s efforts to address UAP.
In one of the enhanced videos, an astounded US Navy F/A-18 pilot can be heard shouting ‘woah got it, woohoo!’ as the Hornet jet’s targeting system captures a low-flying circular object during a training flight in 2015.
Amid excited radio chatter, he exclaims: ‘What the hell is that?’
A clip showing an object that appears to be moving at high speed without any obvious propulsion (Picture: AARO/US Department of Defense)
A second video filmed the same year by an F/A-18 crew shows a small black blob – seemingly with no propulsion – moving above the cloud base.
The object can be seen changing angles, with one pilot saying over the radio: ‘There’s a whole fleet of them, look on the ASA [airborne surveillance and attack system].’
His colleague remarks: ‘They are going against the wind, the wind’s 120 knots to the west.’
The first pilot then exclaims: ‘Look at that thing dude.’
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Another sequence in the footage refreshed by UK-based videographer Evan Brindle shows a mystery object flashing by a Navy fighter jet pilot’s cockpit during a flight in 2021. The unexplained anomaly is almost too fast to see in the colour footage, but freeze-framing shows a small, metallic-type object with a white blob, possibly from the sun’s reflection.
The AARO has said that the clip ‘demonstrates the typical speed at which military aircraft may approach an unknown object’.
In the final clip, captured by an MQ-9 Reaper drone, a silver, orb-like object is shown flying over sparsely populated desert terrain in the Middle East.
A declassified photo shows a mystery object flash past the cockpit of a US Navy fighter jet (Picture: AARO/US Department of Defense)
Filmed in December 2022 at an undisclosed location, the object was not exhibiting ‘anomalous behaviour’ – such as propulsion beyond known technology – but remains unidentified, according to the AARO.
The other cases involving fighter pilots are unresolved.
British UFO expert Nick Pope said: ‘These enhanced new videos could be game-changers. The original versions were fuzzy and indistinct, but these latest renderings put more flesh on the bones and may take us closer than ever before to a resolution of the UFO mystery.
‘On the Department of Defense website, the original three US Navy UAP videos are described as being ones where the phenomena observed are still categorized as being unidentified.
‘I hope these new enhancements lead to the US government re-examining these incidents because it’s essential that we get resolution here.’
The Navy videos were originally leaked into the public domain between 2007 and 2017 before the Department of Defense’s release in 2020.
The Pentagon said at the time that the authorised disclosure was ‘to clear up any misconceptions by the public’ about whether the footage was real or ‘whether or not there is more to the videos’.
An object speeds past the jet’s cockpit in a clip lasting a matter of seconds (Picture: AARO/US Department of Defense)
Mr Pope has previously called on the UK government to disclose more about what it knows and is possibly doing about UAP.
In response to Freedom of Information Act requests, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has not acknowledged any engagement with the US over the issue but did say it was ‘aware’ of one report from across the Atlantic.
‘These objects were in restricted airspace and reportedly ran rings around the cutting edge of US aerospace technology,’ Mr Pope said.
‘The US and the UK need to collaborate on a proper reinvestigation of these videos and of other anomalous objects in US and UK airspace. The UK Ministry of Defence has access to world class intelligence community imagery analysis resources and capabilities that can help with this.
‘The US Congress is actively investigating various UFO-related data: photos, videos, documents and whistleblower testimony.
An unidentified object in the Middle East was found to be within the parameters of human technology (Picture: AARO/US Department of Defense)
‘The UK is lagging shamefully behind in the quest for the truth about UFOs, but one or two proactive parliamentarians could seize on these new video analyses and use them to reignite the debate about arguably the greatest mystery of the modern era.’
Established in 2022, the AARO aims to ‘mitigate the potential threats to safety and security posed by UAP’ by improving data and reporting.
A wide remit held by the office covers ‘objects or devices’ in the air, space and sea which are ‘not yet attributable to known actors’.
The subject was further thrust into the world spotlight through a congressional hearing on UAP in July.
The footage continues to defy explanation despite being officially released by the US Department of Defense (Picture: AARO/US Department of Defense)
Three retired military veterans addressed the subcommittee meeting, a rare instance of the topic being moved into the mainstream political agenda.
The MoD’s existing position on UFOs, referring to a now-defunct UFO desk, states: ‘Since 2009 the MoD no longer responds to reported UFO sightings or investigates them as, in over 50 years, no UFO report has revealed any evidence of a potential threat to the United Kingdom.
‘The MOD UFO desk was closed because it served no defence purpose and was taking staff away from more valuable defence-related activities.
‘There was/is no defence benefit in such investigations and therefore, it was, and is, an inappropriate use of defence resources.’
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