DECLASSIFIED FOOTAGE — PENTAGON CONFIRMED

The Gimbal video was captured in January 2015 by ATFLIR (Advanced Targeting Forward-Looking Infrared) pod aboard an F/A-18 Super Hornet from the USS Theodore Roosevelt carrier strike group operating off the US East Coast. The footage shows an elliptical or disc-shaped object moving against the wind at approximately 120 knots, at high altitude. The object then rotates smoothly in place — a manoeuvre physically impossible for any known aircraft — while the pilots are audible on the audio track reacting with shock.

The object was nicknamed ‘Gimbal’ because of the debate on the audio track about whether the rotation was a camera gimbal artefact. Analysis by multiple aerospace engineers has since concluded that the rotation is real — it is the object rotating, not the camera. The heat signature profile of the object is inconsistent with any known propulsion system. It shows no exhaust plume, no hot spots consistent with jet or rocket propulsion, and no aerodynamic control surfaces.

The Gimbal video was one of three videos officially declassified by the Pentagon in April 2020 alongside FLIR1 (Nimitz) and GoFast. The Pentagon’s official statement confirmed the footage was authentic and unclassified, and that the objects depicted ‘remain characterised as unidentified.’ The To The Stars Academy of Arts and Sciences first published the video in December 2017 alongside the New York Times AATIP investigation.

Pentagon-authenticated infrared footage of an object performing rotation in place at altitude — a manoeuvre with no aerodynamic explanation. Captured by military-grade ATFLIR targeting equipment with trained naval aviators as witnesses. One of three officially declassified UAP videos from the US government.

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