On November 14, 2004, U.S. Navy Cmdr. David Fravor and his F/A-18F squadron were conducting a training exercise with the USS Nimitz Carrier Strike Group off the coast of San Diego when his radar detected an anomaly, reports popularmechanics.com.

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This incident, now known as the “Tic-Tac” sighting, remained classified for over a decade. A bootleg video of the UAP (unidentified anomalous phenomenon) surfaced years later but gained little attention until Fravor’s account was published in The New York Times in 2017.

The incident spurred the creation of the Department of Defense’s UAP Task Force. In 2023, Fravor testified before the House Oversight Committee, but public reaction was muted. “The internet shrugged,” as Forbes noted.

Retired Rear Adm. Tim Gallaudet, former Navy chief meteorologist, also testified about another UAP video, captured during his active duty.

Gallaudet, who has long investigated such phenomena, stated, “We are pretty convinced these craft are operated by higher-order intelligence that is not human.”

He believes these objects, which can transition between water and air, defy known natural laws.

“I don’t believe they’re of the natural world as we know it. They may come from Earth, but I don’t believe they belong to the plant and animal kingdoms as we know them,” he added.

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Gallaudet, however, emphasized the uncertainty: “We don’t know their intent. At least the government is not telling us that they could be hostile or not but the uncertainty there needs to be resolved.”

He speculated these beings could be extraterrestrials or an undiscovered intelligent species, possibly residing in Earth’s oceans for millennia.

The Tic-Tac incident isn’t the first of its kind. In his book Sweep Clear 5, UAP investigator Chris Styles detailed a 1960 sighting during a Canadian NATO mission, where divers encountered humanoid entities in transmedium craft.

“They ordered us to the surface and ordered us to forget about what we’d seen,” reads one diver account Styles had documented. “Then the alarms sounded upon the command ship and panic broke out.”

If an advanced underwater species exists, Gallaudet believes studying their energy sources could help solve global energy crises. However, the risks of contact remain unknown.

“We are certain they are controlled by something,” Gallaudet said. “We just don’t fully know what their intent or their nature is.”