Kevin Thomas and the Nimitz black triangle
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Contents 4
| Date | 1991 |
|---|---|
| Topics | Military encounters (topic), Ocean & underwater (topic) |
| People | Kevin Thomas, David Fravor |
| Testimony | Shellenberger testimony, p. 108 |
| Year | 1991 in UFO history |
| Timeline | 1991 on the UAP Timeline |
| Sources | 4 |
Kevin Thomas and the Nimitz black triangle — A Nimitz petty officer says he saw a huge black triangle rise out of the ocean.
Kevin Thomas, a former Navy combat photographer, said in a TV interview that in 1991, while serving aboard the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz, he saw a huge black triangle partly out of the water a few hundred yards from the ship. He said it rose and then shot off at enormous speed, and that two men questioned him the next day and told him not to talk about it.
There's no official record of the sighting, and no other named crew members have publicly confirmed it. The Nimitz is famous in UAP history for a later event: the November 2004 "Tic Tac" encounter off California, when pilots including Cmdr. David Fravor chased an unknown object, which became public in 2017.
Thomas's account is one of several reports of large objects emerging from or entering the ocean near Navy ships. Congress has since asked AARO to examine such "transmedium" reports, and AARO has said it's studying underwater cases.
People and topics
- Kevin Thomas — Navy photographer who described a black triangle rising from the sea near the USS Nimitz in 1991.
- U.S. Navy — The U.S. naval service, whose pilots reported the UAP encounters revealed in 2017.
- Unidentified anomalous phenomena — The U.S. government's current term for unidentified objects in the air, in space and underwater.
- Nimitz Tic Tac encounter — The November 2004 encounter between Navy pilots and a white Tic Tac-shaped object off California.
- David Fravor — Navy pilot who saw the 2004 Tic Tac object.
- AARO — The Pentagon office set up in 2022 to investigate UAP.
- Transmedium — Able to move between air, space and water.
On the Timeline
- Radio caller's underground base claim (1991) (1991) — A radio caller claims he wired a deep underground site holding military personnel and creatures.
- Valdamar Valerian's Matrix books (January 1991) — A writer using a pseudonym publishes books claiming 'grey aliens' are involved in human affairs.
See every 1991 event on the UAP Timeline →
References
- USS Nimitz crewman reports huge triangle UFO in 1991 — BroBible · brobible.com · archived copy
- Former Navy officer recounts triangular UFO emerging from the ocean — Curiosmos · curiosmos.com · archived copy
- twitter.com · twitter.com · archived copy
- youtu.be · youtu.be · archived copy
Further reading
- USS Nimitz UFO incident — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
This page was last edited on 29 October 2026. Articles are written in our own words from the sources listed under References; disputed claims are attributed to the people who made them.
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