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USS Princeton SPY-1 radar tracks (Nimitz 2004)
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US House Oversight · 2023 ↗Link only — rights with the publisherUSS Princeton (CG-59), 2003
The cruiser USS Princeton a year before the November 2004 encounters. Its SPY-1 radar operators, including Kevin Day, reported the tracks that led to the F/A-18 intercepts. Ship photograph · context; the radar recordings were never released.
U.S. Navy photo by Airman Angel G Hilbrands. (RELEASED) · 2003 ↗Public domain — US government workLicence terms ↗Jesse Michels · 0:25:37
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American Alchemy / Jesse Michels ↗YouTube-hosted preview and player; not relicensedJesse Michels · 0:47:33
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American Alchemy / Jesse Michels ↗YouTube-hosted preview and player; not relicensedRadar operators aboard USS Princeton reported tracking groups of objects for about a week in November 2004 that descended from high altitude to the sea surface in seconds. The data were never released; witnesses say the tapes were removed. The corpus treats the radar track as part of a multi-sensor chain of custody.
The recording
| Shot | |
|---|---|
| Shot by | Aegis SPY-1 radar of USS Princeton, operated by Senior Chief Kevin Day US Navy |
| Released | not released — not released; described in witness accounts and the 2009 unsigned "executive summary" |
| Official status | The Navy has confirmed that the November 2004 encounters involved unidentified aerial phenomena but has released no radar data, and witnesses say the recordings were collected by unidentified personnel after the events. |
| Kind | radar-data |
| 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
- 0:25:37 ▶ Jesse Michels
the USS Princeton is a guided missile cruiser. Um and it is part of this Nimmits um strike group and it is over the course of I think a week uh according to one of the witnesses the key witness Kevin Day um maybe 10 days I think 10 days sure okay um
- 0:25:37 ▶ Jesse Michels
I Debated UFOs With America’s Top Skeptic (It Got Ugly...) 9 July 2026
- 0:47:33 ▶ Jesse Michels
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 have all these different kind of you know multiensory corroborating things. You have
- 1:10:03 ▶
we have cases with witnesses and radar. >> Yes. Okay. So 45 minutes that nudges it from
- 0:47:33 ▶ Jesse Michels
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USS Princeton SPY-1 radar tracks (Nimitz 2004), Nimitz Carrier Group 2004 (sea area). Open the full map filtered to this record.
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- 0:25:37 UFO Skeptic Mick West Challenged To A Debate · Jesse Michels ▶
the USS Princeton is a guided missile cruiser. Um and it is part of this Nimmits um strike group and it is over the course of I think a week uh according to one of the witnesses the key witness Kevin Day um maybe 10 days I think 10 days sure okay um
- 0:47:33 I Debated UFOs With America’s Top Skeptic (It Got Ugly...) · Jesse Michels ▶
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 have all these different kind of you know multiensory corroborating things. You have
- 1:10:03 I Debated UFOs With America’s Top Skeptic (It Got Ugly...) ▶
we have cases with witnesses and radar. >> Yes. Okay. So 45 minutes that nudges it from
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