Brief
Kevin Day
The claims the writer was given for Kevin Day, in the order they were given.
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Kevin Day was manning the radar on board the USS Princeton during the 2004 USS Nimitz UAP encounter.
“Manning the radar on board the Princeton was Kevin Day.”
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Kevin Day observed a formation of unidentified flying objects on his radar screen during the exercise, rather than the simulated adversary aircraft he expected.
“But it wasn't the bad guys appearing on his screen that caught his eye. Instead, a formation of unidentified flying objects.”
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Kevin Day initially thought the objects on radar were civilian-related and that the crew had not been aware they were operating there.
“I thought it was civilian-related, and they didn't even know we were out there.”
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Kevin Day became concerned about the unidentified objects because of an ongoing air defence exercise, and reported that his captain confirmed the objects had been tracked for days.
“The only reason why I became concerned with these is because of that air defense exercise. Captain comes down to combat and says, hey, sir, you know we've been tracking these objects for days now.”
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Kevin Day tracked the unidentified object on radar during David Fravor's intercept in the 2004 USS Nimitz UAP encounter.
“Yeah, I'm seeing it on radar. I'm seeing him do the intercept, and as soon as he's at the merge plot, that object went...”
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During the 2004 USS Nimitz UAP encounter, the object descended from approximately 8,500 metres to the surface of the ocean in 0.78 seconds.
“It went from 28,000 feet to the surface of the ocean in 0.78 seconds.”
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Kevin Day recalls that pilots and everyone on the radio were screaming during the peak moment of the 2004 USS Nimitz Tic Tac UAP encounter.
“'Pilots are screaming and everyone on the radio is screaming,' Kevin Day recalls.”
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8
In the four days before 2004-11-14, Kevin Day and his team became increasingly concerned by anomalous radar tracks detected on their screens aboard the USS Princeton.
“Over the previous four days, the Princeton's Operations Specialist Senior Chief Kevin Day...was increasingly concerned by anomalous radar tracks he and his team detected on their screens.”
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Kevin Day was the USS Princeton's Operations Specialist Senior Chief, in charge of coordinating the systems that protect the entire carrier group.
“the Princeton's Operations Specialist Senior Chief Kevin Day, who was in charge of coordinating the systems that protect the entire carrier group”
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From 2004-11-10, Kevin Day tracked numerous unidentified aerial objects with no transponder return, closely clustering in groups of five to ten at a time, at an altitude far above normal commercial or military aviation traffic.
“Since 10 November he had tracked numerous unidentified aerial objects with no transponder return, closely clustering in groups of five to ten at a time at an altitude far above normal commercial or military aviation traffic.”
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Kevin Day believes some of the unidentified objects during the 2004 USS Nimitz Tic Tac UAP encounter were underwater just before they zoomed back up to approximately 24,000 metres, possibly even higher, because it was above the scan volume of the USS Princeton's radar at the time.
“Kevin Day believes some of the objects were underwater just before they zoomed back up to 80,000 feet, the upper atmosphere, 'maybe even higher because it was above the scan volume of our radar at the time'.”
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Kevin Day verified the anomalous radar tracks using the USS Princeton's Cooperative Engagement Capability (CEC) system, which merged radar data from every source into one picture.
“He verified what he saw on the Princeton's CEC, the Cooperative Engagement System, which took all the radars from every source and merged them into one picture.”
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Kevin Day is very sure the objects he tracked on the USS Princeton's radar during the 2004 USS Nimitz Tic Tac UAP encounter were real, solid objects.
“'I am very sure these things were real; they were solid objects,' Day tells me from his home in a beautiful part of high-country Oregon in a phone interview.”
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Kevin Day considers the full video of the 2004 USS Nimitz Tic Tac UAP encounter would have to be at least ten minutes long, based on it being standard for him to order 'tapes on' onboard the aircraft before an intercept begins.
“Kevin Day explains to me that it is standard in such an intercept for him to order 'tapes on' onboard the aircraft before the intercept begins; he estimates the full Tic Tac video would have to be at least ten minutes long.”
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Kevin Day's captain on the USS Princeton told him, when Kevin Day asked what he thought the object was after the 2004 USS Nimitz Tic Tac UAP encounter, that he thought the objects were spontaneously forming ice falling from space.
“Kevin Day recalls asking his captain on the *Princeton* afterwards what he thought the object was. 'He told me, "I think the objects were spontaneously forming ice falling from space".'”
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Kevin Day considers his USS Princeton captain's explanation that the objects were spontaneously forming ice falling from space to be absurd.
“Day laughs at the absurdity of such a conclusion.”
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Kevin Day's USS Princeton captain left him with the clear impression that he knew a lot more than he was letting on about the phenomenon observed during the 2004 USS Nimitz Tic Tac UAP encounter.
“His captain left him with the clear impression he knew a lot more than he was letting on about the phenomenon.”
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The morning after the 2004 USS Nimitz Tic Tac UAP dogfight, Kevin Day went to the USS Princeton's communications room to get a copy of the radio communications from the previous day in order to write an after-action report.
