Former Navy Lieutenant Claims Pilots Observed UFOs Everyday For Years

"There's something out there - that's better than our airplane." - Former Navy Pilot Lt. Ryan Graves says as yet another leaked video is verified by the government.

May 17, 2021

Photo of a UAP over the Atlantic in 2019 [Screenshot from 60 Minutes YouTube]

Photo of a UAP over the Atlantic in 2019 [Screenshot from 60 Minutes YouTube]

During a recent 60 Minutes interview broadcast former U.S. Navy pilot Lt. Ryan Graves claimed that he and fellow pilots flying in restricted airspace southeast of Virginia Beach,VA observed UFOs, or Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP), "every day for at least a couple of years" after their aircraft had been updated with more advanced radars in 2014. Graves said these UAPs, which they saw "all the time" can only be one of three things: secret US technology, an adversary's spy vehicle(s), or something otherworldly.

According to Luis Alizondo, who conducted military intelligence operations worldwide until he joined the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) at the Pentagon, the assessment of these objects being otherworldly is both compelling and problematic. The AATIP was created in 2008 with a budget of $22M and a "grudging acknowledgement" from authorities that these potential threats to national security warranted more scrutiny. Alizondo joined a team comprised of scientists, electro-optical engineers and avionics and intelligence experts to collect and review data related to "anomalous aerial vehicles."

Says Alizondo, "In some cases there are simple explanations for what people are witnessing, but there are some that, that are not."

Conversation and buzz surrounding the existence of UFOs has ramped up recently as we approach the June deadline for the release of a highly anticipated unclassified "detailed analysis" by the Director of National Intelligence and the Pentagon to be provided to Congress, and as leaked, verified video of UAPs are being released to media outlets "drip by drip" (as predicted by UFO Witness host Ben Hansen).

The latest leak, from this afternoon, and verified by the Pentagon, shows a UFO aparently splashing into the sea and submerging itself. The video, taken by a stealth Navy ship off the coast of San Diego (scene of the famous 2004 USS Nimitz Carrier group sightings) was provided by documentary filmmaker Jeremy Corbell, who last month shared a headline-grabbing video of pyramid-shaped UAPs.

Said Alizondo, "the government has already stated that they're real." The question is, now that we know the footage is real, are these objects otherworldly?

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