US Navy Confirms Tom DeLonge’s UFO Videos are the Real McCoy
They’re actually called “Unidentified Aerial Phenomena”
Three purported UFO videos made public by former Blink-182 singer Tom DeLonge through his To The Stars Academy of Arts and Science research company. In official statements, the US Navy has for the first time officially stated that the three UFO videos are footage of real “unknown” flying objects present in American airspace.
According to The Black Vault, Gradisher said the videos were filmed in 2004 and 2015. The New York Times also reported that one of the videos was from 2004.
Navy spokesperson Joseph Gradisher told Motherboard that “the US Navy considers the phenomena contained/depicted in those 3 videos as unidentified.” Previously, the US Navy never addressed the content of the videos. The terminology here is important: The UFO community is increasingly using the terminology “unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP)” to discuss unknown objects in the sky.
The pilots, many of whom were part of a US Navy flight squadron known as the “Red Rippers,” reported the sightings to the Pentagon and Congress, The Times reported. They said the objects could accelerate, stop, and turn in ways that went beyond known aerospace technology, The Times added.
New York Times:
“These things would be out there all day,” said Lt. Ryan Graves, an F/A-18 Super Hornet pilot who has been with the Navy for 10 years, and who reported his sightings to the Pentagon and Congress. “Keeping an aircraft in the air requires a significant amount of energy. With the speeds we observed, 12 hours in the air is 11 hours longer than we’d expect.”
In late 2014, a Super Hornet pilot had a near collision with one of the objects, and an official mishap report was filed. Some of the incidents were videotaped, including one taken by a plane’s camera in early 2015 that shows an object zooming over the ocean waves as pilots question what they are watching.
“Wow, what is that, man?” one exclaims. “Look at it fly!”
Earlier this year, the US Navy officially changes guidelines for UFO sightings to make it easier for its personnel to report sightings of anomalous aerial vehicles due to the number of reports of “unauthorized and/or unidentified aircraft entering various military-controlled training ranges and designated airspace,” Gradisher told Motherboard. “The Navy and USAF [United States Air Force] take these reports very seriously and investigate each and every report.”
The US Navy‘s transparency about unidentified aerial phenomena, or UAP, is largely done to encourage trainees to report “incursions” they spot in the airfield, which threaten pilots’ safety.
Those incursions present a safety hazard to the safe flight of aviators and the security of operations.
Neither the term UFO nor UAP means the unknown object is deemed extraterrestrial, and many such sightings end up having logical, and earthly, explanations.
Speaking of UFOs, Area 51 the US military desert base in Nevada has long been at the center of a conspiracy among alien fans and ufologists — people who hunt for UFOs. They believe the base is a heavily guarded underground lab where the government maintains clandestine operations by holding and studying captured alien aircraft — and possibly even aliens themselves.
