New video of unidentified flying object recorded near California released

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[00:00 - 00:05] Welcome back and guess what? There is some brand new UAP video that just dropped, possibly shot
[00:05 - 00:10] from a Navy ship once again off the coast of Southern California, which for some reason
[00:10 - 00:17] like has been this very, very weird hotspot for all kinds of unidentified flying objects that
[00:17 - 00:22] don't seem to care that there are all kinds of Navy warships that are out there training.
[00:22 - 00:29] Now, quick refresh about why this area matters so much. 2004, we've all seen this video that was
[00:30 - 00:36] showing what was described by Navy pilots flying off the USS Nimitz as a white tic-tac that was
[00:36 - 00:43] zooming around in ways and speeds they just could not explain. In 2019, sailors on the USS Russell
[00:43 - 00:49] again off the coast of San Diego, seeing what they described in night vision goggles as upside
[00:49 - 00:56] down pyramids. And then brings us to today, this new infrared video just released by documentary
[00:56 - 00:59] filmmaker Jeremy Korbel showing what he says was an
[00:59 - 01:05] incident on the USS Jackson. It's one of these littoral ships, one of the highest tech ships
[01:05 - 01:10] that we have in our arsenal. And according to Corbell, Navy sailors were actively tracking
[01:10 - 01:18] one of four unknown objects observed going in and out of the water. No heat plumes, no exhaust,
[01:18 - 01:22] nothing. And here is how one of the witnesses on board the ship described it.
[01:22 - 01:31] I go out to the bridge wing. I'm noticing things and lights on the horizon and like city lights or
[01:31 - 01:39] any other ships that are out there. So seeing a light that is lifting up, you can see it. I know
[01:39 - 01:43] the difference between a light on the horizon coming up and a light coming out of the water.
[01:43 - 01:48] I just, when you've been on the water more in your life than you haven't been, you know the difference.
[01:49 - 01:51] Now let's get into it with Jeremy Corbell,
[01:51 - 01:52] one of the hosts of the show.
[01:52 - 01:58] Welcome back with Jeremy. Thanks so much for being with us. I'm so glad you talked to that
[01:58 - 02:04] sailor because it gives us so much more context. Like the videos, they're very important and yet
[02:04 - 02:09] they don't show that much. So real fast, walk us through what this video shows because if you look
[02:09 - 02:13] very closely, it looks like the targeting is trying to lock in, right?
[02:16 - 02:21] That's right. So George Knapp and I, with our journalism, we always try to, if we obtain
[02:21 - 02:30] military filmed footage of UAP or UFOs, which this is, we try to get direct witness testimony to go with that.
[02:30 - 02:38] And in fact, these are senior ranking Navy officials. You know, they don't want to go by their full identity at this time, but they will at some point.
[02:38 - 02:43] They're in the Combat Information Center. They get this footage. It's FLIR, forward-looking infrared.
[02:43 - 02:51] So it's black and white. What you're supposed to be seeing, we don't see. We don't see tails. We don't see thermal plumes.
[02:51 - 02:55] We don't see any signature of a normal aircraft. So that's what makes this case fascinating.
[02:55 - 03:00] We have both witnesses coming forward as well as the hardcore data and evidence.
[03:01 - 03:08] And does that mean white is, black is hot there? Or what's the thermal imaging and like, why do we see that tic-tac shape?
[03:08 - 03:09] Sure.
[03:11 - 03:20] Yeah, so this isn't black hot. It can switch between the two. But what's really important about this is that the high ranking Navy official said, we saw one of these come up out of the water.
[03:20 - 03:21] We saw one of these come up out of the water.
[03:21 - 03:21] We saw one of these come up out of the water.
[03:21 - 03:28] We then went to radar and we saw four of them. We then took our thermal cameras and we looked at one.
[03:28 - 03:32] And when you look at a plane, it looks like a plane. This doesn't look like a plane.
[03:32 - 03:39] In fact, it looks like the tic-tac from 2004 where Commander David Fravor chased a UFO from the United States military.
[03:39 - 03:45] So look, it's tracked on radar. It's tracked on FLIR. We're lucky to have some of this footage that you're able to see now.
[03:45 - 03:51] But what you're not seeing, Gadi, is you're not seeing the typical signatures you'd see on an aircraft.
[03:51 - 03:55] There's a very unique propulsion system. It appears from this footage.
[03:55 - 03:59] And again, people have come forward and risked to bring this footage to me and George Knapp.
[03:59 - 04:04] And as journalists, we have a duty to put it out after investigating it. I'm glad that it's out now.
[04:05 - 04:11] Yeah, and I'm glad you're putting it out too. And again, you know, we are lucky to see those images.
[04:11 - 04:14] But what happens all the way before that is what's really important.
[04:14 - 04:20] And I mean, if you get a chance, go back and listen to what Commander Fravor said about what happened back in 2004. It opens your eyes.
[04:21 - 04:27] But Jeremy, I know you've been pushing for government disclosure on all this like harder than anybody else I know.
[04:27 - 04:31] This administration seemed to suggest that they were going to get to the bottom of it.
[04:31 - 04:36] And yet, like so far, we are pretty well into this.
[04:36 - 04:44] Why aren't we seeing like more tangible evidence from people that aren't just coming forward, scared to lose their jobs and scared to lose their livelihoods?
[04:44 - 04:48] Like, why don't you think we're seeing like the government say this is what's going on?
[04:51 - 04:54] Yeah, well, that's changing easy way or hard way.
[04:54 - 05:05] As you know, from the last hearing, when I brought the Immaculate Constellation information to Congress, we learned that there are thousands of high quality videos that the public has not seen of UFOs.
[05:05 - 05:08] The dam is breaking. People are coming forward.
[05:08 - 05:12] And I've actually, George Knapp and I have already recorded with some of these whistleblowers.
[05:12 - 05:15] So we know that footage is coming out, those interviews.
[05:15 - 05:19] So I think it's just a matter of time that we're going to get more information on this.
[05:19 - 05:20] Look, it's a long haul thing.
[05:21 - 05:23] UFOs have been taboo for so long.
[05:23 - 05:27] It's now admitted that they're flying with impunity within our restricted airspace.
[05:27 - 05:36] And we have footage, footage like this military filmed UAP from a Navy warship in a critical area just off the coast of California.
[05:36 - 05:37] It's going to take time.
[05:37 - 05:38] But, you know, you've got to be optimistic.
[05:38 - 05:41] You've got to keep fighting easy way or hard way.
[05:41 - 05:44] And this is going to come out.
[05:44 - 05:48] Yeah, I can't wait to know what is going off the coast of California here.
[05:48 - 05:50] I mean, this is a very weird hotspot.
[05:50 - 05:53] Well, we'll leave it at that.
[05:53 - 05:55] A special thanks to our host, Dr. Dave Corbell.
[05:55 - 05:57] Just another video that you have now released to the public.
[05:57 - 05:58] We really appreciate you covering all this for us.
[05:58 - 05:59] Thanks for watching.
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