David Fravor, a retired Commander in the U.S Navy, testified before the House Oversight Committee’s national security subcommittee in a hearing on Wednesday regarding UAP or UFOs, documented by hundreds of pilots.

A video recorded by Fravor during a routine mission off the coast of San Diego that November afternoon in 2004, went viral after being made public by officials with a Pentagon program that investigated U.F.O.s. It is now known as the infamous “Tic Tac” video.

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Who is David Fravor?

When the video was recorded, Fravor was the Commanding Officer of Strike Fighter Squadron 41. He and his team were attached to Carrier Airwing Eleven and stationed onboard the USS Nimitz (CVN-68).

In his testimony before the committee on Wednesday, Fravor recalled what happened on the day that he encountered the alleged UFOs. “As we launched off the USS Nimitz, we checked in with the air controller on the USS Princeton, we were told that training was going to be suspended for real world tasking. My wingman joined up and we proceeded towards a contact to the west of our CAP (Combat Air Patrol) point. The CAP point is where we would hold prior to commencing our training runs, roughly 40 miles South of the ship.”

He continued: “As we proceeded to the west and as the air controller counted down the range, we had nothing on our radars and were unaware of what we were going to see when we arrived. The air controller on the ship also had no idea but had been observing these objects on their Aegis combat system for the previous 2 weeks. They had been descending from above 80,000ft and coming rapidly down to 20,000ft would stay for hours and then go straight back up.”

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Fravor said when they arrived at 20,000 ft, they noticed some white water on the right side which stood out in the sea as the weather was perfect that day.

“As all 4 looked down we saw a small white Tic Tac shaped object with the longitudinal axis pointing N/S and moving very abruptly over the white water. There were no Rotors, No Rotor wash, or any visible flight control surfaces like wings. As we started a clockwise turn to observe the object. My WSO and I decided to go down to get closer and the other Aircraft stayed in High cover to observe both us and the Tic Tac. We proceeded around the circle about 90 degrees from the start of our descent and the object suddenly shifted it longitudinal axis, aligned it with my aircraft and began to climb in a clockwise climbing turn,” he said.

He added: “We continued down for another 270 degrees when we made a nose low move to head to where the Tic Tac would be when we pulled nose onto the object. Our altitude at this point was approximately 15,000ft with the Tic Tac at about 12,000ft. As we pulled nose onto the object at approximately ½ of a mile with the object just left of our nose, it rapidly accelerated and disappeared right in front of our aircraft.”

Fravor said that at the same time, the white water has also disappeared. “We continued down for another 270 degrees when we made a nose low move to head to where the Tic Tac would be when we pulled nose onto the object. Our altitude at this point was approximately 15,000ft with the Tic Tac at about 12,000ft. As we pulled nose onto the object at approximately ½ of a mile with the object just left of our nose, it rapidly accelerated and disappeared right in front of our aircraft,” he said, which according to Fravor, was faster than any of the aircrafts or jets used by the US military.

He also confirmed that the government never investigated the incident. “What is shocking is that the incident was never investigated, none of my crew were ever questioned, tapes were never taken, and after a couple of days, it turned into a great story to tell friends,” he said.