Showing posts with label Navy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Navy. Show all posts

Sunday, June 08, 2025

Revealing UFO / UAP Navy Emails, Obtained by The Black Vault

Revealing UFO - UAP Navy Emails, Obtained by The Black Vault  - www.theufochronicles.com



     The article from The Black Vault, titled "Newly Released Navy Emails Reveal UAP Coordination, Five Eyes Briefings, and Forgotten Redactions," delves into recently obtained U.S. Navy
By The UFO Chronicles
6-3-2025
emails that shed light on the coordination efforts surrounding Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP/UFOs) within the U.S. military and its allies.

Key findings from the article include:

1). Interagency Coordination on UAPs: The emails reveal that the U.S. Navy has been actively coordinating with other branches of the military and intelligence agencies to address UAP sightings and reports. This coordination aims to standardize reporting procedures and share information across departments.

2). Five Eyes Briefings: The documents indicate that briefings on UAPs have been shared with members of the Five Eyes intelligence alliance, which includes the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. This suggests a broader international interest and collaboration in understanding UAPs.

3). Redaction Oversights: The release highlights instances where sensitive information was not properly redacted in the documents, leading to unintended disclosures. These oversights raise concerns about the handling and dissemination of classified information related to UAPs.

Overall, the article underscores the increasing seriousness with which UAPs are being treated by military and intelligence communities, both domestically and among allied nations. The coordination efforts and international briefings point to a concerted effort to understand and address the phenomena.

Thursday, February 09, 2023

The 60 Minutes UFO Segment That Blew People's Minds

Artwork by www.theufochronicles.com for the article, The 60 Minutes UFO Segment That Blew People's Minds

"The 2021 segment on UFOs may go down as one of the most chilling segments ever to air on "60 Minutes," thanks to its credible reporting on aerial phenomena."
     The show's ability to explore science and the unknown is just as engaging as its testimonies from politicians, world leaders, or those who battle on conflict frontlines. "60 Minutes" has never been afraid to confront controversial subjects or
individuals, even if it means the program itself becomes open to intense scrutiny. But sometimes audiences agree when it concerns an unexplainable topic. This was the case for the episode that aired back in May 2021 concerning naval sightings of UFOs (unidentified flying objects) that led to a report from the U.S. Congress shortly after. Even for skeptics who always associate the phenomenon with extraterrestrials, it was a segment that blew the minds of many viewers.

The 2021 segment on UFOs may go down as one of the most chilling segments ever to air on "60 Minutes," thanks to its credible reporting on aerial phenomena. For nearly 14 minutes, Bill Whitaker interviews and reports on a range of unidentified aircraft sightings from eyewitness navy pilots. This includes credible radar images of the aircraft in question. Roughly a month after the news section aired, the National Intelligence Department released an unprecedented assessment of unidentified aerial phenomena after decades of relative silence on the matter.

Tuesday, September 13, 2022

Release of Further UFO / UAP Videos DENIED; Navy Cites 'Harm to National Security'

Release of Further UFO / UAP Videos DENIED; Navy Cites 'Harm to National Security'

After a nearly two and a half year effort, The Black Vault was denied under FOIA to get videos declassified depicting Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) citing a harm to national security, if released.
     Since December of 2017, two videos that surfaced of alleged Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) sightings captivated the world. Months later, a third was released that only increased public interest into the topic, but also strengthened their voice for transparency about the mysterious phenomena.

Even though the military said they were not cleared for public dissemination and considered leaked, the Navy later would officially release copies of the same in April of 2020 to satisfy public curiosity and calls for transparency. But, how many other videos were there?
John Greenewald
By John Greenewald
The Black Vault

At that moment, The Black Vault aimed to find out just that.

Thursday, January 20, 2022

Former Seaman Reports UFO & USO Encounters With USS Hollister

Former Seaman Reports UFO & USO Encounter With USS Hollister

Our Channel Islands Naval experiences: 1972-1974


     As the only open UFO researcher on our war ship, the USS Holister DD-788, home ported in Long Beach Ca. I was awakened from sleep in my rack below decks by order of Lt. Robert Walter, the OOD that fateful night.
By Greg Barnes
The UFO Chronicles
1-18-22

The sailor who was dispatched to hurry me, wearing only my skivvy shorts, to the bridge, happened to be my best friend, a very excited seaman, Larry Allen, a Quartermaster striker on duty at that time during the mid-watch.

