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Top-secret Navy UFO slides: What's likely on them

We can confidently guess what's on at least some of the Navy's top-secret UFO briefing slides.

What slides, you ask?

Well, those the Office of Naval Intelligence referenced in a December 2019 response to researcher Christian Lambright. Lambright made an October 2019 Freedom of Information Act request for ONI records held in relation to the so-called 2004 Nimitz encounter. That incident, one of numerous similar occurrences since 2004, involved U.S. Navy flight crews interacting with UFOs.

Rejecting Lambright's request, the ONI explained, "We have discovered certain briefing slides that are classified Top Secret." The ONI said these slides are "appropriately marked" in that "the release of these materials would cause exceptionally grave damage to the national security of the United States." Releasing the slides would threaten "intelligence activities of the United States, as well as the sources and methods that are being used to gather information in support of the national security of the United States. In addition, the materials would trigger protections under ... scientific and technological matters related to [U.S. national security]."

That's a lot of government bureaucratic talk, but I have a good idea of what the government is trying to hide here. It's worth noting that the slides are likely those that have been used to brief President Trump and senior congressional leaders on certain truly remarkable UFOs.

Now, let's take the ONI's excuses in turn.

First, the ONI's claim that publication would undermine U.S. "intelligence activities ... as well as the sources and methods that are being used to gather information in support of the national security of the United States."