UFOs (CNN)

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Newscaster: “The US Navy has finally acknowledged that videos appear to be showing UFOs flying through the air are real. They don’t call them UFOs; they call them Unidentified Aerial Phenomena.

Several of the videos we are talking about were recorded years ago by fighter pilots.

And in 2017, they were made public by the New York Times.

 
Commander David Fravor, U.S. Navy Pilot (Retired): “Look at this thing.”
U.S. Navy Co-Pilot, Two: “It’s rotating.”

Images of that rotating thing captured by US Navy aircraft, sensors locking in on the target.

Commander David Fraver saw it first-hand during a training mission, describing it like a forty-foot (12.2 meter) long “tick-tack”, maneuvering rapidly and changing directions.

Commander David Fravor, U.S. Navy Pilot (Retired): “As we both looked out the right side of the airplane, we saw a disturbance in the water. And a white object, oblong, pointing north.”

The object was first sighted in 2004. Then similar objects again in 2015. Footage of the sightings, declassified by the military, weren’t made public until December 2017 by the New York Times and a group that researches UFOs.

Commander David Fravor, U.S. Navy Pilot (Retired): “There’s a whole fleet of them; look at the ASA.”
US Navy Co-Pilot: “My gosh.”
Commander David Fravor, U.S. Navy Pilot (Retired): “They are going against the wind — the wind is a hundred-and-thirty (130) knots.”

Commander David Fravor, U.S. Navy Pilot (Retired): “This was extremely abrupt, like a ping-pong ball bouncing off a wall.

The ability to hover over water and start a vertical climb from basically zero to up to 12,000 feet (3,658 m) and then accelerate in less than two seconds and disappear is something I’ve never seen in my life.”

The Navy says it still doesn’t know what the objects are and officials aren’t speculating, a Navy spokesman simply confirming to CNN, “The object seen in various clips are ‘Unidentified Aerial Phenomena’,” or UAPs.

The UFO reports were first investigated by secret $22 million program, part of the Defense Department budget that investigated reports of UFOs.

The program has since been shut down.

But it was run by a military intelligence official who told CNN they found compelling evidence that “We may not be alone.”

Questions

Bird. The US military (Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines) always and immediately makes public announcements whenever they see a UFO (Unidentified Flying Object). The US military always tells everything whenever they see a UFO. True or false?

Eagle, Hawk, Falcon, Osprey. Is the official, US Government name of these, “UFO (Unidentified Flying Object)”?

Airplane. Did all the videos come from a ship? Were all the videos made by sailors on board a ship?

Biplane. The pilots took clear, colorful videos from their airplanes. Is this right or wrong?

Propeller Airplane. Did the UAP or UFO fly slowly and normally in a straight line?

Jet Plane. The pilots followed the UFO to its home base. Is this correct or incorrect?

Helicopter. Did a US Navy pilot come on camera to describe what had happened? Was a US Navy pilot interviewed by CNN?

Passenger Aircraft. Does the US Government think that UFOs are not real? Does government think UFOs are completely fake?
 
 
 
Rocket. My friends and I have seen a UFO. Yes or no?

Spaceship, Spacecraft. Have you heard of UFO sighting or reports? Have many people claimed to have seen a UFO? Have many people said they saw a UFO?

Satellite. Is there much interest and fascination in UFOs? Are people interested and fascinated by UFOs?

Space Station. Are UFOs real? What do you think they might be?

Lunar Module. Regarding UFOs, what might happen in the future?

Space Fleet, Star Fleet. Should people and governments do anything? What should people and governments do regarding UFOs?