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FLIR1 'Tic Tac' video pilot Chad Underwood speaks on record

When: 19 Dec 2019
Sources: 1 public source

Frame from the FLIR1 'Tic Tac' video that Navy pilot Chad Underwood recorded in 2004 United States Navy, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Chad Underwood, the Navy F/A-18 pilot who recorded the 2004 FLIR1 'Tic Tac' video off southern California, gave his first public interview to New York Magazine. He described locking the object on radar and infrared after a warning from David Fravor and said it did not behave like known aircraft.

Sources

FirsthandNavy Pilot Who Filmed the 'Tic Tac' UFO Speaks: 'It Wasn't Behaving by the Normal Laws of Physics' (Matthew Phelan) (opens in a new tab)New York Magazine (Intelligencer) / 2019-12-19

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How the story came out

This reports on USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' (Nov 2004).

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