Nimitz UFO incident
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The Nimitz UFO incident refers to a 2004 encounter in which U.S. Navy pilots and radar operators from the USS Nimitz Carrier Strike Group reported tracking and visually observing an unidentified flying object, often described as a "Tic Tac"-shaped craft, exhibiting extraordinary flight characteristics.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Nimitz UFO incident canonical | 1 |
| Tic Tac UFO incident | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13350074 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Nimitz UFO incident Context triple: [2004 USS Nimitz incident, hasAlternativeName, Nimitz UFO incident]
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A.
1997 Phoenix Lights
The 1997 Phoenix Lights were a widely witnessed mass UFO sighting over Arizona, famous for its large V-shaped formation of lights and enduring mystery.
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B.
The Bedford Incident
The Bedford Incident is a 1965 Cold War naval thriller film about a tense confrontation between a U.S. destroyer and a Soviet submarine, noted for its escalating psychological drama and bleak ending.
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C.
The Kettering Incident
The Kettering Incident is an Australian mystery-thriller television series centered on a doctor who returns to her Tasmanian hometown and becomes entangled in a decades-old disappearance and strange supernatural events.
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D.
1947 Roswell UFO incident
The 1947 Roswell UFO incident is a famous event in New Mexico involving the alleged crash of an unidentified flying object, which sparked decades of conspiracy theories and popular interest in extraterrestrial life.
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E.
Altmark Incident
The Altmark Incident was a 1940 World War II naval confrontation in Norwegian waters, where British forces boarded the German tanker Altmark to free imprisoned Allied sailors, heightening tensions during the early "Phoney War" period.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Nimitz UFO incident Target entity description: The Nimitz UFO incident refers to a 2004 encounter in which U.S. Navy pilots and radar operators from the USS Nimitz Carrier Strike Group reported tracking and visually observing an unidentified flying object, often described as a "Tic Tac"-shaped craft, exhibiting extraordinary flight characteristics.
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A.
1997 Phoenix Lights
The 1997 Phoenix Lights were a widely witnessed mass UFO sighting over Arizona, famous for its large V-shaped formation of lights and enduring mystery.
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B.
The Bedford Incident
The Bedford Incident is a 1965 Cold War naval thriller film about a tense confrontation between a U.S. destroyer and a Soviet submarine, noted for its escalating psychological drama and bleak ending.
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C.
The Kettering Incident
The Kettering Incident is an Australian mystery-thriller television series centered on a doctor who returns to her Tasmanian hometown and becomes entangled in a decades-old disappearance and strange supernatural events.
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D.
1947 Roswell UFO incident
The 1947 Roswell UFO incident is a famous event in New Mexico involving the alleged crash of an unidentified flying object, which sparked decades of conspiracy theories and popular interest in extraterrestrial life.
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E.
Altmark Incident
The Altmark Incident was a 1940 World War II naval confrontation in Norwegian waters, where British forces boarded the German tanker Altmark to free imprisoned Allied sailors, heightening tensions during the early "Phoney War" period.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
UFO incident
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unidentified aerial phenomenon encounter ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Nimitz Tic Tac UFO incident
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
USS Nimitz UFO incident ⓘ |
| altitudeRange | sea level to high altitude ⓘ |
| associatedProgram | Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedVideo | FLIR1 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Pentagon UFO videos
ⓘ
To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| date | 2004-11-14 ⓘ |
| describedObjectColor | white ⓘ |
| describedObjectShape | Tic Tac NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| detectionMethod |
infrared targeting pod
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radar ⓘ visual observation ⓘ |
| evidenceType |
eyewitness testimony
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infrared video recording ⓘ radar data ⓘ |
| hasConsequence |
increased public interest in UFOs
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renewed discussion of unidentified aerial phenomena in U.S. government ⓘ |
| hasParticipant |
Commander David Fravor
NERFINISHED
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Lieutenant Commander Jim Slaight NERFINISHED ⓘ USS Nimitz Carrier Strike Group NERFINISHED ⓘ USS Princeton (CG-59) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| involves |
U.S. Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet fighters
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
U.S. Navy pilots NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Navy radar operators ⓘ USS Nimitz NERFINISHED ⓘ USS Princeton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| location |
Pacific Ocean
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
off the coast of Southern California ⓘ |
| mediaCoverage |
2017-12-16 New York Times article on Pentagon UFO program
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The New York Times NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Navy ⓘ |
| objectBehavior |
abrupt changes in direction
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hovering ⓘ low observable on radar ⓘ rapid acceleration ⓘ |
| objectType |
unidentified aerial phenomenon
ⓘ
unidentified flying object ⓘ |
| observedBy |
aircrew of USS Nimitz Carrier Air Wing
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fighter pilots ⓘ radar operators ⓘ |
| officialStatus | unidentified ⓘ |
| partOf | U.S. military UFO sightings ⓘ |
| reportedBy |
Commander David Fravor
NERFINISHED
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Lieutenant Commander Jim Slaight NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Navy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| speedCharacteristic | extraordinary speed ⓘ |
| year | 2004 ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Nimitz UFO incident Description of subject: The Nimitz UFO incident refers to a 2004 encounter in which U.S. Navy pilots and radar operators from the USS Nimitz Carrier Strike Group reported tracking and visually observing an unidentified flying object, often described as a "Tic Tac"-shaped craft, exhibiting extraordinary flight characteristics.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Tic Tac UFO incident