On the Trail of the Tic Tac | MHP 09.13.21.
The Micah Hanks Program
Micah Hanks
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🗓️ 14 September 2021
⏱️ 92 minutes
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Summary
In 2004, the U.S. Navy's Carrier Strike Group 11 was conducting training off the California coast when radar operators began to detect unusual aerial objects nearby. Over the next several days, the objects would be repeatedly observed, culminating in a close encounter between one of the objects and a pair of fighter pilots.
Known today as the "tic tac," the object described by the pilots during the 2004 USS Nimitz incident has become one of the most widely-recognized descriptions of a purported UFO in recent days. However, its appearance in 2004 was not the first time such an object has been described in UFO literature. This week on The Micah Hanks Program, we go on the trail of the tic tac in a search through history for similar descriptions of aerial objects since the end of World War II.
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Show Notes
Below are links to stories and other content featured in this episode:
- NEWS: UFOs in New Mexico
- THE TIC TAC: 'Normalizing' UFOs - retired U.S. Navy pilot recalls Tic Tac encounter
- Underwood: Navy Pilot Who Took Pentagon UFO Video Doesn't Want Link to Aliens
- HISTORIC CASES
- Was an Unidentified Flying Object Similar to the USS Nimitz “Tic Tac” Seen in 1944?
- Lonnie Zamora incident
- 1964: 'Flying Saucer' Sighting Reported By Eight Crosby School Students
- ANALYSIS: Rare egg-shaped UFO sightings are no 'yolk'
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| 0:00.0 | News, science, the unexplained space in the cosmos, exploring our past, our future, and |
| 0:08.7 | the mysteries of our universe, taking a critical look at reality and a journey to the edges |
| 0:14.4 | of human understanding. |
| 0:16.2 | The future is now, this is Micahanks. |
| 0:23.0 | From the high mountains of Appalachia in a bunker below ground, welcome one and all to the |
| 0:27.6 | Micahanks program glad, excited, in fact, to be getting behind the microphone, getting |
| 0:32.6 | into gear, going in pursuit of the enigmatic, as we do every week, attempting to plumb |
| 0:38.0 | the unplumbable mysteries of space time in the cosmos via podcasting apps everywhere |
| 0:44.2 | listen on demand throughout the world, and of course, here on our home on the web kgriradio.com. |
| 0:51.8 | Hope you guys are doing great out there, and of course looking ahead, we've got a lot |
| 0:56.6 | to talk about, after a quick dip through UFO history. |
| 1:02.3 | Then we're going to be going back in time, and bringing it all the way up to the present |
| 1:06.9 | in pursuit of a particular kind of UFO or UAP this week. |
| 1:14.7 | In recent years, there has been unprecedented attention put toward what has been known |
| 1:19.6 | as the chick-tack, since Commander Dave Fraver first used that term to describe it, although |
| 1:25.6 | Chad Underwood says he's the one that came up with the name, but really, what are we |
| 1:28.6 | talking about? |
| 1:29.6 | What are these objects? |
| 1:30.6 | How long have people been seeing these things? |
| 1:33.6 | We're going on the trail of the chick-tack this week. |
| 1:38.1 | And in fact, when we look at a few historic cases throughout the years, and the similarity |
| 1:44.5 | between what was described in 2004 with regard to the Nimitz incident, and what many have |
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