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FLIR1: the 2004 USS Nimitz "Tic Tac" video
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Seventy-six seconds of infrared footage from a Navy jet off San Diego in 2004, of an object that pilots said moved in ways no aircraft could. The Pentagon released it in April 2020. Watch it, then read what was and was not explained.
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EventThe USS Nimitz "Tic Tac" and the Navy UAP VideosNavy pilots off California in 2004 reported a white, oval object about 40 feet long that rose to meet one jet as it spiraled down, then vanished. Infrared video of it became the Pentagon's officially released Tic Tac clip. Skeptics say the sensors distort ordinary things. What did the pilots say they saw?RecordODNI Preliminary Assessment: Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (2021)A 2021 US intelligence report reviewed 144 military reports of unidentified aerial phenomena and could explain only one, a large deflating balloon. Some objects reportedly moved against the wind or at speed without a visible means of propulsion. The word alien never appears. So what does the report actually conclude?
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