Gimbal Video

“it would later emerge that the Gimbal was almost certainly videoed sometime in late 2014 or early 2015 off the east coast of the US”

“The Gimbal video shows a UAP appearing to swivel on its axis in flight, manoeuvring in ways that defied known conventional aircraft capabilities. TTSA initially revealed very little about the Gimbal object other than that it was seen and videoed by US Navy fighter pilots at an unspecified location... The TTSA website said the Gimbal had 'low-observability' on both video and radar; it also had no distinguishable flight surfaces, no 'obvious propulsion system', 'never-before-seen flight capabilities' and, because of a strange shimmer on its surface, they speculated that it had a 'possible energy or resonance field of unknown nature'.”

“One of those videos was the 76-second so-called FLIR1 video, depicting the Tic Tac, the egg- or oblong-shaped UAP filmed by the USS Nimitz pilot in 2004. That FLIR1/Tic Tac film was posted on the TTSA site along with another undated 34-second video known as the 'Gimbal'.”

“A still of the so-called 'Gimbal' UAP, from the official US Navy video of a 2014 or 2015 encounter. This video was taken by a navy fighter jet from the nuclear aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt, off the eastern seaboard, near the Florida coast. The Pentagon says the video is real and, officially, unexplained.”

“I chose the FLIR video (aka Tic Tac from 2004), and the GoFast and GIMBAL videos from 2015.”

“I described all three videos on a single Form 1910, which the DoD uses to request declassification of everything from documents to multimedia content.”

“until finally, frustrated, he quit the Pentagon in 2017, but not before getting these three videos declassified”

“In 2017, as a private citizen, he surreptitiously acquired the three Navy videos Elizondo had declassified and leaked them to The New York Times.”

“The online story also included links to two of the unclassified UAP videos, which were posted on TTSA's YouTube page: the FLIR (aka Tic Tac) video and the GIMBAL video. (They released the GoFast video some months later.)”

“Staring them in the face is what looks like a stereotypical flying saucer out of some 1950s-era movie. The object is lenticular, with a bulge on its top and bottom. The object is now black, which in this camera mode also indicates that the object is 'cold'—no heat signature.”

“Since the camera is in infrared mode, white merely indicates that the object is 'cold'—no heat emanating from the aircraft at all.”

“the UAP slows, parks itself in the air, and begins to shift. The bulge on top swings from left to right, and now the bulge on its bottom faces the wind.”

“At one point, the Gimbal was stationary and then it apparently rotated through a 90-degree angle in the hover, a manoeuvre that is impossible for any known conventionally powered craft.”

“What made GIMBAL so perplexing was the fact the object never lost altitude as it turned 90 degrees… the object seemed to hover at an altitude of 20,000 feet and linger there, eerily.”

“They're all going against the wind! The wind is 120 knots out of the west.”

“At one point the object flies perpendicular to the oncoming wind, yet it doesn't bend or tilt from the resistance. It's impervious to the atmosphere.”

“Just like the 2004 Tic Tac, the Gimbal had no visible flight surfaces, no visible propulsion, and no heat signature.”

“it's just sitting there and it's in the wind and it's going against the wind while it's doing this... if an airplane does this, it's eventually going to start to change aspect because it's in a turn. This thing doesn't change aspect, it just rotates.”

“There's five other, I think it's five, they're kind of in a V, you know, like a geese would fly that are out in front of it and they're actually coming, they're out in front of it and they actually turn on the radar and go the other way while they're filming the gimbal video.”

“What he saw on the onboard video was a cluster of smaller craft flying in an inverted V-shape in front of the larger Gimbal object. The section of video publicly released by the Pentagon only showed the Gimbal by itself; the other objects were out of the picture.”

“The recording on the AT FLIR system shows a single object that rotates. You hear the pilots refer to a fleet of objects that is not visible on the FLIR system and that was something that I witnessed during the debrief as part of the radar data on the situational awareness page.”

“Graves told both the TV documentary and The New York Times that the publicly released Gimbal video was part of a much longer, higherresolution video he viewed on board the Roosevelt.”

“A few months later I was sitting in a room with high-level Navy officials, CIA reps, and someone from the NSA. After the usual exchange of pleasantries and some backslapping, we rolled the tapes.”

“To be clear, no one in that room thought this UAP was made by humans.”

“According to the CIA, it was not. It was not an artifact of the camera nor a lens flare. Whatever it was, it was real.”

“'The only way I see this being even remotely possible is if you had a… hybrid balloon with some sort of inducted fan at its center… Perhaps it is some sort of Mylar football that has its own navigation and propulsion.'… 'Um… perhaps they are using some sort of tether or beamed energy to give it power, you know? Like a floating platform nearby.'”

“'The Navy considers the phenomena contained/depicted in those three videos [the Tic-Tac, The Go-Fast and the Gimbal UAPs] as unidentified,' a navy spokesman Joseph Gradisher told John Greenewald's The Black Vault website.”

“US DoD statement, 'Statement by the Department of Defence on the Release of Historical Navy Videos', 27 April 2020.”

“Without hesitation we knew we would use both videos to reinforce OPLAN Interloper.”

“the gimbal video to comment on the amazing aspect of that video is the rotation, the apparent rotation of the object that is something that is not possible to do with systems that we know of. And Mick West suggests that a flare like reflections or whatever can explain.”