On November 14, 2004, the Nimitz Carrier Strike Group was conducting a training exercise about 100 miles southwest of San Diego California. Unbeknownst to them, advanced radar on a nearby ship the U.S.S. Princeton had been detecting what operators called "multiple anomalous aerial vehicles" over the horizon, descending eighty-thousand feet in less than a second. During their training exercise F/A-18F, pilots said they were diverted to investigate the anomalous object(s). They say at first they found an area of roiling whitewater the size of a Boeing 737. And then they saw something strange above the water. "We saw this little white Tic-Tac-looking object… and it's just kind of moving above the whitewater area," (Cmdr. Fravor recounted) "No predictable movement, no predictable trajectory," said Pilot Alex Dietrich. The object had no markings, no wings, and no exhaust plumes. Later, another flight crew's targeting camera locked on to what it believed was the same UAP before it zipped off again, though the camera did manage to capture infrared video of something. Kevin Day and the controllers on the USS Princeton had been tracking similar anomalous objects for days. In August of 2020, Deputy Secretary of Defense David Norquist approved the establishment of a small group called the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force, based in the Office of Naval Intelligence. Service members are now being encouraged to report these types of encounters, and the task force will collect, analyze, and catalog evidence gathered by them.
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