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Navy says all UFO videos are classified, won’t be released...Watchdog filed information request but was quickly denied.
Just The News ^ | September 10, 2022 - 7:28pm | Staff

Posted on 09/12/2022 6:59:01 AM PDT by Red Badger

Awatchdog group seeking access to unidentified flying object footage has been rejected with the unambiguous message that, due to heavy classification, none of the government’s media on UFOs will be released.

The Black Vault reported this week that starting in April 2020 it sought to acquire all "Unidentified Aerial Phenomena" videos within the files of Naval Air Systems Command. Three such videos had already been leaked from government databases before being officially released by NAVAIR.

The division subsequently denied that request, citing no such videos in its possession. A request filed with the Office of Naval Intelligence was met with a similar response.

A third request filed with the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations was finally met with a comprehensive rejection, one that said "the requested videos contain sensitive information pertaining to Unidentified Aerial Phenomena and are classified and are exempt from disclosure in their entirety."

The agency also said: "The release of this information will harm national security as it may provide adversaries valuable information regarding Department of Defense/Navy operations, vulnerabilities, and/or capabilities. No portions of the videos can be segregated for release."

The Black Vault noted that the CNO offered an uncharacteristically thorough explanation for its rejection in what may have been an attempt to head off an appeal.

"While three UAP videos were released in the past, the facts specific to those three videos are unique in that those videos were initially released via unofficial channels before official release," the agency said, noting that "given the amount of information in the public domain regarding these encounters, it was possible to release the files without further damage to national security."

The Black Vault said it nevertheless "filed an appeal seeking the release of the videos denied."


TOPICS: History; Military/Veterans; UFO's; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: foia; fringe; ohsomysteriouso; uap; ufo; ufos
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To: Wallace T.

The government has also bought up land where it’s claimed bigfoots live. Loggers have told stories about how land they were suppose to cut was suddenly bought up preventing further deforesting but the reasons why were all hushed up.


21 posted on 09/12/2022 8:26:23 AM PDT by dragonblustar (Romans 12:12)
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To: Red Badger; Seruzawa
I don't think they're worried about the ETs, they're worried about what the releases show about our own capabilities and procedures.

22 posted on 09/12/2022 8:34:40 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv; Red Badger

That we are hopelessly behind.


23 posted on 09/12/2022 8:36:37 AM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: SunkenCiv

Or lack thereof..........................🤔


24 posted on 09/12/2022 8:37:23 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: dragonblustar

I remember reading somewhere that Theodore Roosevelt created the Nat’l Park System to protect the Bigfoot “people”. Apparently, he had a run in with them during his one of his hunting forays.

No, I haven’t been drinking.


25 posted on 09/12/2022 8:53:36 AM PDT by Man from Oz
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To: Seruzawa; Red Badger
Ultimately if the unknown tech shown were of terrestrial origin, we'd already be up to our eyes in trouble. Since that's not the case, it's not worth worrying about, because it's beyond our ability to do anything about it.

26 posted on 09/12/2022 8:57:14 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: DesertRhino

“This UFO craze is comical.”

Listen and learn:

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

Some folks are not laughing.


27 posted on 09/12/2022 8:59:19 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: Man from Oz

I think he only heard a story about Sasquatches and don’t think he had an actual encounter.


28 posted on 09/12/2022 8:59:35 AM PDT by Reily
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To: z3n

“the fear that it would undermine the population’s respect for the authority and sovereignty of the state?”

Correct answer.


29 posted on 09/12/2022 9:00:29 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: Reily

Yes, you are correct.


30 posted on 09/12/2022 9:03:17 AM PDT by Man from Oz
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To: SunkenCiv; Red Badger

There is zero chance that any nation on Earth would have the observed technology and then not use it. Zero.


31 posted on 09/12/2022 9:10:18 AM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: Seruzawa
There is zero chance that any nation on Earth would have the observed technology and then not use it. Zero.

Depends on what you mean by "use". Cargo cults observed aircraft...

If the engineers are arrow & bowing, I ain't going.

32 posted on 09/12/2022 9:13:50 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: Seruzawa

Every weapon invented is eventually used.............


33 posted on 09/12/2022 9:14:54 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Gen.Blather

Yep. They won’t release them because most of them show secret US military aircraft under development, and they don’t want pictures out in the public domain yet.


34 posted on 09/12/2022 9:35:57 AM PDT by doragsda
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To: Man from Oz

Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction.


35 posted on 09/12/2022 9:39:10 AM PDT by dragonblustar (Romans 12:12)
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To: Seruzawa
I wholeheartedly agree.

36 posted on 09/12/2022 9:41:20 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Red Badger

“No portions of the videos can be segregated for release.”

meaning no still frames... they must be skeeerd sh!tless


37 posted on 09/12/2022 9:41:51 AM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: cgbg

Pure silliness. Someone found a way to make a buck doing it, great for them. Right at the moment when the WEF and globalists in DC are consolidating unbelievable power that has never existed in US government before, at the height of Covid, as they are crashing the economy and launching their great reset,…PRESTO… Suddenly Fox News is filled with F-18s chasing tic tacs. It’s a distraction for idiots. And for a people that has lost its religious faith in the recent decades, it’s a substitute for believing in something greater than themselves. Classic Jung psychology.


38 posted on 09/12/2022 9:42:51 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: Chode

The stills would just create more questions than answers..................


39 posted on 09/12/2022 9:44:15 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

I miss the old days when people just threw a hubcap in the air and took a photo.


40 posted on 09/12/2022 9:44:40 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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