The Navy won't release the footage publicly because it would hurt national security.
The admission came in response to a Freedom of Information Act request filed by the government transparency site The Black Vault, which has previously shared thousands of pages of UFO-related documents. One day after the Navy declassified three now-infamous videos shot by Navy pilots showing high-tech aircraft moving in seemingly impossible ways, the Black Vault filed a Freedom of Information Act request. The Navy was asked to turn over any and all videos related to UAP.
The government denied the request to turn over the UAP videos due to national security concerns after more than two years.
The release of this information will harm national security as it may provide adversaries valuable information regarding Department of Defense/Navy operations, vulnerabilities, and/or capabilities. The portions of the videos that can't be separated can't be released.
The Navy was able to declassify the UAP videos because they had been leaked to the media and had already been discussed in the public domain. The footage could be released without further damage to national security according to the Navy.
The Navy did not try to hide the existence of additional UAP videos. There are more unexplained encounters in the Navy's archives, but they don't know how many or what they depict.
The US military takes the threat of UAP very seriously. The DOD held its first public hearing on unexplained phenomena in over 50 years. The hearing focused on a June 2021 Pentagon report that showed U.S. Navy pilots had reported over 100 UAPs. The DOD will receive federal funding to open a new office focused on managing reports of unexplained flying objects in the U.S. military.
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