{"id":1821,"date":"2019-04-25T01:43:23","date_gmt":"2019-04-24T22:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/?p=1821"},"modified":"2019-04-30T02:06:45","modified_gmt":"2019-04-29T23:06:45","slug":"us-navy-introducing-guidelines-for-pilots-to-report-ufo-sightings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/?p=1821","title":{"rendered":"US Navy introducing guidelines for pilots to report UFO sightings"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"metadata \">\n<div class=\"metadata__info js-byline-images\" data-bundle=\"byline\">\n<h2 class=\"cd__headline\"><span class=\"cd__headline-text js-cd__headline-text\">Secretive program tracked UFOs for 5 years<\/span><\/h2>\n<div class=\"l-container\">\n<div class=\"el__leafmedia el__leafmedia--sourced-paragraph\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/?attachment_id=1823\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1823\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1823\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/2019-April-25-USN-with-UFO.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/2019-April-25-USN-with-UFO.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/2019-April-25-USN-with-UFO-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/2019-April-25-USN-with-UFO-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">Washington (CNN) <\/cite>Navy pilots who think they may have seen unidentified flying objects will now have a detailed means of reporting unexplainable events so the military can keep track of what may, or may not, be happening.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">&#8220;The Navy is updating and formalizing the process by which reports of any such suspected incursions can be made to the cognizant authorities,&#8221; they said in a statement.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">&#8220;A new message to the fleet that will detail the steps for reporting is in draft,&#8221; the statement added.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">Politico was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2019\/04\/23\/us-navy-guidelines-reporting-ufos-1375290\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">first to report <\/a>the development.<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DqJF6Nli5yg?feature=oembed&#038;wmode=opaque\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"el__embedded el__embedded--standard\">\n<div class=\"el__storyelement--standard el__article--embed\">\n<div class=\"media__caption el__storyelement__title\"><span class=\"el__storyelement__header\"><a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2018\/03\/12\/politics\/unidentified-aircraft-navy\/index.html\">Video shows Navy jet&#8217;s encounter with a UFO, group says<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">The Navy does not think that aliens have been flying in US airspace, one Navy official told CNN. But there have been &#8220;a number of reports of unauthorized and\/or unidentified aircraft entering various military-controlled ranges and designated air space in recent years,&#8221; according to the statement.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__read-all\">\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">&#8220;These kinds on incursions can be both a security risk and pose a safety hazard for both Navy and Air Force aviation. For safety and security concerns, the Navy and the USAF takes these reports very seriously and investigates each and every report.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">The new policy will standardize how incidents are reported, and what radar or other data may be gathered that the military can store long term for further analysis, the navy official said.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">Separately a senior military official told CNN that some of the recent sightings are highly classified military aviation programs undergoing testing in the western United States.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">Because the sightings have garnered public attention, senior Navy intelligence officials have briefed Congress, as well as aviators on the safety hazards.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">The Pentagon has intermittently over the decades funded various efforts to evaluate unexplained incursions and phenomena, but the last official effort was shuttered in 2012.<\/div>\n<div class=\"el__embedded el__embedded--standard\">\n<div class=\"el__storyelement--standard el__article--embed\">\n<div class=\"el__article--teaseimage\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2017\/12\/18\/politics\/luis-elizondo-ufo-pentagon\/index.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"media__image media__image--responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.cnn.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/171218181223-ufo-program-medium-plus-169.jpg\" alt=\"Former Pentagon UFO official: &amp;#39;We may not be alone&amp;#39;\" width=\"458\" height=\"221\" data-src-mini=\"\/\/cdn.cnn.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/171218181223-ufo-program-small-169.jpg\" data-src-xsmall=\"\/\/cdn.cnn.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/171218181223-ufo-program-medium-plus-169.jpg\" data-src-small=\"\/\/cdn.cnn.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/171218181223-ufo-program-large-169.jpg\" data-src-medium=\"\/\/cdn.cnn.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/171218181223-ufo-program-exlarge-169.jpg\" data-src-large=\"\/\/cdn.cnn.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/171218181223-ufo-program-super-169.jpg\" data-src-full16x9=\"\/\/cdn.cnn.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/171218181223-ufo-program-full-169.jpg\" data-src-mini1x1=\"\/\/cdn.cnn.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/171218181223-ufo-program-small-11.jpg\" data-demand-load=\"loaded\" data-eq-pts=\"mini: 0, xsmall: 221, small: 308, medium: 461, large: 781\" data-eq-state=\"mini xsmall\" data-src=\"\/\/cdn.cnn.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/171218181223-ufo-program-medium-plus-169.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"img__preloader\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"media__caption el__storyelement__title\"><span class=\"el__storyelement__header\"><a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2017\/12\/18\/politics\/luis-elizondo-ufo-pentagon\/index.html\">Former Pentagon UFO official: &#8216;We may not be alone&#8217;<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">A former Pentagon official, who led that program and resigned in protest when it was ended, told CNN&#8217;s Erin Burnett in 2017 &#8220;that there is very compelling evidence that we may not be alone.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">Luis Elizondo made clear he could not speak on behalf of the government, but strongly implied there was evidence that stopped him from ruling out the possibility that alien aircraft visited Earth.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">&#8220;These aircraft &#8212; we&#8217;ll call them aircraft &#8212; are displaying characteristics that are not currently within the US inventory nor in any foreign inventory that we are aware of,&#8221; Elizondo said of objects they researched.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">He said the program sought to identify what had been seen, either through tools or eyewitness reports, and then &#8220;ascertain and determine if that information is a potential threat to national security.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">&#8220;We found a lot,&#8221; Elizondo said.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">The former Pentagon official said they identified &#8220;anomalous&#8221; aircraft that were &#8220;seemingly defying the laws of aerodynamics.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">&#8220;Things that don&#8217;t have any obvious flight services, any obvious forms of propulsion, and maneuvering in ways that include extreme maneuverability beyond, I would submit, the healthy G-forces of a human or anything biological,&#8221; Elizondo said.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"metadata__byline\"><span class=\"metadata__byline__author\"><span class=\"metadata__source-name\"><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/\">CNN<\/a><\/span> By <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/profiles\/barbara-starr-profile\">Barbara Starr<\/a>, CNN Pentagon Correspondent \/\u00a0<\/span> April 24, 2019<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/twt-thumbs.washtimes.com\/media\/image\/2018\/12\/21\/persian_gulf_us_carrier_74944_s878x585.jpg?9739c089d09019457eff90957353d2bf131e7da7\" alt=\"A member of the flight crew of the USS John C. Stennis aircraft carrier walks past an F\/A-18 fighter jet on Friday, Dec. 21, 2018. The U.S. aircraft carrier sailed into the Persian Gulf on Friday, becoming the first since America&amp;#39;s withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal and breaking the longest carrier absence in the volatile region since at least the Sept. 11 terror attacks. (AP Photo\/Jon Gambrell)\" width=\"878\" height=\"585\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A member of the flight crew of the USS John C. Stennis aircraft carrier walks past an F\/A-18 fighter jet on Friday, Dec. 21, 2018. The U.S. aircraft carrier sailed into the Persian Gulf on Friday, becoming the first since America&#8217;s withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal and breaking the longest carrier absence in the volatile region since at least the Sept. 11 terror attacks. 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