Pentagon's Official GoFast Release, April 2020
DoD Official Release of Three Unclassified Navy UAP Videos (FLIR1, GIMBAL, GOFAST). GoFast.webm
The GoFast video is one of three Navy infrared UAP recordings formally declassified and released by the Pentagon on 27 April 2020; the objects depicted remain officially unidentified.
Brief
On 27 April 2020, the U.S. Department of Defense released three Navy infrared videos, FLIR1 (captured 2004) and GIMBAL and GOFAST (both 2015), marking the first time the footage was formally declassified rather than merely leaked. The Pentagon stated the release would not compromise sensitive collection capabilities. All three objects remain unidentified by official designation. GoFast is the designation for the 2015 footage showing a fast-moving low-altitude object tracked by a Navy aircrew.
Metadata
- Agency
- U.S. Department of Defense / Naval Air Systems Command
- Release
- 2020-04-27
- Type
- VIDEO • .webm
- Length
- 19.0 M
- Classification
- UNCLASSIFIED
- Tags
- GOFAST, GIMBAL, FLIR1, infrared video, Navy, 2015, 2004, low-altitude, fast-moving
Key points
- The DoD formally declassified three Navy infrared UAP videos on 27 April 2020, distinguishing official release from the earlier unauthorized leak.
- GOFAST was captured in 2015, two years before the New York Times story that first brought the footage to wide public attention.
- The Pentagon explicitly stated that release of the videos would not reveal sensitive capabilities or systems.
- All three objects, FLIR1, GIMBAL, and GOFAST, remain unidentified in the official record at time of release.
- Naval Air Systems Command is listed as a producing agency alongside the broader DoD, indicating involvement of the acquisition and systems command rather than only fleet intelligence.
Most interesting
- GoFast is unusual among the three videos in that the object appears to be flying at very low altitude and high speed relative to the ocean surface, making conventional atmospheric explanations harder to sustain.
- All three videos were originally leaked to journalist Leslie Kean and published by the New York Times and To The Stars Academy in 2017; the 2020 DoD release retroactively legitimized footage that had already been public for three years.
- The simultaneous release of all three under a single DoD statement was itself unprecedented, no prior official acknowledgment had covered multiple UAP sensor recordings in a single action.
- The DoD statement's phrasing that objects 'remain unidentified' carries deliberate weight: it is not a denial, not an attribution to foreign technology, and not a dismissal.