The recordings captured from US Air Force planes last a mere 1.17 minutes — just long enough to spark mass international reaction. In the first video, against a backdrop of cloud contours, a bright white oval figure streaks across the sky.
“Oh, my gosh!” exclaims one of the pilots.
“They are going against the wind!” chimes in the second, “and the wind is 120 knots to the west!”
“Look at that thing, dude!” insists the first one.
Suddenly, the object starts to rotate. The pilot can’t contain his amazement.
“Look at that thing! It’s rotating!” Cut.
In the second video, the camera is pointed downward, with the sea as the backdrop. The radar pinpoints an object moving at such astonishing speed that it eludes tracking. The first two attempts are unsuccessful. On the third try, the radar locks onto it.
“Whoa! We got it!” exclaims the pilot.
The military personnel are all excitement: “Woo-hoo!” one cheers.
“Oh, my gosh, dude!” exclaims the first.
“Wow! Look at it fly!” Cut.
In the third video, a small object picked up by the radar remains static for a few moments before vanishing abruptly. Cut.
These images were never meant to go public. In fact, they gathered dust in the Pentagon’s archives for several years until Christopher Mellon, former deputy assistant secretary of defense for intelligence in both the Bill Clinton and George W. Bush administrations, and later for Security and Information Operations, leaked them to the press. Since 2017, Mellon has been working to discover the truth about unidentified aerial phenomena, or what are commonly known as UFOs, or what the US government now calls UAPs — unidentified anomalous phenomenon.
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