Pentagon officially releases three videos

Infrared Navy video frame showing an unidentified object with on-screen targeting data
A frame from Gimbal, one of the three Navy videos the Pentagon released in April 2020 United States Navy, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

The Defense Department authorized the release of three Navy infrared videos, FLIR1, Gimbal and GoFast, that had already circulated publicly. It said the objects in them remain unidentified.

Sources

  1. OfficialStatement by the Department of Defense on the Release of Historical Navy Videos (opens in a new tab)U.S. Department of Defense (now hosted at war.gov) / 2020-04-27
  2. OfficialNAVAIR FOIA Document Library (FLIR, GIMBAL, GOFAST files) (opens in a new tab)Naval Air Systems Command / 2020-04-27

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