Navy UFO Sightings: A False Message

The International Raelian Movement (IRM) is trying again to ride on the coattails of the recent UFO hype stirred up by mainstream media.

On May 30, 2019, IRM published a press release about a recent New York Times' article spotlighting a US Navy's F/A-18 Super Hornet pilot, Lt. Ryan Graves, who reported observing UFOs. Pilots from the aircraft carrier Roosevelt made repeated observations of strange objects like a "spinning top'' surrounded by a "glowing aura" flying over the East Coast that could allegedly fly at hypersonic speeds, make swift stops and turns, reach 30,000 feet in altitude, and fly all day long without apparent engine or exhaust plumes. According to them, such technology assembled in one craft simply doesn’t yet exist, implying the objects were alien spacecrafts.

An infrared (ATFLIR) video taken on January 20, 2015, was released by the US Defense Department's secretive Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program [1] in late 2017 that seems to back up the anecdotal claims made by Lt. Graves above. The New York Times ran an article about it at that time written by the same authors. The video in question is being widely circulated with the title GIMBAL since the infrared camera was mounted on a gimbal pod that can rotate in any direction.

It isn't apparent whether Lt. Graves was one of the pilots in the video. The conversation heard in the video is very casual and does not use military protocol, indicating that it might have been taken during a training exercise for rookies. The transcript attached to the video opens with, "It's a fucking drone, bro!" followed with "There's a whole fleet of them! Look on the ASA." At one point, one of them says, "It's rotating!"

After a thorough investigation by Metabunk, it was concluded that the object is most probably another jet (or, drone). The apparent "glowing spinning top" was due to the long distance and infrared glare caused by a twin jet engine. The rotation is consistent with how spikes in a glare artifact would rotate when viewed by a gimbal FLIR camera following a curved trajectory.

There are no other visual evidence that corroborates the fantastic claims made by Lt. Graves except for another video that was released shortly after the GIMBAL video titled GO FAST. In it, we can just observe a small dot darting in a straight line showing nothing significant or unearthly. It's likely it's a balloon rather than a jet plane, since it doesn't have a heat signature. Again, the conversation heard does not maintain military protocol and is very casual.

Thrown into the mix of this naval UFO hype is yet another video titled FLIR1 taken way back in 2004 using a similar infrared camera setup. It's known as the USS Nimitz UFO incident. The Washington Post published an article about it just days after the New York Times first broke the news about the black project in late 2017. Cmdr. David Fravor claimed in an interview with Fox News he saw a flying object about the size of his plane that looked like a Tic Tac after a break in a routine training mission. The object moved rapidly and unlike any other thing he had ever seen in the air. Apparently, Cmdr. Fravor's account was just a recollection of the incident and that he wasn't the one who had taken the video.

Again, Metabunk did a thorough investigation and concluded that the footage is consistent with a distant jet plane flying away from the camera. At the end of the video it gently drifts off to the left, either making a turn or due to the camera lock drifting. A sudden jump between 1x and 2x zoom makes this look vastly more dramatic than it actually is.

The Raelian press release tries to insinuate that alien spacecrafts deliberately showed themselves to these naval pilots in order to bring to them a "message of peace" before they were deployed to the Persian Gulf to drop bombs over Syria and Iraq.

In reality, IRM is just taking advantage of the media hype related to UFO sightings (as they always do) to advance their belief that aliens called the Elohim of the Bible scientifically created all life on Earth and that they would appear more and more in our skies in order to increase awareness and facilitate their ongoing efforts of promoting an official encounter at an Embassy dedicated to welcoming them officially. Fortunately, these UFO sightings eventually generate more conventional evidence that show the objects to be misidentified normal aerial phenomena. UFOs do not automatically equate to alien spacecraft.

Advocatus Diaboli

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[1] Apparently the ex-chief of the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, Luis Elizondo, resigned from the Pentagon in October 2017. Subsequently, he joined this organization created in 2015 by musician, Tom DeLonge, "To the Stars Academy of Arts & Sciences". The government black project lost funding in 2012 (but is still apparently operational), and this new venture may have had the potential of becoming a lucrative option for Elizondo and other retired people of the Department of Defense to get behind and "disclose" the officially released videos. This video outlines the connection between the Elizondo and DeLonge.