Documentary filmmaker Jeremy Corbell says that crew from US Navy ships have told him the swarms of ‘at least 100’ UFOs possessed unexplainable capabilities far beyond traditional drones.
According to Corbell’s sources and the Navy’s own documents released under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), these craft’s capabilities included hovering at altitudes of up to 21,000ft, flying for more than four hours, traveling long distances in one flight, and being apparently impervious to anti-drone Navy technology.
The Navy documents show the freight ship, Bass Strait, was docked in Long Beach, California, about 100 miles away when some of the incidents occurred – making Corbell’s contacts skeptical it could have been the source of the swarm.
Corbell paraphrased one witness on the destroyer the USS Russell who he claims told him they saw one of the craft ‘accelerate instantaneously into the upper atmosphere’, and that other sources with knowledge of the case said the objects were detected moving from the air into the sea.
One of the biggest mysteries about the ‘drones’ is how they were able to hold enough power to fly for so long, high, fast and far.
A crewman with direct knowledge of the case called the incident ‘world-changing.’ ‘We don’t yet have enough information to say whether this is man-made technology or not,’ the Naval officer said. ‘But the amazing energy capacity of these craft is world-changing regardless.’
Navy 2019 West Coast UAP Video – Officially Released by the DoD 5/17/2022
Navy briefing documents released under FOIA and published this month by defense news site The Drive detail eight incidents where ‘unmanned aerial systems’ (UAS) swarmed five warships in the Pacific Ocean off the Southern California coast. The incidents occurred on four days between July 15 and July 30.
The Drive concludes that after intense public speculation, stacks of official documents obtained via the Freedom Of Information Act, ambiguous statements from top officials, and an avalanche of media attention, it has now been made clear that the mysterious swarming of U.S. Navy ships off the Southern California coast in 2019 was caused by drones, not otherworldly UFOs or other mysterious craft. Raising even more questions, a similar drone swarm event has occurred off another coast, as well. These revelations came from top Department of Defense officials during a recent and much-anticipated house hearing on UFOs, which you can read all about here.
The strange series of events in question unfolded around California’s Channel Islands in July of 2019. On multiple evenings, swarms of unidentified drones were spotted operating around U.S. Navy vessels. In numerous instances, the drones flew within close proximity to ships, even crossing directly over their decks. The behavior provoked defensive reactions from the ships, including the deployment of emergency security teams and, in later instances, radio frequency-based counter-drone technology. Early investigations into the incidents by Navy intelligence and the Federal Bureau of Investigation surfaced few answers and appeared to fade away without any firm conclusions.
On May 17, more than a year after the story broke, the Department of Defense and Navy further clarified that the objects in these incidents were in fact drones in the aforementioned House of Representatives Intelligence, Counterterrorism, Counterintelligence, and Counterproliferation Subcommittee hearing.
Scott Bray, deputy director of Naval Intelligence, played a video of one of the 2019 incidents in his opening remarks as an example of a solved UAP case. Mr. Bray explained that the footage from the 2019 event was “unresolved for several years.” After an entirely separate series of drone swarm events occurred “off a different coast,” the Navy was able to compare night vision footage and other data to determine that both incidents were caused by drones. Bray characterized their level of certainty as “reasonably confident,” and explained in later testimony that the group in charge of investigating the event was aware of studies that had replicated the relevant conditions.
Bray stated that the aperture mechanism of the night vision scope created an optical effect responsible for the triangular appearance of the drones. Similar conclusions were reached by civilians shortly after the video was first leaked, notably by Mick West, who frequently analyzes purported UFO cases.
Sources: The Drive; Daily Mail