Unidentified Aerial Phenomena: The 2004 USS Princeton Tic Tac Encounter and Its Aftermath
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In 2004 two Navy pilots, Fravor and Dietrich, saw a smooth white oblong object that dropped from about 80,000 feet to sea level in an instant, hovered over a churned-water patch, and sped away, while another pilot, Underwood, filmed infrared footage of it (the Tic Tac), a case that drew public attention after a 2017 NYT report, was confirmed authentic in 2020, and led to a 2023 congressional hearing about possible unknown advanced technology.