Top U.S. official: What's more advanced than China and Russia?

In recent years, there have been more and more incidents around the world about the discovery of unidentified flying objects (UFOs). The U.S. Department of Defense had previously disclosed a video confirming that the U.S. military had spotted UFOs and was conducting research on them. Recently, the U.S. media disclosed another video, saying that the U.S. Navy had spotted a UFO approaching U.S. warships and disappearing into the water. A few days ago, the U.S. Department of Defense also confirmed the authenticity of the video.

According to the Observer, citing the American Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), a newly released video shows a dark-colored unidentified flying object hovering from a distance and approaching a U.S. Navy warship in California, which moved in the air for some time before suddenly falling into the sea. In the background of the video, someone claims, "Wow, it's getting closer"; before the unidentified object disappears, someone else shouts, "It's in the water, it's in the water, mark the bearing and distance."

It is reported that the video was taken by the U.S. Littoral Combat Ship Omaha personnel on July 15, 2019, in the waters of San Diego, California. At present, the U.S. Department of Defense has confirmed the authenticity of the video and said the Pentagon's "Unidentified Airborne Phenomena Working Group" is assessing the review. The group was established in August last year to investigate and study the nature and origin of similar aerial UFOs in depth.

In recent years, the U.S. media and the U.S. military have repeatedly claimed to have photographed UFOs. in 2017, the New York Times revealed a video of the U.S. Navy photographing an unidentified flying object and published two other similar videos the following year. The U.S. Department of Defense, to dispel some public misconceptions, officially released three videos last year and acknowledged that the phenomenon was "unknown.

Recently, two former U.S. Navy personnel also confirmed in a program interview that unidentified airborne objects do exist and even appear frequently. The former U.S. Navy pilot said he had seen a white, round object move across the water and then disappear in the water, but only a few minutes later, the object was detected by radar to appear nearly 96 kilometres away. The U.S. Department of Defense intelligence officer, the original head of the "Unexplained Aerial Phenomena Working Group" Ellison said that these sound incredible, but the U.S. military saw it with their own eyes, and the Pentagon is studying this mainly to assess the impact of these unidentified flying objects on U.S. national security.

A few days ago, former U.S. President Barack Obama also said in the program, there are relevant images to prove that UFOs "is real", it is necessary to seriously investigate the truth. Obama also mentioned that when he took office, he proposed the idea of studying aliens and thinking about whether there is a laboratory to store alien specimens and spacecraft. He also said mysteriously, "There are some things I'm not comfortable saying on air."

Originally, UFO incidents in U.S. society are mostly considered to be related to conspiracy theories, but in recent years, the U.S. government has become more and more serious about this. Not only did the Pentagon set up a special group to study this, but the U.S. Congress also often questioned it. It is reported that next month, the U.S. Office of the Director of National Intelligence will provide a report to Congress, which contains a large number of UFO sightings and information obtained by U.S. military research. The source also said that the U.S. Department of Defense will conduct more investigations shortly.

U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Mark Rubin has been calling on the Defense Department to focus on research into UFOs. Rubin is more concerned about why UFOs keep appearing on U.S. military bases and in the airspace of military exercises than whether aliens really exist, and from which side these flying objects come. In his view, these UFOs are more technologically advanced than known U.S. and Russian technology, and they should come from somewhere other than Earth than from rivals such as China and Russia, which would otherwise mean that Chinese and Russian technology has made a big leap forward.

As things stand, the U.S. Department of Defense's investigation of UFOs is based more on national security than on simply studying signs of alien life. There are many U.S. lawmakers like Rubin or senior Defense Department officials who worry that these flying objects, which are even considered more technologically advanced than the U.S., are operated by other countries to gather relevant military intelligence and could pose a threat to U.S. military security and national security.