Scientist Claims USS Nimitz UFO Might Have Been Looking For Something Underwater
Article by Jake Massey September 19, 2019 (ladbible.com)
• Kevin H. Knuth, a former NASA research scientist, has written a research paper entitled: ‘Estimating Flight Characteristics of Anomalous Unidentified Aerial Vehicles’ which claims that the ‘Tic-Tac’ UFO spotted by two jets from USS Nimitz carrier group off of San Deigo in 2004 may have been watching over something submerged under water.
• The Navy jets’ encounter with the ‘Tic-Tac’ UFO took place in 2004, but only came to light in December 2017 following a New York Times report which revealed the US Department of Defense ran a special program designated to tracking UFOs known as the ‘Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program’. The Times article included a video taken by Navy fliers of the Tic-Tac UFO in flight, (or “UAP” – “unidentified aerial phenomenon” as the Navy prefers to call them).
• On that day of the UAP sighting in 2004, Chief Petty Officer Kevin Day saw a mysterious submerged object in the water. Knuth relates in his research paper that, based on Day’s description, the UAPs acted as if they “were looking for something by slowly tracking south at 100 knots or so at a 28,000ft altitude. The Tic-Tac UAP was then observed to be hovering with erratic motion over the churning water.” “An encounter with the Tic-Tac UAP ensued. After the encounter the submerged object was no longer present.”
• Knuth continues: “Clearly, the UAP was interested in the submerged object.” “It is possible that this object and others like it are the reason that the UAPs were in the area.” “Day reported that the UAPs appeared to be avoiding the Nimitz Carrier Group and its aircraft, which is very different from the encounters on the East Coast involving the Roosevelt Carrier Group in which case the UAPs seemed to be seeking out encounters.”
A former NASA researcher has claimed the UFO spotted by two jets from USS Nimitz may have been watching over something submerged under water.
If none of this means anything to you, a little explanation. Basically, the encounter took place way back in 2004, but only came to light in 2017 following a New York Times report which revealed the US government had a special programme designated to tracking UFOs.
A video showed the UFO – which is formally known as a Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon (UAP) and looks a bit like a Tic-Tac – appearing to fly in front of camera.
Now, Kevin H. Knuth – a former NASA research scientist – has offered a theory as to what was going on, based on the description of witness and Navy Chief Petty Officer Kevin Day. The new hypothesis is based on the fact Day saw a mysterious submerged object in the water during the UAP sighting.
According to the Daily Star, Knuth writes in his research paper ‘Estimating Flight Characteristics of Anomalous Unidentified Aerial Vehicles’: “The thought was triggered by Kevin Day’s description of the UAPs as acting as if they were migrating.
“They also seemed to act like they were looking for something by slowly tracking south at 100 knots or so at 28,000ft altitude. The Tic-Tac UAP was then observed to be hovering with erratic motion over the churning water.
“An encounter with the Tic-Tac UAP ensued. After the encounter the submerged object was no longer present.
“Clearly, the UAP was interested in the submerged object.”
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The Tic-Tac UAP was then observed to be hovering with erratic motion over the churning water.”
“An encounter with the Tic-Tac UAP ensued. After the encounter the submerged object was no longer present.”
Knuth continues: “Clearly, the UAP was interested in the submerged object.”
Because the water was churning, military observers assume that there was an underwater object although none was seen. In an article, “An observed property of UAP in photographs”, evidence is presented that many UFOs in photos taken over the years are associated with a toroidal optical distortion near the craft. The evidence allows one to infer that the optical distortion was due to a strong magnetic and/or gravitational field. See the article in the WISE Journal, Vol. 6(4):117, 2017), or a reprint at http://www.treurniet.ca/tori/tori.htm.
The tictac image showed a toroidal pattern of churning water. See http://www.treurniet.ca/tori/ufo2004Tictac.htm. The suggestion is that the pattern was due to the field associated with the craft above the water, and not due to an object under the water. Of course, after the encounter, the churning stopped because the field stayed with the craft. This interpretation is perhaps more likely than two craft above and below water coordinating their movements. This is particularly so because of the familiar shape of the pattern in the water.