{"id":106146,"date":"2020-04-28T02:02:16","date_gmt":"2020-04-28T09:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/pentagon-officially-releases-videos-of-unidentified-flying-objects"},"modified":"2020-04-28T02:02:16","modified_gmt":"2020-04-28T09:02:16","slug":"pentagon-officially-releases-videos-of-unidentified-flying-objects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/pentagon-officially-releases-videos-of-unidentified-flying-objects","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon officially releases videos of \u2018unidentified\u2019 flying objects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/pentagon-officially-releases-videos-of-unidentified-flying-objects2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) praised Monday\u2019s release of the videos, but said more action is needed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m glad the Pentagon is finally releasing this footage, but it only scratches the surface of research and materials available,\u201d he tweeted. \u201cThe U.S. needs to take a serious, scientific look at this and any potential national security implications. The American people deserve to be informed.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The Pentagon on Monday officially <a href=\"https:\/\/www.navair.navy.mil\/foia\/documents\">released three videos<\/a> of \u201cunidentified\u201d flying objects that have been previously leaked to the public.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Defense authorized the release of the three unclassified videos, including one recorded in November 2004 and two others captured in January 2015. The videos had been distributed in 2007 and 2017, the department noted in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defense.gov\/Newsroom\/Releases\/Release\/Article\/2165713\/statement-by-the-department-of-defense-on-the-release-of-historical-navy-videos\/\">statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Officials decided the official release of the videos would not reveal any \u201csensitive capabilities or systems\u201d and would not impact investigations of unidentified flying objects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) praised Monday\u2019s release of the videos, but said more action is needed. \u201cI\u2019m glad the Pentagon is finally releasing this footage, but it only scratches the surface of research and materials available,\u201d he tweeted. \u201cThe U.S. needs to take a serious, scientific look at this and any potential [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}