{"id":1666,"date":"2021-10-01T10:13:11","date_gmt":"2021-10-01T10:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.walkingtheshadowlands.com\/?p=1666"},"modified":"2024-11-16T11:09:44","modified_gmt":"2024-11-15T22:09:44","slug":"episode-30-the-nimitz-encounters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.walkingtheshadowlands.com\/?p=1666","title":{"rendered":"Episode 30: The Nimitz Encounters"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Episode 30: The Nimitz Encounters<\/strong><\/p><\/h3><\/div>

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In November 2004, 90 miles South-West off the coast of Mexico near Baja, California, in the USA, the U.S.S. Nimitz<\/a> carrier strike group was conducting two weeks of routine training and aerial defence exercises when unexplained events occurred that forever have altered the lives of the men and women on board these ships who were witness to these episodes. What began as a routine naval training exercise, ended up as one of the world\u2019s best documented UFO sightings in the 21st<\/sup> century. Witnesses included very highly trained military personal, amongst them very experienced radar operators and fighter pilots. These were men who were in charge of the world\u2019s then, most sophisticated and advanced flight and sensor technology that existed in the world at that time.<\/p>\n

A video of part of this incident was \u2018leaked\u2019 to the world and has been the subject of intense speculation since\u2026. Are you ready to walk with me into this part of the Shadowlands and see what we can discover about this event, or rather series of events? Good. Then let\u2019s begin.<\/p>\n

The Nimitz Encounters<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Over a period of a week a group of unknown, tic-tac shaped objects, including one 45-foot long, that played cat and mouse with the U.S. Navy. Reportedly over this period of time, over the week, more than 100 of these objects were observed. These objects also appeared at an altitude of higher than 80,000 feet with some suddenly dropping to 20,000 feet. Eighty thousand feet is much higher than commercial or even military planes generally fly. This all began on November the tenth, two-thousand and four, in an area of sea ninety miles, south-west of San Diego, California. When the USS Princeton, began tracking strange objects on their AEGIS radar systems, which they called AAV\u2019s short for Anomalous Aerial Vehicles.<\/p>\n

Each ship in this exercise had specific tasks that they were commissioned for. The main role of the Princeton was to see to the air defence of the entire strike group. Senior Chief Kevin Day, was the Anti-Air Warfare Coordinator aboard the Princeton. He describes his role as this<\/p>\n

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\u201cMy job was to man the radars and ID everything that flew in the skies. And I also had a position called Anti-Air Warfare Coordinator, where if we ever had to go to war, I was the guy that was going to launch the missiles and kill shit. In addition to that I was the air intercept controller. When the super-hornet takes off from the carrier, I\u2019m the guy who takes control and takes them to the fight and gets them home safe.\u201d1<\/sup><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

He also was an expert on the AEGIS radar system that the Princeton used. This was a man who was well experienced and knew precisely what he was doing and what he was observing on this system, the spy one. His attention was drawn to some anomalous readings, some \u201cWeird tracks\u201d2<\/sup> that were appearing on the spy one radar screen, appearing in groups of five to ten at a time. He said they were closely spaced to each other at about twenty-eight-thousand feet. He quickly ruled these out as commercial airplanes, because, they weren\u2019t on the commercial flight paths. But he wasn\u2019t overly concerned about them at this stage. They didn\u2019t appear hostile. But over a course of three to four days these tracks continued to appear on radar, causing Kevin Day to become concerned about the safety of his pilots in the air and of the possible air threat to the strike group. The men involved were unable to identify these objects, which was causing some frustration to them all. Due to their concern they recalibrated all their systems thinking it might be a systems malfunction, which is a fair enough supposition. \u00a0However, when the systems were finished being recalibrated, they merely showed the objects off in sharper detail. Using the most advanced systems in the world, at that time, as Kevin Day says<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe failed entirely to identify any of these objects.\u201d3<\/sup><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Finally, on November the 14th<\/sup>, Kevin Day received the order from the Commander to intercept the objects. Two Hornet pilots received the order to stop their training mission and deploy to new co-ordinates for a \u201creal-world\u201d task, and Kevin sent the the BRA coordinates \u2013 BRA standing for Bearing, Range, Altitude.\u00a0 He also said, \u201cAs soon as he got to the merge point, objects the object dropped from twenty-thousand feet, down to fifty feet above the water in point seven eight seconds!\u201d4<\/sup> A merge position is where two objects on the radar are in the same position and look like one object.<\/p>\n

When the pilots first arrived at the scene. They didn\u2019t see the objects but noticed a disturbance in the water below them.\u00a0 Then they spotted one of the objects flying about fifty feet above the disturbance in the water. Commander Fravor, commanding officer of Strike Fighter Squadron 41<\/a>, who was lead pilot with more than sixteen years of flying experience,\u00a0 described the object as forty-foot-long, shaped like a tic-tac candy with no obvious means of propulsion.\u00a0 He also said that the movements this object made were very swift and erratic. Similar, he said: \u201c\u2026. to if you threw a Ping-Pong ball against the wall.\u201d<\/p>\n

However; the object reacted immediately to the presence of the F-18\u2019s and took off according to one description \u2013 \u201cLike a bullet fired from a gun.\u201d Another pilot dispatched after Commander Fravor landed, was able to capture one of the objects on the now famous tic-tac video from his plane.While this incident was known about pretty widely in the US naval circles, it was not known so widely by the general public. But that all altered in 2017 after an article was written about it in the New York Times<\/a>, along with an official Air force video of the object taken from the fighter mentioned, showing the object on their screen and then taking off at tremendous speed.<\/p>\n

Quoting from the New York Times article:<\/p>\n

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\u201c\u2026. the operator said, the Princeton had been tracking mysterious aircraft. The objects appeared suddenly at 80,000 feet, and then hurtled toward the sea, eventually stopping at 20,000 feet and hovering. Then they either dropped out of radar range or shot straight back up.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The video of the object went viral, as you can imagine, and was spread all over the net. It was the subject of doubtless, countless conversations amongst those who follow UFO\u2019s and the reporting of these ships. Of course, since then we\u2019ve had the release of others and most recently in late September of the US Forces, formally acknowledging that these UFO are very real indeed. Of course, they don\u2019t say anything other than they are real \u2013 nothing about the intelligent beings that have to operate, or indeed to have created these craft. These next few episodes are all about eyewitness accounts of these objects from men that were actually serving on board the ships at the time of the incidents occurring.<\/p>\n

In the official report retrieved under the freedom of information act in the USA, the EXECUTIVE-SUMMARY-REPORT<\/a> of these events, a copy of which is available from this episodes page on the podcast website: www.walkingtheshadowlands.com, has these key assessments:<\/p>\n