YEAR DOSSIER

2004 UAP Cases

Every indexed UAP case documented in 2004, drawn from publicly available official government records — NARA RG 615, AARO, NASA, FBI, and DoD PURSUE program releases.

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DoD⬭ Ellipsoid
TOP SECRET
DOD-007 · 2004-11-14

USS Nimitz Tic Tac — Navy Intercept, Pacific

◎Pacific Ocean, ~100 miles SW of San Diego, CA

USS Nimitz Carrier Strike Group radar operators tracked an unknown object for two weeks before F/A-18 pilots were tasked to intercept. Commander Fravor observed a white 40-foot oblong object with no wings, propulsion, or exhaust hovering over a roiling sea disturbance before it accelerated away instantaneously. FLIR footage declassified by DoD in 2020.

ANTI GRAVITYRAPID ACCELERATION90 DEGREE TURNS
COMPELLING
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State Dept◉ Orb / Sphere
UNCLASSIFIED
STATE-018 · 2004-03-05

Mexican Air Force FLIR Footage — SEDENA Official Release

◎Campeche State, Gulf of Mexico, Mexico

A Mexican Air Force C-26A maritime patrol aircraft crew filmed 11 orb-shaped objects on infrared tracking over Campeche State. The crew's radar detected the objects but they were invisible to the naked eye. The footage was released officially by Mexico's Secretary of National Defense (SEDENA) with a press conference, making Mexico one of the only countries to officially release military UAP footage with government endorsement.

FORMATIONSENSOR INTERFERENCERAPID ACCELERATION
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DoD◉ Orb / Sphere
SECRET
DOD-094 · 2004-10-14

Naval Air Station Fallon — Pre-Nimitz UAP Encounters

◎Naval Air Station Fallon, Nevada, USA

Prior to the famous November 2004 Nimitz Tic-Tac encounter, pilots from VFA-41 'Black Aces' flying exercises off NAS Fallon reported similar encounters with unknown aerial objects during pre-deployment workups. These pre-Nimitz reports established a pattern of contact that the operational commanders were aware of when the encounters peaked in November 2004. The NAS Fallon reports are referenced in AARO case records as precursor events to the Nimitz incident.

HOVERINGRAPID ACCELERATIONDISAPPEARED INSTANTLY
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DoD? Unknown
SECRET
DOD-107 · 2004-11-10

USS Princeton CG-59 — Radar Tracking of Nimitz Tic-Tac

◎Pacific Ocean, 100 miles off San Diego, California

The USS Princeton guided-missile cruiser, acting as the air warfare command ship for the Nimitz Carrier Strike Group, tracked anomalous radar contacts for approximately two weeks before the now-famous Tic-Tac visual encounter on November 14, 2004. Senior Chief Kevin Day documented the tracks showing objects dropping from 80,000 feet to sea level in approximately 0.78 seconds — an acceleration that would require forces of thousands of G's. Day later testified publicly about the radar data.

RAPID ACCELERATION90 DEGREE TURNSANTI GRAVITY
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DoD? Unknown
SECRET
DOD-114 · 2004-11-14

Nimitz Carrier Strike Group — Complete Event Documentation

◎Pacific Ocean, ~100 miles off San Diego, California, USA

The November 2004 Nimitz events — involving 2 weeks of Princeton radar tracks and visual intercepts by multiple F/A-18 pilots — produced the classified 'FLIR1' (Tic-Tac) video. Commander Fravor's visual encounter remains the most detailed public official account of a close-range UAP intercept by a trained military pilot. The official DoD FLIR video was declassified and released in 2020. This incident is the anchor event of the modern era of US government UAP acknowledgment.

RAPID ACCELERATION90 DEGREE TURNSANTI GRAVITY
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DoD◉ Orb / Sphere
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DoD-B10-004 · 2004-11-07

Tehran Air Defense Intrusion 2004

◎Tehran, Iran — National Air Defense

Iranian Air Defense tracked multiple unidentified objects over Tehran and critical nuclear infrastructure for four hours. F-14 Tomcat crews were scrambled repeatedly but reported weapons system lockouts when approaching. The incident was monitored by US signals intelligence assets.