Larry said there was a big UFO directly over our ship, and Lt. Walter needs you on the bridge on the double!!

We both scrambled through the ship and up the ladders to the bridge. When we arrived, everyone was silent, like a movie, it was strange. Lt. Walter said, “You just missed it, a giant UFO was just above us, and it’s bright light lit up everything”.

I asked the radar man if it appeared on his screen. He said, “I don’t know, I was to busy looking at it directly overhead”.

Our crew estimated this event was no more than a 5 minute experience and I had just missed it, but my friend Larry got a good look at it before he ran to get me. It disappeared just before we arrived on the bridge.

I asked those on the bridge what emotion they felt when viewing this silent flying device? They answered: fear and awe.

Our sonar-men had occasionally detected a metallic object beneath the surface of the ocean making huge circles around our ship as we cruised at 14 knots, also in the Channel Islands area.

Thursday, January 06, 2022

UFOs, Mysterious Drone Swarms, the Navy and the Channel Islands

UFOs, Mysterious Drone Swarms, the Navy and the Channel Islands


     The Navy has a perplexing mystery on its hands. For several weeks in 2019, unknown objects stalked U.S. warships off the coast of southern California. While the bizarre “drone” encounters remain unsolved, the incidents occurred in an area with a long history of UFO sightings, including two of the most credible encounters on record.
By Marik von Rennenkampff
The Hill
1-5-22

According to documents reviewed by The Drive, the first reports of unidentified objects hovering and flying near Navy vessels sparked a sweeping, high-level investigation. The Navy, working with the FBI and Coast Guard, now appears to have ruled out civilian activity or U.S. military operations as plausible explanations for the encounters. This leaves two possibilities, each with extraordinary implications.

Wednesday, September 01, 2021

Navy Pilots Recall 2004 UAP sighting

60 Minutes - UFOs Regularly Spotted in Restricted Airspace

Cmdr. Dave Fravor and Lt. Cmdr. Alex Dietrich were training with the USS Nimitz Carrier Strike Group when a UAP encounter occurred over the Pacific Ocean.
     This week on 60 Minutes, correspondent Bill Whitaker reported on unidentified aerial phenomena, or UAPs, more commonly known as UFOs.

By Jacquelyn DiNick
cbsnews.com
8-29-21
Whitaker interviewed two former Navy pilots, Cmdr. Dave Fravor and Lt. Cmdr. Alex Dietrich, who said they witnessed something "unsettling" and unexplainable while flying over the Pacific Ocean in November 2004. Fravor is a graduate of the TOPGUN naval flight program. He was a commander of the F/A-18F squadron on the USS Nimitz at the time of the encounter.

Sunday, June 06, 2021

NASA To Study UFOs / UAP

NASA To Study UFOs / UAP


     NASA's new chief is setting up an effort to further study unidentified flying objects within his first month in office.

Bill Nelson, the former Florida senator and spaceflight veteran,
By Jackie Wattles
CNN Business
6-4-21
told CNN Business' Rachel Crane during a wide-ranging interview on Thursday that it's not clear to anyone — even in the upper echelons of the US space agency — what the high-speed objects observed by Navy pilots are.

Saturday, June 05, 2021

UFOs: Alien Technology Can't Be Ruled Out, Concedes New Report

Alien Technology Can't Be Ruled Out

The strange objects witnessed by Navy pilots remain unexplained, but officials briefed on a new study say they are not secret technology from a classified American program.
     The report determines that a vast majority of more than 120 incidents over the past two decades did not originate from any American military or other advanced U.S. government technology, the officials said. ...

By Julian E. Barnes and Helene Cooper
The New York Times
6-3-21
But that is about the only conclusive finding in the classified intelligence report, the officials said. And while a forthcoming unclassified version, expected to be released to Congress by June 25, will present few other firm conclusions, senior officials briefed on the intelligence conceded that the very ambiguity of the findings meant the government could not definitively rule out theories that the phenomena observed by military pilots might be alien spacecraft.

