The USS Nimitz UFO incident - weather balloons?
I have spent a decent amount of time investigating the Nimitz UFO incident and made several posts about it here. My thoughts have converged to what I called my best guess hypothesis . In short, I believe the incident is explained by: Balloons seen on radar Submarine launched balloon(s) seen visually Distant Super Hornet seen on ATFLIR video As I stated in the post linked above: the main questions in my mind have really been "What kind of a balloon was it?" and "Where can I find evidence for it?" This post is about one such candidate, and where the evidence of it might be found. It should be noted though that another more concrete candidate has emerged while this post has been waiting in draft state due to lack of time to finish it. Mike Turber has brought the X-43A launch back to the center stage in a way that goes very much along the same lines as is being proposed below, at least as far as I understand it, and is working on a video for detailing his thoughts. The...