...that buzzed around Navy ships in 2019 were mere drones – not a national security threat

• The former head of the government's UFO task force Jay Stratton and his chief scientist Travis Taylor spoke about 2019 UFO sightings at AlienCon 
• They said their investigation left them fearing Russia or China could have incredible drone technology and that it was a national security threat
• When the incident was recounted by their high-ranking Pentagon bosses to Congress last year, they said the mystery was solved and they were mere drones

The inside story of a 2019 UFO investigation by two top former intelligence officials was revealed in a jaw-dropping talk at a conference in Los Angeles.

The former head of the government's UFO task force Jay Stratton and his chief scientist Travis Taylor spilled the secrets of their official probe into a swarm of objects that buzzed around a fleet of eight Navy ships off the US West Coast in July 2019.

Speaking at AlienCon in Pasadena on March 5, Stratton and Taylor said their investigation left them fearing Russia or China could have achieved incredible drone battery technology – or may have launched quadcopters from submarines that somehow evaded the Navy's best radar just miles from the mainland.

But when the incident was recounted by their high-ranking Pentagon bosses to politicians and the public last year, it was presented as a very different story.

Former UFO chiefs spilled the secrets of their official probe into a swarm of objects that buzzed around a fleet of eight Navy ships off the US West Coast in July 2019

The former head of the government's UFO task force Jay Stratton said his investigation into the 2019 UFO encounter left him fearing Russia or China could have achieved incredible drone battery technology

Dr. Travis Taylor (left) is a physicist who in 2019 served as the chief scientist for the government's UFO office. He appeared at AlienCon as a guest speaker

In a historic hearing on UFOs held in May 2022, Stratton and Taylor's boss Deputy Director for Naval Intelligence Scott Bray dismissed the footage, saying he was 'reasonably confident' the objects were drones

The world was watching with excitement on May 17, 2022 as military top brass briefed lawmakers in the first public Congressional hearing on UFOs in over 50 years.

Sitting in their break room 600 miles away in Huntsville, Alabama, the recently-retired Stratton and Taylor were dismayed at what unfolded next on their TV screen.

They saw their former bosses, Scott Bray, Deputy Director of Naval Intelligence, and Ronald Moultrie, the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security, testifying to the House Intelligence Committee.

Bray played lawmakers a July 2019 video shot through a green night vision lens, of apparently triangle-shaped, flashing flying objects near the Navy's USS Russell off the US West Coast.

The top Navy official then suggested that the case had been solved: the objects were drones, and their triangular shape was not real but merely an effect of the camera lens.

The footage was all too familiar to Stratton. He says he and Taylor had investigated that case, and used frames from video shot by sailors on deck in a 2020 briefing he compiled for senior officials – as an example of a genuine UFO case that created a national security issue.

But now he was seeing it explained away to lawmakers on national TV as potentially standard drones, albeit with a spooky lens artifact.

The Pentago told DailyMail.com it stands by the military intelligence chiefs’ testimony.

‘The Department stands by the testimony presented in the open and closed hearings on May 17, 2022, by Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security Ronald Moultrie and Deputy Director of Naval Intelligence Scott Bray,’ said spokeswoman Susan Gough. 

Taylor said he and Stratton were sitting in the lunchroom at their new employees, Radiance Technologies watching the hearing.

'And when they start talking about the Russell incident, I was like ''We did not brief him that way. That is not what we told him.''

'It really, really did upset both Travis and me when we were watching that hearing,' Stratton added.

'I would not have gone and briefed Congress that I believe these triangular shaped objects to be real … without my ducks in a row and the ability to answer any question thrown at me.'

The two men revealed the inside story of their 2019 Russell UFO investigation at a talk at AlienCon, a UFO conference near Los Angeles where they were guest speakers.

Whether or not the objects in the night vision videos were extraordinary, the sight of two former senior officials spilling the secrets on their government investigations at a civilian UFO event certainly was.

Still images from a video  of the encounters show a spherical object diving into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California

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