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When Top Gun Pilots Tangled with a Baffling Tic-Tac-Shaped UFO
Greg Daugherty, 2019. HISTORY.
An article of 16 May 2019 (updated 2025) built around Kevin Day's first on-camera interview: more than 100 tracks above 80,000 feet over a week, his team's initial suspicion of a fault, and his wish to intercept.
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Kevin Day's witness account.
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Daugherty, G. (2019). When Top Gun Pilots Tangled with a Baffling Tic-Tac-Shaped UFO. HISTORY. https://www.history.com/articles/uss-nimitz-2004-tic-tac-ufo-encounter
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