# A conventional object (aircraft, drone, balloon or surface wake) whose range, size and speed the crews…

> Still possible: A conventional object (aircraft, drone, balloon or surface wake) whose range, size and speed the crews misjudged against a featureless sea.

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# A conventional object (aircraft, drone, balloon or surface wake) whose range, size and speed the crews…

A conventional object (aircraft, drone, balloon or surface wake) whose range, size and speed the crews misjudged against a featureless sea.

**Still possible** Answers **1** questionDeduced0

## Where it stands

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

## What it predicts

- Radar logs, if any, show an ordinary track or none.
- The white water has a prosaic source (a whale, a submarine, a wake) recorded elsewhere.

## What would rule it out

- Radar logs confirm a track moving tens of miles in under a minute.

## Evidence 1 for · 1 against

[The crews had no reference for size or distance over open water; the figures of 40 to 45 feet and half a mile…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/nimitz-encounter/evidence/EVD0D1SBWT44XBT/the-crews-had-no-reference-for-size-or-distance-over-open)

Suggestive

FOR

[Two experienced pilots in separate aircraft independently describe wingless erratic motion, which ordinary…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/nimitz-encounter/evidence/EVD0D1SBX1Y3FMF/two-experienced-pilots-in-separate-aircraft-independently)

Supported

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). A conventional object (aircraft, drone, balloon or surface wake) whose range, size and speed the crews… [Answer ANS0D1SBWJA2ABW]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/ANS0D1SBWJA2ABW
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Key

**ANS** 0D1SBWJA2ABW

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