On the morning of November 14th, 2004 90 miles
off the coast of California near San Diego,
the Nimitz Carrier Strike Group was conducting
routine training and aerial defense exercises.
UFO craft would appear that forever changed
all of those that encountered them.
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Hi everyone, what’s up ? I’m JH aka DOZgeek, back with Section 51.
Really happy to be with you again.
If you’re fascinated by UFOs as I am, I’m
sure you recently read this story on internet,
the USS Nimitz UFO incident. This famous radar-visual
encounter of a UFO by US fighter pilots of
the Nimitz Carrier Strike Group.
More precisely, USS Nimitz UFO incident took
place during November of 2004 when U.S. fighter
pilots encountered an unidentified flying
object, which later become known as “tic-tac”.
In 2017 the footage of the occurrence was
released to the public and became one of the
most hotly discussed topics among ufologists…
and also “debunkers”, of course !
Prior to the incident, early November 2004,
the Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruiser USS Princeton,
part of Carrier Strike Group 11, had been
tracking mysterious aircraft intermittently
for two weeks on an advanced AN/SPY-1B passive
radar. Navy Chief Petty Officer Kevin Day,
stationed on Princeton, recalls that he first
noticed the clear radar traces of eight to
ten objects around 10 November. They were
travelling southwards in a loose though fixed
formation at 28,000 feet (8,500 m) in the
immediate vicinity of Catalina Island. He
was startled by their slow speed of 100 knots (120 mph),
but received confirmation of their presence
from radar operators on other vessels. Regular
observations were made of a similar number
of objects over the following six days. The
objects were also faintly detected by an E-2C
Hawkeye plane after Princeton sent them
coordinates.
When the same event occurred again around
9:30 PST on 14 November 2004, an operations
officer aboard Princeton contacted two airborne U.S.
Navy F-18 Super Hornets from USS Nimitz,
flying a combat exercise at the time. The
aircraft were two-seat variants, and each
pilot was accompanied by a weapon systems
officer. The lead Super Hornet was piloted
by Commander David Fravor, commanding officer of Strike
Fighter Squadron 41. The second fighter, flying
as wingman, included Lieutenant Commander Jim
Slaight as one of the two officers aboard. 
Princeton's radio operator, Kevin Day, directly
instructed the pilots to change their course
and investigate the unidentified radar spot
observed by Princeton's own radar. This
was done to determine if the objects posed
any collision danger to an upcoming air defense
exercise. A radio operator on Princeton however
asked the pilots if they were carrying operational
weapons, and the pilots replied that they
were not. The weather conditions for that
day showed excellent visibility with a blue
sky, no cloud cover, and a calm sea.
When the jet fighters arrived on site, the
crew of four saw nothing in the air nor on
their radar. On Princeton's radar however,
it was noticed that the object now dropped
from 28,000 ft to near sea level in less than
a second. As the pilots looked down at the
sea, they noticed a turbulent oval area of
churning water with foam and frothy waves
"the size of a Boeing 737 airplane" with
a smoother area of lighter color at the center,
as if the waves were breaking over something
just under the surface. A few seconds later,
they noticed an unusual object hovering with
erratic movements 50 feet (15 m) above the
churning water. Both Fravor and Slaight later
described the object as a large bright white Tic
Tac 30 to 46 feet (9 to 14m) long, with no windshield nor porthole,
no wing nor empennage, and no visible engine nor exhaust
plume.
Fravor began a circular descent to approach
the object. As Fravor further descended, he
reported that the object began ascending along
a curved path, maintaining some distance from
the F-18, mirroring its trajectory in opposite
circles. Fravor then made a more aggressive
maneuver, plunging his fighter to aim below
the object, but at this point the UFO accelerated
and went out of sight in less than two seconds,
leaving the pilots "pretty weirded out".
Subsequently, the two fighter jets began a
new course to the combat air patrol rendezvous
point. Within seconds Princeton radioed
the jets that the radar target had reappeared
60 miles (97 km) away at this predetermined
rendezvous point. According to Popular Mechanics,
a physical object would have had to move greater
than 2,400 miles per hour (3,900 km/h) to
cover the distance in the reported time. Two
other jets went to investigate the new radar
location, but by the time the Super Hornets
arrived, the object had already disappeared.
Both F-18s then returned to Nimitz.
Commander Fravor reflected on his sighting:
"I have no idea what I saw. It had no plumes,
wings or rotors and outran our F-18s. But
I want to fly one".
After the return of the first team to Nimitz,
a second team took off at approximately 12:00
PST, this time equipped with an advanced infrared
camera (FLIR pod). This camera recorded an
evasive unidentified aerial system on video,
publicly released by the Pentagon on December,16,
2017 alongside the revelation of the funding
of the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification
Program.
This footage is known as the 2004 USS Nimitz
FLIR1 video. It officially shed some light
on a decade-old story that was largely unknown.
A second infrared footage, known as the GIMBAL
video, has been released by the Pentagon alongside
the 2004 FLIR1 footage. Although the media
often present the two videos together to illustrate
the 2004 USS Nimitz UFO incident, the GIMBAL
video seems to be unrelated, filmed at the East
Coast of the United States at an unknown
date.
The first video itself does not offer a clear
image, due to the nature of radar systems.
