Department of Defense officially releases three Navy UAP videos

The Pentagon publicly releases three U.S. Navy gun-camera videos — 'FLIR1' (2004), 'GIMBAL' (2015), and 'GO FAST' (2015) — and confirms that the objects depicted remain unidentified. The release marks the first formal U.S. government acknowledgment of authentic military UAP imagery.

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On 27 April 2020, the Office of the Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs issued a press release officially declassifying and authorizing the public release of three U.S. Navy gun-camera videos that had previously circulated unofficially: 'FLIR1' (recorded 14 November 2004 from the USS Nimitz strike group), 'GIMBAL' (recorded 21 January 2015 off the U.S. East Coast), and 'GO FAST' (also recorded in 2015 off the U.S. East Coast).

The Pentagon statement noted that the Department of Defense was 'releasing the videos in order to clear up any misconceptions by the public on whether or not the footage that has been circulating was real, or whether or not there is more to the videos. The aerial phenomena observed in the videos remain characterized as unidentified.'

The release marked the first formal U.S. government acknowledgment of authentic military UAP imagery and is widely considered the milestone that opened the post-2017 phase of official engagement with the topic.

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