DISCLOSURE / FILE
Navy FLIR cockpit-camera video released through To The Stars Academy alongside the December 2017 New York Times AATIP exposé, the first of three declassified clips (FLIR1, GIMBAL, GOFAST) documenting naval aviator encounters in 2004 and 2015.
To The Stars Academy / New York Times UAP Video Release, FLIR1, GIMBAL, GOFAST, FLIR1_Official_UAP_Footage_from_the_USG_for_Public_Release.webm
Navy FLIR cockpit-camera video released through To The Stars Academy alongside the December 2017 New York Times AATIP exposé, the first of three declassified clips (FLIR1, GIMBAL, GOFAST) documenting naval aviator encounters in 2004 and 2015.
The file is the FLIR1 forward-looking infrared clip captured by an F/A-18 Super Hornet ATFLIR pod, distributed publicly on December 16, 2017 as one of three Navy videos paired with the New York Times reporting on the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP). The video is image-only with no extractable transcript text, so claims here are limited to what the war.gov listing and release context assert. The release is associated with the 2004 USS Nimitz encounter (FLIR1) and the 2015 USS Theodore Roosevelt encounters (GIMBAL, GOFAST). The accompanying Times article identified Luis Elizondo as the former Pentagon official who ran AATIP and characterized the clips as official footage cleared for public release.