“Awesome! Technically and tactically correct. Although I cant vouch for UFOs. Very well packaged and presented. VF- 41 was my sister squadron on Nimitz 81’-83, for our deployments to Mediterranean. Bravo Zulu! In Navy terms – job well done – Dave. Thanks for sharing – lotsa memories rocketing off front end Nimitz in my younger years.” ~Mark Yonchak, Naval aviator on the Nimitz in the 80’s

Dave recently appeared on “UFO News Network Sunday” with Frank Stalter and James Iandoli and shared some breaking news on the Tic Tac encounter. If these witnesses are who they say they are, this is extremely important information. Here is an edited transcript of the relevant segment:

Dave Beaty: “I have a whole collection of…untold UFO stories. I have three that are from the Nimitz encounter. And these are guys who have not been heard of before – no-one knows their names – and they’re very interesting.

“The first witness, his name is Jason Turner. He was on the USS Princeton in November of 2004 and he wasn’t in the Combat Information Center, sitting behind a radar screen. Actually, he worked in the ship’s store and medical department as a Petty Officer, I guess. But, of course, everybody on that ship knew what was going on that next day or whatever. And he had a buddy that worked in the…I guess it would be in one of the intel spaces on the ship. He was like a cryptographic technician, something like that. And he invited Jason…he’s like, ‘Hey, you’ve gotta see this video cause we have it on our console.’ He had clearance to go into that area of the ship called the SSES – the Ship’s Signals Exploitation Space – where these consoles were that they used for…storing intel. And he showed him this FLIR video. And it is the video that we have a copy of. But Jason says that the video he saw…was much higher quality, much higher resolution. And he said that it was much longer.

“The video that we have is about one minute, seventeen seconds. And the one he saw was seven to ten minutes in length. And I said, ‘Well, was there anything cool on it? Or is it just this white blob in the center of he screen like we have?’ And he said, ‘No.’ He goes, ‘This thing was being chased by the jet and it did a ninety-degree turn, which you could see.’ And he said it just took off like hyper-sonic, out of the frame. And I go, ‘Well, is that in the video that we have?’ He goes, ‘No, you don’t see that in the FLIR video we have.’ But it was on this original one that he saw. So, somewhere that’s out there, this ten-minute FLIR video.

“And I ask him, I go, ‘Well, did you see anybody come onto the ship? Or were you asked not to talk about this?’ He said, ‘No,’ they were never told not to talk about it. He said that when the ship docked, after that training in San Diego when they came back to port, he said that guys came on board in plain clothes and secured all the data from the ship. All the radar and everything and took it away. So, that was the last he saw of it and I don’t think he knew who these guys were aside from the officers who were a part of the Navy. So that’s one interesting story. Jason’s out there and he doesn’t mind having his name used.

“So the second guy was on the USS Nimitz and he was in the Wallbanger’s Squadron. This is the E-2 Hawkeye, an early warning aircraft.”

Frank Stalter: “The radar plane. The radar plane.”

Dave Beaty: “Yeah, the one you see in my film, ‘Banger.’ With a giant, round radar dish sitting on top of it. They normally control the fighter jets when there’s missions going on. They get up high and they can see everything. So, they’re like an air traffic controller in the sky. Well, this guy was on there. He was an avionics technician. And his job was when these planes landed, they would do maintenance on the planes. But his job was to secure and remove…part of the avionics are these hard drives. He said that they record the radar tracks on. I guess it’s kept as a copy. And on that day when that particular mission came back and that E-2 Hawkeye – I guess, the one in my film or one of them – landed, the plane was sitting there for like twenty-minutes and they were taking these hard discs off.

“And the skipper or the commanding officer came up and he said, ‘There’s some guys here that are gonna take that material so we need to get those hard drives.’ And he says that there were two Air Force officers or two, United States Air Force personnel that had landed on Nimitz that morning or that afternoon and they were there to take these hard drives off of this E-2 Hawkeye. And he saw them take them and they confiscated theses hard drives and then they were gone. I had never heard that. I said, ‘You sure these were United States Air Force on a Navy carrier?’ He said, ‘Yep. They stood out like a sore thumb.’ You know, I’ve heard of the OSI, so perhaps he’s correct.

“And by the way, I can’t 100% verify these guys because I didn’t go see their ID. But I did go to the USS Nimitz cruise book and look ’em up. And sure enough, they claimed to be these guys and I’m looking at their picture and there’s their name and they were on the ship and that’s their job. So, unless I guess that DD-whatever form, I’m just gonna have to go with it. I’m pretty sure they’re telling me the truth and not just pulling my leg.

“Okay, so the last one. This witness – and this is pretty cool – he was a radar officer with the Wallbanger’s squadron. So he, flew in the Hawkeye. And both of these last two, they don’t want their names mentioned, at least at this point. So, they’re anonymous. He says that they were up there and he heard the jets: Fravor and Slaight and Kurth and all these guys on the radio. He heard the weapons load-out and these intercepts. And he said that it was kind of scary cause they didn’t know if there was hostile intent or what was going on. So it was a very tense day. And he was kind of glad no casualties resulted in any of this stuff. But he said that he and the crew saw the Tic Tacs. That on this Hawkeye, he said that this craft transited very quickly. And then, for a second, he said it joined up on their Hawkeye. I’m not sure if that meant off the wing or whatever and then it took off for like two or three seconds. So he said that everybody on that plane saw the Tic Tac.

“So, finally, the mission’s over and they’re coming back. You know, they’re called back to the carrier to come in to trap on the carrier. And over the radio, they’re told to sit there and not to turn off the motor. And said that that means…it’s called like a hot pump. He said that their engines are running. In a combat situation I guess they would sometimes refuel the plane as it just sits there on the dock and then take off again. He said it was very unusual in this situation to be asked to sit there with the engines running. He said after twenty minutes they were given the order to turn off the engines and come out.

“They were met there on the deck by their CO [Commanding Officer ~Joe] or their skipper and a couple of other individuals. And they were told to follow them downstairs into some secure area on the carrier. When they got into the secure area, they began individually briefing these guys. And they told them, ‘You didn’t see anything. This did not happen.’ And they had them sign affidavits or NDAs or something. So he’s saying…he had to sign something that he would not discuss this incident. He said after that, they were lead back to their ready room. And when they got back, another unusual thing…they were told that they were not going to debrief the mission, which was something that they always did. They would talk about safety issues or post-flight call outs. In this case, they weren’t even allowed to talk about the flight at all. He was told, ‘This didn’t happen.’ And he said after he saw my film, he was like, ‘The is like the first time in fourteen years that I was able to look at that and go, you know what, it’s great to see that. Because for all these years, I was really starting to think, maybe it really did not happen.”