Newly released footage allegedly shows a U.S. Navy encounter with a mysterious object flying over the Atlantic Ocean.
The 35 second clip was reportedly captured by an infrared camera aboard a F/A-18 fighter jet travelling at 25,000 feet in 2015.
“What the [expletive] is that thing?!” a pilot exclaims after the sensor locks-on to the fast moving object. “Look at that flying!”
“Oh my gosh dude!” says the weapons system operator.
Footage Said to Describe Navy Encounter With UFO Released
“Defense Department officials who analyze the relevant intelligence confirm more than a dozen such incidents off the East Coast alone since 2015,” he wrote.
Yet not enough is being done by the government to investigate these encounters, Mellon contends in the piece.
“Reports from different services and agencies remain largely ignored and unevaluated inside their respective bureaucratic stovepipes. There is no Pentagon process for synthesizing all the observations the military is making,” he wrote.
“If the origin of these aircraft is a mystery, so is the paralysis of the U.S. government in the face of such evidence.”
Mellon observed that military departments and agencies have instead treated “such incidents as isolated events rather than as part of a pattern requiring serious attention and investigation.”
One of the problems hampering development was the stigma associated with conducting research in this field, Mellon observed.
“It is time to set aside taboos regarding ‘UFOs’ and instead listen to our pilots and radar operators.”
In October 2017, Luis Elizondo, the former head of the Pentagon intelligence program investigating UFOs resigned to protest what he described excessive secrecy surrounding the program, and internal opposition to it, the New York Times reported.Mellon asked in his op-ed if the US has been “technologically leap-frogged by Russia or China?” Or might these released videos “be evidence of some alien civilization.”
“Unfortunately, we have no idea, because we aren’t even seeking answers.”