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US Navy Serviceman Who Saw ‘Tic Tac’ UFO Demands Apology for Ridicule He Endured

July 12, 2021
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Article by Max Gorbachev June 28, 2021 (sputniknews.com)

• The much-anticipated Pentagon UAP Task Force report revealed that US authorities have no explanation for more than 140 UFO sightings, including the ‘Tic Tac’ UFO spotted by US Navy personnel while conducting naval exercises off of the coast of southern California in November of 2004. The UFO research organization ‘To The Stars Academy of Arts and Science’ leaked the Tic Tac UFO video to the NY Times in December 2017, and the Pentagon later confirmed the veracity of the video.

• The Tic Tac UFO was first spotted by the USS Princeton’s radars, before American pilots on the USS Nimitz were told to check on it. But the pilots, including Commander David Fravor, couldn’t keep up with it. They claimed that the object travelled at a speed they had never seen before. “There was no propulsion, there was no wings. It rapidly accelerates and disappears. Weirdest thing I have ever seen in my life”, said Fravor. When Fravor wanted to check the radar tapes of the encounter, the tapes from the USS Princeton were missing. Someone had “taken that page from the logbook”.

• Kevin Day was one of the Navy serviceman who first spotted the Tic Tac UFO on the USS Princeton. “I had tried in vain to get somebody, anybody, to listen to me,” said Day. “Yet, every time I tried to describe what we had witnessed… I was openly laughed at. At the time my concern was purely safety of flight because of objects that I knew to be real and inexplicable were in our training areas.” But for years, Day says he was butt of jokes by higher-ranking officers. Even his then-boss asked him ‘what the fuck he had been smoking’.

• Now retired from the Navy, Day says he has no words to describe the vindication he feels following the release of the Pentagon’s report on UFOs. And Days is demanding a public apology from the Department of Defense and the Navy for the abuse he endured. “I… hold NAVY/DOD directly responsible for what I and others went through as a result of trying to uphold our own duty and simply do the job the American people paid and expected us to do,” Day posted on his Facebook page. “I and others deserve a formal public apology and a redress for the costs I/we paid.”

The encounter with an eerie tic-tac-shaped object occurred during US naval exercises in

**Day (center) with other former Navy personnel who saw the Tic Tac UFO in 2004**

2004. However, the world only became aware of it in 2017, when the footage was released by the To The Stars Academy of Arts and Science, an organisation that conducts research on extraterrestrial life. The Pentagon later confirmed the veracity of the video.

A US serviceman, who first spotted the infamous Tic Tac UFO, has demanded a public apology from the Department of Defence and the Navy following the release of a Pentagon dossier that revealed the US military has no explanation for the sightings of mysterious objects spotted by civilians and servicemen.

Kevin Day wrote that for years he was the butt of jokes by higher-ranking officers, while his then-boss plainly asked him “what the f**k” he had been “smoking”.

“I had tried in vain to get somebody, anybody, to listen to me. Yet, every time I tried to describe what we had witnessed out in SOCAL during TIC TAC, I was openly laughed at. At the time my concern was purely safety of flight because of objects that I knew to be real and inexplicable were in our training areas. I also hold NAVY/DOD directly responsible for what I and others went through as a result of trying to uphold our own duty and simply do the job the American people paid and expected us to do .. I and others deserve a formal public apology and a redress for the costs I/we paid”, he wrote in a post on Facebook.

The former servicemen said he has no words to describe the vindication he feels following the release of the Pentagon’s report on UFOs.

Tic Tac UFO

As mentioned earlier, the encounter with the mysterious tic-tac-shaped object occurred in November of 2004. The eerie UFO was first spotted by the USS Princeton’s radars, before American pilots on the USS Nimitz were told to check on it.

Yet, all four pilots failed to get close to the object, which they argue travelled at a speed they had never seen before.

“There was no propulsion, there was no wings. It rapidly accelerates and disappears. Weirdest thing I have ever seen in my life”, said pilot David Fravor. Fravor also revealed that after the encounter he wanted to check on radar tapes, but when he tried all the tapes from the USS Princeton were missing.

“I was chatting to someone at the archives and they’ve said someone has taken that page from the logbook”, he said.

The much-anticipated Pentagon dossier on UFOs revealed that US authorities still have no explanation for more than 140 sightings of mysterious objects, including the Tic Tac UFO, spotted by civilians and servicemen.

