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the vast expanse of Nevada's badlands

stretches endlessly to the horizon

hidden within these Mountain strongholds

are some of America's deepest and

darkest secrets secret aircraft and the

other legends of area 51 among these

sandstone canyons today there's a new

glimmer of truth shrouded in mystery

it's a story that demands to be told

these are the witnesses of one of

America's most unusual UFO encounters in

history Navy veterans and a band of

brothers that want you to know that what

they witnessed is real this is their

story

Petty Officer Jason Turner served aboard

the USS Princeton in 2004 his personal

conviction for democracy and patriotism

guides him in his search for the truth

this is an actual event that happened

and

I witnessed it aviation tech Patrick

Hughes a USS Nimitz veteran he speaks

for his shipmates who choose to remain

silent I'm one of those who has to see

to believe and obviously I've seen the

evidence of this so it exists Top Gun

air intercept controller

Kevin day and fire control Minh Gary

Voorhies both from the Princeton served

together in the ship's combat

Information Center they saw them first

whatever it is they are they wanted to

show themselves whatever they were I

don't think they wanted anything really

to do with us they were literally

breaking the laws of physics in my eyes

these sailors are here for truth and

vindication and their story goes back

over a decade to a time and place that

marked a departure for all of them both

in their Navy careers but also in their

knowledge of the limits of man's

technological understanding a

our world

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looking out over the ocean toward the

horizon sun sea and sky form an endless

vista a never-ending cycle of tide wind

and waves here far from shore

strange events have unfolded these

stories stretch the boundaries of our

imagination and challenge our beliefs

this is a true story of such events from

the accounts of the sailors and naval

aviators who experienced them

professional military service members

who want the world to know that what

they encountered is real even more

troubling our military has no

explanation the answers seem to elude

everyone like reflections on the waves

yet they are out there

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November 10th 2004 90 miles southwest of

