LCDR James Slaight — Naval Academy 1993, 20 years Navy, 2700+ tactical jet hours — gave SCU his FIRST EVER public interview in February 2018. He had never spoken publicly before. Description of the Tic Tac: 40-50ft long, 10-15ft wide, off-white coloured, no sound, no markings, no fins, no vents, no exhaust ports. “Defined edges” but around those edges: “a fuzzy or wavy looking border around the entire surfaces of the object” — like heat waves off a hot paved road or a carrier deck in the Gulf. When Fravor descended to engage, Slaight watched from above as the craft started on a DIRECT PATH TOWARD FRAVOR’S JET — then changed course and began circling around his plane before stopping, hovering for one or two seconds, and departing horizontally at a slight upward angle. No instrumentation on Slaight’s aircraft was affected. Slaight was emphatic in interview that media had confused the ATFLIR footage release date with the actual 2004 encounter date.
