UAP Oracle Intelligence Terminal — Case File CF-009
USS Nimitz Tic Tac Encounter
📅 November 14, 2004
📍 Pacific Ocean — 100mi SW of San Diego, CA
CONTEMPORARY MILITARY
VERDICT: 6+ Naval Aviators
📍 Pacific Ocean — 100mi SW of San Diego, CA
CONTEMPORARY MILITARY
VERDICT: 6+ Naval Aviators
Pentagon Confirmed
Witnesses
FLIR Video
Documentation
10/10
Evidence Quality
Catalytic — triggered modern UAP disclosure
Historical Significance
Commander David Fravor and aviators from the USS Nimitz Carrier Strike Group encountered a white, 40-foot tic-tac-shaped object displaying flight characteristics impossible under known physics — no wings, no propulsion signature, instant acceleration from 80,000ft to sea level. The USS Princeton had been tracking anomalous objects for two weeks prior. This case produced the first official Pentagon-confirmed UAP footage, released publicly in 2020.
Consensus Narrative
The standard explanation invokes sensor artefacts, parallax error, and atmospheric distortion. The Navy’s belated acknowledgement frames it as an unresolved airspace intrusion — possible adversary technology. Official conclusion: Unidentified.
Documentary Record
The USS Princeton’s SPY-1 radar tracked objects dropping from 80,000ft to sea level in seconds — a feat impossible for any known aircraft. Fravor’s gun camera footage was seized by unknown personnel immediately after landing. A second wave pilot, Lt. Cmdr. Chad Underwood, captured the FLIR footage but noted the object appeared on no radar during his engagement. The Black Vault’s FOIA requests confirmed the Navy holds additional footage it refuses to release on national security grounds.
⚡ Clues Often Missed
▶The USS Princeton had been tracking the objects for two consecutive weeks before the pilot intercept — this was not a spontaneous sighting but an extended pattern.
▶Fravor’s gun camera film was taken by two unknown men in civilian clothes who boarded the ship the same day — this has never been officially explained or acknowledged.
▶The object demonstrated ‘transmedium’ behaviour — the USS Omaha later filmed a spherical object descend into the ocean, establishing underwater capability.
▶Congress received classified briefings in 2019-2020. The Navy confirmed UAPs had been entering restricted airspace ‘regularly since 2014’ — a systematic pattern, not anomalies.
🔍 Open Threads
◉Who were the two civilian-dressed men who removed the gun camera footage from the Nimitz? No official explanation has ever been provided.
◉What was the USS Princeton tracking for two weeks prior — and why was that data not included in the initial disclosures?
◉The GOFAST and GIMBAL videos involve the USS Theodore Roosevelt in 2015 — a separate strike group experiencing the same phenomenon 11 years later. Is there a pattern of systematic engagement?
◉AARO received 650+ UAP case reports by 2023. What fraction involve the same flight characteristics observed in 2004?
📁 Primary Sources
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