By Tony O'Riley-
The U.S. Navy has announced plans to set up an official reporting and investigative system to monitor reports from its pilots about unidentified flying objects. (Ufos)
The Navy also said they would keep their findings private under the privileged and classified information that these reports usually include, according to The Washington Post.
“Military aviation safety organisations always retain reporting of hazards to aviation as privileged information in order to preserve the free and honest prioritisation and discussion of safety among aircrew,” Joe Gradisher, a spokesman for the Office of the Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Information Warfare, told The Washington Post.
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Grandisher’s announcement was designed to temporarily inform, rather than be held accountable for an update of the Navy’s findings at some future date. He made it abundantly clear that beyond the announcement that the Navy is setting up this UFO-reporting procedure, “no release of information to the general public is expected,” Gradisher said. The new guidelines for reporting UFOs have come in response to unknown, advanced aircraft flying into or near Navy strike groups or other sensitive military facilities and formations, the Navy said.
The Navy has been co-operative with the idea of sailors reporting UFO sightings in order for there to be clarity that distinguishes unidentified flying objects from potentially ‘extremely advanced Russian aircraft.’
INTRIGUING
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The timing and essence of the news is also intriguing if we ignore its short term classified operation. Only in 2017, we had word that the Pentagon had a secret “UFO” office that spent $22 million over five years to study strange and threatening aeronautical events. Although funding for the venture, called the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP), ended in 2012, the program didn’t entirely stop, according to those reports.
When news of AATIP became public in 2017, the Defence Department released two declassified videos, depicting pilots talking about a bizarre aircraft that appeared to accelerate quickly, even though it had no recognisable means of propulsion. These aircraft, which looked like blobs on the video, could allegedly drive thousands of feet in an instant. By creating this new program, the Navy hopes to destigmatise any reporting associated with incidents that involve UFOs, which could, after all, be militarised aircraft from other parts of the world.
“There have been a number of reports of unauthorised and/or unidentified aircraft entering various military-controlled ranges and designated air space in recent years,” the Navy told Politico, which broke the story. “For safety and security concerns, the Navy and the [U.S. Air Force] takes these reports very seriously and investigates each and every report.”
The public may get a whiff of these incidents eventually, although the details may be scarce. For instance, perhaps unclassified parts, broad overviews or statistics about the number of sightings could be released, Luis Elizondo, an intelligence officer who ran AATIP before leaving the Pentagon, told The Washington Post.
“If it remains strictly within classified channels, then the ‘right person’ may not actually get the information,” Elizondo said. “The right person doesn’t necessarily mean a military leader. It can be a lawmaker. It can be a whole host of different individuals.”
The government is making a smart move by announcing its intentions to formally document and analyse these UFOs, said Seth Shostak, a senior astronomer at the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute in Mountain View, California.
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“It will make everybody happy because it sounds like a move toward transparency,” Shostak told Live Science.
With this announcement, the Navy benefits not only because it will formally investigate these strange sightings, which may well be reconnaissance or enemy aircraft from other nations; the Navy is also winning a nod from the roughly two-thirds of Americans who think that the government isn’t divulging everything it knows about extraterrestrials and UFOs, said Shostak, citing a 2002 study on attitudes about aliens”.
“The military is interested in this stuff not because they think that Klingons are sailing in the skies, but i think because maybe they think the Chinese or the Russians are sailing through the skies,” Shostak said.
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