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UFO Spotted Off CA Coast In Newly Leaked Navy Video

Footage captured by a Navy aircraft in 2019 shows a mysterious flying object disappearing into the ocean off of the San Diego coast.

This is one of three photos of a supposed UFO taken by Rex Heflin, August 3, 1965, near Santa Ana, Calif. Heflin is an Orange County highway department investigator.
This is one of three photos of a supposed UFO taken by Rex Heflin, August 3, 1965, near Santa Ana, Calif. Heflin is an Orange County highway department investigator. (AP Photo/Rex Heflin)

SAN DIEGO, CA — Newly leaked footage shows an unidentified flying object disappearing into the ocean off the California coast. The clip was obtained and shared on social media by a documentary filmmaker last week.

The grainy video appears to show a "spherical" shaped flying object. It was filmed in the Combat Information Center of the USS Omaha on July 15, 2019 in a warning area off the San Diego coast, Jeremy Corbell, a film director, wrote on Instagram.

"It is noted in intelligence reports that the 'spherical' craft could not be found upon entry to the water — that a submarine was used in the search — and recovered nothing," Corbell wrote.

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As the circular aircraft dips down and vanishes, Navy personnel can be heard saying "it splashed."

Watch the video that Corbell posted to Instagram here.

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The Department of Defense has confirmed that the clip was recorded by the U.S. Navy and that it will be reviewed by the Pentagon's Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force, NBC reported.

In 2004, a similar incident occurred off San Diego. The two Navy pilots who were dispatched to investigate "multiple anomalous aerial vehicles" that had descended 80,000 feet in less than a second, sat down for an interview with "60 Minutes" on Sunday, according to NBC.

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