The 2004 Nimitz UFO Encounter. The UAP Case That Changed UFOlogy!
FLIR 1 Official UAP Video recorded by the US Military
Report Summary via wikipedia
The USS Nimitz UFO incident was a radar-visual encounter of an unidentified flying object by US fighter pilots of the Nimitz Carrier Strike Group in 2004. Multiple F/A-18 Super Hornets pilots led by the commander of Strike Fighter Squadron 41 communicated that they saw something, and radar signals were seen by United States Navy ships and aircraft in the area. An infrared video recording by an F/A-18 of part of the incident has also been released.
The primary encounter occurred during a combat training exercise being conducted in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of southern California on 14 November 2004, with purportedly related sightings occurring in the days before and after this encounter. A 2015 account of the incident on FighterSweep.com, interviews with one of the pilots, and subsequent news reports describe the sighting of an "unidentified flying object" by six Navy Super Hornet fighter jets.
Thirteen years after the incident, in December 2017, infrared footage of this and two other incidents was released to the public by The New York Times and an entertainment company named "To the Stars". According to The Washington Post, the video was released by former intelligence officer Luis Elizondo to shed light on a secretive Department of Defense operation to analyze reported UFO sightings, the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program.
David Fravor
Navy Pilot
USS Princeton
Chad Underwood
Navy Pilot
USS Princeton
Kevin Day
Operations Specialist Senior Chief
USS Princeton
Ryan Weigelt
Leading Petty Officer
USS Princeton
Gary Voorhis
Fire Controlman Petty Officer Third Class
USS Princeton
Patrick Hughes
Chief Master-at-Arms
USS Princeton
Jason Turner
Petty Officer Third Class
USS Princeton
"My job was to man the radars and ID everything that flew in the skies," Day said in the documentary film The Nimitz Encounters.
"When they'd show up on radar, Voorhis says, get the relative bearing and then run up to the bridge and look through a pair of heavily magnified binoculars in the direction the returns were coming from." Describing what he saw during the daytime, Voorhis says the objects were too far off to make out any distinguishing features, however, he could clearly see something moving erratically in the distance.
"Once we finished all the recalibration and brought it back up, the tracks were actually sharper and clearer," Voorhis says."Sometimes they'd be at an altitude of 80,000 or 60,000 feet. Other times they'd be around 30,000 feet, going like 100 knots. Their radar cross sections didn't match any known aircraft; they were 100 percent red. No squawk, no IFF (Identification Friend or Foe)" Gary Voorhis
"Hughes" jobs was to secure the hard drive data recorders from the airborne early-warning aircraft, the E-2 Hawkeye.
"We call them bricks, but they contain the software to run the airplane and they also record or can record a lot of the data that the air crew sees during the flight," said Hughes in a YouTube interview.
On November 14, as Hughes performed this routine task, he was unaware that the E-2 hard drives he was securing away in a classified safe had just come from the Hawkeye that Day first tried to use to intercept the mysterious UFOs.
In addition to turning over his data tapes, Voorhis says he was told by this chain of command he needed to reload the recorders for the ship's advanced Combat Engagement Center (CEC) because it had also been wiped clean, along with the optical drives with all the radio communications. "They even told me to erase everything that's in the shop " even the blank tapes." Voorhis says the only other time he can recall having to turn over his tapes like this was after an aircraft crash during one of his combat deployments. "
Report Summary via wikipedia
The USS Nimitz UFO incident was a radar-visual encounter of an unidentified flying object by US fighter pilots of the Nimitz Carrier Strike Group in 2004. Multiple F/A-18 Super Hornets pilots led by the commander of Strike Fighter Squadron 41 communicated that they saw something, and radar signals were seen by United States Navy ships and aircraft in the area. An infrared video recording by an F/A-18 of part of the incident has also been released.
The primary encounter occurred during a combat training exercise being conducted in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of southern California on 14 November 2004, with purportedly related sightings occurring in the days before and after this encounter. A 2015 account of the incident on FighterSweep.com, interviews with one of the pilots, and subsequent news reports describe the sighting of an "unidentified flying object" by six Navy Super Hornet fighter jets.
Thirteen years after the incident, in December 2017, infrared footage of this and two other incidents was released to the public by The New York Times and an entertainment company named "To the Stars". According to The Washington Post, the video was released by former intelligence officer Luis Elizondo to shed light on a secretive Department of Defense operation to analyze reported UFO sightings, the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program.
The video recorded by Chad Underwood
Some of the Witnesses
Click on each name to read about them or see them interviewed about their part in this story.David Fravor
Navy Pilot
USS Princeton
Chad Underwood
Navy Pilot
USS Princeton
Kevin Day
Operations Specialist Senior Chief
USS Princeton
Ryan Weigelt
Leading Petty Officer
USS Princeton
Gary Voorhis
Fire Controlman Petty Officer Third Class
USS Princeton
Patrick Hughes
Chief Master-at-Arms
USS Princeton
Jason Turner
Petty Officer Third Class
USS Princeton
"My job was to man the radars and ID everything that flew in the skies," Day said in the documentary film The Nimitz Encounters.