San Diego California in the Naval

Operations area

the Nimitz Carrier Strike Group under

complement of warships and the aircraft

of Air Wing 11 are conducting a routine

two-week training exercise nearby the

guided missile cruiser USS Princeton has

been tracking unknown aircraft that

appear and disappear from her

sophisticated Aegis radar screens the

spy-1 bravo radar is one of the most

advanced sensors ever deployed

Princeton's main role is air defense of

the Strike Group an Operations

Specialist senior chief day is in charge

of protecting the airspace around the

Nimitz my job was to man the radars and

ID everything that flew in the skies and

I also sat a position called anti-air

warfare coordinator where if we ever had

to go to war I was the guy that was

gonna launch the missiles in addition to

that was the air intercept controller

when the super hornets take off the

carrier I'm the guy that takes control

and takes him to the fight and get some

home safe there was a lot of experience

in that room the captain had 28 years I

had 18 years and the age of ship is our

newest weapons system afloat it was got

the spy-1 radar system phased array

radar system and I was in an expert on

that inside the combat Information

Center Chief days attention is focused

on the group of unknown aircraft on the

spy one screen he's trying to identify

them I was on watch and we were probably

a hundred miles I forget how far exactly

that day we were off the coast of San

Diego Southwest kind of off the coast of

Mexico Baja and I started to notice

these weird tracks that were popping

onto my radar coverage right about and

sank and landing island and the reason

why I say they were weird because they

were appearing in groups of five to ten

at a time and they were pretty closely

spaced to each other and there were

28,000 feet going 100 knots tracking

south and in the back of my mind I'm

thinking no that's kind of odd I mean

what I don't know anything that flies

like that they weren't on

Comair routes the commercial airline

routes I wasn't really that concerned

about him I didn't consider him hostile

for any any reason at all another watch

her too as I'm watching the same

formation appeared again and over the

course of three four days it probably

counted up to that point groups of five

to ten at a time they're probably 5060

tracks by then today Kevin and Gary are

still looking for answers they've known

each other for over a decade since their

Navy days gary was a third class petty

officer and fire control man back then I

worked on the aegis computer system on a

CD 59 guided missile cruiser the USS

Princeton I'm in charge of CC and data

recording and maintaining and operating

all the mainframes I run the system

they're both becoming increasingly

frustrated in their attempts to ID the

strange aerial objects which have no

transponders and fit no known flight

profiles the guys they work on this buy

one Bravo radar they they had come

across and said they were needed at the

system down for recalibration because

they were getting clutter or ghost

tracks and they needed to recalibrate to

get rid of them and once they did finish

all that recalibration and bring it back

up the tracks didn't disappear they were

still there but they were actually

sharper and clearer they were doing a

diagnostic tests on everything we had to

make sure it was not a system

malfunction and it turned out that it

wasn't these were actually real objects

my had despite the highest spy track

quality the possible on these cop on

these contacts in this situation I

actually started recording on all four

tapes at the same time that way it was

at one continuous loop and I was just

replacing them as they were you know

becoming full we failed utterly to

identify these things it didn't meet any

of the parameters for anything that was

known

in some cases they seem to descend from

space and then suddenly plunge to near

sea level in seconds

coupled with the unidentified nature of

the craft and lack of clearance these

extreme flight observations are very

troubling to the crew assigned to

protect the carrier group from aerial

threats Sunday November 14th morning the

Nimitz deck crew is busy watching fa-18

F Super Hornets helicopters and e-2

Hawkeye early warning plays permission

simulated air defense or 8x training

over the Pacific the winds are calm the

skies are clear and their perfect day

for flying

as they launched the black Asus squadron

has no knowledge of events happening

nearby the back of my mind that's when I

determined I was going to become

concerned about these objects is we were

getting ready to launch a whole bunch of

aircraft in that same piece of sky fast

Eagle climbs out to 20,000 feet and

heads to the cap station about 40 miles

south of the carrier the cap is a

rendezvous point used to form up with

the other airplanes the commander of

fast Eagle has over a decade in the

airway his wingman for the day is a new

pilot a young officer on her first

carrier deployment she's paired with a

senior pilot for backseat weapons system

officer for the mission he will manage

navigation and the advanced radar and

targeting pods on the aircraft

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overhead an e-2 Hawkeye from the

Wallbanger squadron is on station

directing the aircraft Bangor provides

eye on the sky command and control

during carrier flight operations back in

the combat Information Center on

Princeton the mysterious objects are

back and today is the first time senior

chief day as jets in the air that can

intercept the mysterious aircraft seen

these contacts i'm captain smith orders

me to intercept one on the side just i I

went back to the console I picked the

closest one that was to us and I was

gonna I would had intended to let the

Hawkeye do the intercept because they

already had control is easier they

briefed the captain and they agreed to

send the Hornets the air intercept

controller aboard Princeton called sign

charlie radios the Hawkeye and takes

control of fast Eagle

Charlie clean the e to radar operators

have been frustrated in their attempts

to get a radar return on the unknown

aerial target the Princeton is tracking

even with their 24 foot radar dish they

can't get a lock on the object or that

position in the sky real quiet on the

radio we're I'm just giving them bra

calls which is varying range altitude to

Blues unknown bogey brutal and basically

I'm just telling the aircrew where the

object is the bearing from them and the

range from him and the altitude so they

can drive towards it

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Roger comparing two-seven-zero 41 miles

trail the next radio call takes everyone

by surprise tactical action officer the

TA Oh jumps on the radio her name was

lieutenant elders and she just

point-blank asks the fast to go flight

if they were carrying any type of

weapons and fat there were those stun

piles in the radio

Princeton we just have cation training

missiles in there not coming off the

rail we're in an exercise environment

and the last thing we wanted to do is

start shooting stuff now the controllers

have the pilots undivided attention

normally the squadron doesn't carry live

ordnance when training

oh no Cal I don't like this

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festival truly content 1 6 2 0 $34

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Roger 34 miles at 8,000 a minute your

call as fast evil approaches the target

they see nothing unusual they're on

board radars can't get a lock on the

object

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what the merge plot means on the radar

you got two objects in the same vertical

piece of sky so when I'm looking at the

2d display it looks like a 1:1 radar

blob now

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as the Super Hornets approached the

target they see a disturbance on the

ocean surface it's about the size of a

737 and it looks like something could be

just below the surface soon as he got to

the merge claw position the object that

he was intercepted dropped from 28,000

feet down to 50 feet above the water in

point seven eight seconds as I found out

later the next day as the super hornets

get closer to the ocean disturbance he

suddenly spots another craft above it

a much smaller white object with an

oblong shape hovering then darting just

above the ways

the object is moving around erratically

seemingly focused on the Whitewater

the shape is similar to a tic-tac it's

smooth like porcelain it's not an

airplane

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suddenly the object begins to rise into

