Eerie footage released alongside the Pentagon’s acknowledgement of a program investigating extraterrestrial life shows an unidentified object being chased by two US fighter jets off the coast of San Diego in 2004.
“This is a f–king drone, bro,” one of the pilots of the Navy F/A-18F fighter jets mutters.
“There’s a whole fleet of them,” another voice says before exclaiming, “It’s rotating!”
The footage captures a glowing whitish oval and a darker orb as the jets, dispatched from the aircraft carrier Nimitz, chase the craft.
The footage was released by the Defense Department’s Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, which spent $22 million between 2008 and 2012 to investigate reports from military and commercial pilots of unidentified flying objects.