Footage from an Army Apache Attack Helicopter taken during training in Arizona captured UAP in 2018. … [+]
Screenshot from US Army/YouTube/The Debrief
On November 6, 2018 the pilots of a U.S. Army AH-64 Apache attack helicopter were on a training flight in Arizona when they spotted three unidentified aerial phenomena, or UAP, making wild maneuvers in the sky not too far away and not particularly high in the sky.
At least that’s the narrative that accompanies the latest bit of what used to be called UFO footage published to YouTube Friday morning by the science, technology and defense website The Debrief, in conjunction with the opening of a UFO Disclosure Symposium taking place this weekend in Vernal, Utah.
The below short clip is taken from the vantage point of an airstrip on the desert floor looking upward where three objects can be seen moving across the sky at what looks like a fast clip.
“Are those three really fast flying jets up there?” one pilot says over the radio.
“Probably some A-10s or some F-16s,” another responds.
As they move, the three points of light appear to dance around each other in ways that would seem to defy known physics for a mechanical aircraft.
“The circle-dance maneuver is just not possible,” Former U.S. Air Force F-16 fighter pilot Chris Lehto told The DeBrief. “They do a full 360-degree turn in less than 3 seconds!”
“It’s just kind of willy nilly flying around,” said Lehto. “It just kind of gives me more of an organic rather than mechanical feeling.”
Noted UFO skeptic Mick West also does not get a mechanical feeling from watching the video.
“You don’t even need analysis here. Just look at the original video. It simply looks like birds,” West wrote on Twitter.
The release comes on the heels of the first congressional hearing on UAP / UFO in half a century. The Pentagon is setting up a new office to collect and analyze UAP reports and defense officials told a House committee earlier this month that they are working to reduce the stigma around such sightings and those who report them.
At the same hearing, Deputy Director of Navy Intelligence Scott Bray shared clips of two new UAP sightings and explained how analysis of one points to a technical explanation that caused drones to appear as odd triangle shapes when viewed through a SLR camera attached to night vision equipment.