However, there are several factors that make
this case one of the most fascinating studies
in the field. Firstly, the existence of an
audio recording of pilots experiencing the
visual contact the object. Secondly, Interview
given by one of the pilots. Thirdly, a report
was done by Washington post about Department
of Defense’s operations to analyze the sighting
and was later confirmed by the Pentagon itself,
giving the sighting more legitimacy.
David Fravor, a Navy Pilot with decades of
experience, is the centerpiece of USS Nimitz
UFO incident. His skepticism in the subject
quickly evaporated, when the training mission
encountered something that could not be explained.
Skeptics often explain such events by a secretive
technology being tested, weather balloons,
or unreliability of the witnesses. None of
them applies to this eye witness.
Not only would he be aware of something that
could be explained by our current technologic
capabilities, but also the routine nature
of their training operations would make the
area unsuitable for any testing by different
military branches. This also makes him immune
to the claims of him not being able to differentiate
something as mundane as a weather balloon,
natural occurrence or mechanical dysfunction
from UFO.
One of the main reasons that cause the USS
Nimitz UFO incident to be a fascinating study
is its continuous nature. The encounter with
“tic-tac” was not a one-off incident.
US Navy was following the unknown object for
almost two weeks. At one point over 8 objects
were seen on the radar. This was not some
sort of the glitch on a radar system of the
single ship. This was an organized operation
by a fleet of ships to track down an unknown
intruder.
The occurrence, in which David Fravor took
part in when he and several other pilots directly
encountered the UFO was a culmination of the
chase. However, even after that event, several
anomalies on the ocean surface were seen.
Some point looked disturbed as if something
has been hovering over them, however, no further
visual contact was made.
What truly transpired during USS Nimitz UFO
incident is debated till this day. Several
things are known for certain, the U.S. Navy
fleet deemed the occurrence noteworthy enough
to initiate the chase, which lasted for two
weeks. No one who took the part in it can
give an explanation of what happened.
In December 2017, infrared footage of the
encounter was released to the public.
The Nimitz event had the five observables:
1 - Extreme manoeuvrability, well beyond the
healthy G force of anything biological
2- Hypersonic velocity’s without signatures
3 - Low observability
4 - Trans-medium travel
5 - Positive lift or anti-gravity
Luis Elizondo, a former employee of the Office
of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, 
said the Defense Department was concerned
with anything that was not readily identified
by witnesses, radar, or other sensing technology.
The famous USS Nimitz UFO event and video
footage was just one example, he said, and
added that "there were other events that occurred
like the Nimitz, and not in the distant past."
Elizondo also mentioned that reports from
military witnesses included physical effects
such as feelings of nausea or "a weird loss
of time perception."
Luis also confirmed that military hardware
has been affected or disabled during UFO encounters.
David Fravor, a veteran Navy pilot was shaken
by the incident and after 2 years retired
from the navy. He said that after his jet
returned to the carrier, his description of
the events were ridiculed by his colleagues.
What showed up on U.S. fleets radars for two
weeks and what managed to evade most sophisticated
military in the world, remains a mystery till
this day.
The Incident was severely criticized by “debunkers”
and other searchers who tried to prove that
it was finally a fake. They studied every
second, every pixel of the videos, just to
demonstrate that the US Navy was manipulating
or doing a bad joke to medias, even suggesting
that David Fravor was a liar. So according
to “debunkers”, it would be a big hoax
created by the US Navy or someone linked to
the US Navy in order to minimize the UFO phenomenon.
So in fact, it’s the debunkers who are normally
supposed to be anti-conspiracy theories who
are caught up in their own contradictions
by pretending now that the Navy lied in its
official statements. That’s becoming funny.
Hey debunkers ! Why would the US Navy bother
to fabricate these lies ? All this false evidence
? All these false statements ? Why would an
experienced US Navy pilot risk his career
with such revelations ?
I try to understand. In fact, by searching
every detail for flaws to refute a theory,
a fact or a phenomenon - and I am sure that
one can always find something by searching
well - we can end up denying the existence
of everything and thus close ourselves to
all freedom of thought. From a theoretical
point of view I think we can admit that every
thing, every element, or even every living
being has a flaw, a weakness. But that doesn’t
mean it doesn’t exist. Each rule admits
an exception that confirms it. That’s why
I question the version of debunkers. In fact,
I don’t really have a theory, but I made
a conscious choice not to close myself to
certain ways of thought, to certain probabilities.
I do not hold the truth unlike others who
have the arrogance to claim to hold it by
saying that this is BLACK or rather WHITE,
TRUE or FAKE. No, everyone is free to think
what he wants and to make his own path of
research, discovery, experience. What’s
for sure is that crazy is the one who thinks
he can know all the secrets of the universe
just because he has a professional editing
software or high degree in science. We have
to learn to broaden our field of vision because
the answers often come where you don’t expect
them.
However, I think that the Nimitz incident
is likely to make people discuss for a very
long time because how can we know who holds
the truth on this issue? We can only wait
for the accumulation of testimony, evidence,
official revelations over time to perhaps
hope to have a bit of knowledge in this already
vast field. I would be curious to know your
opinion on the matter. What do you think of
all this? What do you think of these official
revelations? Are they true or false? What
do you think of debunkers?
The USS Nimitz incident is truly an incredible
and strange story, and I was delighted to
share it with you again. Maybe someday we’ll
have the big answer to all these unexplained
phenomena.
What’s certain is that the truth is out
there somewhere, waiting to be revealed in
broad daylight.
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Watch the sky.
Live long and prosper !
