Pilot Breaks Silence on “UFO” Sighting
December 24, 2019
The Navy pilot who gave the name “Tic Tac” to an anomalous airborne object he observed in 2004 off the California coast is speaking publicly for the first time, saying “its changes in altitude, air speed, and aspect were just unlike things that I’ve ever encountered.… It was just behaving in ways that aren’t physically normal.” The incident added to the lore of unidentified flying objects. But in Issues, a journalist examined the history of sightings, coming away skeptical—and suspicious that the military “may well have its own good reason for keeping the UFO story alive.”