In 2004, the US Navy managed to capture on video something flying without windows, doors and wings in the shape of a candy (no joke!). The video a couple of minutes long leaked online and not only collected millions of views, but also provoked a wave of investigations, official and false statements, as well as a ton of questions that the US Navy and the Pentagon are fighting off to this day. The other day, the official authorities fanned the coals again: yes, that video itself is not fake and the original is much longer, and no, they will not show it to us, because it is "top secret."
Tick-Tock is not the same
In early November 2004, the Nimitz aircraft carrier group went on a scheduled exercise. On board the missile cruiser Princeton there were many new systems that the warriors had to test. Almost immediately, the new AN / SPY-1B passive radar system began to receive interference, and the radars were going crazy from incomprehensible tracks. The radar technicians decided that the system was faulty and began to recalibrate the radar. But after that, the false signals only became clearer: something flew at different heights from 900 meters to 2.5 kilometers and moved in dense groups of 5-10 units at a time.
After almost a week of observing obscure objects on radar, the US military decided to send a pair of F / A-18 Hornet carrier-based attack aircraft to intercept anomalous radar signals. But that was not the case: as soon as the Hornet radar took aim at something (it would later be called "Tick-Tock dragee" because of its smooth oval shape without any protruding parts and a uniform white color), it would playfully evade and go madly. speed.
The next day, the military tried to at least film a 14-meter unidentified flying candy. For this, another F / A-18 was equipped with the latest ATFLIR sighting module, which still managed to photograph an object flirting with the morflot. And he, apparently, simply fooled the gallant pilots: either he hovered motionless at an altitude of more than 18 kilometers, then in a matter of seconds he dropped to 150 meters, almost planed at a speed of 900 km / h, then made an incredible maneuver at supersonic speed went to the point. The object could only be tracked stationary or at a slow speed and then using infrared radiation.
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Hollywood is resting
For more than 13 years, the story of how the giant Tic Tac led the American fleet by the nose remained in the shadows. Until the Stars Academy of Arts & Science (founded by former Blink-182 frontman Tom DeLonge) at the end of 2017 published a nearly three-minute video of the same chase. More precisely, the video is not a chase, but rather a defile, where a UFO poses in front of an ATFLIR lens.
And it began. The short, low-quality Flir1 video immediately gained millions of views, the video was discussed on TV and in countless forums. A crowd of people summed up: "I do not believe!" One of the UFO researchers traced the video to a website operated by Vision Unlimited, a company based in Germany, within hours of publication. She specialized in the production of video sequences, including all sorts of special effects (including CGI graphics), so Flir1 was instantly stamped with a fake. In addition, it turned out that the video has been stored on the server of the German company since 2007. But supporters of the video's authenticity attributed this to the fact that it was uploaded to a German movie server in order to try to avoid the consequences associated with the removal and leakage of classified military materials. And the studio owner himself shrugged his shoulders, they say, neither he,no other staff knew who uploaded the clip in 2007.
Further more. It is reported that the original video is much longer than Flir1. One of the F / A-18 pilots who tried to keep up with Tic Tac and originally filmed the UFO collision stated that Flir1 is really only a snippet of his original recording. Those who were aboard the Pringston at the time of the chase assured that they saw a video about 8-10 minutes long and in much higher resolution on the monitors of the cruiser's command and information center. Plus, the video spread over the secret local network of the ship, so there were plenty of witnesses to the long timing, especially when you consider that the number of the crew at that time was about 5,000 troops.
In opposition to them, there was a statement by another military man - a retired commander of the US Navy, who first saw the Tic Tac from the cockpit of his Hornet in 2004. He dropped all claims of a longer video. The US Department of Defense also adhered to his position, just in case. But not for long.
People not in black
Aircraft carrier technicians have one quite routine function: to protect information, after each flight, they remove hard drives with all flight information from the sides and put them in a safe. The disks contain software for launching a fighter, and also store data collected during the flight.
As soon as that significant contact with the "candy" took place and the military managed to shoot it on video, on the deck of the aircraft carrier Nimitz, and then on the "Pringston", two appeared (no, not in black, but in ordinary flight suits) and demanded to get from the safe, hard drives from the Hornet boards that were chasing UFOs. After that, the disks were put into a bag in the presence of the commander, and no one else saw the carriers. In addition, the command ordered the technicians to completely reboot the entire system, along with the optical drives with all radio communications. Even empty films were cleaned, which was almost never done. For some time they forgot about the source of the video.
But it's not that simple. In the United States, there is one interesting mechanism - the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). If on the fingers, then any citizen, referring to the FOIA, can contact the official bodies and request the full or partial disclosure of information and documents of the US government. Of course, the government can send anyone you know where, but then the States, they have everything is strict. The Navy's Naval Intelligence Agency responded to a request for more Nimitz tapes, saying it found "certain information slides" related to the Tic Tac encounter "classified as top secret." The study of the materials led to the conclusion that "their publication would cause extremely serious damage to the national security of the United States." They did, but how elegant!
Today, the bottom line is a rather amusing set of facts, backed up by the US authorities. The UFO video is not a fake, but rather an unidentified flying object, which the government cautiously calls "unidentified aerial phenomena." The object moved contrary to all the laws of physics studied with incredible acceleration, writing pirouettes in the sky that are inaccessible to the most modern military fighters. The real video is much longer, more detailed, and with more information. How the leak of classified information happened, or if not the leak, then who gave the "green" light for the disclosure of Flir1 - neither the Navy, nor the Pentagon, no one knows. And no, they will not show or tell us anything in the near future.
Sasha Epstein
