Ex-Navy officer says underwater UFO capability 'jeopardizes US maritime security'

An ex-Navy officer said UFOs that can move from air to sea without a splash or crash debris represent an "urgent" national security concern that can have "world-changing" consequences, according to Fox News Digital.

Back in July 2019, the USS Omaha reportedly captured video of a UFO that raced past a Navy fleet around San Diego and mysteriously vanished into the ocean without a trace.

The video of the strange incident was first released by filmmaker Jeremy Corbell and later confirmed by the Pentagon, according to NBC News. Oceanographer and retired Rear Admiral Tim Gallaudet said the UFO's capability "jeopardizes U.S. maritime security, which is already weakened by our relative ignorance about the global ocean."

"The fact that unidentified objects with unexplainable characteristics are entering U.S. water space and the DOD is not raising a giant red flag is a sign that the government is not sharing all it knows about all-domain anomalous phenomena," Gallaudet wrote in a 2024 report.

Gallaudet wrote a 29-page report about the possibility of underwater UFOs that was published by the Sol Foundation — a think tank specifically focused on UFOs and the possible consequences of their existence.

The former Navy officer told Fox News Digital that it is "scientifically valid" to investigate the mysterious transmedium events that demonstrate capabilities that have never been seen before.

"Pilots, credible observers, and calibrated military instrumentation have recorded objects accelerating at rates and crossing the air-sea interface in ways not possible for anything made by humans," Gallaudet said in his report.

"To meet the security and scientific challenges, transmedium UAP and USOs should be elevated to national ocean research priorities," he continued.

When the 2019 UFO video was first released, the Defense Department quickly confirmed that it was captured by Navy personnel and noted that it would be reviewed by the Pentagon's Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force.

NBC News reported at the time that the clip of the UFO was released just a few days before "60 Minutes" aired an interview with two former Navy officers who said they had previously been told to investigate "multiple anomalous aerial vehicles" that reportedly descended 80,000 feet in less than a second. The incident in question took place off San Diego in 2004.

However, the reports have been criticized for producing "underwhelming" evidence and directly contradicting former intelligence officer David Grusch's testimony in front of the House Oversight Committee in 2023.

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