# An aircraft or drone of unknown origin with performance outside the aircrew's experience.

> Still possible: An aircraft or drone of unknown origin with performance outside the aircrew's experience.

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Answer · 2004 Nimitz encounter and the Navy videos

# An aircraft or drone of unknown origin with performance outside the aircrew's experience.

An aircraft or drone of unknown origin with performance outside the aircrew's experience.

**Still possible** Answers **1** questionPublished0

## Where it stands

**Still possible** Its tests haven't settled it: two pieces of evidence for, one against. It needs two reviews to be accepted.

## What it predicts

- Princeton radar logs show a track co-located with the sighting and a rapid relocation to the CAP point.
- No US test programme claims the object once records are reviewed.

## What would rule it out

- Mission tapes or radar logs show no track at the sighting position, or a programme is identified.

## Evidence 2 for · 1 against

[Four aircrew describe the same shape, colour, absence of wings and exhaust, and sudden acceleration.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/nimitz-encounter/evidence/EVD0D1SBVTW4VAV/four-aircrew-describe-the-same-shape-colour-absence-of-wings)

Supported

FOR

[The controller reported the object at the CAP point about 60 miles away within about a minute.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/nimitz-encounter/evidence/EVD0D1SBW2P3EZF/the-controller-reported-the-object-at-the-cap-point-about-60)

Suggestive

FOR

[No contemporaneous debrief, tape or radar record has been released to test the account.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/nimitz-encounter/evidence/EVD0D1SBWAG65BS/no-contemporaneous-debrief-tape-or-radar-record-has-been)

Established

AGAINST

## The questions it answers

[What did Fravor and Dietrich see on 14 November 2004?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/nimitz-encounter/questions/QST0D1SBTC04CMV/what-did-fravor-and-dietrich-see-on-14-november-2004)

Open4 answers, none ahead

## Cite it

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Mysteries Department. (2026). An aircraft or drone of unknown origin with performance outside the aircrew's experience. [Answer ANS0D1SBVK23SFX]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/ANS0D1SBVK23SFX
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