David Fravor Statement for the House Oversight Committee

David Fravor identifies himself as a retired U.S. Navy commander who led Strike Fighter Squadron 41 aboard USS Nimitz during its November 2004 workup cycle.

My name is David Fravor and I am a retired Commander in the U.S Navy. In Nov 2004, I was the Commanding Officer of Strike Fighter Squadron Forty-One

Fravor says USS Princeton controllers had observed unidentified objects for two weeks descending from above 80,000 feet to 20,000 feet before rapidly ascending again.

had been observing these objects on their Aegis combat system for the previous 2 weeks. They had been descending from above 80,000ft and coming rapidly down to 20,000ft would stay for hours and then go straight back up.

Fravor reports that four aviators saw a small white Tic Tac-shaped object moving abruptly above an area of white water.

As all 4 looked down we saw a small white Tic Tac shaped object with the longitudinal axis pointing N/S and moving very abruptly over the white water.

Fravor states that the observed object showed no rotors, rotor wash, wings, or other visible flight-control surfaces.

There were no Rotors, No Rotor wash, or any visible flight control surfaces like wings.

Fravor says the object reacted to his approach, climbed in a clockwise turn, then rapidly accelerated and disappeared as his aircraft closed to roughly half a mile.

As we pulled nose onto the object at approximately ½ of a mile with the object just left of our nose, it rapidly accelerated and disappeared right in front of our aircraft.

Fravor reports that USS Princeton’s controller then placed the object at the flight’s CAP point, roughly 60 miles away, less than a minute after it disappeared.

the air controller let us know that the object had reappeared on the Princeton’s Aegis SPY 1 radar at our CAP point. This Tic Tac Object had just traveled 60 miles in a very short period of time (less than a minute)

Fravor says a later aircrew recorded the approximately 90-second targeting-pod video that the U.S. government released in 2017.

It was that crew that took the now famous approximately 90 second video that was released by the USG in 2017.

Fravor says a radar recording showed interference with the aircraft’s APG-73 radar and that the targeting-pod video lacked the infrared plume expected from conventional propulsion.

the Radar tape that showed the jamming of the APG-73 radar in the aircraft, but we do see on the targeting pod video that the object does not emit any IR (infrared) plume from a normal propulsion system

Fravor states that the encounter received no contemporaneous investigation, the crew was not questioned, and recordings were not collected.

the incident was never investigated, none of my crew were ever questioned, tapes were never taken, and after a couple of days, it turned into a great story to tell friends.

Fravor says Jay Stratton first contacted him in 2009 to investigate the encounter.

Not until 2009 did Jay Stratton contact me to investigate what we observed.

Fravor says Alex Dietrich told him she had been invited to the Pentagon multiple times to discuss the encounter and view other UAP videos.

Alex stated that she had been invited to the Pentagon multiple times to discuss the event and view other videos of UAPs.

Fravor credits the 2017 New York Times reporting and To The Stars Academy’s advocacy with reducing stigma and increasing official interest in UAP.

It was this organization that pressed the issue with leading Industry experts and USG officials, worked with Leslie Keane, Ralph Blumenthal and Helene Cooper to publish the articles in the NYT in Dec 2017

Fravor says alleged government possession or work on craft believed not to be human-made requires oversight by elected officials.

What concerns me is that there is no “Oversight” from our elected officials on anything associated with our government possessing or working on craft that we believe are not from this world.

Fravor assesses that the object encountered in November 2004 exceeded the performance of available or publicly anticipated U.S. technology.

the Tic Tac Object that we engaged in Nov 2004 was far superior to anything that we had at the time, have today, or are looking to develop in the next 10+ years.

Fravor argues that any government program possessing such technology should be subject to congressional oversight.

If we in fact have programs that possess this technology, it needs to have oversight from those people that the citizens of this great country elected to office