In a statement, it said it did so “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 Pentagon said at the time the phenomena observed in the videos remained characterized as “unidentified.” The Nimitz encounter In 2020, the Pentagon released the three videos itself. Flir1 and two additional videos were published by former Blink-182 guitarist Tom DeLonge’s “To the Stars Academy of Arts and Science” website in 2019.Īfter the release of the videos, the Navy acknowledged they were real, calling the objects in the videos “unidentified aerial phenomenon.” In 2017, it received renewed attention when it was published by the New York Times. The three - known as “Gimbal,” “Go Fast” and “Flir1" - were filmed by Navy Advanced Targeting Forward Looking Infrared, or ATFLIR, pods which attach to the fuselage of the aircraft.įlir1, which was filmed off the coast of San Diego in 2004, was published anonymously on a UFO website in 2007, according to a 2020 Popular Mechanics report on the history of the video. Three of the most well-known videos were taken by Navy F/A-18s over both the Pacific and Atlantic. “I don’t think that it’s going to reveal any fantastic new insight.” Navy acknowledges videos “I think that the report’s going to be a huge letdown,” Dietrich said.
She also said she doesn’t expect the Pentagon report to provide the kind of answers many are looking for.
“Just because I’m saying that we saw this unusual thing in 2004 I am in no way implying that it was extraterrestrial or alien technology or anything like that,” Dietrich said.
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