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Recap of the data we have confirmed: - this things moves horizontally 12° across the nose of a static observer - it is at a static altitude 5° of inclination above an observer at 20k feet. - ATFLIR has a "max" range of around 40nm (and the intercept could have been as close as 20nm according to...

p.s. range is key here. IF (that's a big if) my trig is correct and google gave me correct conversions: with 12 degrees of movement observed from start to end (67 seconds) and assuming distance hasn't changed significantly from the F18: - at 40 nautical miles (max range of ATFLIR) we have the...

Everybody concludes there is motion no? The plane is shown flying straight while under autopilot heading and barometric altitude hold (that's what HDG and BALT mean on the bottom of the video – I like flight sims and you can find an explanation of radar modes on an F-18 here if you do too...

What do you mean exactly Mick? The discuss both zoom changes and lock changes.

Appendix J and K seem the ones that directly address the ATFLIR videos. I haven't had the time to review it thoroughly but the seem to consider both zoom level changes and the possibility that the object is an aircraft seen from the back (exhaust only) as some have suggested here. Does it make...

You can follow here: https://www.metabunk.org/threads/2004-uss-nimitz-tic-tac-ufo-flir-footage-flir1.9190/post-238987 EDIT: not what I originally meant to do...I messed up editing myself but fine... the link is there now, thanks Deirdre

We do not know range. We have data points from witness testimony and the maximum detection rage of atflir (which is less than radar) as a theoretical maximum. If it's solid and you see it in infra-red you can track it on radar. IR relies on what the source is emitting. You can pump as much...

Has this report been discussed here already? https://www.explorescu.org/post/nimitz_strike_group_2004 How about starting a thread to try and "peer review" it's conclusions?

We are discussing ranges in another thread. I don't want to go too off topic here. Also: If this was a physical object. It shouldn't happen. Apparently more powerful radars were needed to clearly see this: SPY 1B could see them easily, E-2 could see faint returns and F-18 could only see...

More data on radar ranges. The E-2 Hawkeye AAWACS plane (in the air that day) is equipped with a powerful APS-145 radar. That aircraft has a range of 350 nm for large targets and 145 nm for something like a cruise missile. I suppose it's higher than the SPY 1-B (although it is much less...

This is great analysis. The rotation seen in gimbal is now clearly explained. I think however this video introduces some questions: The pilots would have just needed to switch to TV mode to see the object clearly as the video proves. So this is one more point against the aircraft theory. If...

https://www.metabunk.org/threads/tftrh-36-gary-voorhis-tic-tac-ufo-witness.11080/#post-236235 Another range data point from Voohris' interview: "we can see 256 nm around each ship. That's the horizon" and we can see "everything". That's a lot. From Chad Underwoods's interview on NYMAG: " That...

Nope no contradiction at all. The radar had a faint track but couldn't lock on. That faint track was how they identified the object. Fravor saw the radar tape and thinks it couldn't lock on due to jamming. Chad Underwood has stated the it didn't appear to be regular jamming as there were no...

Chad said there were no "classic" jamming clues. However the radar was jammed/inffective and "could not hack it" which at that range should not be the case. No radar lock pretty much disqualifies anything outside advanced/military tech. Unless there was a radar glitch with the onboard radar...

He was the pilot that produced the FLIR video.

Not exactly. I assume this is Chad Underwood (source page 9 here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:TIC_TAC_UFO_EXECUTIVE_REPORT_1526682843046_42960218_ver1.0.pdf): So the radar tape probably shows the radar going crazy trying to lock on this. But not conventional jamming. This is what Fravor...

This is a great theory. I wonder what Fravor would say about this. When I saw those pictures I really had a double take. It looks exactly like this reconstruction. What if this was a submarine doing some kind of covert/secret mission with a balloon/drone. They got caught and blew up the ballon...

I agree that most people are not familiar with the evidence and mix up the events. My questions however are very specific and all the statements I've made refer to the correct event. (e.g. Chad underwood's statement is directly linked to FLIR). Or do you see some specific error I've made? I...

That's the million dollar question. That data is not public. The Navy has it obviously. However some data points: The various radar systems employed on the Nimitz case are here. There were shipborne, airborne (AWACS and the F-18s) systems trying to track this...

Hey Mick great analysis. A couple of questions: - in the FLIR video from Nimitz the radar does not lock onto the target and the range cannot be estimated. If this is an aircraft how do you explain this? F-18s have Beyond-Visual-Range radar capabilities. Especially if this is some kind of...