2004 and 2015 encounters
FLIR, GIMBAL, and GOFAST are authentic Navy recordings. Authentication settles where the videos came from, not what every object in them was.
Claim ledger
Status belongs to a specific claim, not to a person, institution, or side.
The Department of Defense formally authorized their release in April 2020 and stated that the Navy had previously acknowledged them.
The DoD release identifies one recording from 2004 and two from 2015.
No contrary evidence recorded in this entry.
The recordings are evidence of military observations. Publicly available data do not establish a non-human origin.
Witness accounts and sensor presentations describe behavior observers considered unusual.
The DoD release authenticates the videos but does not endorse an extraterrestrial or non-human explanation.
U.S. Department of Defense / Office of the Director of National Intelligence
The encounter associated with the FLIR video occurs.
The encounters associated with GIMBAL and GOFAST occur.
DoD formally releases the three unclassified videos.
U.S. Department of Defense. DoD authentication and release context for the 2004 and 2015 Navy videos.
Office of the Director of National Intelligence. The June 2021 public assessment of 144 U.S. government reports.