Posted on 05/14/2021 1:39:07 PM PDT by 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...
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The Robertson Panel was a committee commissioned by the Central Intelligence Agency in 1952 in response to widespread reports of unidentified flying objects, especially in the Washington, D.C. area. The panel was briefed on U.S. military activities and intelligence; hence the report was originally classified Secret.Later declassified, the Robertson Panel's report concluded that UFOs were not a direct threat to national security, but could pose an indirect threat by overwhelming standard military communications due to public interest in the subject. Most UFO reports, they concluded, could be explained as misidentification of mundane aerial objects, and the remaining minority could, in all likelihood, be similarly explained with further study. Source
“So what’s up with the sightings?”
As I said, there are some kinds of aircraft up there and the government doesn’t know what/who they are or where they came from.
Chynee UFO is spreading Covid?
Good to see that someone got some good photos. Are you sure those have been declassified?
Let’s see some radar tracking.
You are correct. The DOD has made that abundantly clear.
Ostensibly the Pentagon report will document radar tracking.
That may not be in the unclassified part of the report though since they don’t want to reveal anything about our tracking technology.
I doubt it.
There is actually a new documentary on him that you should watch.
To this day there is surveillance on him.
Maybe Star Trek got the ‘prime directive’ correct
They can still talk about it, even if they don’t demonstrate it.
IR too. That’s becoming more sensitive than radar.
Maybe Star Trek got the ‘prime directive’ correct
“Hey, what’s that thing?”
“I don’t know without binoculars.”
= UFO
That sounds like a job for Nancy POOlosi!
Good. Too much of what I’ve seen looks like lights reflected off of aircraft canopies.
As we all know, aliens from other planets are so curious about our bases, because they never were able to create a ship to float on water.
Hi.
Of course I know nothing, but Dahlgren is a nice little place that DOD has there. DARPA has an “office” there besides the Squids.
They conduct all kinds of experiments there.
Philadelphia experiment, rail gun test, drones...
Of course I’m guessing...
5.56mm
My cousin is a retired F-16 pilot. Did many combat sorties in Iraq and was active military from 2002-2012. I asked him this exact question the other day... he said he was never briefed on UAPs nor did he ever see anything he couldn’t explain.
[[As far as I can tell, the new information here is “every day for at least a couple of years.”]]
There must be warehouses of good clear video evidence then
Ignore it. Perfectly good reaction to seeing a UFO. If they're really aliens, there's not much we can do about it. You've got to figure their tech is hundreds of years beyond our own.
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