The US Department of Defense has released three declassified videos of "unexplained aerial phenomena".
The Pentagon said it wanted to "clear up any misconceptions by the public on whether or not the footage that has been circulating was real".
The videos had already been leaked in 2007 and 2017.
Two were published by the New York Times, while the third was leaked by an organisation co-founded by former Blink-182 singer Tom DeLonge.
After they were first leaked, some people claimed the videos showed alien unidentified flying objects (UFOs).
What's in the videos?
According to the New York Times, a clip from 2004 was filmed by two navy fighter pilots and shows a round object hovering above the water, about 100 miles (160 km) out into the Pacific Ocean.
Two other videos filmed in 2015 show objects moving through the air, one of which is spinning. In one, a pilot is heard saying: "Look at that thing, dude! It's rotating!"
In its statement, the Pentagon said: "After a thorough review, the department has determined that the authorised release of these unclassified videos does not reveal any sensitive capabilities or systems, and does not impinge on any subsequent investigations of military air space incursions by unidentified aerial phenomena.
"DOD [Department of Defense] is releasing the videos in order to clear up any misconceptions by the public on whether or not the footage that has been circulating was real, or whether or not there is more to the videos. The aerial phenomena observed in the videos remain characterized as 'unidentified'."
So yes, pretty much no one has been paying attention to this, which would usually be dominating the news cycle if it weren’t for the coronavirus. The US government has basically confirmed UFOs are real, these same videos were leaked in years prior but passed off as conspiracies or doctored footage.
And no, before you get excited, this doesn’t confirm aliens are real, just that there are videos of unindentified flying objects.
So what is your opinion on these videos?
I think, while strange, re not necessarily connected to aliens. While I do believe life exists outside Earth, I don’t think these UFOs are related to aliens or anything, but just interesting phenomena that probably has an Earthly explanation.
