# Phelan 2019: Navy Pilot Who Filmed the 'Tic Tac' UFO Speaks: 'It Wasn't Behaving by the Normal Laws of Physics'

> Matthew Phelan, 2019. 5 records on Mysteries Department cite it. Underwood's witness account.

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# Navy Pilot Who Filmed the 'Tic Tac' UFO Speaks: 'It Wasn't Behaving by the Normal Laws of Physics'

Matthew Phelan, 2019. _New York (Intelligencer)_.

Chad Underwood's first interview, December 2019, on how he acquired and recorded the FLIR1 target, the radar behaviour he saw, and his refusal to say what the object was.

**2004 Nimitz encounter and the Navy videos** Article0

## What it's used for here

Underwood's witness account.

## Cited by on this site 5 records

[The object accelerates sharply at the end of the clip, as the aircrew describe.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/nimitz-encounter/answers/ANS0D1SBY9066EE/the-object-accelerates-sharply-at-the-end-of-the-clip-as-the)

Answer

ANS

[Underwood reports erratic jumps on radar before he acquired the target on the pod.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/nimitz-encounter/evidence/EVD0D1SBYGT7F2C/underwood-reports-erratic-jumps-on-radar-before-he-acquired)

Evidence

EVD

[Chad Underwood](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/nimitz-encounter/people/FIG0D1SBKS21FXD/chad-underwood)

FIG

[The 2004 Nimitz encounter and the Navy videos](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/nimitz-encounter)

The mystery article

MYS

[Chad Underwood: Launched after Fravor's section returned; picked up a contact on…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/nimitz-encounter/accounts/WIT0D1SBSWC06XF/chad-underwood-launched-after-fravors-section-returned)

WIT

## Cite it

```
Phelan, M. (2019). Navy Pilot Who Filmed the 'Tic Tac' UFO Speaks: 'It Wasn't Behaving by the Normal Laws of Physics'. New York (Intelligencer). https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/12/tic-tac-ufo-video-q-and-a-with-navy-pilot-chad-underwood.html
```

[Read it free at nymag.com](https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/12/tic-tac-ufo-video-q-and-a-with-navy-pilot-chad-underwood.html)

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