Government & military · Witnesses & participants

David Fravor

Retired Navy commander and Nimitz witness

Who they are

David Fravor was the Navy squadron commander who later testified about seeing a white, rapidly moving object during a November 2004 training deployment from USS Nimitz. His prepared statement recounts his visual encounter and separately relays information from shipboard radar personnel. He also identifies the infrared recording as the work of a later flight crew.

His firsthand account is central to the Nimitz entry and the 2023 hearing; it is presented separately from sensor information communicated by others.

Selected contributions

Gave Congress a first-person account of his November 2004 visual encounter.Source ↗
Testified at the July 26, 2023 House hearing.Source ↗

Primary records

Testimony · 2023
David Fravor Statement for the House Oversight Committee
Witness and prepared-statement author · House Oversight Committee
Fravor recounts his November 2004 visual encounter and separately relays radar information communicated by other personnel. He distinguishes his flight from the later crew that recorded the widely circulated infrared video.
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Reading scope & citation
Fresh statement read; source distinctions checked against the previously inspected hearing record.
Testimony · 2023
Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Implications on National Security, Public Safety, and Government Transparency
Witness whose testimony is transcribed · US House of Representatives / GovInfo
The official transcript preserves Grusch, Graves and Fravor’s testimony and congressional questioning. It provides a fuller record than the prepared statements, including the witnesses’ different bases of knowledge.
Official July 26, 2023 hearing transcript, Serial No. 118–53.
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Reading scope & citation
Fresh cover, contents and witness listing checked; previously inspected witness and questioning passages reused. No fresh cover-to-cover or audiovisual review.