Joe Rogan on uap: what the evidence says · JRE #2262
SUBJECT: UAP
The short answer
Rogan claims radar footage tracked the Tic Tac UFO descending from above 50,000 feet to 50 feet in about one second. Rogan is describing the November 2004 USS Nimitz Tic Tac encounter, and the gist (advanced radar tracked objects making descents that pilots and operators could not explain) matches the record, but his numbers are off.
Not a true/false call. Every claim is logged with its sources; read the exhibits below.
They have this radar footage that track this thing going from above 50,000 feet to 50 feet in like one second right? They don't know how the fuck anything can do that.
What the evidence says 01 / RECORD
Rogan is describing the November 2004 USS Nimitz Tic Tac encounter, and the gist (advanced radar tracked objects making descents that pilots and operators could not explain) matches the record, but his numbers are off. In his sworn statement and testimony to the House Oversight Committee, pilot David Fravor says the USS Princeton's Aegis combat system tracked objects for two weeks descending from above 80,000 feet and coming rapidly down to 20,000 feet, where they would loiter for hours before shooting back up. That is above 80,000 feet (Fravor notes above 80,000 feet is effectively space), not above 50,000 feet, and the loiter altitude was 20,000 feet, not 50 feet. The specific near-sea-level drop in under a second (Kevin Day's after-the-fact radar analysis put a 28,000-foot drop at roughly 0.78 seconds) is a separate, more disputed claim that traces largely to a single radar operator and does not appear in Fravor's official statement. So the underlying event and its inexplicable radar signature are real, but Rogan's altitude figures are off.