Visual reconstruction and recovered media extracted from the incident dossier. Includes motion playback from the released archive.
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USS Omaha combat information center footage captured a spherical object hovering over the ship and entering the ocean without a splash. The Navy sent a submarine to search for wreckage and found nothing. The declassified footage was released by the DoD in 2021 as part of the first official UAP video release and is among the cases referenced in the 2021 UAP Task Force preliminary assessment.
In July 2019, crew aboard USS Omaha (LCS-12) recorded night-vision footage of a spherical UAP orbiting the ship at low altitude before descending into the Pacific Ocean without producing a splash. The Combat Information Center crew tracked the object on multiple sensor systems. A submarine was dispatched to search for debris or a submerged object — nothing was recovered. The footage was among several Navy videos leaked to filmmaker Jeremy Corbell and subsequently authenticated by the Pentagon in 2021. The DoD confirmed the footage was taken by Navy personnel and remained under investigation. The USS Omaha encounter is one of several USS Nimitz carrier strike group-area incidents documented in the 2021 Preliminary Assessment: Unidentified Aerial Phenomena submitted to Congress — the first official UAP assessment by the United States Intelligence Community. The transmedium behavior — aerial flight followed by ocean entry and possible underwater transit — mirrors the Aguadilla (2013) case.
This incident is indexed as file DOD-035inside Now Declassified's research layer. The nearest official source trail for this agency points to NARA RG 615 / OSD, where archive records, imagery, or supporting context are published for public review.
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