On November 10th, 2004, the USS Nimitz Aircraft Carrier Battle Group was conducting training missions southwest of San Diego, California. Among the Battle Group was the radar equipped missile cruiser USS Princeton which had recently been equipped with the most advanced radar system at the time: the Aegis SPY-1 Bravo. The senior enlisted radar operator, Kevin M. Day observed multiple unidentified objects in the vicinity of Catalina Island. The objects were initially observed at approximately 28,000’ and detected others descending from 80,000’, then moving south. They were observed descending to sea level in under one second, representing a constant speed of over 19,000 mph. Over a four day period, the radar operators observed a growing number of similar unidentified objects, at one point counting near 100 objects at a time. Kevin Day recalls “ufo’s were raining from the sky”. Four days after initial and then continued observations, the captain of the USS Princeton directed Kevin Day to initiate a change of operations and redirect fighter aircraft from the USS Nimitz to intercept the objects.

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    On November 14th, Wing Commander David Fravor and his wingman pilot Lt. Cmdr. Alex Dietrich were diverted from their training mission to “real world tasking” and were given coordinates to intercept an unknown craft.

    The ensuing interaction resulted in a nearly five minute contact with a 40’ long white object that defied current understandings of physics and engineering and concluded with a subsequent launch of another FA-18 Super Hornet aircraft, in which the Weapons System Officer (WSO) Commander Chad Underwood was successful in locating and filming the object with the fighter’s FLIR (Forward Looking Infrared) gun camera. That video would come to be known as "The Tic Tac Video" and represents what must be considered the single most well known, well documented, observed and recorded UAP contact in recorded history. According to numerous first hand, US Navy trained observers, the event was recorded on multiple military weapons platforms simultaneously including FLIR camera, USS Princeton Aegis SPY-1 Bravo radar system, and sonar equipment from the nuclear powered attack submarine USS Louisville.

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    This incident, along with incidents in 2014 and 2015 from the USS Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Group are primary components in the December 16th, 2017 New York Times article which changed the public understanding of how we now know…

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                                                                   the neighbors are here

 

 

“November, 2004, off the coast of southern California, the radar operators on the USS Princeton begin to see objects coming, essentially from space”

Christopher K. Mellon

Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence

 

 

“These unidentified flying phenomenon, or objects, you know, I don’t know what they are, but we have established one thing: they exist.”

Senator Harry Reid / Former Majority Leader of US Senate

 

 

“What we are seeing on gun camera footage is being validated and verified by eyewitness testimony which is also being further substantiated by radar data.”

Luis D. Elizondo

Former Counterintelligence Agent

Former Head of Department of Defense Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program

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Our organization would like to extend a special thanks to Christopher Mellon, Luis Elizondo, David Fravor, Alex Dietrich, Dave Underwood, and Kevin Day for their efforts in bringing the experiences of members of the US Navy with UAP and the Phenomenon to the general public's attention and for their continued efforts towards disclosure.