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The Navy commander who reported the 2004 Nimitz Tic Tac object and testified in 2023. 7 events, newest first.
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Media16 May 2021
CBS's 60 Minutes aired Bill Whitaker's report in which former Navy pilot Ryan Graves said his squadron saw unidentified objects over restricted airspace off Virginia for years, and Navy aviators David Fravor and Alex Dietrich described the 2004 Nimitz encounter, weeks before the ODNI report.
Photo: U.S. House Committee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs, Public domain
Media8 Sep 2020
Retired Navy Cmdr. David Fravor gave a nearly four-hour interview on the Lex Fridman Podcast, retelling his 2004 encounter with a white 'Tic Tac' object off California and discussing fighter flying and UFO reports. The episode added to his widely viewed first-hand accounts.
Photo: U.S. House Committee On Oversight and Accountability, Public domain
Military19 Dec 2019
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.
Photo: United States Navy, Public domain
Media5 Oct 2019
Retired Navy commander David Fravor recounted his 2004 encounter with the 'Tic Tac' object off California in a long interview on The Joe Rogan Experience episode 1361, with filmmaker Jeremy Corbell.
Photo: U.S. House Committee On Oversight and Accountability, Public domain
Media31 May 2019
History premiered a six-part series following Luis Elizondo, Tom DeLonge's To The Stars Academy and former Pentagon official Chris Mellon. It featured Navy pilot David Fravor describing his 2004 encounter and other accounts tied to the Navy cases.
Photo: Max Moszkowicz, CC BY 3.0
Military18 Dec 2017
Two days after the New York Times revealed AATIP, retired Navy Cmdr. David Fravor told ABC News about chasing a wingless, roughly 40-foot white object off California in 2004, saying he thought it 'was not from this world.' He later repeated his account under oath to Congress in 2023.
Photo: U.S. House Committee On Oversight and Accountability, Public domain
Media14 Mar 2015
Former Navy aviator Paco Chierici published 'There I Was: The X-Files Edition' on the Fighter Sweep site, retelling squadron mate Cmdr. David Fravor's account of chasing a white object off southern California in November 2004. It appeared more than two years before the New York Times story.
Photo: U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class John Phillip Wagner Jr., Public domain
