SCU "A Forensic Analysis of Navy Carrier Strike Group Eleven's Encounter with an Anomalous Aerial Vehicle" (2019).

documentedgovernment_studyScientific Instrumentation & Sensor Data

March 2019 ~270-page Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies report (21-page core + appendices) on the 2004 Nimitz/Princeton encounter, built only from publicly available data: pilot/radar eyewitness accounts, four FOIA-released Navy documents, and the DIA-released ATFLIR video.

Authored by Robert Powell, Peter Reali, Tim Thompson, Morgan Beall, Doug Kimzey, Larry Cates, and Richard Hoffman. Examines the 14 Nov 2004 Carrier Strike Group Eleven (USS Nimitz / USS Princeton) encounter off Southern California, where Princeton radar detected up to ~20 anomalous aerial vehicles (AAVs) descending from high altitude. Appendices document FOIA correspondence, ATFLIR/FLIR provenance, video analysis, and the size/distance/angular-size/acceleration/speed/power calculations that became the case's quantitative backbone. The report itself (data + methodology) is documented; its inference of anomalous performance is the downstream claim.

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Nimitz Tic-Tac anomalous-flight-characteristics claim (transmedium, no wings/exhaust, instantaneous accel).Peter A. Reali (SCU co-author).Robert M. Powell (SCU board member, lead Nimitz-report author).Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies (SCU).USS Nimitz "Tic Tac" Encounter (2004).