Official position · S-013
The Navy classified as “unidentified aerial phenomena” the objects filmed in the videos released since 2017, specifying that it had never released the videos to the public and that neither the Navy nor DOPSR had any record of responses to a request for unlimited release in 2017.
U.S. Navy · Navy spokesperson (Gradisher) · Sep 10, 2019
Sightings, video, sensors
What it denies and what it leaves open
It acknowledges the footage and describes the objects filmed as unidentified, without attributing any origin to them; it denies that the Navy or DOPSR authorized its public release.
- Original words
The Navy designates the objects contained in these videos as unidentified aerial phenomena
- Who disputes it
- Elizondo has maintained that it was the Department of Defense that decided on the release of the videos and that there was no deception; the New York Times wrote that they had been released by AATIP.
- Concerns
- Luis Elizondo
Sources
- KLAS I-Team, April 29, 2019 (press, pro-disclosure)
- Keith Kloor, “UFOs Won't Go Away”, Issues in Science and Technology, Spring 2019 (PDF) (press)
- The Black Vault, September 10, 2019: the Navy confirms that the videos show UAP (analysis)
- The Black Vault: the DD Form 1910 and the release of the three videos (analysis)
On this site
People 1
Documents 2
- The DD 1910 form with which Elizondo submitted the three Navy videos to DOPSR review Original available
- The Pentagon's press release of April 27, 2020 on the official release of the three Navy videos Original available
Open in the interactive archive The whole section: Denials and official positions
UAPgrade's entries are compiled with artificial intelligence (three verifiers with opposing roles) and checked against the sources listed above: how we work. Have a document that changes this entry? Bring it to the Investigations Unit.