the air the strange craft begins

mirroring the turn rate of fast Eagle

the object is now at his 3 o'clock

position as he continues to turn with it

we had external communications in the

speaker in combat so everyone can listen

to it and the next thing I hear on the

radio going oh my god oh my god I'm

engaged I'm engaged

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the commander is now about a mile away

as he maneuvers his hornet to get behind

the unknown craft it's about the size of

an f-18 about 47 feet long and it has no

links as the dogfight unfolds he quickly

turns and dives to bring his Jets nose

ahead of the object to close the

distance

Oh

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suddenly the tic-tac Rockets past it's

gone beyond the horizon in the blink of

an eye as fast eagle returns to the area

of the ocean disturbance the object is

gone and the sea is once again calm soon

they land on the ship back on board

banger the flight crew has been

listening to the radio transmissions

from fast Eagle the crew has been

tracking the intercepts on their advance

display systems called the CEC

one of the radar operators who wishes to

remain anonymous

describes hearing the fear in the pilots

voices and he knows this is no drill I

had a good friend who who flew on the

hawk eyes we could call him Roger to

protect his identity because he didn't

want to come forward at this time but he

wanted to contribute to the story to

verify that it actually happened there

are five people in the airplane Roger

would have been seating in the the radar

officer seat which is towards the back

middle of the plane the side of each one

of them or behind him depending how the

chair is rotating his window suddenly

his attention is drawn to something

outside the hawk eye he and the entire

crew watch in disbelief as a tic-tac

object suddenly forms up on their eetu

and then just as quickly shoots away

from sight the crew is left in disbelief

as Bangor returns to the ship the crew

is shaken

the highly unusual events are troubling

but what happens next has haunted them

to this day

u.s. Navy officers quickly arrive and

escort the aircrew to a secure space on

the ship

as the crewmen begin to take off their

flight gear an officer begins the

debriefing by telling them this event

did not happen and they are given

non-disclosure agreements to sign

they're warned to never discuss this

event again again we're preparing for

the air defense exercise to know we got

all the squadrons launching off the

carrier they're all up gonna do their

functional check flags

senior chief de watched in disbelief as

the tic-tac UFOs reacted to the incoming

fighter jets all the objects in the sky

they all dropped out of this guy from

28,000 feet down to 50 feet based on the

spy one Bravo radar system the object

descended at over 24,000 miles an hour

that was unbelievable because normally

what would happen if that if a normal

aircraft did that first I would fly

apart it wouldn't be able to withstand

the g-forces and there would be multiple

sonic booms it would be boo boo boo boo

boo boo boo boo boo men this did not

make any sense from what I observed I

saw that it went from you know right

around between twenty-five and thirty

thousand feet down to sea level

sometimes they'd be going slower than an

object should you know to stay in the

air and sometimes they would be moving

faster than an object should from a

standstill so you know going high

altitudes low altitudes very quickly you

know just staying in mobile in my mind I

say can good god it's raining UFOs

because that's what it looked like what

it won't - - - - it was up quite amazing

a USS Princeton senior sonar operator

has come forward to say the ship did not

have any unidentified sonar contacts

during the encounters the towed sonar

array was not in use at the time the USS

Louisville a los angeles-class nuclear

fast attack submarine was also

patrolling the area the former captain

of the sub reported they had no unknown

sonar contacts during the events of that

week despite the observations by the

pilots after the intercepts both Kevin

and Gary climbed up to the ship's bridge

wing to get a better view of the objects

through the binoculars yeah we'd go up

to the bridge wing and look look at him

through the big eyes which is a heavily

magnifying binoculars that are out on

the bridge wing of the ship here's my

opportunity and we intercepted a UFO I

think even when I was off watch I was

usually up in combat anyway and I was

sitting at the console I just picked the

closest object to us and I got the

relative bearing from the ship slave

over to the relative bearing of about

the right altitude and saw this white

light in the sky

the movements were smooth too erratic

yeah they just moved from one point to

another it was always a very sharp and

clean movement they it always felt like

a constant speed not like speeding up

just you needed to go to that point and

it decided to do it at this speed and

then it would just go from nothing to

the speed they were gonna go and then

stop at the next point

meanwhile back on the Nimitz aviation

tech Patrick Hughes is working to secure

the classified data recorders from the

Hawkeye that encountered the tic-tac we

pull out the hard drives we call them

our MCS that call bricks because they

physically heavy like brick

they contain the software to run the

airplane

and they also record a lot of the data

that the aircrew sees during the flight

so we take the removable stuff we take

it out we go downstairs back to our shop

Patrick's job involves tracking the

