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Classified UFO videos would 'harm national security' if released, Navy says
livescience.com ^ | Brandon Specktor

Posted on 09/10/2022 5:53:57 AM PDT by BenLurkin

The U.S. Navy holds unseen videos of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) — or unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), as the Department of Defense (DOD) prefers to call them — but will not release the footage publicly because it would "harm national security," a Navy spokesperson wrote Wednesday (Sept. 7).

The admission came in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request filed by the government transparency site The Black Vault, which has previously shared thousands of pages of UFO-related documents received via FOIA requests to the CIA and other government agencies. The Black Vault filed the FOIA request to the U.S. Navy in April 2020 — just one day after the Navy declassified three now-infamous videos shot by Navy pilots showing high-tech aircraft moving in seemingly impossible ways. The Black Vault requested that the Navy now turn over any and all other videos related to UAP.

More than two years later, the government responded with a letter that both confirmed that more UAP videos exist and denied the request to turn them over due to national security concerns.

Gregory Cason, deputy director of the Navy's FOIA office, wrote in a response letter. "No portions of the videos can be segregated for release."

Cason added that the Navy was able to declassify the three UAP videos released in April 2020 only because the videos had been previously leaked to the media and had already been "discussed extensively in the public domain." The Navy deemed it possible to officially release the footage "without further damage to national security," Cason wrote.

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TOPICS: UFO's
KEYWORDS: foia; fringe; ohsomysteriouso; ufo; ufos
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1 posted on 09/10/2022 5:53:57 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

Secret planes, classified mil tech. I’m more likely to believe they like the alien cover story over the real story.


2 posted on 09/10/2022 5:55:18 AM PDT by Bayard
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To: BenLurkin

This party is just starting to get interesting.

Rumor is the Gray aliens, the reptilians and the mantids have all been invited.

P.S. You must show your security clearance at the door.

;-)


3 posted on 09/10/2022 5:56:04 AM PDT by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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To: BenLurkin

BS. Holograms. Freaking lying RAT government.


4 posted on 09/10/2022 5:59:02 AM PDT by dforest
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To: Bayard
"Secret planes, classified mil tech. I’m more likely to believe they like the alien cover story over the real story.

It may not be the object depicted in the video that compromises national security, but could be data from a heads up display, transcript of the radio chatter or other performance characteristics exhibited by the US aircraft obtaining the video from which classified data could be extrapolated.

5 posted on 09/10/2022 6:00:05 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack
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To: Bayard

I can’t disagree with that thought


6 posted on 09/10/2022 6:01:20 AM PDT by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Juneteenth is inequality day)
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To: cgbg
I'm waiting for the Navy to reveal their photographs of Big Foot too. I've heard they captured images of Big Foot flying without assistance at 30,000 feet.

7 posted on 09/10/2022 6:02:37 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: Bayard

It is not one or the other—it is both “cover story” and “true story”.

The history of this stuff is fascinating.

Here is one classic book on the topic:

https://www.amazon.com/Project-Beta-Bennewitz-National-Security/dp/0743470923

Short version:

Kirtland Air Force Base (NM) was testing top secret drone technology in the 1970s. The drones were launched from inside of large planes at high altitude. The drones looked like flying saucers.

There was also a highly classified NSA base beaming up lasers to blind snooping Soviet satellites.

Needless to say this made for interesting viewing, and one man who lived near the base started to get a little too interested in what was happening there and the Air Force decided to have their counter-intelligence folks do something about it....


8 posted on 09/10/2022 6:04:16 AM PDT by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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To: BenLurkin

Yes, of course.

In other words, we don’t want to be transparent nor do we want you plebs, whom we work for and are paid by, to see it.

Got it.


9 posted on 09/10/2022 6:05:56 AM PDT by cranked
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To: dforest
BS. Holograms. Freaking lying RAT government.

The communusts will do anything, ANYTHING, to prevent the MAGA movement. Psyops at its best here....

10 posted on 09/10/2022 6:06:10 AM PDT by eeriegeno (Checks and balances??? What checks and balances?)
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To: BenLurkin
Leaked Navy photo of extraterrestrial ship discovered ...


11 posted on 09/10/2022 6:06:47 AM PDT by CapnJack ( )
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To: Bayard

Agreed. It is human created technology.


12 posted on 09/10/2022 6:07:39 AM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

The interesting part of the “phenomenon” is not the pictures or the videos.

It is the psychological impact on military personnel in the area.

This info is readily available (for those who actually want to look) in documents that have already been declassified in the last few years.


13 posted on 09/10/2022 6:07:50 AM PDT by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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To: joma89

Half of FR says there is no there there and the other half says it is real and blames it on demons.

Omg.


14 posted on 09/10/2022 6:09:15 AM PDT by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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To: BenLurkin

That’s another way of saying it wasn’t aliens, it was the military.


15 posted on 09/10/2022 6:12:20 AM PDT by Brilliant
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To: cgbg

Rumor is the Gray aliens, the reptilians and the mantids have all been invited.>>>>>>>>>>>>

Bring ‘em.....nothing a load of 00 Buck won’t cure. Killing ‘em is not homicide, and it can easily be open season on them if they exist.

This is our planet.

They have no business here.

And the government has no business scaring people either.Which is what this UFO disclosure movement inside the US government is all about, part of the draconian control method to justify the reduction of freedom of movement, freedom of speech, and freedom to assemble.

The feds under Biden are the real aliens. And soon these Gestapo deep state scare crow freaks will have targets on their backs.


16 posted on 09/10/2022 6:12:31 AM PDT by Candor7 (ObamaFascism:https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: Brilliant

This is orders of magnitude more complicated than most folks think—one place to start is this podcast:

https://podbay.fm/p/aliens-and-artists/e/1645119331

Semivan is a retired CIA guy calling it as he see it.

If after listening to him you think it is disinformation, fine—but he deserves to be heard.


17 posted on 09/10/2022 6:15:23 AM PDT by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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To: Candor7

It looks like they may have been here first...but don’t let that bother you.

;-)


18 posted on 09/10/2022 6:16:20 AM PDT by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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To: BenLurkin

19 posted on 09/10/2022 6:19:34 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: Bayard

20 posted on 09/10/2022 6:21:49 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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