Thursday, May 27, 2021

Fmr Director of AATIP, Luis Elizondo is Cynical About Upcoming UFO Report | VIDEO

Fmr Director of AATIP, Luis Elizondo is Cynical About Upcoming UFO Report

[...]

     TAPPER: Let's bring in Luis Elizondo, he ran the Pentagon's initial investigation into the sightings of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, UAP, or what we all call unidentified flying objects. And Luis the Pentagon now calls the department you lead the
By Jake Tapper
CNN
5-24-21
UAP Task Force. And it's collecting data on these mysterious sightings.

[...]

Now, the Pentagon must submit its detailed report by late June to the Senate Intelligence Committee as well as to the Armed Services Committee. This is the report on these sightings. Top secret material will be included in a classified version. Do you expect to see real answers in this report, what do you think?

ELIZONDO: Look, honestly, I don't think so, Jake ... I think this is going to be the beginning. I think Congress deserves a comprehensive report. And so do the American people. And I just don't think 180 days is going to be sufficient. I think Congress is aware of that. So my hope is that this will be an interim report with a much more comprehensive report to follow.

[...]

Wednesday, May 26, 2021

Navy UFO Videos Debunked?

Navy UFO Videos Debunked, Mick West on Cuomo 5-21-21


     Mick West, a retired video game programmer, science writer, self-proclaimed skeptical investigator, author of Escaping the Rabbit Hole: How to Debunk Conspiracy Theories Using Facts, Logic, and Respect and arguably the most vocal, prominent
By Frank Warren
The UFO Chronicles
5-25-21
skeptic these days, appeared on Cuomo Prime Time Friday night (5-21-21). (See video below).

The discussion was the latest segment of an ad hoc series of programs dedicated to the current brouhaha surrounding recent military (Navy) UFO sightings and upcoming congressional report. Days earlier Cuomo hosted Sean Cahil, retired US Navy Chief Master-at-Arms, and Christopher Mellon, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, both familiar names in current day Ufology. (See video below)

In fairness, and to his credit—Chris Cuomo offered up counter arguments to the claim of extraordinary, unidentified airborne vehicles (UFOs) by way of Mick West. The first bone of contention was the video of "pyramid shaped" UFO filmed by personnel from the USS Russell, part of the Navy Strike Group 9 while on maneuvers off the coast of San Diego in July of 2019. West presented a very sober, cogent, logical theorem supported by ancillary evidence arguing that the image(s) were nothing more than the result of a camera/lens aberration. Moreover, and in staying in the lines of scientific method—he was able to replicate the “lens effect” known as Bokeh (pronounced Bokee).

The other Navy videos reviewed were what is known as The Gimbal and the Go-Fast respectively. Again, West methodically presented prosaic explanations for each. Cuomo countered by asking, “And the military wouldn’t be sophisticated enough to know about this potential issue[s]?”

West responded:
“Oh, I think that the military certainly is, but I think what’s going on here is perhaps this UAP task force that’s leaking these things out, perhaps doesn’t have a lot of people on board and somehow has become convinced that this was maybe at some at point unidentified. The thing is we don’t know any context of this video; we know very little about what the provenance of it is and what people are actually claiming about it other than the people or UFO promotors that have released it.”
Cuomo ended the segment by asking West, “are you open to the concerns of some of the military intel people that there are things out there they can’t explain?” West replied in the affirmative and expressed his concern over the matter and agreed that these incidents should be investigated (common ground between a skeptic and UFO mavens); however, he reiterated that the videos in question are not of something amazing and can all be attributed to mundane explanations.






See Also:

Pyramid Shaped UFOs Are Bokehs
Is The Pyramid UFO Nothing More Then a 'Lens Aberration'?
Did the Navy Film Pyramid Shaped UFOs
UFO Images are Real, Pentagon Confirms
Gimbal UFO
Navy F-18 'Gimbal UFO' Video Explained?



