# Surprise! US Navy Admits UFO's Are Real! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 19, 2019, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-us-navy-admits-ufos-are-real/840475 "2019-09-19T02:43:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2019, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-us-navy-admits-ufos-are-real/840475/1 "2019-09-19T02:43:08Z")
I mean…we all knew it already…right? In all seriousness this is pretty cool. The US Navy is admitting that declassified video/audio CLEARLY shows pilots trying to follow/engage/identify things that don’t look like what they are used to seeing and/or seem to fly in ways that defy physics. Cool for naval aviators to feel encouraged to report flying objects in a timely manner for…TA DA! Figuring out what these things are rather than stigmatize pilots as nuts and discouraging reporting them. Nice work, Navy! Story: [US Navy confirms previously released UFO videos show 'unidentified aerial phenomena' | CNN Politics](https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/18/politics/navy-confirms-ufo-videos-trnd/index.html) ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2019, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-us-navy-admits-ufos-are-real/840475/2 "2019-09-19T02:48:59Z")
The truth is out there. ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2019, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-us-navy-admits-ufos-are-real/840475/3 "2019-09-19T03:06:46Z")
Was there ever any question that UFOs were real? The question is if any of these UFOs are aliens. Also, UFO’s Rock Bottom and Doctor Doctor have been proven to rock decades ago. ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2019, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-us-navy-admits-ufos-are-real/840475/4 "2019-09-19T03:40:15Z")
If we had a Space Force then these kind of things would quit happening I mean pronto. ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2019, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-us-navy-admits-ufos-are-real/840475/5 "2019-09-19T03:51:48Z")
> [@Biotop](#): > > If we had a Space Force then these kind of things would quit happening I mean pronto. Then we’d just have UFOs…in space, space, space… ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2019, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-us-navy-admits-ufos-are-real/840475/6 "2019-09-19T03:56:35Z")
Wait a dang minute. I ain’t got used to drones invading my air space, yet. How’s a country girl supposed to get peace and quiet with all this noise? Hmmm? ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2019, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-us-navy-admits-ufos-are-real/840475/7 "2019-09-19T03:58:53Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > Wait a dang minute. I ain’t got used to drones invading my air space, yet. > How’s a country girl supposed to get peace and quiet with all this noise? Hmmm? Blast some old UFO deep cuts. Problem solved. ---
**Author:** ![Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b487fb/32.png) [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walken_After_Midnight)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2019, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-us-navy-admits-ufos-are-real/840475/8 "2019-09-19T04:14:54Z")
Here are Youtube links to the three US military videos of unidentified aerial phenomenon (UAP) released by To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science a couple of years ago, which have now been acknowledged by the US Navy: #1. “Gimbal”: [Gimbal: The First Official UAP Footage from the USG for Public Release - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tf1uLwUTDA0) #2. “FLIR1”: [FLIR1: Official UAP Footage from the USG for Public Release - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rWOtrke0HY) #3. “Go Fast”: [Go Fast: Official USG Footage of UAP for Public Release - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxVRg7LLaQA) ---
**Author:** ![sps49sd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@sps49sd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sps49sd)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2019, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-us-navy-admits-ufos-are-real/840475/9 "2019-09-19T04:17:11Z")
The Navy said the videos were real, not that UFOs or aliens were concerned. There is a more clear clip which makes it more apparent that the object is an insect on the inside of the lens/ window. ETA: um, yeah, the “Gimbal” one in WAM’s ninja post. ---
**Author:** ![Sicks\_Ate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2019, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-us-navy-admits-ufos-are-real/840475/10 "2019-09-19T05:11:26Z")
After watching all three, my conclusion is that Raytheon needs to work the bugs out. ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2019, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-us-navy-admits-ufos-are-real/840475/11 "2019-09-19T18:58:29Z")
I’d like to see similar videos of such planes chasing known objects, so we get a sense of how good these images normally are. Because my impression is that these UFOs must be piloted by Blobsquatch, because there’s so little detail shown. ---
