Chad Underwood
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The visual record
Illustrations, recordings and archival references — each with its own provenance. A documented source is a starting point for investigation, not a verdict on its explanation.
American Alchemy · 0:38:06
Open the source at the cited time. The episode thumbnail is video packaging, not a photograph of the reported subject.
American Alchemy / Jesse Michels ↗YouTube-hosted preview and player; not relicensedAmerican Alchemy · 0:44:34
Open the source at the cited time. The episode thumbnail is video packaging, not a photograph of the reported subject.
American Alchemy / Jesse Michels ↗YouTube-hosted preview and player; not relicensedAmerican Alchemy · 0:47:33
Open the source at the cited time. The episode thumbnail is video packaging, not a photograph of the reported subject.
American Alchemy / Jesse Michels ↗YouTube-hosted preview and player; not relicensedUnderwood filmed the object with his F/A-18's targeting pod on 14 November 2004, producing the clip later called FLIR1. He has said the object had no exhaust and moved oddly. The corpus cites the video and his account.
Who
| Role | US Navy pilot who recorded the FLIR1 video after the Fravor intercept |
|---|---|
| Side | military |
| Status | verified public figure (does the person exist and hold the stated position — not whether their claims are true) |
Interviews and appearances
- 0:38:06 UFO Skeptic Mick West Challenged To A Debate 26 January 2025 discussed ▶ YouTube
- 0:44:34 I Debated UFOs With America’s Top Skeptic (It Got Ugly…) | MEMBERS RELEASE 8 July 2026 discussed ▶ YouTube
- 0:47:33 I Debated UFOs With America’s Top Skeptic (It Got Ugly...) 9 July 2026 discussed ▶ YouTube
Mentioned in the corpus
Passages this record cites, with the stamp of the block each quote sits in.
UFO Skeptic Mick West Challenged To A Debate 26 January 2025
I Debated UFOs With America’s Top Skeptic (It Got Ugly…) | MEMBERS RELEASE 8 July 2026
I Debated UFOs With America’s Top Skeptic (It Got Ugly...) 9 July 2026
Named in 3 uploads (automatic name matching, 5 mentions)
On the map
Nimitz "Tic Tac" encounter, FLIR1 (Nimitz ATFLIR video). Open the full map filtered to this record.
Sources on this record
- 0:38:06 UFO Skeptic Mick West Challenged To A Debate ▶
Um, and the Princeton did as well, which is how And Underwood had it on his radar, too.
Built from graph nodes N-CRAFT-0067, N-SWEEP_B-0010.