The efforts to prove the existence of aliens have ramped up over the past year including 2019's Raid Area 51 movement but it appears that we're getting closer and closer to official confirmation. The Pentagon has officially added three previously leaked videos of "unidentified aerial phenomena" that were taken from Navy pilots in 2004 and 2015, Sue Gough, a Defense Department spokeswoman said. 

"After a thorough review, the department has determined that the authorized release of these unclassified videos does not reveal any sensitive capabilities or systems, and does not impinge on any subsequent investigations of military air space incursions by unidentified aerial phenomena," Gough said. 

Senator Harry Reid of Nevada took to Twitter following the Pentagon's decision to declassify the video expressing the need for more information to be released to the public and urging the federal government to take this matter more seriously.

"I’m glad the Pentagon is finally releasing this footage, but it only scratches the surface of research and materials available. The U.S. needs to take a serious, scientific look at this and any potential national security implications. The American people deserve to be informed," he wrote. Reid has previously helped put funding into investigating the matter. 

A 2017 article in the New York Times detailed the experiences of five Navy pilots who had encounters with the UFOs which further pushed the Navy to make an actual process for pilots to report any encounters with unidentified aerial phenomena's.

The existence of aliens has been wildly debated, although you’d be a fool to think that there isn’t life outside of the planet earth. While there hasn’t necessarily been concrete evidence proving that aliens exist, it appears as though the Department of Defense has some documents and footage related to UFO spottings. 

In response to a public records request filed by Vice, the Navy has revealed that there have been briefings about UFO spottings including one between the USS Nimitz and an unidentified flying object. The Navy responded to the FOI request, writing they had, “discovered certain briefing slides that are classified TOP SECRET. A review of these materials indicates that are currently and appropriate Marked and Classified TOP SECRET under Executive Order 13526 and the Original Classification Authority has determined that release of these materials would cause exceptionally grave damage to the National Security of the United States.” Adding, “We have also determined that ONI possesses a video classified SECRET that ONI is not the Original Classification Authority for.”

Despite admitting to the existence of the footage, a rep for the Pentagon said that there are no plans to release it. “However, I can tell you that the date of the 2004 USS Nimitz video is Nov. 14, 2004,” the spokesperson told Vice. “I can also tell you that the length of the video that’s been circulating since 2007 is the same as the length of the source video. We do not expect to release this video.”