**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2019, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-us-navy-admits-ufos-are-real/840475/12 "2019-09-19T19:11:38Z")
> [@sps49sd](#): > > There is a more clear clip which makes it more apparent that the object is an insect on the inside of the lens/ window. This. I can’t believe anyone genuinely thinks otherwise. If it’s not a foreign body in/on the imaging system, then the Navy pilot is doing a an impossibly excellent job of tracking a moving target. ---
**Author:** ![MartinLane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f17d59/32.png) [@MartinLane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MartinLane)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2019, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-us-navy-admits-ufos-are-real/840475/13 "2019-09-19T19:13:16Z")
> [@FoieGrasIsEvil](#): > > …In all seriousness this is pretty cool. The US Navy is admitting that declassified video/audio CLEARLY shows pilots trying to follow/engage/identify things that don’t look like what they are used to seeing and/or seem to fly in ways that defy physics. I didn’t see anything in your link that support this claim. It does say; > [@](#): > > In footage from 2004, sensors lock on a target as it flies before it accelerates out of the left side of the frame, too quickly for the sensors to relocate it. When you say UFO, do you mean any flying object that they could not identify or do you mean an alien machine? ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2019, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-us-navy-admits-ufos-are-real/840475/14 "2019-09-19T19:31:30Z")
Technically, any airborne object you cannot identify _IS_ a “UFO”, but is it extraterrestrial in origin? so the statement “UFOs are real” is true… from a specific point of view… ---
**Author:** ![MartinLane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f17d59/32.png) [@MartinLane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MartinLane)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2019, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-us-navy-admits-ufos-are-real/840475/15 "2019-09-19T19:40:44Z")
Your jedi mind tricks will not work here. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2019, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-us-navy-admits-ufos-are-real/840475/16 "2019-09-19T19:47:28Z")
FWIW, Air East 31 does not wish to report one of those, either. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2019, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-us-navy-admits-ufos-are-real/840475/17 "2019-09-19T21:36:41Z")
> [@MartinLane](#): > > I didn’t see anything in your link that support this claim. > > It does say; > When you say UFO, do you mean any flying object that they could not identify or do you mean an alien machine? Any unidentified flying object. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2019, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-us-navy-admits-ufos-are-real/840475/18 "2019-09-19T21:44:11Z")
> [@Biotop](#): > > If we had a Space Force then these kind of things would quit happening I mean pronto. In the real world, we’ve had a [space command](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Space_Command) for decades. Not sure if that qualifies as the space force that Trump wanted to deploy. Edited to add, that organization includes “Combined Force Space Component Command (CFSCC), and Joint Task Force Space Defense (JTF-SD)”, both of which have the words force and space in their names. So I think Donald Trump got his wish. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2019, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-us-navy-admits-ufos-are-real/840475/19 "2019-09-19T21:51:39Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > I’d like to see similar videos of such planes chasing known objects, so we get a sense of how good these images normally are. > > Because my impression is that these UFOs must be piloted by Blobsquatch, because there’s so little detail shown. Exactly, these videos look incredibly underwhelming. Old photos of [rods](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_(optics)) looked more believable. The F-18 is tracking this “object” and it stays exactly centered in the display, plus remains consistent against the background? This doesn’t seem right. If this is example of what the Navy considered “UFOs” they need to do a little remedial education on observation skills and working the sensors. > [@snfaulkner](#): > > Also, UFO’s Rock Bottom and Doctor Doctor have been proven to rock decades ago. Doctor doctor? Puh-lease! ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2019, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-us-navy-admits-ufos-are-real/840475/20 "2019-09-19T21:57:55Z")
Now [THIS](https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_470/18s3qotu5cuypjpg.jpg) is how a UFO image should look in the 21st century! It looks…alien. And it’s a clear image, not like Blobby McBlobberson on the FLIR sensor. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-us-navy-admits-ufos-are-real/840475.md?page=2)