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Roswell Festival-Goers Don’t Buy the Government’s UFO Report

July 10, 2021
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Article by Ben Wolfgang July 2, 2021 (washingtontimes.com)

• A record crowd of UFO enthusiasts came to Roswell, New Mexico over the Fourth of July weekend for the annual Roswell UFO Festival, where thousands converge on the small town to partake of the alien-themed concerts, games, outdoor movie showings, yoga, and a host of other events.

• This year’s festival had a special intrigue as the Pentagon and Office of the Director of National Intelligence just released an unclassified UAP Task Force report that investigated 144 military encounters with unidentified craft and could only explain one as a deflating balloon. The study claimed that while UFOs involve “breakthrough technologies” that could come from the Chinese, the Russians, or even extraterrestrials, they are almost certainly a national security threat to the U.S.

• For Roswell festival-goers and professional researchers alike, that explanation is absurd. What the people really want to know is how much information the government is withholding from the American people. The typical Roswell festival-goer can handle the truth. Carla Smith, 33, her best friend, Liz Keneski, 34, came from Austin, Texas. “People are open to it,” says Smith, “which is the first step to anything, learning more about it, being open to it,” Smith is even open to the idea that some extraterrestrials can travel via consciousness, not through the physical domain. Such theories are no longer laughed off. “Now it’s cool to believe in it.”

• Debra Tucker, 52, and her mother Joyce Rowell, 75, traveled to Roswell from Tecumseh, Oklahoma. Taking a break from an alien-themed coffeehouse scavenger hunt, Rowell asked: “Why don’t they (the government) tell us the truth?” Tucker said she is open-minded to all possibilities, including that at least some UFO sightings could be connected to extraterrestrial life. “I definitely think it could be true,” she said. “I haven’t ever seen one but I think it’s definitely possible. There’s so much out there we don’t know about.”

• A guest speaker at the International UFO Museum and Research Center, UFO expert Kathleen Marden took exception to the government’s assertion that UFOs could be Chinese or Russian technology. “These objects can hover at 80,000 feet for hours on end. We can’t do that. They can drop in a couple of seconds to 20,000 feet and hover there, and then they can descend to 50 feet above the churn of the ocean and bounce back and forth like a ping pong ball. We can’t do that. They have aerodynamic capabilities that, as far as we know, no one on this planet can replicate,” Marden told The Washington Times. “If people want to explain that away as Russia or China, then why haven’t they invaded? Why haven’t they decided to rule the world?”

ROSWELL, New Mexico — The federal government’s recent landmark UFO study failed to offer the clear answers many hoped for.

In fact, Joyce Rowell was left with the same question she’s always had.

“Why don’t they tell us the truth?” Ms. Rowell, 75, said Friday as she and her daughter, Debra Tucker, searched for the next clue on an alien-themed scavenger hunt inside a cozy coffeehouse in downtown Roswell.

Ms. Rowell and Ms. Tucker, 52, traveled here from Tecumseh, Oklahoma, for the city’s annual UFO Festival, which has drawn a record crowd this year amid skyrocketing public interest in the subject and the release last week of the government’s widely anticipated unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) report.

Inside Roswell’s Stellar Coffee Co. — which boasts the “Spock Special,” “Martian Sunrise” and “Alien Soda” among its menu offerings — Ms. Tucker said she remains open-minded to all possibilities, including that at least some UFO sightings could be connected to extraterrestrial life.

“I definitely think it could be true,” she said. “I haven’t ever seen one but I think it’s definitely possible. There’s so much out there we don’t know about.”

Ms. Tucker and Ms. Rowell are among the thousands who came to Roswell this weekend for the seemingly endless agenda of alien-themed concerts, games, outdoor movie showings, yoga, and a host of other events. But beneath the family-friendly atmosphere are serious questions about just how much information the government is withholding from the American people.

The recent UAP report, released by the Pentagon and Office of the Director of National Intelligence, examined 144 military encounters with unidentified craft and could only explain one, which was believed to be a deflating balloon.

UFOs, the study said, could represent a major national security threat to the U.S. and may involve so-called “breakthrough technologies” that cannot be explained using today’s scientific knowledge.

While the document didn’t rule out extraterrestrials, it also raised the possibility that the craft could be high-tech Chinese or Russian vehicles or weapons. For Roswell festival-goers and professional researchers alike, that explanation is absurd.

