2004 Nimitz Encounter: Navy Pilots Describe a Tic-Tac–Shaped UAP and the Pentagon’s UAP Task Force

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Cmdr. Dave Fravor and Lt. Cmdr. Alex Dietrich’s 2004 sighting of a wingless, Tic-Tac–shaped object led the Pentagon to establish the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force in 2020 and to encourage service members to report encounters, with Christopher Mellon and Senator Marco Rubio warning the phenomena could signal foreign surveillance or other advanced threats even as origin and technology remain unknown.