A previously shared video from the U.S. Navy showed four “tic-tac-shaped” objects emerging from the water before flying away. The U.S. Navy has acknowledged that its personnel have witnessed things that can’t be explained, but sailors “may not want to make waves” and testify.
The mystery of the unmanned aerial systems (UAS) spotted in the skies over New Jersey last year has been attributed to commercial, hobbyist, and law enforcement drones. Misidentified manned aircraft, helicopters, and even stars were also likely culprits. The sightings created a form of mini-hysteria as many looked to the skies over the Garden State.
The FAA has further confirmed that some sightings were likely previously undisclosed research drones. Whether the disclosure puts the matter to rest is unlikely, as there will always be those who believe they saw something unexplainable in the night sky.
Another mystery is gaining traction again, one related to a potential mystery of the deep. That situation is even more complex, as a video captured by United States Navy sailors two years ago is making the rounds online, and there may be no easy answers.
A previously shared video showed four “tic-tac-shaped” objects emerging from the water before flying away. There was no conclusive explanation previously, and we’re surprisingly no closer to determining what the objects may be, even as it was widely seen.
Documentary filmmaker Jeremy Corbell suggested that additional individuals who witness such unexplained phenomena firsthand may be reluctant to come forward.
“It’s a long-haul thing. UFOs have been taboo for so long. It’s now admitted they’re flying without impunity in a restricted airspace, and we have footage like this. Military footage of an unidentified anomalous phenomenon (UAP) from a Navy warship in a critical area, just off the coast of California. It’s gonna take time,” Corbell told NBC News.
Did U.S. Navy Sailors See UAPs Flying at Sea?
Several sailors who served aboard the Independence-class littoral combat ship (LCS) USS Jackson had previously claimed to have witnessed the incident with the objects in 2023. It was just the latest unexplained incident of such objects, with other reports occurring in 2004 and then again in 2019.
The USS Jackson’s Senior Chief Operations Specialist Alexandro Wiggins, a twenty-three-year veteran of the U.S. Navy and a radar expert, recently came forward to offer a few new details about what he saw off the California coast during his shift in the combat information center (CIC). After an object appeared on the screens, Wiggins went to get a closer look.
“To my surprise, which is something I’ve never witnessed, was a light I noticed on the horizon, it looked as if it were surfacing out of the water and going up,” Wiggins explained to 8 News Now.
“We only saw the one, and then we saw the second one. It was only when we zoom out that we realize, holy crap, there’s two more out here, a total of four.”
He added that after returning to the CIC, he employed the ship’s SAFIRE thermal imaging sensor to acquire and track a target. The objects displayed no exhaust signature and produced no thermal trail.
However, Wiggins claimed, no formal incident report was filed because the objects remained at a safe distance and weren’t seen as a threat to the ship.
“I am skeptical about what I saw that day,” Wiggins continued. “Maybe one day I’ll know what that was, and I’ll be like eighty or ninety years old, and it’ll be normalized like… the stealth fighter or Area 51. It’ll be public at some point, but then I’ll be old.”
It may take more witnesses to come forward, but as Corbell noted, sailors may not want to make waves. In the meantime, the U.S. Navy has acknowledged that its personnel have witnessed things that can’t be explained. Is it a top-secret drone program being developed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), an enemy surveillance program, or something else?
Time may tell.
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