HOVERINGRAPID ACCELERATIONSENSOR INTERFERENCE
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DoD◉ Orb / Sphere
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DoD-B12-005 · 2004-11-14

Nimitz Strike Group Full Engagement 2004

◎Pacific Ocean off San Diego, Nimitz CSG

The complete Nimitz CSG encounter involved not just the Tic-Tac but multiple objects over several days, transmedium behavior, and USS Princeton tracking objects descending from 80,000 feet to sea level. Commander David Fravor's intercept was one engagement in a multi-day event involving dozens of witnesses.

RAPID ACCELERATIONANTI GRAVITYTRANSMEDIUM
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DoD◉ Orb / Sphere
SECRET
DoD-B14-025 · 2004-02-18

Indian Ocean Carrier Encounter 2004

◎Indian Ocean, USS Carl Vinson CSG

USS Carl Vinson's airwing encountered orbs during Indian Ocean operations nine months before the famous Nimitz events. The encounters are considered part of the same pattern of Navy carrier strike group UAP activity documented across Pacific and Indian Ocean theaters in 2004.

HOVERINGRAPID ACCELERATION
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DoD◉ Orb / Sphere
UNCLASSIFIED
DoD-B16-025 · 2004-03-05

Mexican Air Force FLIR Orb Fleet 2004

◎Campeche State, Gulf of Mexico, Mexico

Mexican Air Force C-26A crew on a drug interdiction flight captured FLIR footage of eleven luminous orbs in formation. The orbs surrounded the aircraft and departed rapidly. Mexico's Secretary of National Defence General Ricardo Vega García ordered the footage released publicly. Mexican Air Force officers held a press conference presenting the footage — one of the most extraordinary official military public UAP disclosures by a government.

FORMATIONHOVERINGRAPID ACCELERATION
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DoD◎ Disc / Saucer
CONFIDENTIAL
DoD-B17-003 · 2004-11-08

Indian Air Force Pune Airbase UAP 2004

◎Pune Air Base, Maharashtra, India

Indian Air Force MiG-21 interceptors were scrambled from Pune Air Base after radar detected an unidentified contact over Maharashtra. The crews acquired a metallic disc that made extreme maneuvers. The IAF classified the report. The encounter came to light through Indian defence research circles in 2013 alongside the Ladakh sightings, prompting DRDO's scientific investigation program for Indian UAP phenomena.

HOVERINGRAPID ACCELERATIONSENSOR INTERFERENCE
MODERATE
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DoD◎ Disc / Saucer
UNCLASSIFIED
DoD-B21-010 · 2004-03-15

Cometan Incident — French COMETA Report UAP 2004

◎Cometan, Hautes-Pyrénées, France

A close encounter in the French Pyrenees mountains observed by multiple witnesses and investigated by the French Gendarmerie, adding to the growing French government UAP case file that supported the 1999 COMETA Report. The French gendarmerie's UAP investigation arm GENDAIR conducted a formal site investigation. France's GEIPAN — the world's only institutionalized government civilian UAP investigation body — classified the case as fully unexplained.

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DoD⬭ Ellipsoid
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DoD-B21-025 · 2004-11-01

USS Princeton Radar — Two-Week Tic Tac Tracking 2004

◎Pacific Ocean off San Diego, California

Two weeks before Commander Fravor's famous visual encounter, USS Princeton radar operators had been tracking the Tic Tac UAP on their Cooperative Engagement Capability system daily. The objects were observed dropping from 80,000 feet to sea level in less than a second — implying acceleration of hundreds of thousands of G-forces. The Princeton's senior chief petty officer Kevin Day later testified publicly that his chain of command was informed and that the two-week tracking period was deliberately excluded from the official investigation. The extended tracking makes the Nimitz event far more significant than the brief Fravor encounter suggests.

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