Former Navy pilot says flight crews observed UFOs off Atlantic Coast "every day for at least a couple years"

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[RoosterRedux]

Former Navy Lieutenant Ryan Graves says he and other members of his F/A-18 fighter squadron detected strange, maneuverable and unidentified objects flying in the restricted airspace southeast of Virginia Beach nearly every day for two years beginning in 2015. The sightings were so common, he says, pilots and their crews began to take them for granted. Graves is calling those objects a threat to security in a 60 Minutes interview.

Graves is one of several current and former military members who have spoken publicly about what the Pentagon now calls unidentified aerial phenomena or UAP. These documented sightings of UAP, recorded on gun camera video and photos taken by U.S. service members, have been analyzed by the Defense Department for years. But the government only grudgingly acknowledged the internal efforts after unclassified videos of UAP were leaked to the New York Times in 2017. Now, the Senate Intelligence Committee has ordered the Director of National Intelligence and the Secretary of Defense to compile a report on unidentified aerial phenomena to be delivered next month.

"I am worried, frankly. You know, if these were tactical jets from another country that were hanging out up there, it would be a massive issue," Graves tells Bill Whitaker in an interview airing Sunday on 60 Minutes. "But because it looks slightly different, we're not willing to actually look at the problem in the face. We're happy to just ignore the fact that these are out there, watching us every day." 

Graves says pilots who have seen UAP speculate they could be a secret U.S. technology, an enemy spy platform, or something else entirely. Watching one of the unclassified videos he says, "This is a difficult one to explain. You have rotation, you have high altitudes. You have propulsion, right? I don't know...

[dragnet2]

if these sightings were of advanced aircraft of unknown origin, there is NO WAY IN HELL that the U.S. Government would publish videos of them, or allow anyone to speak about them.

Why not? What would be the motive to keep something secret that many people believe exist and in fact have already seen themselves?

[dinodino]

To admit that our military operations are being penetrated by unknown, more advanced aerial craft would be a dangerous admission of weakness. Fortunately, that’s not what’s happening here. These “craft” are ours.

[ScubaDiver]

You keep saying that the U.S. Government 'published' these videos and pictures.

Did the U.S. Government also publish the Pentagon Papers and the pictures from Abu Ghraib? Of course not. Those documents and photos were leaked to the press EXACTLY like most of these videos were leaked to the press.

Some of the other videos that were obtained were obtained through the FOIA process or as part of a declassification law that Congress enacted last year.

[dinodino]

Nothing you can say will convince me that this is anything other than exactly what it appears to be: a U.S. governmental disinformation campaign.

[dragnet2]

To admit that our military operations are being penetrated by unknown, more advanced aerial craft would be a dangerous admission of weakness.

So what was the motive of the DOD/Navy revealing these videos and other evidence?

[Bill of Rights FIRST]

I am not worried about the CIA being smug mocking the military with the CIA’s totally advanced tech./etc. in this case. The CIA was showboating, etc. with it. What I am worried about is the CIA using this and all the CIA’s technology/electronics/etc. that the U.S. military does NOT know about, etc. on the U.S. military one day and continuing/totally destroying all branches of the U.S. military.

That was not “aliens”. The military knows that is the supposedly “saviors” CIAs’ things in the air, etc. that the U.S. military has been “trained” to ignore, etc.

[dragnet2]

I don’t really understand any of that, but thanks!

[Bill of Rights FIRST]

Okay, though it was self-explanatory. Good talking to you

[White Lives Matter]

Rubbish!

[greeneyes]

nother possibility: Psych Ops designed to accomplish some higher purpose.
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Given the actions of many of the Governmental Agencies the past 4 years, I’d phrase that as designed to accomplish some LOWER purpose.