U.S. Navy Confirms These UFO Videos Are The Real Deal, But Call Them "Unidentified Aerial Phenomena".
COOPER: The U.S. Navy has finally acknowledged that videos appearing to show UFOs flying through the air are real. They don't call them UFOs, they call them unidentified aerial phenomena. These -- the several videos they're talking about were recorded years ago by fighter pilots. Then in 2017 they were made public by "The New York Times." More now from our Randi Kaye.</s>RANDI KAYE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Images of that rotating thing captured by U.S. Navy Aircraft, sensors locking in on the target. Commander David Fravor saw it firsthand during a training mission, describing it like a 40-foot-long tic-tac maneuvering rapidly and changing direction.</s>COMMANDER DAVID FRAVOR, U.S. NAVY PILOT (RET.): As we both looked out the right side of our airplane, we saw a disturbance in the water and a white object, oblong pointing north.</s>KAYE: The object was first cited in 2004, then similar objects again in 2015. Footage of the citings declassified by the military weren't made public until December 2017 by "The New York Times" and a group that researches UFOs.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: There's a whole fleet of them. Look on my SA (ph).</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: My gosh. They're all going against the wind. The wind is 120 miles to the west.</s>FRAVOR: This was extremely abrupt like a ping-pong ball bouncing off the wall. The ability to hover over the water and then start a vertical climb from basically zero up towards about 12,000 feet and then accelerate in less than two seconds and disappear is something that I've never seen in my life.</s>KAYE (on camera): The Navy says its still doesn't know what the objects are and officials aren't speculating. A Navy spokesman simply confirming to CNN the object seen in the various clips are unidentified aerial phenomena or UAPs. (voice-over) The UFO reports were first investigated by a secret $22 million program, part of the Defense Department budget that investigated reports of UFOs. The program has since been shut down, but it was run by a military intelligence official who told CNN they found compelling evidence that "may not be alone." Randi Kaye, CNN, New York.</s>COOPER: That blows my mind. I want to hand it over to Chris for "Cuomo Prime Time." Chris, I find it terribly exciting that those things are real, that those videos are real.</s>CUOMO: It's clear. Look how effusive your emotion is.</s>COOPER: I rarely get this emotion.</s>CUOMO: I mean this is crazy. You're blowing my mind here.</s>COOPER: You don't think it's --</s>CUOMO: I do. I do. I'm right there with you.</s>CUOMO: Everybody shows it in different ways. I'm just sitting here basking in your light, brother, basking in your life. Anderson, have a good night.