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Retired Navy Cmdr. David Fravor was commander of the F/A-18F squadron on the USS Nimitz when he says he spotted the object during a flight off the coast of Southern California on Nov. 14, 2004.
In a 2021 interview with "60 Minutes," Fravor, a graduate of the Top Gun naval flight school, also spoke about what he saw.
He and Lt. Cmdr. Alex Dietrich were training with the Nimitz Carrier Strike Group about 100 miles southwest of San Diego, Favor told "60 Minutes." At the time, advanced radar on a ship that was a part of their training group, the USS Princeton, detected what operators called "multiple anomalous aerial vehicles" over the horizon, descending 80,000 feet in less than a second. Fravor and Dietrich diverted to investigate.
"I said, 'Dude, do you, do you see that thing down there?' And we saw this little white Tic Tac-looking object. And it's just kind of moving above the whitewater area," Fravor told "60 Minutes." During the training exercise, Fravor and Dietrich each had a weapons system officer in the back seat of their F/A-18F. "There was four of us in the airplanes literally watching this thing for roughly about five minutes," Fravor said in his 2021 interview.
Fravor went in for a closer look. He described the "Tic Tac" object mirroring his movements, saying "it was aware we were there."
The object was about the size of Fravor's F/A-18F, with no markings, no wings and no exhaust plumes, he said. When Fravor tried to cut off the UAP, it accelerated so quickly that it seemed to disappear. He said it was detected roughly 60 miles away less than a minute later.
"I think what we experienced was, like I said, well beyond the material science and the capabilities that we had at the time, that we have currently or that we're going to have in the next 10 to 20 years," Fravor testified Wednesday before the House Oversight Committee's national security subcommittee.
The Nimitz Tic Tac incident is one of the strongest modern UAP cases because it leaves the public with enough real material to ask disciplined questions.
There is a military context. There is named witness testimony. There is officially released video. There is later congressional attention. That already puts the case in a different category from rumour-led UFO stories. At the same time, the public record remains incomplete. The case is best understood as a serious modern UAP encounter with unresolved elements, not as a solved mystery or confirmed extraterrestrial event.
That balance is what makes the Nimitz incident worth reading carefully.
In a 2021 interview with "60 Minutes," Fravor, a graduate of the Top Gun naval flight school, also spoke about what he saw.
He and Lt. Cmdr. Alex Dietrich were training with the Nimitz Carrier Strike Group about 100 miles southwest of San Diego, Favor told "60 Minutes." At the time, advanced radar on a ship that was a part of their training group, the USS Princeton, detected what operators called "multiple anomalous aerial vehicles" over the horizon, descending 80,000 feet in less than a second. Fravor and Dietrich diverted to investigate.
"I said, 'Dude, do you, do you see that thing down there?' And we saw this little white Tic Tac-looking object. And it's just kind of moving above the whitewater area," Fravor told "60 Minutes." During the training exercise, Fravor and Dietrich each had a weapons system officer in the back seat of their F/A-18F. "There was four of us in the airplanes literally watching this thing for roughly about five minutes," Fravor said in his 2021 interview.
Fravor went in for a closer look. He described the "Tic Tac" object mirroring his movements, saying "it was aware we were there."
The object was about the size of Fravor's F/A-18F, with no markings, no wings and no exhaust plumes, he said. When Fravor tried to cut off the UAP, it accelerated so quickly that it seemed to disappear. He said it was detected roughly 60 miles away less than a minute later.
"I think what we experienced was, like I said, well beyond the material science and the capabilities that we had at the time, that we have currently or that we're going to have in the next 10 to 20 years," Fravor testified Wednesday before the House Oversight Committee's national security subcommittee.
The Nimitz Tic Tac incident is one of the strongest modern UAP cases because it leaves the public with enough real material to ask disciplined questions.
There is a military context. There is named witness testimony. There is officially released video. There is later congressional attention. That already puts the case in a different category from rumour-led UFO stories. At the same time, the public record remains incomplete. The case is best understood as a serious modern UAP encounter with unresolved elements, not as a solved mystery or confirmed extraterrestrial event.
That balance is what makes the Nimitz incident worth reading carefully.
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