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A US Navy veteran who served on the famous USS Nimitz has revealed how he once spotted a gigantic two-mile-wide UFO hovering over a military base.

The aircraft carrier became a household name in 2017 after incredible footage of a UFO being chased by fighter pilots from the ship was leaked online.

It sparked a huge number of US Navy pilots to come forward with their encounters, including Lee Adams.

Lee served as a supply officer on the USS Nimitz between 2012-2015, eight years after the infamous tic-tac incident.

And, while he never witnessed the UFO on that day off the coast San Diego, he did see perhaps an even more staggering “craft”.

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The veteran was stationed at a military base in Virginia Beach, Virginia, US, when a group of pilots spotted a mysterious plane flying over the area before disappearing into the trees.

Speaking to Mike and Maurice’s Mind Escape podcast earlier this year, he said: “I look up and it’s like a giant trash bag floating over the base.

“If you could imagine a trash bag that’s two miles in diameter floating, translucent.

“It was doing that – I could see parts of it but at the same time parts of it were gone.

“It was shimmering in the sky, two miles in diameter.”

He dismissed suggestions the mystery object could be gas or a cloud, claiming it “had defined attributes”.

Lee – who served in the US Navy for 14 years – said the object looked like a “sky jellyfish”.

And it was even more bizarre given that the group of pilots had spotted another strange aircraft flying over the base moments before.

But the former soldier ruled out the strange sight being extraterrestrial in origin.

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“I think that the government knows about it – why would it be right next to a military base?” he asked.

“The military would know – there’s something there, it landed outside the base behind the trees.

“You can’t disprove it, credible people have seen that.”

It comes after another US Navy veteran suggested the famed tic-tac UFO seen in 2004 may have used a black hole to reach speeds of 19,000mph.