"When they'd show up on radar, Voorhis says, get the relative bearing and then run up to the bridge and look through a pair of heavily magnified binoculars in the direction the returns were coming from." Describing what he saw during the daytime, Voorhis says the objects were too far off to make out any distinguishing features, however, he could clearly see something moving erratically in the distance.
"Once we finished all the recalibration and brought it back up, the tracks were actually sharper and clearer," Voorhis says."Sometimes they'd be at an altitude of 80,000 or 60,000 feet. Other times they'd be around 30,000 feet, going like 100 knots. Their radar cross sections didn't match any known aircraft; they were 100 percent red. No squawk, no IFF (Identification Friend or Foe)" Gary Voorhis
"Hughes" jobs was to secure the hard drive data recorders from the airborne early-warning aircraft, the E-2 Hawkeye.
"We call them bricks, but they contain the software to run the airplane and they also record or can record a lot of the data that the air crew sees during the flight," said Hughes in a YouTube interview.
On November 14, as Hughes performed this routine task, he was unaware that the E-2 hard drives he was securing away in a classified safe had just come from the Hawkeye that Day first tried to use to intercept the mysterious UFOs.
In addition to turning over his data tapes, Voorhis says he was told by this chain of command he needed to reload the recorders for the ship's advanced Combat Engagement Center (CEC) because it had also been wiped clean, along with the optical drives with all the radio communications. "They even told me to erase everything that's in the shop " even the blank tapes." Voorhis says the only other time he can recall having to turn over his tapes like this was after an aircraft crash during one of his combat deployments. "
This recreation does a great job of telling all of the basics of this amazing story.
With this case we have multiple pilots who either seen the Tic Tac visually or they recorded it or tracked it on radar. We have radar techs that tracked in first with their equipment and who were able to visually see the UAP with very large binoculars. There is no chance this was a hoax, a radar glitch, a weather event, natural phenomenon or something China or Russia has manufactured. The DOD has ruled out this is a top secret special access program. This case and others like it are the beginning of the end of debunkers. We'll still need skeptics as we go forward but there is no need for debunkers any longer.
The entire crew of the Hawkeye also got a good look at the Tic Tac when it flew up along side of their aircraft.
Popular Mechanics is jumping on the UAP bandwagon now that's its socially acceptable for the military to talk about it.
The Pentagon probably has several smoking guns as far as UAP evidence goes. They have came out and said they have more video and we can't see any of it. If you listen to the interviews with the crew members above the government don't erase anything. All of this data is saved somewhere on some hard drives in Washington D.C. The military didn't just start collecting UAP evidence in 2004. They've been collecting, classifying and and hiding this evidence since atleast the 1950s.
This case has brought forth the:
The 5 observables.
1) Anti-gravity lift. Unlike any known aircraft, these objects have been sighted overcoming the earth’s gravity with no visible means of propulsion. They also lack any flight surfaces, such as wings. In the Nimitz incident, witnesses describe the crafts as tubular, shaped like a Tic Tac candy.2) Sudden and instantaneous acceleration. The objects may accelerate or change direction so quickly that no human pilot could survive the g-forces—they would be crushed. In the Nimitz incident, radar operators say they tracked one of the UFOs as it dropped from the sky at more than 30 times the speed of sound. Black Aces squadron commander David Fravor, the Nimitz-based fighter pilot who was sent to intercept one of the objects, likened its rapid side-to-side movements, later captured on infrared video, to that of a ping-pong ball. Radar operators on the USS Princeton, part of the Nimitz carrier group, tracked the object accelerating from a standing position to traveling 60 miles in a minute—an astounding 3,600 miles an hour. According to manufacturer Boeing, the F/A 18 Super Hornet fighter jet typically currently reaches a maximum speed of Mach 1.6, or about 1,200 miles an hour.
3) Hypersonic velocities without signatures. If an aircraft travels faster than the speed of sound, it typically leaves "signatures," like vapor trails and sonic booms. Many UFO accounts note the lack of such evidence.
4) Low observability, or cloaking. Even when objects are observed, getting a clear and detailed view of them—either through pilot sightings, radar or other means—remains difficult. Witnesses generally only see the glow or haze around them.
5) Trans-medium travel. Some UAP have been seen moving easily in and between different environments, such as space, the earth’s atmosphere and even water. In the Nimitz incident, witnesses described a UFO hovering over a churning "disturbance" just under the ocean's otherwise calm surface, leading to speculation that another craft had entered the water. USS Princeton radar operator Gary Vorhees later confirmed from a Navy sonar operator in the area that day that a craft was moving faster than 70 knots, roughly two times the speed of nuclear subs.
Knowing these 5 basic rules of UAP flight behavior you can then apply them to other UAP videos from the past to help you determine if it was really a UAP or just some drone in the sky.
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