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A Navy chief told a House task force a Tic Tac rose out of the Pacific beside USS Jackson in 2023. What does the sensor data actually show?
Witnesses
Unknown
Duration
Unknown
Source material
3
Timeline
3
Source context
Limited context
Interesting, but still missing stronger corroboration or harder source material.
Source provenance
r/UFOs
Live sighting record 5b76d8c1-1b06-4ed7-ad14-089060f4080b.
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Correlations
Field Intelligence
Moon phase
20% illumination
Waning crescent — moderate moon brightness
Solar window
Weather
Open-MeteoArea activity
Context notes
Heavy cloud cover (100%) — limited visibility
Extracted details
Observed facts
Occurred
Feb 16, 2023, 3:15 AM
Timezone
Argentina Standard Time
Location
W-291 warning area
Witness account
Narrative
Alex Wiggins, an active-duty Navy chief, says he watched a glowing Tic Tac-shaped object rise from the water off USS Jackson (LCS-6) on Feb. 15, 2023, around 7:15 p.m. PST. The ship was in the W-291 warning area off Southern California. He says it met three similar objects and all four left at once. He testified at the House Oversight UAP task force hearing on Sept. 9, 2025, and says the object was tracked on radar and a Star SAFIRE EO/IR system. The CIC footage has been public since April 20...
Case progression
Timeline
Witnesses place the encounter near W-291 warning area.
r/UFOs carried the report into the source network.
Grouped into the 2004 USS Nimitz Tic Tac Encounter incident dossier.
Ledger
Source material
media
Cover image
Visual reference carried with the original report.
source
Original report
Direct source material from r/UFOs.
telemetry
Environmental pass
Historical atmosphere, astronomy, and nearby infrastructure were resolved for this case.