WHAT HAPPENED
Radar operators aboard the cruiser USS Princeton had tracked objects descending from around 80,000 feet to near sea level. On November 14, Commander David Fravor and Lieutenant Commander Alex Dietrich were vectored to intercept and visually observed a smooth, white, roughly 40-foot object shaped like a Tic Tac — no wings, no exhaust — maneuvering over a disturbance in the water in ways they could not explain.
THE FOOTAGE
Shortly after, another F/A-18 captured the FLIR1 infrared video — the clip the world now knows. The Department of Defense formally acknowledged the authenticity of the Nimitz footage in 2020, and AARO catalogs the case among its unresolved events.
NIMITZ AND THE RECORD
The Nimitz encounter is the origin point of the disclosure timeline that ultimately produced PURSUE. The class of military infrared sensor footage it made famous is exactly what the PURSUE record publishes — and Umbra renders it natively on iPhone.
> Start at the case that started it all — then read the whole record on your iPhone.
