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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60 minutes.
Psy-ops central.
Explains why the Air Force concluded decades ago that they pose no threat.
These videos show they operate exactly the way Bob Lazar said they do.
They ow him an apology. But he shouldn’t hold his breath.
Squirrel!
I haven’t heard from or thought about Bob Lazar since the second Obama Administration. I didn’t even know that he was still on this side of the existence.
Bob was, I believe a government plant. It was a diversionary tactic to fool the Soviets
In another recent interview (video link), Christopher Mellon, former Assistant Deputy Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, commented that whatever these things are, they seem to be making an increasingly concerted effort to be seen, filmed, recorded on tracking equipment and, perhaps, make the news.
Maybe if we throw our feces at them, they will go away.
Squirrel! Indeed
I think it’s most likely the government doesn’t know who they are, or where they came from.
But they have abundant evidence of their existence.
I disagree. I think it’s bloody obvious that the Government are responsible, and allowing the gullible to publicize and persist in their mistaken beliefs that these things are alien technology.
Actually, one common reason for the Air Force ignoring UFO sightings goes back to the Robertson Panel where the concern arose that civilian UFO reports were becoming so plentiful that they might overwhelm our system and that would permit Russian aircraft to enter our airspace undetected.
June 1st - release of Pentagon report that Trump ordered.
We’ll see if it happens.
There is just so much evidence at this point I don’t see how it is just laughed off.
“perhaps, make the news”
If they wanted to make the news they would hover above Times Square for 3 days.
But it’s becoming increasingly likely they want world governments to know.
Some KooKs won’t believe this.
Hopefully we’ll find out for sure, soon.
Good point. So what's up with the sightings?
Of note: You’d think they would brief US military pilots if they were government craft.
It appears there’s quite a few of them and you’d want to avoid a mistaken shooting.
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