{"id":56123,"date":"2018-03-12T11:17:29","date_gmt":"2018-03-12T06:17:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=56123"},"modified":"2018-03-12T11:17:29","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T06:17:29","slug":"footage-of-mysterious-object-above-ocean-stuns-military-personnel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=56123","title":{"rendered":"Footage of mysterious object above ocean stuns military\u00a0personnel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>New York March 12 (TNS):<\/strong>\u00a0Newly-released video of a mysterious object streaking over the Atlantic Ocean shows the Pentagon needs to take UFOs seriously, a researcher says.<\/p>\n<p>The sensational two-minute clip captured by a camera aboard a US Navy F\/A 18 jet flying at 25,000 feet wowed military personnel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat the f\u2014 is that thing?\u201d shouted the pilot in the video posted online by the To the Stars Academy of Arts and Science, a private research company.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh my gosh dude!\u201d exclaimed the jet\u2019s weapons systems officer.<\/p>\n<p>The video was shot off the East Coast in 2015. To the Stars Academy did not say how it obtained the declassified footage, but said others could obtain it through a Freedom of Information Act request.<\/p>\n<p>Three videos showing similar incidents became public last year in\u00a0reports of $22 million in Pentagon spending on UFO research.<\/p>\n<p>The videos, along with observations by pilots and radar operators, \u201cappear to provide evidence of the existence of aircraft far superior to anything possessed by the United States or its allies,\u201d writes Christopher Mellon, a former defense official in the George W. Bush and Clinton administrations and an adviser to To the Stars Academy.<\/p>\n<p>In a\u00a0Washington Post op-ed, Mellon reasoned that if the origin of these aircraft is a mystery, \u201cso is the paralysis of the US government in the face of such evidence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mellon, who served as an intelligence official for the Clinton and George W. Bush administrations, charged that military and department agencies \u201ctreat such incidents as isolated events rather than as part of a pattern requiring serious attention and investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mellon compared the government\u2019s current approach to UFOs to the counterterrorism efforts of the CIA and the FBI prior to 9\/11.<\/p>\n<p>He wondered if the US has been \u201ctechnologically leap-frogged by Russia or China\u201d or might these videos \u201cbe evidence of some alien civilization. Unfortunately, we have no idea, because we aren\u2019t even seeking answers.\u201d <strong><em>Courtesy Yahoo<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York March 12 (TNS):\u00a0Newly-released video of a mysterious object streaking over the Atlantic Ocean shows the Pentagon needs to take UFOs seriously, a researcher says. The sensational two-minute clip captured by a camera aboard a US Navy F\/A 18 jet flying at 25,000 feet wowed military personnel. \u201cWhat the f\u2014 is that thing?\u201d shouted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56124,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,488],"tags":[932],"class_list":["post-56123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","category-new-york","tag-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56123"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56125,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56123\/revisions\/56125"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/56124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}