It seems that the Tic-Tac-shaped UFO will not go away.

The 2004 Nimitz video that was released in 2017 has sparked a lot of talk about the reality of this peculiar unidentified flying object.

And with the outbreak of the coronavirus, sightings of this craft have only gone up.

According to MUFON (The Mutual UFO Network), reports of UFOs have rocketed by 30% since the outbreak of the contagion. One obvious explanation for this is that people are staying inside more, with more time on their hands, peering up at the sky a bit more often than they usually would.

This is bolstered by the words of Jan Harzan, executive director of MUFON, who said, “We’ve actually seen a slight uptick [in sightings] because more people are now home and out walking the dog… so we’ve actually seen a slight uptick in sighting reports.”

Without a doubt, the vast majority of these sightings are nothing unique or special, but to think that every single sighting is nothing is a bit of a stretch.

According to the author of this report: “The last major spike in sightings came in 1989 with a raft of people reporting seeing unexplained ‘flying triangles’ rumored at the time to be top secret stealth bomber test flights.”

George Knapp interviewed Harzan about these sightings, and asked if there was anything unique about the sightings.

JAN HARZAN: We’ve asked our investigators not to go meet with witnesses, so they’re doing everything by phone. But other than that, it’s been pretty much steady as she goes.

GEORGE KNAPP: Are there types of cases; daylight, nighttime, what’s going on?

JAN HARZAN: Well, we’re getting some really interesting cases of Tic Tac type shaped UFOs. I think before we would call them cigar shaped, but because of this new shape that came out with the US Navy two years ago, we put the term Tic Tac into our sighting reporting form. So we’re actually seeing some very, very good videos coming in with Tic Tac type videos that people would like to see, they can go to our website mufon.com and we have them right there on the homepage on the left side down. You can watch some of the videos. But what’s really interesting is with Elon Musk, and over at SpaceX launching the starlink satellites, we’re getting inundated with starlink reports from all over the world. I get them every day people are describing it, I know exactly what they’re talking about. And the other one is right now at this particular point in time, Venus is extremely bright in the western sky right after sunset. And we’re getting a lot of great videos of Venus smiling back at us. So between those two things, we have our hands full. (Italics mine)

An important piece of information to take away from this interview is the upsurge in Tic-Tac-shaped sightings. It could, of course, be a product of confirmation bias, where folks are simply wanting to see something extraordinary.

And who could blame them?

But I would suggest that these sightings are, in fact, authentic. Not that many people are involved in the UFO world, and to have reports of sightings of a Tic-Tac-shaped UFO cannot simply be a coincidence.

These reports of sightings are cohesive with my research on the history of the Tic Tac, which has also been an aircraft of important interest to TTSA (To The Stars Academy of Arts and Science).

And then I happened upon this…

This document, from 1954, has this to say in the second paragraph:

“A strange object was photographed in the sky in Maarianhamina immediately after the sun was in full view, following the eclipse on 30 June 1954. The cigar-shaped object appeared on several pictures taken consecutively.”

And then the third paragraph:

“On 14 July 1954, an unidentified, oblong object was sighted at Pulkkila, flying [southwest] in the direction of Haapavesi-Nivala. The object, which was flying very high, appeared grey from the rear and very bright from the side. The object was in view for several minutes and was flying with the speed of an ordinary plane.”

The cigar shape, oblong shape, and Tic Tac shape are all explaining the same kind of craft, which we know almost nothing about. All we know is that it has been here for a very long time.

I can only hope that we continue to gather relevant information in an effort to learn just what this special craft is!

UPDATE:

This link provides a number of Tic-Tac-shaped UFOs that were sighted before and after the 2004 Nimitz video was released.