UFO videos are real, says US military but public never meant to see them

The US Navy has officially admitted that UFOs are real and have penetrated American skies.

The acknowledgement by navy chiefs comes after The New York Times reported how pilots noticed mysterious objects during training exercises over the US between 2004 and 2015.

Now the US Navy has officially stated that three UFO videos made public are images of real "unknown" objects flying over the US.

In a statement given to The Black Vault intelligence website, Josephy Gradisher, a spokesperson for the deputy chief of naval operations for information warfare, said that "the Navy considers the phenomena contained/depicted in those 3 videos as unidentified".

The mysterious objects were shown in footage taken from US Navy jets in 2004 and 2015 over restricted military training airspaces.

Gradisher also said the videos were never cleared for public release.

In vision of one incident recorded by pilots flying fly F/A-18 Super Hornet fighters while performing training manoeuvres between Virginia and Florida, the silhouette of a strangely-elongated object was caught in one of the jets' cameras.

The pilots recorded the shapes flying over the ocean at high speed, suddenly stopping and rotating mid-air.

"These things would be out there all day," US Navy pilot Lieutenant Ryan Graves told The New York Times.

The US Navy's statement acknowledges that the grainy images are real. The airborne objects have yet to be identified as any known type of aircraft.

It marks a dramatic shift by the US military. Never before has a branch of the armed services declared a picture or video of an object is a true unknown or unidentified aerial object.

But UFO fans shouldn't get too excited. While the US Navy has now acknowledge the images were real, it said nothing about whether they were alien.