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Monday, May 24, 2021

Navy's UFO / UAP Task Force Will Confirm Alien Activity, Predicts Navy Physicist (Ret)

Navy's UFO / UAP Task Force Will Confirm Alien Activity, Predicts Navy Physicist (Ret)


Navy Physicist (Ret), Dr. Bruce Maccabee Predicts That The U.S. Navy’s Special Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) Task Force (UAPTF) Will Confirm What Civilian Investigators Have Long Suspected: Some UAP Are Vehicles Controlled By Non-Human Intelligences (NHI)
     The origin(s) of these NHI is (are) unknown but they may come from other planets using transportation technology based on very advanced physical principles.

President Joe Biden of the U.S.A. and leaders of other countries may find it necessary to develop a single, uniform, world-wide policy for co-existing and interacting with NHI. The policy should be world-wide because allowing various countries to develop their own policies could result in some form of disaster.
Bruce Maccabee
By Bruce Maccabee
The UFO Chronicles
5-23-21

If the NAVY TASK FORCE discovers that some UAP are evidence for NHI, the Task Force will, I presume, write an unclassified report (with classified appendix, if needed) ready for publication. However, it might be that the policy makers in the Administration, when confronted with the UAPTF report, might decide to withhold all or part of the unclassified report because of a perceived negative impact on the citizens of the USA and other countries.

The “Yes or No” policy for releasing the report would be based, in part, upon whether the Task Force determines that they “love” us (for example, if they made us or we are “pets”), “hate” us (for example, if they view us as a potential danger to them or their activities) or are indifferent to us (for example, they do whatever they want to do and ignore us as long as we don’t get in their way).

The release policy may also be based partially on the determination that “they” are as curious about us as we are about them. An example of this possibility is the series of radar and visual sightings made during the early morning of December 31, 1978 about twenty miles off the east coast of the South Island of New Zealand.

Wellington Air Traffic Control radar, located at the south end of the North Island detected unknown radar “targets” (radar reflective objects) that seemingly traveled along with a freighter aircraft that was flying south to Christchurch, a city on the east side of the South Island, about 160 miles south-southwest of Wellington. One such target approached the airplane in a sort of stepwise manner, ultimately getting so close to the airplane that the radar could not separate the unknown target from the airplane target. As the radar operator told the plane, “There’s a strong target right in formation with you now…could be left or right … Your target has doubled in size.” This radar event is referred, in the more detailed recounting below, as the “Double Sized Target” event. After about 30 seconds the unknown target moved away and the airplane target reduced to normal size. (Further details are given below.)

The action of the unknown, temporarily getting very close to the plane, appears to have been deliberate. There were, after all, plenty of places for the unknown to be besides near the airplane. So, this raises the question, why did it get so close to the airplane? Curiosity could be one answer and an intent to scare the people in the airplane might be another answer. Either answer would be consistent with NHI as being the cause of the unknown targets.

BACKGROUND

Brief History

Starting in the latter 1940’s military personnel and citizens in all countries and in all walks of life began reporting unusual objects traveling through the sky. They came to be known as unidentified flying objects (UFOs). Hundreds of reports per year from 1947 through 1969 were collected and analyzed by three U. S. Air Force projects, SIGN (1948), GRUDGE (1949 – 1951) and the well-known PROJECT BLUE BOOK (1952 – 1969).

After studying some 13,000 reports BLUE BOOK concluded that most could be explained as ordinary phenomena that were misperceived but that 701 resisted explanation because of their non-aerodynamic shapes (sphere, disc, cylinder), because of the absence of recognizable features (wings, stabilizers, fuselage, propellers, jet engines), because of their ability to hover with no recognizable means of support (anti-gravity?) and extreme dynamics (high acceleration leading to extreme speed - thousands of miles per hour - being achieved in a second or less). BLUE BOOK then claimed, without proof, that the reports of these 701 sightings were faulty or incomplete and that if they (USAF investigators) had had more information about them they, too, could have been explained.

After BLUE BOOK closed in 1969 the Air Force responded to queries by handing out a “Fact Sheet” that said that after investigating thousands of sightings it had found nothing that was a threat to the United States and nothing indicating that reports of UAP were evidence of an advanced technology or Non-Human Intelligence (NHI).

