HISTORICAL

Nimitz UAP incident — US Navy pilots from USS Nimitz tracked a Tic-Tac shaped object that descended from 80000 feet to sea level in seconds. Forward-looking infrared video was later declassified by the Pentagon.

On November 14, 2004, US Navy F/A-18F Super Hornets from the USS Nimitz Carrier Strike Group encountered a fleet of unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) off the coast of San Diego. The case became the first publicly confirmed modern military UAP encounter. [Radar Tracking] Over several days, the USS Princeton's advanced SPY-1 radar tracked dozens of objects descending from over 80,000 feet to sea level in less than a second — speeds and altitude changes exceeding any known aircraft. The objects then hovered at 50 feet above the ocean. [Visual Encounter] Commander David Fravor and Lt Cdr Jim Slaight were vectored to investigate. They visually confirmed a 40-foot-long white Tic-Tac shaped object hovering over a churning patch of ocean with no visible propulsion. When Fravor moved to intercept, the object mirrored his approach before accelerating and disappearing in seconds. [The FLIR Video] A follow-up flight by Cdr Chad Underwood captured the now-famous "FLIR1" forward-looking infrared video, which was later leaked and officially released by the Pentagon in 2020. Two additional Navy videos ("GIMBAL" and "GOFAST") were released alongside it. [Pentagon Acknowledgement] In 2017 the New York Times revealed the existence of the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP). In 2022, NASA convened an independent study group, and the Pentagon established AARO (All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office) to investigate cases like Nimitz openly. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_USS_Nimitz_UFO_incident

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Source: Wikipedia