U.S. Navy: We Have More UFO Stuff And You're Definitely Not Allowed To See It

The military reportedly admitted having documents and footage on a famous 2004 sighting, but it's top secret.
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The U.S. Navy reportedly has footage and documents related to a UFO video that caused a sensation when it was leaked in 2017. But it won’t reveal any of it because releasing the info and footage “would cause exceptionally grave damage to the National Security of the United States,” the Navy said in response to a Freedom of Information Act request by UFO researcher Christian Lambright. 

Vice independently confirmed the Navy’s response to the request. 

Lambright sought more information about a 2004 sighting of an object off the California coast that is often referred to as the “Tic Tac” due to its shape. The fast-moving object was tracked by U.S. military pilots in leaked footage: 

The object descended from 60,000 feet to 50 feet in seconds.

“The part that drew our attention was how it wasn’t behaving within the normal laws of physics,” pilot Chad Underwood, who filmed the encounter, told New York magazine last month. 

The Navy wrote to Lambright saying it had found “certain briefing slides that are classified TOP SECRET” related to the incident as well as “a video classified SECRET.” As a result, it could not release the info.

Vice verified the news with the Navy. 

″[A]s the investigation of UAP sightings is ongoing, we will not publicly discuss individual sighting reports/observations,” Susan Gough, a Pentagon spokesperson, told the website. The military does not refer to these sightings as UFOs but rather unidentified aerial phenomena.

Gough also said the military’s footage of the incident was of the same duration as the footage that was leaked, but she would not answer questions about the resolution or say if there was any additional accompany audio. 

Last year, the military confirmed that the footage was indeed legit and should not have been leaked. The clip was obtained by To The Stars Academy Of Arts And Science, the private research and media firm co-founded by rocker Tom DeLonge, formerly of Blink 182.

Before You Go

UFO Encounters
UFO Over Mojave Desert Sept. 9, 1985(01 of13)
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This cigar-shaped UFO was photographed by general aviation pilot David Hastings as he piloted a Cessna Skymaster plane over the Mojave Desert on Sept. 9, 1985. There has never been an indication of hoax in this case, which remains unexplained to this day. (credit:Courtesy of David Hastings)
UFO Over Holloman Base(02 of13)
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An unidentified flying object was photographed by a government employee over the Holloman Air Development Center in New Mexico in 1964. Conspiracy theorists have claimed the photo is proof that the U.S. government has been in contact with aliens. (credit:Bettmann / Corbis)
Strange objects over France(03 of13)
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While descending an Austrian mountain in 1954, photographer Erich Kaiser captured an image of what he called mysterious silvery-white flying objects. (credit:AP)
Mexican Air Force Pilots Video(04 of13)
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Mexican Air Force pilots filmed strange, brightly lit objects that moved quickly in the skies on March 5, 2004. Some scientists said the phenomenon could have been caused by gases in the atmosphere. (credit:AP)
Roswell(05 of13)
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America's most infamous UFO case centers in Roswell, N.M. Some people claimed an alien spacecraft crashed there in 1947; the military said it was a weather balloon. (credit:Eric Draper, AP)
Roswell dummies(06 of13)
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The Air Force issued "The Roswell Report" in 1997. Countering claims that aliens were recovered at the New Mexico site, the report said military officials picked up 200-pound dummies, above, that were used in an experiment. (credit:Air Force / AP)
Alien in Brazil(07 of13)
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Video grab close up. What looks like an alien creature with visible head, neck, arms and body standing in the Brazilian rainforest in Manaus, Brazil.In this Amaz-alien footage, a lone unidentified being appears to stand in the jungle of Brazil -- even arching its back -- just feet away from a bright flashing blue light. In what some allege as proof that Earth is being visited by aliens from another planet, the video was obtained by paranormal writer Mike Cohen who says the video was taken by two British tourists visiting the Manaus region of the Amazon jungle. (credit:Barcroft / Fame)
Crop Circle in Yogyakarta, Indonesia(08 of13)
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A large circle and geometric pattern local residents say were created by a UFO appeared in a rice field in Krasakan hamlet in Sleman, Yogyakarta, on the morning of Jan. 23, 2011. (credit:Tribun Jogja / The Jakarta Post)
Stan Romanek film(09 of13)
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Stan Romanek claimed that this still image from a three-minute video he shot in 2003 shows an alien looking into his home in Nebraska. In the film, a strange face appears to be popping up and down outside Romanek's window. (credit:Courtesy Stan Romanek)
Sketch of UFO sighting (10 of13)
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This eyewitness drawing of an alleged UFO sighting is in one of 19 once-secret files posted to the British National Archives website. The files cover sightings reported between 1986 and 1992. Although many of the reports were debunked, some remain unexplained. (credit:National Archives / PA / AP)
France field markings(11 of13)
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An investigator in 1989 measures markings that some said were left behind by a UFO in Normandy, France. France began releasing its "X-Files" on UFO sightings in 2007. (credit:CNES / AP)
President Jimmy Carter(12 of13)
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President Jimmy Carter, shown here in 1971, reported that he saw a UFO above Leary, Ga., in 1969. He filed a report about the sighting to the International UFO Bureau in 1973. (credit:AP)
Astronaut Gordon Cooper(13 of13)
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Astronaut Gordon Cooper, who piloted Mercury and Gemini space missions in the 1960s, once said he saw a "typical saucer shape, double-cylindrical shape, metallic" UFO. He was also outspoken on the idea that some UFOs were interplanetary vehicles visiting Earth. (credit:AP)