Footage · infrared-video
FLIR1 (Nimitz ATFLIR video)
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FLIR / Nimitz
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American Alchemy / Jesse Michels ↗YouTube-hosted preview and player; not relicensedA 76-second ATFLIR clip recorded on 14 November 2004 by an F/A-18F from USS Nimitz, said to show the object that Cdr David Fravor had visually engaged earlier that day. It was published with the 2017 New York Times report and formally released by the Pentagon in 2020, which described it as unidentified.
The recording
| Shot | |
|---|---|
| Shot by | ATFLIR pod of an F/A-18F flown by Lt Cdr Chad Underwood, VFA-41 US Navy |
| Released | 16 December 2017 — To The Stars Academy / New York Times; DoD formal release 2020-04-27 |
| Official status | The Department of Defense authorized release of the video on 27 April 2020 and said the aerial phenomena observed in it remain characterized as 'unidentified'. |
| Kind | infrared-video |
| Where | 31.000, -117.500 region |
| Media rights | See each item in the visual record |
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UFO Skeptic Mick West Challenged To A Debate 26 January 2025
- 0:06:56 ▶ Mick West
that kind of almost coincided with the uh 2017 December 2017 release of a New York Times article which came with these other videos, gimbal uh and the Fleer 1 video and Go Fast was released a little later. And yeah, when I when I
- 0:24:03 ▶ Jesse Michels
amazing fleer video, thermal video caught in November of 2004. uh you have eyewitnesses uh David Fraver who you mentioned who is really I think a source of uh belief for a lot of people
- 0:06:56 ▶ Mick West
I Debated UFOs With America’s Top Skeptic (It Got Ugly...) 9 July 2026
- 0:47:33 ▶ Jesse Michels
you have Chad Underwood catching the thing with forward looking infrared. You have Kevin Day who's catching the thing with with radar on the USS Princeton. You have a whole chain of custody and you
- 0:47:33 ▶ Jesse Michels
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FLIR1 (Nimitz ATFLIR video), Nimitz Carrier Group 2004 (sea area), New York Times reveals AATIP and releases Navy videos, Pentagon formally releases FLIR1, GIMBAL and GOFAST, US Navy confirms the three videos show UAP, The Pentagon. Open the full map filtered to this record.
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- 0:24:03 UFO Skeptic Mick West Challenged To A Debate · Jesse Michels ▶
amazing fleer video, thermal video caught in November of 2004. uh you have eyewitnesses uh David Fraver who you mentioned who is really I think a source of uh belief for a lot of people
- 0:06:56 UFO Skeptic Mick West Challenged To A Debate · Mick West ▶
that kind of almost coincided with the uh 2017 December 2017 release of a New York Times article which came with these other videos, gimbal uh and the Fleer 1 video and Go Fast was released a little later. And yeah, when I when I
- 0:47:33 I Debated UFOs With America’s Top Skeptic (It Got Ugly...) · Jesse Michels ▶
you have Chad Underwood catching the thing with forward looking infrared. You have Kevin Day who's catching the thing with with radar on the USS Princeton. You have a whole chain of custody and you
- Statement by the Department of Defense on the Release of Historical Navy Videos
- Glowing Auras and "Black Money": The Pentagon's Mysterious U.F.O. Program
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