“These objects can hover at 80,000 feet for hours on end. We can’t do that. They can drop in a couple of seconds to 20,000 feet and hover there, and then they can descend to 50 feet above the churn of the ocean and bounce back and forth like a ping pong ball. We can’t do that,” said author, researcher and social scientist Kathleen Marden, one of the UFO experts speaking this weekend at the city’s International UFO Museum and Research Center.

1:40 minute video on the Roswell UFO Festival 2021 (‘KRQE’ YouTube)

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Tic Tac Navy Pilot Alex Dietrich Wants to ‘Normalize’ UFOs

July 3, 2021
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Article from Reuters June 25, 2021 (nypost.com)

• In November 2004, during a routine training mission with the USS Nimitz aircraft carrier off the Southern California coast, Navy pilots David Fravor and Alex Dietrich were asked by another warship to investigate radar contacts in the area moving in an inexplicable fashion. The two pilots first noticed a “churning” of the ocean surface before seeing a smooth, white oblong object resembling a large ‘Tic Tac’ breath mint flying at high speed over the water. When Fravor turned to “engage with” the object, “it appeared to respond in a way that we didn’t recognize” because it seemed to lack “any visible flight control surfaces or means of propulsion,” Dietrich recalled.

• Now, with the release of the Senate UAP Task Force “Intelligence Assessment” Report and a CBS “60 minutes” interview, Dietrich has found herself at the center of a storm of UFO disclosure. “I don’t consider myself a whistle blower … I don’t identify as a UFO person,” the retired Navy Lieutenant Commander told Reuters. Since agreeing to enter the public spotlight, Dietrich has addressed dozens of video calls from journalists asking about what she saw in 2004. Her answer remains the same, as it has for the past 17 years. “We don’t know what it was, but it could have been a natural phenomenon in human activity. But the point was that it was weird and we couldn’t recognize it.”

• Dietrich said she wants to reduce the stigma attached to reporting UFO sightings and hopes more people can speak up without fear of ridicule. “Folks might be concerned about their careers or their church or something like that. They don’t want to be the kooky UFO person, so I guess I’m trying to normalize it by talking about it,” she said.

• While the UAP Task Force report covers more than 120 documented cases of enigmatic objects exhibiting speed and maneuverability exceeding known aviation technologies, Dietrich said she has no opinion on the report and was not privy to its contents. She would like to hear more from pilots who have had similar UFO sightings, however. “There’s a common humanity, I guess, of being a little bit shocked, a little bit delighted, a little bit nervous, confused, all of that. And so, recognizing that in another human, that can be comforting in a way,” she said. “I hope I’m not the UFO, Tic Tac person for the rest of my life. This is not what I envisioned for myself.”

WASHINGTON, June 24 – Retired US Navy Lieutenant Commander Alex Dietrich

has found herself in the glare of media attention ahead of a highly anticipated government report on UFOs, a subject she says she has little interest in, despite actually encountering one on the job.

“I don’t consider myself a whistle blower … I don’t identify as a UFO person,” the former fighter pilot told Reuters in a Zoom interview, days before the report, expected to feature her own experience and dozens of others like it, was due for presentation to Congress.

During a routine training mission with the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz off the Southern California coast in November 2004, Dietrich and her then-commanding officer, fellow pilot David Fravor,

were asked by another warship to investigate radar contacts in the area moving in an inexplicable fashion.

She recounted they first noticed an unusual “churning” of the ocean surface before seeing what she and Fravor have described as a smooth, white oblong object resembling a large Tic Tac breath mint flying at high speed over the water.

When Fravor in his jet turned to “engage with” the object, “it appeared to respond in a way that we didn’t recognize” because it seemed to lack “any visible flight control surfaces or means of propulsion,” Dietrich recalled.

Footage of what Dietrich and Fravor witnessed that day, now popularly known as the Tic Tac incident, will likely be included in the upcoming report to Congress, along with two other declassified videos taken by US Navy fighter jets in 2015 in similar encounters with what the government calls unidentified aerial phenomena or UAP.

The US Navy has previously confirmed the videos as authentic.

Dietrich, now a mother of three, has discussed her experience in a recent joint appearance with Fravor on the CBS News program “60 Minutes,” and has since addressed dozens of video calls from other journalists asking to know more about what she saw in 2004.

Her answer remains the same, as it has for the past 17 years.

“We don’t know what it was, but it could have been a natural phenomenon in human activity. But the point was that it was weird and we couldn’t recognize it,” Dietrich said, speaking from a Colorado hotel room she was sharing with her children and two dogs.

