The 2004 USS Nimitz “Tic Tac” Encounter: A Pivotal Multi-Sensor UAP Case

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Two Navy pilots, Commander David Fravor and Lieutenant Commander Alex Dietrich, on the USS Nimitz visually observed a smooth wingless white object nicknamed Tic Tac that outmaneuvered their F/A-18s, with radar on USS Princeton and an E-2C Hawkeye confirming anomalous high‑altitude contacts that descended and hovered, and Chad Underwood captured about 90 seconds of infrared video showing a small heat source as the object accelerated away, a landmark multi‑sensor unidentified phenomena case that helped spur official inquiries and ongoing oversight by entities like AARO.