Gary Voorhis is a U.S. Navy veteran who served aboard the USS Princeton as an Aegis computer and radar-system technician. During the carrier group’s 2004 exercises off Southern California, he says crew members observed unusual tracks on the ship’s SPY-1 radar over several days. His duties placed him close to the systems used to display and maintain the data.

Voorhis served aboard the USS Princeton, where his work involved the ship’s advanced radar and combat systems rather than cockpit observation. He later described technicians checking equipment as unusual tracks persisted and recalled orders affecting recorded data after the encounter. In civilian life he became one of the veterans willing to attach his name to the case and helped organize others through UAPx and witness networks, broadening the public record beyond the aviators who first received attention.

Voorhis has described contacts descending rapidly from high altitude, operating near the training area, and reappearing over time. He also recalls being asked to turn over or reload data-storage media after the visual encounter involving David Fravor’s flight. Some details in the broader case vary among witnesses, and the original radar data has not been publicly released, but Voorhis’s account helped expand the record beyond pilots and a short infrared video.

Voorhis is a technical witness in the sensor evidence and military video chain. He did not see every object directly and does not possess the missing raw data, so his testimony is strongest when tied to the equipment, procedures, and events he personally handled. His public work with other veterans also helped frame UAP reporting as a military readiness and stigma issue rather than merely a popular mystery.