“The morning after the dogfight, Senior Chief Kevin Day went to the USS *Princeton*'s communications room to get a copy of the radio communications from the previous day so that he could get the data he needed to write up an after-action report.”
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Kevin Day discovered that the radio communications data for the 2004 USS Nimitz Tic Tac UAP encounter had been erased from the USS Princeton's optical disk, even though the date and time stamps for the recordings remained.
“But he was shocked to learn that the data for the Tic Tac encounter had been wiped. 'As it turns out, all of our comms had been erased. Now, every time you key a mic on the ship, it stamps the optical disk with a date and time stamp. All the date and time stamps were there but the actual comms were all missing.'”
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Kevin Day considers it not even possible for optical disk communications data to go missing while the date and time stamps remain intact, yet in this case it happened.
“And that was another anomalous thing because as far as I know I don't even think that's possible. But it happened.”
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Late on the morning of 2004-11-14, in the USS Princeton's Combat Information Centre, Kevin Day again saw a cluster of 14 unidentified objects on his radar screen.
“Late on that 14 November morning, in the Princeton's Combat Information Centre, Senior Chief Day again saw a cluster of 14 unidentified objects on his screen”
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Kevin Day confirmed that the USS Nimitz's radar was tracking the same cluster of 14 unidentified objects as the USS Princeton's radar on 2004-11-14.
“this time, he confirmed the Nimitz's radar was seeing the same thing”
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Multiple corroborating radar returns from different systems reassured Kevin Day that it was extremely unlikely the anomalous objects on his radar screen were false readings.
“The multiple corroboration of returns from different radar systems reassured Day that it was extremely unlikely these anomalous objects on his radar screens were false readings.”
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During the 2004 USS Nimitz Tic Tac UAP encounter, the cluster of unidentified objects on Kevin Day's radar screen was at one moment at approximately 24,000 metres or higher, with some lower at approximately 8,500 metres.
“the cluster of UAPs was at one moment somewhere about 80,000 feet or higher, some were lower at 28,000 feet”
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Kevin Day calculated that the unidentified objects plummeted, in about 0.78 of a second, from around 24,000 metres to hover at altitudes ranging from approximately 8,500 metres down to just 15 metres above the ocean surface.
“Then, instantly (Day calculates it to be 0.78 of a second) the UAPs plummeted to hover at a range of different altitudes, spanning from 28,000 feet to one craft hanging just 50 feet above the surface of the ocean.”
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Kevin Day gave a quote to a UFO conference in 2019-03 describing the objects during the 2004 USS Nimitz Tic Tac UAP encounter as 'raining UFOs' making a repeated sound down to the surface of the water.
“Day gave a memorable quote to a UFO conference in March 2019: 'It's raining UFOs. It was going choo, choo, choo, choo, choo down to the surface of the water,' he recalled.”
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Kevin Day learned from crewmen who worked in the anti-ballistic missile defence area of the USS Princeton that they tracked some of the objects seen during the 2004 USS Nimitz Tic Tac UAP encounter from orbit.
“In our interview, Day tells me he learned from crewmen who worked in the anti-ballistic missile defence area of the Princeton that they actually tracked some of these objects that day from orbit.”
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Kevin Day believes some of the objects observed during the 2004 USS Nimitz Tic Tac UAP encounter came from space, though he did not see them directly on his own radar.
“'Some of these things came from space,' he tells me. 'I didn't see them directly on my radar, but I know some came from orbit. We aren't alone, Ross.'”
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The 2004 USS Nimitz Tic Tac UAP encounter had a profound effect on Kevin Day, rocking his world view.
“It is quite clear this whole event has had a profound effect on Kevin Day, that what he saw that day has rocked his world view.”
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The g-forces caused by the acceleration Kevin Day observed on his radar screen during the 2004 USS Nimitz Tic Tac UAP encounter would make human survival impossible.
“Moreover, the g-forces caused by the acceleration that Day saw on his screen make human survival impossible.”
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Kevin Day decided that the unidentified objects tracked during the 2004 USS Nimitz Tic Tac UAP encounter posed a serious threat to air navigation.
“Kevin Day decided that these strange UAPs posed a serious threat to air navigation.”
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Kevin Day recommended to USS Nimitz Captain James Smith that aircraft be sent to investigate the swarm of unidentified objects during the 2004 USS Nimitz Tic Tac UAP encounter, and Captain Smith concurred.
“Day recommended to the Nimitz's Captain James Smith that they send out aircraft to take a look, and the captain concurred.”
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Kevin Day, a retired US Navy chief petty officer and radar specialist who served as a TOPGUN air intercept controller, monitored the Tic Tac craft videoed and tracked by US Navy pilots in 2004.
“retired US Navy chief petty officer and radar specialist Kevin Day, who, as a TOPGUN air intercept controller, monitored the strange Tic-Tac craft videoed and tracked by US Navy pilots in 2004.”
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