Underwater Tic Tac near Haiti
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| Date | January 2010 |
|---|---|
| Topics | Beings & bodies (topic), Military encounters (topic), Government programs (topic) |
| People | John Baughman |
| Testimony | Shellenberger testimony, p. 170 |
| Year | 2010 in UFO history |
| Timeline | 2010 on the UAP Timeline |
| Sources | 4 |
John Baughman, a former U.S. Navy petty officer who served from 2008 to 2013, says that in January 2010, while the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson was off Haiti after the devastating earthquake, he saw a white object shaped like a "Tic Tac", about 20 feet long, under the water beside the ship before it quickly left.[1][2]
The account
Baughman told his story publicly in 2021. He says he was on a short break, sitting with his legs over the edge of the ship's SAM launcher deck and looking into the sea, when the object appeared below him and darted away. He says he reported it to a supervisor, who dismissed it, and that he decided to speak out after hearing former Navy pilots David Fravor and Alex Dietrich describe the 2004 Nimitz "Tic Tac" encounter. He has acknowledged that "it could have been just about anything".[1][2]
The deployment
The Carl Vinson's Haiti mission is well documented. On 12 January 2010, hours after the earthquake, the carrier was ordered to divert from a deployment in the Atlantic to Haiti, where it arrived within days to provide helicopters, water and medical support for relief operations, departing in February.[3]
Context
Baughman's description echoes the 2004 Nimitz encounter, which was made public in 2017. Reports of objects moving underwater near Navy ships have since been raised in Congress, and the Pentagon's All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office includes "transmedium" objects in its remit. The sighting rests on Baughman's account alone.[2][4]
People and topics
- U.S. Navy — The U.S. naval service, whose pilots reported the UAP encounters revealed in 2017.
- John Baughman — Navy veteran who described an underwater Tic Tac near Haiti.
- Nimitz Tic Tac encounter — The November 2004 encounter between Navy pilots and a white Tic Tac-shaped object off California.
- AARO — The Pentagon office set up in 2022 to investigate UAP.
- Transmedium — Able to move between air, space and water.
On the Timeline
- AAWSAP special access program request (29 November 2009) — BAASS gets clearances, but the Air Force won't talk without a special access program.
- UFOs and Nukes press conference (27 September 2010) — Former military officers hold a press conference about UAP at nuclear weapons sites.
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References
- "New Navy witness says he saw a Tic Tac operating underwater", On the Trail of the Saucers (Medium, 2021) · medium.com · archived copy
- "New UFO update: US Navy shares sighting of underwater 'Tic Tac'", TweakTown · tweaktown.com · archived copy
- "USS Carl Vinson deploys to respond to Haiti earthquake", U.S. Army · army.mil · archived copy
- USS Nimitz UFO incident — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
Further reading
- USS Nimitz UFO incident — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- U.S. congressional hearings on UFOs — 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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