2004 USS Nimitz "Tic Tac" Encounter and Pentagon Confirms Navy UAP Videos (2020)
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The FLIR1 video from the Nimitz encounter was one of three videos officially released by the Pentagon.
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2004 USS Nimitz "Tic Tac" Encounter
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In November 2004, the USS Nimitz Carrier Strike Group encountered unknown aerial objects over a two-week period off the coast of San Diego. Commander David Fravor and Lt. Commander Alex Dietrich were vectored to intercept a target and observed a white, tic-tac-shaped object approximately 40 feet long hovering above a churning patch of ocean. The object demonstrated extraordinary maneuverability — accelerating from a near hover to disappearing from radar in seconds. The encounter was captured on the FLIR1 infrared video. The USS Princeton's advanced SPY-1 radar system had been tracking groups of anomalous objects for days.
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Pentagon Confirms Navy UAP Videos (2020)
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On April 27, 2020, the Pentagon formally released three unclassified Navy videos (FLIR, GIMBAL, GOFAST) from 2004 and 2015, saying the objects in them remain 'unidentified'.
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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.
AATIP investigated the 2004 USS Nimitz encounter as one of its primary cases.
TTSA first published the three Navy UAP videos before the Pentagon officially released them.
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