Document · 27 April 2020
Statement by the Department of Defense on the Release of Historical Navy Videos (April 27, 2020)
The Pentagon's press statement of 27 April 2020 authorising the official release of the three Navy videos: FLIR1 (November 2004, Nimitz) and Gimbal and GoFast (January 2015, Theodore Roosevelt). The videos are hosted in the Naval Air Systems Command FOIA reading room. Our copy is a PDF capture of the release page on war.gov.
Sources: U.S. Department of Defense (2020)
Facts and claims
- documented The Department of Defense authorized the release of three unclassified Navy videos, "one taken in November 2004 and the other two in January 2015", which had circulated after unauthorized releases in 2007 and 2017. The Navy had already acknowledged that they were Navy videos. Source: doc-dod-statement-navy-videos-2020.pdf
- documented The department said the release does not reveal sensitive capabilities or systems or impinge on "any subsequent investigations of military air space incursions by unidentified aerial phenomena", and that "the aerial phenomena observed in the videos remain characterized as 'unidentified.'" Source: doc-dod-statement-navy-videos-2020.pdf
Connected files
Events
Incidents
- USS Nimitz “Tic Tac” encounter (documents)
- USS Theodore Roosevelt encounters (Gimbal / GoFast) (documents)
Organizations
- Department of War (Department of Defense) (published by)
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- AARO case resolution: "Go Fast" (2025)
- Fiscal Year 2025 Consolidated Annual Report on UAP (Department of War / AARO, July 2026)
- AARO case slides for the Senate Armed Services subcommittee (19 November 2024)
- Fiscal Year 2024 Consolidated Annual Report on UAP (DoD / AARO, November 2024)
- Fiscal Year 2023 Consolidated Annual Report on UAP (ODNI and DoD, October 2023)
- NASA Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Independent Study Team report (2023)