Unforgettable Cases
David Fravor's Tic-Tac: The Military Encounter That Can't Be Explained
On November 14, 2004, Commander David Fravor — a Princeton graduate, decorated Navy pilot with 18 years of experience, and commander of Strike Fighter Squadron 41 — was flying a routine training exercise off the coast of San Diego when the USS Princeton vectored him toward a target that had been appearing on radar for two weeks. What he found was a white, oblong object about 40 feet long with no wings, no engines, no exhaust plume, and no obvious means of propulsion. It hovered above a churning patch of ocean. When Fravor moved to intercept it, the object — faster than anything he had ever seen — turned toward him, climbed, and was gone in seconds. His wingman saw it too. The Princeton's radar tracked it. The Nimitz's deck crew filmed it…
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