AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |
Back to Blog
Ufo witness12/15/2023 “When they’d show up on radar,” Voorhis says, “I’d get the relative bearing and then run up to the bridge and look through a pair of heavily magnified binoculars in the direction the returns were coming from.” Describing what he saw during the daytime, Voorhis says the objects were too far off to make out any distinguishing features, however, he could clearly see something moving erratically in the distance. While Day and the Princeton’s air traffic controllers continued to monitor the strange radar returns, Voorhis says he began to take the opportunity to use the ship’s advanced tracking systems to catch a glimpse of whatever these objects were. ![]() “I recall hearing something, like a big, real-world scenario was going on, but I just didn’t really understand.” ![]() “Senior Chief Day, his name, was being called over the comms, no bullshit, every two minutes.” Weigelt said. In another YouTube clip, Ryan Weigelt, the former Leading Petty Officer and power plant specialist for the SH-60B “Seahawk” helicopter, recalled the tone aboard the missile cruise at the time. And there were 28,000 feet going a hundred knots tracking south,” Day said in the documentary. “The reason why I say they’re weird because they were appearing in groups of five to 10 at a time and they were pretty closely spaced to each other. On or around November 10, 2004, roughly 100 miles off the coast of San Diego, Day began noticing strange radar tracks near the area of San Clemente Island. “My job was to man the radars and ID everything that flew in the skies,” Day said in the documentary film The Nimitz Encounters. Sitting in the Princeton’s Combat Information Center (CIC), Operations Specialist Senior Chief Kevin Day was tasked with the critical role of protecting the airspace around the strike group. The USS Princeton Command Information Center. No squawk, no IFF (Identification Friend or Foe).” Their radar cross sections didn’t match any known aircraft they were 100 percent red. Other times they’d be around 30,000 feet, going like 100 knots. “Sometimes they’d be at an altitude of 80,000 or 60,000 feet. “Once we finished all the recalibration and brought it back up, the tracks were actually sharper and clearer,” Voorhis says. For Voorhis, the Princeton’s only system technician for the state-of-the-art Cooperative Engagement Capability (CEC) and AEGIS Combat System, news of these systems possibly malfunctioning was especially concerning.įearing the ship’s brand new AN/SPY-1B passive radar system was malfunctioning, Voorhis says the air control systems were taken down and recalibrated in an effort to clear out-what’s assumed to be false radar returns. While chatting with some of the Princeton’s radar techs, Voorhis says he heard they were getting “ghost tracks” and “clutter” on the radars. “It was really about getting all the kinks out.” “The group was going to be deploying in a few months and there was a bunch of new systems, like the Spy-1 Bravo radar,” Voorhis tells Popular Mechanics. ![]() Having already done almost six years in the Navy, including two combat tours, Voorhis was ready to transition to life outside the world of passionless grey metal hulls and vast leavening seas. Stationed on the USS Princeton, a T iconderoga-class guided missile cruiser, as the Nimitz carrier group went underway in early November 2004 for a routine training exercise, this would be the last time former Petty Officer 3rd Class Gary Voorhis would set sail aboard a Navy vessel. Ultimately, these five men-the “other” Nimitz witnesses-could be key to understanding an event that a leading aviation defense expert says “likely wasn’t ours.” Largely overshadowed by a grainy black-and-white video, and a former Topgun fighter pilot eyewitness, these veterans offer new and intriguing details on what occurred with the Navy’s Strike Carrier Group-11 as it sailed roughly 100 miles off the Southern California coast in 2004-details that a former career intelligence agent who investigated the Nimitz Encounter while at the Pentagon can neither confirm, deny, or even discuss with Popular Mechanics. These men also share a connection of being witnesses to one of the most compelling UFO cases in modern history: the Nimitz UFO Encounters, an event that the Navy recently confirmed indeed involved “ unidentified aerial phenomena.” ![]() Hughes, Ryan Weigelt, and Kevin Day-assembled together in a private group chat by Popular Mechanics-something much bigger ties them together beyond simply serving in the U.S. It’s clear they all share the bond of having once served in the armed forces. The five men share an easy rapport with each other, playfully ribbing one another while also communicating a deep sense of mutual respect.
0 Comments
Read More
Leave a Reply. |