Juggling media queries amid a cross-country family move is exhausting, but Dietrich said she wants to reduce the stigma attached to reporting UFO sightings and hopes more people can speak up without fear of ridicule.

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Scientist Kevin Knuth Looks at the Physics of UFOs

July 2, 2021
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Article by Jerry Clayton June 19, 2021 (tpr.org)

• Kevin Knuth (pictured above) is an associate professor of physics at the University of NY at Albany and a former NASA research scientist at the Ames Research Center. He’s authored a paper titled ‘Estimating Flight Characteristics of Anomalous Unidentified Aerial Vehicles’, which reviewed case studies of UFO sightings from 1951 to present day, including the sightings of objects near the USS Nimitz aircraft carrier in 2004. All the reports consist of reliable eyewitness testimony and, more importantly, corroborating radar data.

• In the Nimitz case, objects were tracked on radar several times, descending from 28,000 feet, which is about five miles up, down to sea level in about 8.7 seconds. “So those accelerations we estimated were on the order of about 5000 G’s, which is 5,000 times the acceleration of gravity, which is really crazy,” said Knuth. “Our fighter jets can really only handle about 13 G’s before the wings get ripped off.” At midpoint on the way down, the craft would have been traveling at approximately 35,000 miles per hour through the air and without a sonic boom.

• Knuth says he’s disappointed there has not been more serious study done by scientists. “We’ve had 70 years, three quarters of a century where we’ve had these things flying in our airspace. They show up in military bases. They show up over nuclear weapons sites, and virtually nothing is known about them. …[E]ventually when we finally learn what these things are — this is going to be one of the greatest intelligence failures in history.”

• Knuth believes that these UFOs could be built by a government or an aerospace company, “except for a few important points.” “One is the accelerations are really anomalous to the point where it’s really not clear how the physics would work in that case. So, whoever has been making these things would have had to do not just have one technological leapfrog, but it would be multiple technological leapfrogs. And that would be quite surprising.” “ And more importantly, these things have been observed before. People have been able to fly.”

• What does Knuth expect from the Senate Intelligence Committee UAP Task Force report? “I expect that there probably will be a public component to the report … [which] will probably leave things a bit up in the air, whereas I would hope that the classified version would actually have more information.” If the report hints at anything other than worldly technology, [that] information will be slow to be released. “Some of this might be a little too shocking for us to handle all at once,” says Knuth. “[S]o they might instead try to ease us into it a bit.”

**‘Tic Tac’ UFO seen off of the USS Nimitz in 2004**

In case you may have missed it, a big news story has been bubbling to the surface.

**‘Tic Tac’ type UFO seen over England on June 13th**

The U.S. Navy confirmed that earlier leaked videos did, in fact, show what they call UAP’s or unidentified aerial phenomena. The Pentagon has admitted they’ve been studying them and recently NASA has announced its own investigation. So it seems as if the government is concerned about the national security threat these phenomena may pose.

Academia has been slow to take up the subject, possibly for fear of ridicule, but even that is changing. Professor Kevin Knuth is an associate professor of physics at the University in Albany. Among other things, he is a former NASA research scientist at the Ames Research Center.

Knuth authored a paper titled Estimating Flight Characteristics of Anomalous

Unidentified Aerial Vehicles. It included case studies from 1951 to present day, which included sightings of objects near the USS Nimitz aircraft carrier in 2004.

All the reports consist of reliable eyewitness testimony and, more importantly, corroborating radar data. In the Nimitz case, objects were tracked on radar several times, descending from 28,000 feet, which is about five miles up, down to sea level in about 8.7 seconds. How fast is that? Knuth did the math.

**submersible UFO seen off of San Diego**

“So those accelerations we estimated were on the order of about 5000 G’s, which is 5,000 times the acceleration of gravity, which is really crazy. Our fighter jets can really only handle about 13 G’s before the wings get ripped off,” he said.

At midpoint on the way down, the craft would have been traveling at approximately 35,000 miles per hour through the air and without a sonic boom. Knuth says he’s disappointed there has not been more serious study done by scientists.

“For me, it’s a little disconcerting.” he said. “We’ve had 70 years, three quarters of a century where we’ve had these things flying in our airspace. They show up in military bases. They show up over nuclear weapons sites, and virtually nothing is known about them. And I look at this as probably, I think, eventually when we finally learn what these things are — this is going to be one of the greatest intelligence failures in history,” said Knuth.