Recent Events

More recently there have been sightings by U.S. Navy fighter pilots and sailors who have detected and tracked UAP using modern radar and optical devices. The Navy has confirmed that the UAP are unknown objects or phenomena. The new radar and observational data confirm what has been reported ever since the first UFO sightings in the late spring of 1947, namely that these objects can undergo extreme acceleration and reach very high speeds. They can also hover above ground despite the lack of observable means for support such as rotating blades as on a helicopter.

The most intriguing question is, could these objects or phenomena, at least some of them, be evidence that the Earth is being visited by Non-Human Intelligences (NHI) that travel around by means of various technologically advanced Alien Transportation Vehicles (ATV)?

In order to answer this question the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI), responding to direction by Congress, has set up a task force (the Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon Task Force, UAPTF) to collect and analyze reports of UAP/UFO sightings and prepare an unclassified report for publication.

The Navy can be commended for “taking the bull by the horns” and setting up a program to tackle the above question “head on.” However, investigations and analyses of many unclassified reports by civilians (and military) over the last 70 years have already led many investigators to conclude that at least some of the reports of UAP are evidence of NHI. The Task Force is likely to confirm this conclusion based on their studies of classified (and unclassified) sightings.

Example Of An Event Possibly Caused By NHI

A prime example of a civilian sighting that can be explained by assuming the UAP was controlled by NHI is the “Double Sized Target” (DST) radar sighting that occurred in New Zealand during the early morning hours of Sunday, December 31, 1978.

The DST radar sighting is one of a series of radar and visual sighting events that occurred between 0015 (15 minutes after midnight) and 0100 (1:00 a.m.) local time as an Argosy four engine freighter aircraft flew southward along a well-traveled air route carrying newspapers from Wellington to Christchurch. These sightings are unique for the quantity and quality of data available. There were five witnesses on the plane and two at the Wellington Air Traffic Control Center (WATCC). The WATCC recorded all the (audio) communications between the WATCC and the plane. This made possible a time-accurate reconstruction of the sighting events that occurred during the flight.

There were numerous sightings, both radar and visual, during this flight. However, only radar sightings related to the DST event are presented here. Information on the many other sightings is presented at http://brumac.mysite.com where you scroll down to paragraphs 29, 30 and 41.

The Double Sized Target sighting occurred as the airplane was flying southward at 14,000 ft and 215 knots (215 kt or about 250 mph or about 4 statute miles per minute; from here on distances are in nautical miles – nm – which are about 15% larger than statute miles, and speeds are in nm/hr or kt). The plane was about 90 nm south of WATCC which was following the airplane with its search radar that swept a narrow (about 2 degree wide) beam around the sky every 12 seconds (5 revolutions per minute). If a radar-reflective object, such as an airplane, were “hit” by the beam, reflected radar power would cause a short bright arc of light, a “target,” to appear on the circular radar display. During the next rotation of the radar beam another bright arc would appear at a short distance from the previous arc, a short distance because the plane could only travel a short distance, about 0.6 miles, during the 12 seconds. When a bright arc appeared on the display its brightness would decrease rather slowly with time so that at any time, for a particular “target,” there would be a line or trail of short arcs of diminishing brightness indicating where the target object was at the most recent rotation (the brightest arc) and where it had been during previous rotations. Thus the series of arcs indicated where the target had been and the direction it was heading.

The above description of what would appear on the radar display applies to normal targets (e.g., airplanes). However, on this particular night the radar operators saw what they called “weird targets” that didn’t create lines of arcs. Instead they saw the following: as the radar beam swept around it would detect a single target and create an arc at some location on the radar screen. When the beam swept past the location again there would be only the previous (fading) arc and no new arc indicating that the target was no longer at that location. However, there would be an arc at some other location many miles away where there hadn’t been an arc before, suggesting that the target had traveled many miles to a new location during the 12 second rotation.

In early 1979, during the initial analysis of these sightings, targets that were “arcs without tracks,” were assumed to be some sort of weather-caused anomalies (“radar angels”) and that these anomalies appeared randomly around the plane. Little thought was given to the possibility that these anomalies actually traveled large distances in 12 seconds, which would imply that the weird targets were able to undergo high acceleration and achieve very high speeds, a capability beyond that of any weather anomaly.

