Former USS Nimitz officers claim that 'unknown individuals' ordered them to hand over all the recordings. One of the most intriguing new UFO cases to have come to light in recent years, the USS Nimitz incident, which occurred in 2004 during a training exercise approximately 100 miles from San Diego, saw US fighter pilots from the Nimitz Carrier Strike Group encounter an unidentified flying object. Footage of the UFO was later published in 2017 and subsequently confirmed to be genuine. But given the circumstances, should there not have been a great deal more evidence ? Now a growing number of veterans who had served aboard the fleet at the time have described how mysterious individuals had shown up to prevent any such evidence from getting out. One of the men, Gary Voorhis, recalled how two 'unknown individuals' had turned up on the USS Princeton. "These two guys show up on a helicopter, which wasn't uncommon, but shortly after they arrived, maybe 20 minutes, I was told by my chain of