They revealed details of the statement to the US Congress of the pilot who filmed the famous UFO 'Gimbal'

The F-18 pilot who filmed a famous UFO encounter in 2015 known as “Gimbal” handed over secret evidence to the US Congress and explained that he initially thought the flying object was part of training and fixed it as an adversary.

In new documents published by The Black Vault, a government information repository related to UFOs, revealed that in 2019 the pilot responsible for the “Gimbal” sighting off the coast near Jacksonville, Florida, gave the US Senate details about the “unexplained air phenomenon”.

The Navy prefers to call the objects seen in the videos 'unexplained aerial phenomena (UAP), rather than the more commonly used 'unidentified flying object' (UFO).

The naval pilot who encountered the 'Gimbal' told the senators that he initially believed the aircraft was part of a training exercise and looked at it as an adversary.

“Towards the end of one of the (drafted) night flights he was carrying out during the period at sea, he and his pilot detected an air contact route (redacted) coming from the east and heading towards the ship. Initially thinking that it could be a simulated advisory aircraft and part of the COMPTUEX scenario, it took a blockade (redacted) to investigate further,” the documents say.

“The contact was approximately (redacted) with a stable tracking file, the tow plane determined that it was not a 'false hit' and they were able to obtain a blockade through the (redacted) which further indicated that the vehicle had a (redacted) It became clear through (redacted) that the pilot maneuvered the (redacted) to maintain (redacted) ),” the documents added.

The new documents, heavily written and with information still classified, provide more context to additional images and photographs taken by US Navy pilots between mid-2014 and March 2015, which were declassified three years ago, which aroused widespread public interest in the phenomenon.

One of the videos was shot in November 2004; the other two were filmed in January 2015. All three videos were codenamed 'FLIR1′, 'Gimbal' and 'GoFast'.

In the 2015 videos, Navy pilots can be heard expressing disbelief. All three UFO videos were captured by Navy F/A-18 Super Hornets.

The videos were made public and published thanks to the efforts of the New York Times, as well as the efforts of To The Stars Academy, which was founded by Tom Delonge, the founder and lead vocalist of the bands Blink-182 and Angels & Airwaves.

Recently released documents also indicate that staff members were very receptive to the account of the pilot's events.

“The overall atmosphere at this meeting was very professional, the professional staff members were really interested in their account of what happened during the detection of the aerial vehicle in (redacted). They continue to show interest in learning more about this type of detection, and they are curious to know what path the Navy intends to take,” the documents say.

Two other naval officers who did not have first-hand encounters with UFOs also offered their knowledge to members of the Senate.

“In addition, two ONI naval officers (drafted) also attended this brief. Both have been part of squadrons based on NAS Oceana. Although they did not give first-hand accounts of the detection of anomalous aerial vehicles, they were very familiar with the events and the PSM asked them several times about what they observed and what they learned,” adds one of the documents.

In December 2020, it became known that two Pentagon reports had occurred, which provided detailed classified information on strange sightings.

The Department of Defense's Task Force on Unidentified Aerial Events issued the two classified intelligence “position reports” in 2018 and the summer of 2020, and were widely circulated in the US intelligence community, according to a detailed report by The Debrief based on interviews with multiple sources of intelligence.

The surprising contents of the position reports included a leaked photo that had never been made public before, accounts of 'Unidentified Aerial Phenomena' (UAP) emerging from the ocean and rising through the sky, and an admission that the extraterrestrial origins of objects cannot be ruled out.

The leaked photo was captured in 2018 off the east coast of the United States by a military pilot using his cell phone camera, the sources said.

The photo was previously described as the depiction of a “silver object” in the shape of an “unidentified” cube that hovers over the ocean at an altitude of approximately 30,000 to 35,000 feet.

It looks like the image was captured by the backseat weapons systems operator of what appears to be an F/A-18 fighter jet.

Experts were puzzled by the photo, but noticed that the object looks a bit like a GPS probe, an atmospheric profiling device designed to be thrown from an airplane, usually over a hurricane.

“These revelations are extraordinary and give the public a genuine look behind the curtain when it comes to how the US government is handling the issue of UFOs,” Nick Pope, who researched UFOs for the UK Ministry of Defense, told Daily Mail.

“What this new information does is confirm that the US government is taking the UFO phenomenon more seriously than ever,” he added.

The Pentagon has not confirmed the existence of the two position reports, as well as the authenticity of a leaked cabin photo included in one of the reports.

Even more shocking were the revelations contained in a second revised report that was issued by the Task Force on Unidentified Aerial Events in early 2020.

The report delved into the possibility that UAPs can move freely both in the air and under water, crossing the ocean undetected and emerging into the air at incredible speeds.

The report contained an “extremely clear” photograph of an unidentifiable triangular aircraft that emerged from the ocean in front of an F/A-18 Hornet fighter pilot, sources told The Debrief.

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