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Raelians Looking Forward to Scientific Scrutiny of UFOs

June 24, 2021
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June 16, 2021 (prnewswire.com)

• The International Raelian Movement believes that an advanced human civilization came to Earth thousands of years ago to scientifically engineer all life forms, including human beings ‘in their image’. “References to these scientists and their work can be found in the ancient texts of many cultures, but our primitive ancestors—mesmerized by their technology—mistook them for gods,” explained Raelian spokesperson Brigitte Boisselier, PhD.

• For several decades, Rael, the spiritual Raelian leader, has predicted an increase in UFO sightings. “This influx,” says Boisselier, “is meant to increase public awareness [of] extraterrestrial life and prepare the world for [the extraterrestrials’] official return at the Embassy we wish to build to welcome them.”

• Raelians enthusiastically await the UAP Task Force report. It is said to review more than 120 ‘UFO incidents’ from the past 20 years. According to the New York Times previews published on June 3, the report’s conclusion “will state that these incidents weren’t caused by any US advanced technology, but it will also fail to provide evidence linking these incidents with extraterrestrial visitations.”

• “Whatever the conclusions of this report will be, we rejoice to the idea that 120 additional UFO sightings will be made available for the public, and for scientists and experts alike, to review sightings that have been well documented by Army and Navy officers who are trained to recognize foreign technologies, but yet cannot arrive at a conclusion as to their terrestrial origins,” said Boisselier.

• “The most revealing aspect of these sightings might not necessarily be the technology per se, but rather the display of maneuvers that suggest a high degree of playfulness and peaceful teasing of the Navy fighter pilots by whoever flies these crafts,” says Boisselier. “Why such an alleged enemy would take so long to reveal itself over decades should be explained once and for all.” Whether these UFO incidents are irrefutable evidence of extraterrestrial visitations or man-made celestial phenomena, the Raelians look forward to scientific scrutiny. “We remain confident that their conclusions will eliminate all possible terrestrial origins and move the debate from ‘who’ to ‘why’,” stated Boisselier.

• According to recent polls, more than 60% of people around the world believe that there are other forms of life in the Universe. About 40% believe extraterrestrials are closely monitoring our planet. “[I]t’s refreshing to see this number increase steadily,” said Boisselier . “We are confident that the upcoming UAP report will bring us closer to this reality, and to the truth.”

LAS VEGAS – Raelians await the UAP Task Force report to be released this month with reasoned

enthusiasm. The report, produced under the auspices of a Pentagon group, is said to review more than 120 ‘UFO incidents’ from the past 20 years. According to the New York Times previews published on June 3, the report’s conclusion “will state that these incidents weren’t caused by any US advanced technology, but it will also fail to provide evidence linking these incidents with extraterrestrial visitations.”

“Whatever the conclusions of this report will be, we rejoice to the idea that 120 additional UFO sightings will be made available for the public, and for scientists and experts alike, to review—sightings that have been well documented by Army and Navy officers who are trained to recognize foreign technologies, but yet cannot arrive at a conclusion as to their terrestrial origins,” said Brigitte Boisselier, PhD, spokesperson for the International Raelian Movement.

Whether these incidents are irrefutable evidence of extraterrestrial visitations or man-made celestial phenomena should be decided by scientists who are best positioned to apply scientific rigor using the most cutting-edge tools to analyze data and to

explain how these UAPs move, their trajectories, and their still-puzzling patterns. “We remain confident that their conclusions will eliminate all possible terrestrial origins and move the debate from ‘who’ to ‘why’,” stated Boisselier.

“The most revealing aspect of these sightings might not necessarily be the technology per se, but rather the display of maneuvers that suggest a high degree of playfulness and peaceful teasing of the Navy fighter pilots by whoever flies these crafts. Why such an alleged enemy would take so long to reveal itself over decades should be explained once and for all,” added Boisselier.

According to Raelians, a vast majority of these sightings are signs from an advanced civilization that has come to Earth thousands of years ago to scientifically engineer all life forms, including human beings ‘in their image’. “References to these scientists and their work can be found in the ancient texts of many cultures, but our primitive ancestors—mesmerized by their technology—mistook them for gods,” explained Boisselier.

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US Navy Serviceman Who Saw ‘Tic Tac’ UFO Demands Apology for Ridicule He Endured

Roswell Festival-Goers Don’t Buy the Government’s UFO Report

Tic Tac Navy Pilot Alex Dietrich Wants to ‘Normalize’ UFOs

Scientist Kevin Knuth Looks at the Physics of UFOs

Raelians Looking Forward to Scientific Scrutiny of UFOs