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USS Nimitz UFO mystery deepens as navy veterans claim ‘unknown individuals’ in helicopter seized footage
THE USS Nimitz UFO mystery has deepened further after a new report revealed two “unknown individuals” removed key evidence.
The now infamous event unfolded in 2004 before the eyes of two warplane pilots from an aircraft carrier who were on a routine training mission over the Pacific.
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In September the US Navy has admitted that videos taken by pilots apparently showing encounters with UFOs are real.
The footage was shot from USS Nimitz fighter jets on a routine training mission about 100 miles into the Pacific Ocean off San Diego, California, when they were diverted to check out an aircraft spotted on radar from a navy cruiser, the USS Princeton.
Two videos show three encounters between warplanes and what the navy has officially admitted were “unidentified aerial phenomena”.
One video was taken in 2004 and two in 2015 but were only released earlier this year and show the objects performing manoeuvres not possible using current aviation technology.
But it has now emerged that further evidence was confiscated.
'MYSTERY MEN CONFISCATE DATA RECORDINGS'
According to naval officers interviewed by , two mysterious men, who were never identified, arrived via a helicopter aboard the guided missile cruiser USS Princeton.
One of the veterans, Gary Voorhis, who was tracking the 40ft “tic-tac” shaped unidentified flying object, said: “These two guys show up on a helicopter, which wasn’t uncommon, but shortly after they arrived, maybe 20 minutes, I was told by my chain of command to turn over all the data recordings for the AEGIS system.”
The recently secured hard drives of the airborne early-warning aircraft, the E-2 Hawkey, were also turned over.
A leaked report from the Pentagon revealed that a supersonic UFO shaped like a Tic Tac sweet had stalked a US Aircraft carrier for days before vanishing into thin air.
Some of the pilots said that the aircraft could make itself invisible as it travelled next to them.
The craft was described by one of the pilots mentioned in the report as "solid white, smooth, with no edges... uniformly coloured with no nacelles, pylons or wings", and looked like "an elongated egg or Tic Tac".
Pilots who witnessed the incident reported that they picked up the presence of 8 to 10 objects in their radar equipment.
Then in 2015 a veteran pilot of an F/A - 18 fighter aircraft witnessed a raft of anomalous aerial vehicles during the training exercise off the coast of Jacksonville.
Awestruck by what he had witnessed he said: “There's a whole fleet of them. Look at that thing, it's rotating.”
How many alien and UFO sightings have there been?
The number of UFO sightings is currently flying at an all-time high
According to data cruncher and there are around 45,000 annual reported sightings in the US.
He also says there have been more than 100,000 recorded UFO sightings in the past 100-plus years.
The first recorded flyby occurred in Portland in 1905, where viewers reported seeing a “buzzing” sphere-shaped UFO that descended from the heavens.
Sightings have spiked dramatically over the past 30-plus years with mysterious lights taking over from saucers as the most popular description of objects spotted.
The National UFO Reporting Centre is an organisation that investigates sightings.
Since it was set up in 1974, reports have been sent to it via its 24 hour hotline and it says that between May and June this year there have been more than 500 new sightings.
The United States collectively reports 2,500 sightings per 10 million people, which is 300 times more than the global median.
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Confirmation that the videos are real came in statements to unexplained phenomenon website
The Navy designates the objects contained in these videos as unidentified aerial phenomena,” said Joseph Gradisher, spokesperson for the Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Information Warfare.
“The ‘Unidentified Aerial Phenomena’ terminology is used because it provides the basic descriptor for the sightings/observations of unauthorised/unidentified aircraft/objects that have been observed entering/operating in the airspace of various military-controlled training ranges.”
In June it emerged that top US politicians have been given a secret briefing about the encounters.
A spokeswoman for Senator Mark Warner, the vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, confirmed the briefing took place.
“If naval pilots are running into unexplained interference in the air, that’s a safety concern Senator Warner believes we need to get to the bottom of,”
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