In 2020, an international service shared these videos captured in 2015 by U.S. Navy pilots watching a UAP. The military only formally released the video in April of 2020.

In 2015, U.S. Navy pilots were flying training missions off the U.S. East Coast when they spied something highly unusual. An oval-shaped object appeared to skim across the top of the water. It moved at incredibly high speed and seemed to be rotating as it flew. Soon, the pilots realized there seemed to be many of them and started commenting to each other about what they were seeing.

“There’s a whole fleet of them.”

“My gosh.”

“Look at that thing, dude!”

“Wow. What is that, man? Look at it flying!”

Pilots had seen similar objects almost daily for months. These didn’t look like typical aircraft. They had no visible engines. They didn’t seem to give off exhaust. And they didn’t just skim the sea. Some appeared 30,000 feet (more than 9 kilometers) in the air and moved at supersonic speeds.

In recent years, these and other very credible sources have reported seeing UFOs — unidentified flying objects. Now they’re called Unexplained Aerial Phenomena, or UAP. But whatever you call them, the U.S. government has lately begun taking these mystery objects seriously. Very seriously. And it’s recruited a lot of scientists to investigate what’s behind them (albeit quietly).