The US Navy acknowledges owning private videos of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) that have never been seen by the general public, but refuses to release them for fear that doing so might jeopardise national security. Gregory Cason, the deputy director of the Navy’s FOIA office, made this declaration in a statement in response to a legal request.
The Black Vault, a website dedicated to US government openness, made the request. In April 2020, they issued the legal request, and two years later, the US government wrote back in response. The official document acknowledges the existence of other videos but forbids their release because of the possible harm to national security.
The letter claims that the material’s disclosure will compromise American security because it could give enemies crucial knowledge about the strategies, weaknesses, and capabilities of the Navy and Department of Defense. Cason stated that “no aspect of the videos can be extracted for publication.”
The Black Vault made the request a day or so after the Navy released three films taken by military personnel that seem to show aero planes moving in ways that are not possible with the available technology. Cason claims that the Navy only made these tapes public because they had previously been leaked and, as a result, “had been extensively debated in the public domain.”
Since a lot of information regarding the events was already in the public domain, publishing it wouldn’t jeopardise national security in any way. However, the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force (“UAP,” a name most commonly used by government authorities) determined that the requested files contain sensitive information about the UAP and are therefore confidential.
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