We might soon be getting answers to some of the UFO questions. In the past few years, it has been learned that US Navy pilots frequently see UFOs, some of which appear faster and more maneuverable compared to their aircraft.
There has been footage of such events, thanks to Christopher Mellon, ex-deputy assistant secretary of defense for intelligence. Back in 2017, after he stepped down from his position, he gave three Navy UFO videos to the New York Times, as reported by 60 Minutes. The videos have been recently declassified.
Threat to national security?
The Times soon published the breaking story regarding the videos and the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP), a project that involves investigating UFO encounters. Mellon told “60 Minutes” that the reason behind making this information public was because he was concerned that not much was done to investigate such sightings.
“It’s bizarre and unfortunate that someone like myself has to do something like that to get a national security issue like this on the agenda,” Mellon told “60 Minutes” reporter Bill Whitaker.
Alien technology or man-made?
US Senator Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) told Whitaker that this is a national security issue. “Anything that enters an airspace that’s not supposed to be there is a threat,” Rubio said. There’s a possibility that the reported sightings could be some kind of advanced aircraft developed by an adversary country.
Experts have also suggested that these sightings could be a result of issues with the Navy jets’ instruments, though pilots have claimed to have encountered such sightings with their naked eyes. People like Mellon are eager to get to the depth of these sightings. They hope to find an explanation that will allow them to determine if these encounters pose a threat to national security.
“I want us to take it seriously and have a process to take it seriously,” Rubio told Whitaker. “I want us to have a process to analyze the data every time it comes in — that there be a place where this is cataloged and constantly analyzed until we get some answers. Maybe it has a very simple answer. Maybe it doesn’t.”
