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He’s the Reason We Know about the ‘Tic Tac’ UFO

Kevin Day saw something on his radar scope back in 2004 that just didn’t make sense. Then he saw the strange objects again… and again. Seventeen years later, he’s still bearing witness.

Ryan Sprague
Point of Contact
Published in
14 min readAug 3, 2021

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Credit: ‘UFO’ on Showtime, August 8, 2021

On December 16, 2017, the New York Times published a historic exposé revealing both a black-budget Pentagon program that had been studying UFOs in the shadows and several videos captured by Navy pilots of UFOs they’d encountered off the East and West coasts.

The most publicized of these events, the 2004 USS Nimitz “Tic Tac” event began when one man noticed something odd on the bright green radar screen staring back at him in the dark belly of the USS Princeton. Whether he meant to or not, that radar technician helped document one of the most significant UFO events in decades.

Along with other witnesses, Kevin Day will appear in the new Showtime series from J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot, UFO, that drops all four of its episodes this Sunday, August 8.

A Day in the Life

In Cave Junction, Oregon, Kevin Day was at the Illinois Valley Golf Club restaurant, volunteering to wait tables and keep bankruptcy at bay. He and…

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