Documents / FOIA release
This Black Vault release contains two Department of the Navy FOIA response letters dated October 10, 2024, sent to John Greenewald. Both direct him to a redacted NASA briefing in the Navy's online Reading Room. Also included are September 2020 emails between the UAP Task Force and NASA's interagency liaison, and the UAPTF's redacted slide deck dated 31 August 2020. The slides describe the 2020 NDAA mandate, the effort to de-stigmatize reporting, partner agencies, and the 2004 Nimitz "Tic Tac" case.
Classification Redacted
"Tic Tac" Case 14 Nov 2004
• Nimitz CSG {CSG-11)
• USS Princeton (CG-59)
• VAW-117 (E-2C Hawkeye)
• VMFA-232
• VFA-41
• USS Louisvil le (SSN-724)
• 30 Nautical Miles off t he Coast of Mexico (south west of San Diego)
• It was "solid whit e, smooth, with no edges. It was "uniformly
colored w ith no nacelles, pylons, or wings.1
' It was approximately 46
feet in length.
• Pilots reported the incident th rough Intelligence Personnel, there
was a large amount of harassment and ridicu le t hroughout the
Nimitz.
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Reporting terminated at 3rd Fleet, t here was no process to share
the reporting.
Although the debriefs of ai rcrew and other personnel within the
Strike Group validated t he event, there was very limited data to
support technical analysis. 31 August 2020 Classification Redacted 4 FOIA release, cited by the archive. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 17 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.