Case file · Official inquiry
Navy updates its UAP reporting guidance
In 2019 the US Navy announced new procedures so that pilots could formally report unexplained aerial observations.
2019 CE · 38.87, -77.06 · status: official
The account
After congressional intelligence briefings, the Navy said it had issued updated guidance on reporting suspected intrusions into military airspace, noting that such incidents had been occurring regularly since 2014. In September 2019 a Pentagon spokesperson also confirmed that the leaked videos had been made by naval aviators. Removing the stigma from reporting became the basis for the later UAP Task Force and AARO.
The sceptical view
The Navy itself suggested that the growing number of cheap drones could explain many of the intrusions.
Connections in the atlas
- East Coast Navy encounters
- UAP Task Force
- Pentagon officially releases the three Navy videos
- AARO established