Tic-Tac extreme-acceleration estimate (~hundreds to thousands of g; >5,000 g from the 0.78-s drop).

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The quantitative claim derived by SCU/Knuth: lower-bound accelerations from ~75–100 g to thousands of g, with the Princeton 28,000-ft-to-50-ft-in-0.78-s case implying >5,000 g, peak speed ~46,000 mph (~Mach 60), and power on the order of thousands of gigawatts — all with no observed exhaust, heat, or sonic boom.

A numeric estimate, not a direct measurement: it is computed from contested range/altitude/size inputs (pilot distance judgment, Aegis track, angular size). The figure that an F-22 tolerates ~9 g and a human blacks out near ~10 g is used to frame ~5,000+ g as physically anomalous. Because the inputs carry large uncertainty, the estimate is tagged claim even though the source data and the arithmetic are documented.

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Knuth, Powell & Reali, "Estimating Flight Characteristics of Anomalous Unidentified Aerial Vehicles" (Entropy 2019).Nimitz Tic-Tac anomalous-flight-characteristics claim (transmedium, no wings/exhaust, instantaneous accel).Single-sensor / range-parallax uncertainty critique (Mick West / Metabunk; echoed by AARO).USS Princeton AN/SPY-1 (Aegis) radar track data — 2004 Nimitz encounter.