USS Nimitz UFO incident

by tension where one side wanted confirmation and another maintained caution about publicizing classified information.

The second witness, Navy Commander David Fravor, is best remembered for the 2004 incident off the coast of San Diego involving what many media outlets would later dub the Tic-Tac UFO, a black, cigar-shaped object that hovered above a super hornet before accelerating toward a cloud bank.

with a speed and agility no known aircraft could replicate.

His testimony in July 2023 revisited the same core details, the anomalous maneuvering, the lack of any engine noise or visible propulsion, and the subsequent scramble among crew members to keep the incident out of the public domain.

But then at some point, the frequency of the culturally significant UFO sightings appears to have declined.

Yes, we still have famous cases like the 2004 Nimitz incident.

The Nimitz incident is probably right on up there on par with what Lawrence Coyne and his crew described encountering.

Now admittedly, the way that Coyne and his crew described their interaction with that object, it beaming a light at them and seemingly lifting or levitating their helicopter while they were there hovering and looking at this thing in front of them.

Yes, that experience was a little more dramatic than the 2004 Nimitz incident, but still, what Commander Fravor and the other pilots, Alex Dietrich and the others who were involved in that incident back in 2004, what they described was no less harrowing.

In fact, as we pointed out on the podcast some time ago when we discussed this episode fairly recently, we revisited this case and some of the things in the documents, the deep dives and the details, and a lot of people wrote in and said, you know, you talked about things about that case on that episode I have never heard anywhere.

To which I would simply say, well, you got to be a documents geek like I am and go read the firsthand documents and the investigations, the transcripts, the interviews, the FOIA documents that have been released with the quotes from the pilots.

They were probably trying to cash in and win a National Enquirer prize for best UFO sighting.

This, along with witness testimony reports through the RCMP and the Department of National Defense, convinced Styles that something or some things were indeed recovered in the waters.

Perhaps the most compelling development in the Shag Harbour incident is its striking resemblance to the now famous Tic Tac UFO incident.

During a routine training mission in 2004 off the coast of California, Commander David Fravor, a Navy squadron leader, was ordered to intercept an unidentified object caught on radar.

While trying to visually investigate this object, which he described as being shaped like a Tic Tac, he watched in amazement as the object performed extremely unconventional maneuvers.

Reacting to Fravor's pursuit, the object descended from 80,000 feet in altitude to 20,000 feet near the surface of the ocean, and then shot back up to 65,000 feet within seven seconds, disappearing completely out of sight.

While the Tic Tac UFO and its incredible maneuvers were compelling enough, what Fravor described next was what moved this to not just a UFO, but a possible unidentified submerged object as well.

In an exclusive interview with investigative reporter George Knapp, Fravor explained that, quote, "It created a disturbance on the water uncharacteristic of a helicopter or plane."

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