PENTAGON HAS FOOTAGE OF TWO UFO'S SHADOWING US WARSHIP

THE PENTAGON has another sensational UFO video taken from the deck of a US warship showing two car-sized ball of light objects.

Footage is said to have been filmed by crew aboard the USS Kearsarge of the strange encounter - but it has now been locked away and marked as classified.

Documentary filmmaker Dave C. Beaty - who produced 2019 film The Nimitz Encounters about the famous 2004 US Navy encounter with the "Tic Tac" object - said he understands the video exists.

It comes as US military begins to open up about the phenomena which is now being openly discussed by military insiders and politicians.

Mr Beaty revealed details of the USS Kearsarge's encounter earlier this month as it becomes the latest warship to have been shadowed by UFOs.

The phenomena - described by sources familiar with the encounter as odd and menacing "balls of light" - are said to have been following around half a mile behind the ship and around 200 feet above the ocean in October 2021.

Mr Beaty said the US Marines who sighted the objects filed a report on the incident with the Department of Defence.

The report included a video - but that report and footage is now understand to have been marked as classified.

It shows that while many in the US are attempting to be more open about subject - there still remains a veil of secrecy around the issue, with some well placed civil servants opting to be more bureaucratic than others.

The US Navy officially updated its UFO reporting guidelines in 2019 as it sought to "update and formalise" the process.

It is understood a message to the fleet was sent out detailing these new instructions and procedures.

UFOs are now more commonly referred to as UAPs - unidentified aerial phenomena.

Documents released this week explained the change, telling the US Navy's press office to explicitly not use the term UFO.

"The latter term is intrinsically linked to the concept of extra-terrestrials and the associated hysteria generated by the media that cover this topic," it reads.

Much of the US's renewed efforts over UAP sightings has been an apparent effort to seemingly focus the reporting process.

The UAP report released last summer said that "efforts are underway to standardize incident reporting across the US military services and other government agencies".

But it is understood however that UAP reports remain filed as classified.

And this is something which frustrates many who call for more openness in the investigation of the topic, including open up the files so they can be studied by the scientific community.

USS Kearsarge had been training at the time ahead of an overseas deployment - including with systems designed to take down enemy drones.

The weapons included anti-drone "Ghostbusters" style backpacks, and systems mounted on vehicles.

Pictures from the ship's public Facebook page reveal they had these capabilities onboard at the time of the encounter.

The objects are said to have been spotted by the deck-watch at night - who could not gain a thermal targeting lock on them.

They're not ours

Marines onboard are said to have believed at first that the UFO's were part of a surprise training exercise for the new anti-drone weapons. However, they discovered the countermeasures did not disrupt the objects - which were doing swooping manoeuvres as they followed the ship. Mark told Mr Beaty that the USS Kearsarge radioed command about the objects and were shockingly informed that the objects were "not ours".

Marines pictured aboard USS Kearsarge at time of the encounter

Mr Beaty previously revealed deck logs that confirmed a UFO encounter by the USS Kidd - when the destroyer was swarmed by at least four unexplained objects in July of 2019.

And there has been a step change in recent years, after the viral trio of US Navy UFO videos, the "Gimbal", "Go Fast", and "Tic Tac".

The footage stunned people around the world and remains unexplained to this day - sparking a new, more mainstream, interest in UFOs.

US officials have now set up a new office in the Pentagon - putting an official reporting structure in place for UFO encounters for the first time in decades.

It came after a landmark report on the subject was released last summer - confirming dozens of unexplained encounters, now officially referred to as Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAPs).

Defence insiders, intelligence officials, senators and former presidents have all gone on record admitting there is an unexplained "something" in our skies.

And it comes after the Pentagon released 1,574 pages of documents related to its UFO programme.

The documents were government commissioned scientific reports and letters to the Pentagon regarding the UFO programme it claims is now shut down.

The haul includes reports into research on the biological effects of UFO sightings on humans, sets out categorisations for paranormal experiences, and studies into sci-fi-style tech.