However, the recent Navy sightings of radar targets that achieve high acceleration and high speed suggest that the radar targets seen in New Zealand should be re-evaluated since they were of the same nature as the Navy targets. That would imply that we can learn something about objects reported by the Navy by studying the reported activities of the New Zealand unknown objects/targets.

The Double-Sized Target

Between 0015 and 0027 (24 hour time in minutes past midnight), as the plane flew southward, WATCC reported six weird radar targets at various times and at various distances and directions relative to the location of the plane. Then, at 0027, WATCC reported to the plane, “Target is at 12:00 at 3 miles.” (Directions are given as clock face times.) The air crew responded immediately, “Thank you. We pick it up. It’s got a flashing light.” This sighting by itself is extraordinary since, according to WATCC, there were no other planes in the sky south of Wellington and there were no known sources of light directly ahead of the plane. (There were the lights of the Japanese squid fishing fleet about a hundred miles east of them, but they were recognized by the air crew.)

At about 0028 WATCC reported that there were targets 10 nm to 15 nm behind the plane. Of course, the air crew couldn’t see them. At about 0029 ½ WATCC told the plane that there was a target at 6:00 at 4 nm (behind them). At 0030 WATCC told the plane that there was a “further” target at 3:00 (to their right) at 4 nm. (If this latter target was the same object as the previous one, then it traveled about 5 ½ nm in ½ minute or about 660 kt, three times faster than the plane.)

Then came the most surprising radar event, the Double Sized Target. At about 30 minutes and 45 seconds after midnight WATCC reported to the plane as follows: “There’s a strong target right in formation with you now…could be left or right … your target has doubled in size.” According to the radar operators the motion of the DST, as displayed on the radar screen, was exactly what one would expect if two airplanes were flying side by side at the same speed and separated by a short distance (actual distance not known; perhaps less than a mile).

Both the radar operators and the air crew waited with some trepidation to see what would happen next!

Finally, at about 0031:30 (30 seconds past 0031) WATCC reported, “Your target has reduced to normal size” (They could now exhale.).

Because of the radar sweep rate, 12 seconds per rotation, it is not possible to determine exactly the duration of the DST, but it was at least 36 seconds, enough time to rule out any explanation other than that for a time the airplane had a traveling companion. (The plane was flying in a straight line so the increase in radar target size was not due to a change in orientation of the plane.)

About a minute and a half after being told that the airplane target was the normal size the plane reported to WATCC, “Got a target at 3:00 just behind us.” WATCC responded immediately, “Yes, and going around to 4:00 now, at 4 miles.” About a minute later WATCC reported a target at 5:00 at 10 miles. About 40 seconds later WATCC reported that the same target was at 6:00, directly behind the plane, that it was at 15 miles distance and that it had been joined by two other stationary targets! Shortly after that the three targets were replaced by a single target that was larger than the airplane target. Several minutes after this the plane began its descent to land at Christchurch and there were no more radar incidents during the flight south. (There were radar and visual incidents while the plane flew north to Blenheim later but there was no double sized airplane target.)

    The DST incident is uniquely important because it shows that there was more to these radar targets than mere existence. The existence of these targets might, in some way, be attributed to short lived atmospheric phenomena and, in fact, skeptics who have studied these sightings have attributed the “weird targets” to fluctuations in the turbulent flow of air as it blows eastward over the jagged mountain peaks of the South Island of New Zealand. But turbulence-generated radar targets are weak targets, they appear at random times and random locations and they don’t move rapidly, certainly not as rapidly as an airplane.

The motions, if any, of turbulence generated radar targets do not give the appearance of intent. Yet the target that moved along with the plane did give evidence of intent, such as an intent to “move closer for a better look at the airplane.” Intent is a characteristic of intelligence. The motions of this target also indicate curiosity, which is another characteristic of intelligence.

These weird radar targets weren’t controlled by humans.  We may therefore conclude that these targets, and, by extension, the targets detected by the Navy, were controlled by Non-Human Intelligences or … aliens.