chain of custody of the hard drives we

open up the safe put them in a safe

we've got tracking sheets so we know

what what our MCS are what airplane we

know who signed him out who put him in

the airplane who took him out of the

airplane as he gets ready to wrap up the

mission there's a knock on the door our

commanding officers there two other guys

in flight suit so I'm assuming were Air

Force officers because pretty sure that

seam segment they had on but they were

not on the ship earlier I did not see

him come on the ship so I'm not sure how

they got there but the skipper basically

said I need the bricks off the flight we

open the safe we put him in bags he took

them he took his two anonymous officers

and left the officers with the

classified hard drives in hand soon

board an HS sixty Seahawk helicopter and

leave Nimitz

soon thereafter petty officer Voorhies

has his own visit by unknown officials

on the Princeton once they landed and

everybody got off got off then about 20

minutes later I got called in to have

all my data recording tapes turned over

and then also told that I needed to

reload CEC because it had been wiped so

it was so I turned over all the tapes

and then they also said if there's any

even blank tapes to erase anything else

that's in the shop well they were

plainclothes people that came aboard on

the helicopter

it was my chain of command that took

that took control of the tapes for me

the helo left with them after that

because we went right back to flight ops

the link between the tic tacs and these

men is unknown how they became aware of

the UFO encounters and how they arrived

so quickly on board after the event is

also a mystery

the video you are now watching is the

actual gun camera FLIR footage of the

tic-tac taken by a later flight this is

the first video ever released by the US

government

showing military planes engaging UFOs

the advanced targeting pod known as

actual works in both TV mode and

infrared bow the film reveals no control

services no exhaust plume a uniform heat

signature and no visible means of

propulsion Gary and his shipmates saw

the flare film on their consoles and on

the secret land aboard the Princeton it

was a much clearer video you could see

the shape of the ship you can see it you

know moving I tried to go and get a disc

to come make a copy of it and by the

time I got back it was already off of

our hard drive off the secret land you

know had no access to it whatsoever

petty officer Jason Turner also saw a

much higher resolution version of the

FLIR film showing strange appendages

extending from the object they did have

some protruding at the bottom of it I

couldn't tell if they were curled back

or straight down Jason says the video

was approximately 10 minutes in length

and much longer than the video that has

been released I saw this video playing

and I'd asked him this what we're

training her foot was part of this

training that we're going through and he

said no this is real life and when I saw

it it was a very clear image a very

clear video and this thing was going

berserk like making turns like it's

incredible the amount of g-forces that

it would put on a human that this thing

was doing the the Jets were like trying

to trail this thing and it would just

run off and leave them they were just

gone and then it would come back and

then you would see it anyway I mean it

was it made a

a maneuver like they were chasing it

straight on it was going with them

this thing stopped turning just gone I

mean it that's the only way to describe

what it looked like just 11 years later

fighter jets from USS Roosevelt filmed

this anomalous object in 2015 like the

nimitz encounter they too were

conducting routine training when fleets

of UFOs were encountered by the violence

the limits encounters remain cloaked

secrecy for over 13 years the firsthand

testimony about UFO sightings is

practically unheard of for military

service members thanks to the brave and

honest accounts of the sailors and naval

aviators who have come forward to relate

their experiences and of the remarkable

videos they filmed that day the silence

has been broken I dealt with this on my

own for many many years and it was not a

very pleasant journey to go through

there's no one really believes you but

now things have changed and anyone out

there that struggling with this and

wants to reach out there is now a group

that you can reach out to and get help

and support and vindication it's

honestly been a little over leaving to

be able to actually talk about it and

how important that event really was and

not just keep blowing it off there's

people out here that you know really

need to know and want to know and you

have the support of me and Kevin the

other thing my other shipmates too

coming forward and decided to talk about

it my role is to describe the story and

convince people that yes this event

really happened and these objects were

really real but what they are I have no

idea it is something I want to know what

it is that's all reason I chose to come

forward to contribute to the story

because there is a story here there is

more information here more of us that

talk about it the better chance of the

full story coming together and it's

almost it's vindication for us that

other people are looking into it and you

know it we finally tell our story and

people listen

as we strive to understand these

encounters and come to terms with what

they mean there's something far beyond

the horizon and the limits of our

comprehension waiting waiting for all of

us

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