Nimitz Incident: animated reconstruction of 2004

This animation reconstructs the reported sequence of events in the 2004 Nimitz Incident using witness interviews, reports and other publicly available material. It follows anomalous radar contacts, events on November 14, the fighter intercept and the FLIR1 recording, then covers persistent contacts and unusual data collection.

The animation aims to illustrate the general timeline, locations and witness accounts. Some details are normalized where accounts differed or changed over time. Distances, sizes, timings and aircraft positions are illustrative, not precise measurements or scale representations. The reconstruction does not establish what the objects were.