TIC TAC: The David Fravor Story (2004 Nimitz UFO Encounter Ebook)

TIC TAC: THE DAVID FRAVOR STORY

The 2004 Nimitz Encounter — the most famous UFO case in modern military history, told as the witnesses told it.

On November 14, 2004, Commander David Fravor — a Top Gun graduate and squadron commander — was diverted from a training exercise off San Diego to chase something the USS Princeton had been tracking for days. What he found above a churning patch of ocean defied everything he knew about flight: a smooth, white, 40-foot object shaped like a Tic Tac. No wings. No markings. No exhaust. It mirrored his maneuvers — and then it was gone, reappearing on radar 60 miles away in under a minute.

Researched from the public record and witness testimony, this is the complete narrative: the radar week, the intercept, the FLIR video, the 2017 leak, the Pentagon's 2020 release, the 60 Minutes interview, and Fravor's testimony under oath before Congress in 2023. The skeptics' case is presented fairly alongside the witnesses' answers — so you can weigh it yourself.

WHAT'S INSIDE:

• Contact — the week the Princeton's radar lit up

• FastEagle — meet the Black Aces; the morning of November 14

• Whitewater — the divert, and the churning patch of ocean

• The Tic Tac — the visual encounter, 40 feet, no wings, no exhaust

• The Mirror — it reacts; the intercept attempt; the impossible departure

• Sixty Miles — the CAP-point reacquisition

• FLIR1 — the infrared video the world would see 13 years later

• The Leak — silence, ridicule, then December 2017

• Under Oath — 60 Minutes, Congress 2023, and the skeptics answered

• Unidentified — what remains unknown

DETAILS:

• ~13,000 words — a full evening's read

• Includes EPUB (Kindle, Apple Books, Kobo) + PDF editions

• Non-fiction narrative: testimony presented as testimony, debate presented straight

Four aviators. One radar ship. Ninety seconds of infrared video. Twenty years later, still unidentified.