Estimate of the Situation

Game Changer in the Skies

The Defense Department says those Navy UFO videos are real.

Bryce Zabel
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Published in
3 min readApr 29, 2020

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Courtesy of the United States Department of Defense

The U.S. Navy has just released three unclassified videos of UFOs as encountered by their own pilots flying F/A 18 Hornets, one event in 2004 and two more in 2015. The Navy says that these objects are not our technology, and it’s doubtful that Russia or China or anyone else built them. They’re, well, unidentified.

Several of the pilots who encountered these objects have spoken out, saying they’ve never seen anything like them. Super-fast, hyper-maneuverable, able to hover, rapidly accelerate beyond anything we currently fly, able to operate in the air and the water, and no visible wings.

The question is, if they don’t belong to any of the usual suspects in the identification of aerial phenomena, then who do they belong to?

Hold that thought. First, the background.

This week (April 27), the Pentagon officially released a trio of videos, known as “Flir,” “Go Fast,” and “Gimbal.” Naval Air Systems Command posted all three online in the library they maintain of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) documents. All the videos have been online for years, only now it’s official. They are an astonishing tiny taste of what must be a trove of HD…

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Bryce Zabel
Point of Contact

Writer/producer in features & TV. Creator, five primetime series. Ex: TV Academy CEO; CNN reporter; USC professor. Author of books about the Beatles, JFK, UFOs.