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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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To: GingisK; Fred Nerks

Intellectual manner?

BUhahahahahaha!

Maybe you need to talk with a few people,(Some of them are FReepers) who actually have had personal experience with these alleged aliens. I have.

Use your intellectual manner with THEM, and see what happens to you.

YOU have no idea what you are really dealing with. Tell it to Travis Walton.


61 posted on 09/10/2022 7:26:21 AM PDT by Candor7 (ObamaFascism:https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: BenLurkin

LOL hilarious.

“We can’t tell you want we have. You would panic! So instead of saying nothing so you don’t panic, feel free to panic over what we have that we tell you we can’t show you.”

Can anybody say “Red Herring”? I thought you could.


62 posted on 09/10/2022 7:26:45 AM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (America -- July 4, 1776 to November 3, 2020 -- R.I.P.)
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To: BenLurkin

Reports that craft activated or deactivated Soviet & American nukes; sightings by US airmen... Sightings that seem to have accelerated since 1945. It really is bizarre to think the US military would show off this supposed manmade tech near flying US military aircraft. Something is going on. Could be the biggest news story in thousands of years - or not.


63 posted on 09/10/2022 7:28:10 AM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14/12 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15/12 - 1030am - Obama team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: PghBaldy

Well if it is the Little Green Men, I say we tell them to shove off.

Whatever they want — the answer is “no”.


64 posted on 09/10/2022 7:31:52 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: GingisK

If such disclosure were to come to pass, I suspect that most reactions, at least in the Western civilization will be more like “that’s interesting,” unless, of course, if the government pushes PANIC!


65 posted on 09/10/2022 7:32:41 AM PDT by arthurus (covfefe )
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To: Magnum44

66 posted on 09/10/2022 7:37:08 AM PDT by Bobalu (Only the children are blameless....)
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To: Candor7
Its time someone shot an alien and slammed it onto the public table like a good deer carcass.

I was just thinking about. So here's a hypothetical question:

You're out deer hunting in a remote area with night time coming on so you're walking back to your vehicle down a dirt road.

Suddenly an alien spacecraft comes down and lands in front of you and an alien steps out of it.

You know darn well nobody is ever going to believe your story so what do you do? Do you shoot it as you stated to prove they exist and if you do, would the authorities charge you with a crime such as murder?

67 posted on 09/10/2022 7:44:42 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco (Don't walk thru the watermelon patch)
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To: GingisK

“Religious people will become deeply troubled, possibly dangerous.”

If this site is any indication that is not likely.

It looks like some religious folks just call it “demons” and carry on with their lives.

Some other folks will just call it “God’s plan” and carry on with their lives.


68 posted on 09/10/2022 7:46:39 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

My career field started Space Force. If it flies in space we’re involved. I can say without question that events have been recorded by ground and space based sensor systems that cannot be explained, not even by advanced technologies that are perhaps classified. I am talking about things that are way beyond any possible technology by humans on Earth.

That said, I know of no one who has had any level of personal contact with aliens, but I can say we’ve seen some strange things happen in space. I suspect aliens have contacted some people, as their mannerisms are odd, but I have zero evidence at all of any personal contacts. None.


69 posted on 09/10/2022 7:48:35 AM PDT by CodeToad (No Arm up! They have!)
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To: BenLurkin

We are not alone. We have never been alone.


70 posted on 09/10/2022 7:49:11 AM PDT by dainbramaged (Louis XVI of France and I share a common ancestor, but I still have my head.)
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To: BenLurkin
Classified UFO videos would 'harm national security' if released, Navy says

If that were the case, the Democrats would have leaked it by now.

71 posted on 09/10/2022 7:52:49 AM PDT by GreenHornet
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To: BenLurkin

IF whatever marvelous misdirecting name they (our illustrious leftist government) want to call these instances of unexplained ‘phenomena’ have any realness at all, then they are already a threat to our national security......

A government that feels it necessary to hide information from its people indeed has something to hide. And THAT is usually always bad acts or intentions that government has perpetrated.


72 posted on 09/10/2022 7:53:02 AM PDT by Gaffer (Infidel, and proud of it!)
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To: Candor7

[... actually have had personal experience with these alleged aliens. I have.]

So was the probing as bad as they say?


73 posted on 09/10/2022 7:53:15 AM PDT by Farmerbob
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To: Hot Tabasco

“Suddenly an alien spacecraft comes down and lands in front of you and an alien steps out of it.”

I have read a lot on this topic and if this happens to anyone I have some advice to give:

Run away if you can. Don’t look back. Just get out of there.

The reason is that they can (and almost certainly will) mess up your mind.

The phenomenon is a trickster.

How might that work?

They telepathically give you a (minor) prediction of something that will happen to you in a couple of days.

A couple of days later their prediction turns out to be true.

Then they show up a second time—and the same thing happens.

At this point you are all excited. You have special knowledge given to you by an alien. You hope they will show up a third time.

They do show up, but this time they give you “the news”.
It is a prediction like “Dubuque will be destroyed next year. You need to warn them.”

You stop your life, run off to Dubuque, talk to anyone or everyone who will listen to you. You become known as the “kook from Dubuque”.

Your wife divorces you, your kids stop talking to you, your boss fires you during that year...

and Dubuque is still there a year later.

This stuff is nasty.


74 posted on 09/10/2022 7:55:40 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

My only interpretation of the Navy’s comment is that they know what the objects are.


75 posted on 09/10/2022 8:11:33 AM PDT by Wuli (uires )
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To: Farmerbob

76 posted on 09/10/2022 8:12:17 AM PDT by Candor7 (ObamaFascism:https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: Farmerbob

I have merely spoken with those who have had experience with these alleged aliens, Not I. But then you are a masterdebator and editor.

Piss off.


77 posted on 09/10/2022 8:15:09 AM PDT by Candor7 (ObamaFascism:https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: BenLurkin

If aliens with the technology to travel to Earth exist, then we are doomed. We would be like a colony of ants in their eyes, and they wouldn’t waste one second obliterating us.


78 posted on 09/10/2022 8:16:14 AM PDT by HandBasketHell
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To: cgbg

Then there are the ones who wish to start shooting. Look at this thread. Those types are present.


79 posted on 09/10/2022 8:23:00 AM PDT by GingisK
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To: Hot Tabasco
They are not human. One cannot be charged with murder ( homicide).To be charged with homicide, you have to kill a human being, homo sapiens.

We have been at war with them for a long time. What else is new? If you think otherwise, you likely do not know the history:

Battle of Los Angeles, 1942:


80 posted on 09/10/2022 8:23:13 AM PDT by Candor7 (ObamaFascism:https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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