Chapter 5 brings the story up to date. On 14 November 2004, off the coast of southern California, Navy pilot Commander David Fravor, flying an F/A-18 from the carrier group of USS Nimitz, reported a white oval object about 40 feet long above a disturbance in the sea. Another pilot, Chad Underwood, gave it the nickname that stuck: the Tic Tac. The Pentagon formally released three Navy videos on 27 April 2020, including the infrared clip you can play here, and the US Defense Department still describes the object as unidentified. In June 2021 a preliminary assessment from the US intelligence community examined 144 reports from 2004 onwards and could explain only one, while saying there were no clear indications of anything from beyond Earth. The Pentagon set up a dedicated office, AARO, in July 2022. Its March 2024 report found no empirical evidence that any sighting represented alien technology and rejected claims of a secret programme to reverse-engineer alien craft. You guess how many of the 144 were identified, then decide whether almost every sighting has an ordinary explanation.
20 UFO Sightings and What Really Happened is a set of true stories in six short chapters, each on its own page. Tap the right side of the screen for the next slide and the left side to go back, hold to pause, and use the button at the end of a chapter for the next one. Three parts are written live by AI and labelled: a read of your answers, the Sky Desk and a what-if scene. The AI is told not to invent facts and can still make mistakes; if it is busy, a hand-written text appears instead and says so.
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