US Navy confirms the three videos show UAP
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GOFAST
GOFAST — one of the three videos a Navy spokesman confirmed in September 2019 as genuine recordings of 'unidentified aerial phenomena', the first official use of the term for these clips.
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American Alchemy / Jesse Michels ↗YouTube-hosted preview and player; not relicensedIn September 2019 Navy spokesman Joseph Gradisher told The Black Vault and other outlets that the three videos published in 2017 and 2018 depict "unidentified aerial phenomena" and that the Navy had not released them. Earlier that year the Navy had drafted new guidelines for pilots to report unidentified aircraft. Mick West dates his own interest to the same period.
The event
| Date | |
|---|---|
| Place | 38.8719, -77.0563 exact · United States |
| Official response | The Navy stated that the videos show incursions into military training ranges by unidentified aerial phenomena and that the term UAP is used because "unidentified flying object" carries a stigma. |
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- joseph gradisher military Navy spokesman
Who spoke about it later
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UFO Skeptic Mick West Challenged To A Debate 26 January 2025
- 0:02:45 ▶ Mick West
I did stumble upon I think it was late 2019 um the uh uh interview that Commander Fraver did on Joe Rogan. And I previously
- 0:02:45 ▶ interview
- 0:06:56 ▶ Mick West
that kind of almost coincided with the uh 2017 December 2017 release of a New York Times article which came with these other videos, gimbal uh and the Fleer 1
- 0:06:56 ▶ interview
- 0:02:45 ▶ Mick West
On the map
US Navy confirms the three videos show UAP, New York Times reveals AATIP and releases Navy videos, Pentagon formally releases FLIR1, GIMBAL and GOFAST, FLIR1 (Nimitz ATFLIR video), GIMBAL (Roosevelt ATFLIR video), GOFAST (Roosevelt ATFLIR video). Open the full map filtered to this record.
Sources on this record
- 0:02:45 UFO Skeptic Mick West Challenged To A Debate · Mick West ▶
I did stumble upon I think it was late 2019 um the uh uh interview that Commander Fraver did on Joe Rogan. And I previously
- 0:06:56 UFO Skeptic Mick West Challenged To A Debate · Mick West ▶
that kind of almost coincided with the uh 2017 December 2017 release of a New York Times article which came with these other videos, gimbal uh and the Fleer 1
- U.S. Navy confirms UFO videos are real, and never should have been released