David Fravor and 2023 Congressional UAP Hearings
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Fravor testified before Congress about the 2004 Nimitz Tic Tac encounter.
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David Fravor
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Retired Navy commander who led the VFA-41 squadron and says he saw a "Tic Tac"-shaped object off Southern California in 2004. He testified to Congress in 2023; the object remains unidentified.
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2023 Congressional UAP Hearings
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On July 26, 2023, the House Oversight Committee's Subcommittee on National Security held a historic hearing on UAP featuring testimony from David Grusch, Ryan Graves, and David Fravor. Grusch testified under oath that the U.S. government possesses non-human craft and biologics, and that he was aware of people who had been harmed or injured in efforts to conceal this information. Graves described routine UAP encounters by Navy pilots, and Fravor detailed the 2004 Nimitz encounter. The hearing drew massive public attention and bipartisan congressional interest.
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Fravor says he saw the "Tic Tac" object from his F/A-18F during the 2004 encounter; the known video was recorded later by another crew.
The dramatic testimony at the July 2023 hearings built momentum for the Schumer UAP Disclosure Act amendments.
Grusch testified under oath before Congress about alleged government UAP crash retrieval and reverse-engineering programs.
Graves testified about routine UAP encounters by Navy pilots during East Coast training exercises.
Burchett was a key organizer of the July 2023 House Oversight UAP hearing.
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