(NewsNation) — The Pentagon recently said it solved one of the most high-profile videos of a UFO, revealing that the famed ‘GOFAST’ video was a trick of the eye.
The unexplained anomalous phenomena (UAP) was spotted by a jet from the USS Theodore Roosevelt in 2016 off the East Coast, appearing to fly at high speeds.
But in a Senate hearing, the director of the Pentagon testified the object was an ordinary one, appearing to be moving very fast and very close to water due to an optical illusion known as parallax.
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Nick Pope, who investigated UFOs for the British Ministry of Defense, said he believes it is a good thing for the Pentagon to resolve cases like that one.
“This is good news because then they can move on to the ones that, even by their own admission, they can’t explain,” he told NewsNation.
The Pentagon maintains that there is no evidence UAPs are connected to extraterrestrial life, though believers think otherwise.
Pope said it’s a good sign that AARO is ramping up efforts to work with the academic and scientific communities to study sightings, noting that 99% of cases can be eliminated as conventional objects.
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The best plan, he said, is to eliminate those and focus on the cases that are left.
“It only takes one of these cases to be the real thing, something genuinely extraterrestrial, and it will change our world forever,” he said.