Navy Confirms UFO Sighting – NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth

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📝 Description

The NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth item references the Navy/UAP case commonly linked to the 2004 USS Nimitz encounter, which has since been publicly acknowledged by the Defense Department as authentic footage of unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP). The best-documented aspect of this case involves two Navy pilots (Cmdr. David Fravor and Lt. Cmdr. Alex Dietrich) who, during a training sortie about 100 miles southwest of San Diego, observed a white, wingless, tic-tac–shaped object that performed rapid, unexplained maneuvers. The event was captured on infrared gun-camera footage (FLIR1) and corroborated by radar on USS Princeton. In 2020 the DoD officially released and authenticated the videos, while stressing the objects remained unidentified. In the years since, the Pentagon’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) has compiled and analyzed hundreds of UAP reports; the ongoing posture is that most sightings have mundane explanations (balloons, birds, drones, etc.) and there is no confirmed evidence of extraterrestrial technology. The latest public updates confirm the videos are real and the phenomena remain unclassified, with active investigation into unresolved cases. This aligns with the NBC 5 piece’s assertion that the Navy confirmed the footage as UAP, and with DoD and UAP reporting trends through 2024–2025.

🔍 Circumstances

Date of the core incident: November 14, 2004. Location: Pacific Ocean off the Southern California coast, ~100 miles southwest of San Diego, during a Navy training exercise involving the USS Nimitz Carrier Strike Group and USS Princeton. Observers: two F/A-18F pilots (Fravor and Dietrich) and radar operators aboard the Princeton; Footage: infrared (FLIR1) and gun-camera video; Official handling: event labeled as unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) by Navy officials; Public disclosures: videos authenticated by DoD in 2020 and discussed in subsequent UAP reporting and hearings; Latest status: UAP remains unidentified with ongoing analysis under AARO.

👤 Physical Description

Object described as wingless, oval/Tic Tac–shaped, white in color, approximately the size of an aircraft carrier jet (roughly airplane-sized), with no obvious propulsion or exhaust; the object exhibited rapid accelerations and movements that appeared to defy conventional aircraft physics; no audible sound attributed to the object during the footage; footage includes multiple frames with different flight profiles.

ℹ️ Additional Details

This case helped catalyze formal UAP inquiry structures. The GoFast, Gimbal, and FLIR1 videos are often cited together as key UAP footage; DoD’s UAP reporting framework (AARO) has since published annual consolidated reports with hundreds of cases, most resolved to prosaic explanations, and reaffirmed that no evidence supports extraterrestrial origins as of the latest releases (2024–2025). The NBC5 article aligns with widely reported statements that the videos are real yet remain unexplained.

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