Posted on 04/24/2019 8:50:53 PM PDT by BenLurkin
To be clear, the Navy isn’t endorsing the idea that its sailors have encountered alien spacecraft. But it is acknowledging there have been enough strange aerial sightings by credible and highly trained military personnel that they need to be recorded in the official record and studied — rather than dismissed as some kooky phenomena from the realm of science-fiction.
The development comes amid growing interest from members of Congress following revelations by POLITICO and the New York Times in late 2017 that the Pentagon established a dedicated office inside the Defense Intelligence Agency to study UAPs at the urging of several senators who secretly set aside appropriations for the effort.
That office spent some $25 million conducting a series of technical studies and evaluating numerous unexplained incursions, including one that lasted several days involving the USS Nimitz Carrier Strike Group in 2004. In that case, Navy fighter jets were outmaneuvered by unidentified aircraft that flew in ways that appeared to defy the laws of known physics.
Raytheon, a leading defense contractor, used the reports and official Defense Department video of the sightings off the coast of California to hail one of its radar systems for capturing the phenomena.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
It's not like we have a problem defending our borders or anything …
Could be a new weapon of an opponent.
Or a visit from a race that eats garbage and excretes gold.
Either way it’d be worth knowing.
Fine.
I will not call the Navy if I see one. I just call the UFO and have them come and pick me up and take me to their home.
Many sailors (sober!) and sometimes entire boats, have sighted some seriously-weird stuff.
Don’t laugh it off too quickly.
Has everyone already forgotten the Bermuda Triangle?
Just one of many examples:
The USS Cyclops disappeared w/o a trace sometime after March 4, 1918. Her crew of 309 men went
‘someplace’ and were never seen again.
Largest loss of life in the US Navy NOT related to combat.
Well, that does it. If those two reputable sources are on it.................
The more they talk about UOFs, the more sightings there will be. Navy brass never heard of foo fighters.
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