DAVID FRAVOR

THE 2004 NIMITZ ENCOUNTER

Fravor was the commanding officer of the Navy strike fighter squadron VFA-41 "Black Aces" when, on November 14, 2004, he was vectored to investigate radar contacts the cruiser USS Princeton had tracked for days. He described a smooth, white, roughly 40-foot object with no wings or exhaust, moving erratically over a disturbance in the sea before accelerating out of sight. His account is the human anchor for the Tic Tac encounter and the FLIR1 sensor video that followed.

TESTIMONY UNDER OATH

At the July 2023 House Oversight hearing, Fravor testified that the object demonstrated performance "well beyond" anything he knew to be in the U.S. or any adversary inventory, and that the encounter remained unexplained. As a career naval aviator and combat-experienced commander testifying under oath, he gave the case a credibility that anonymous footage alone could not — which is much of why the Tic Tac became the reference point for the modern UAP conversation.

READ THE RECORD

Fravor's account is testimony; the footage and reports are the record. Umbra indexes the PURSUE release of military sensor footage and renders it natively, so you can read the kind of material the hearings keep pointing back to — on the record, on your iPhone.