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First I want to say that there was a time when the History channel was pretty reliable as far as history was concerned.  But in recent years they’ve gone overboard with the paranormal stuff.  Those programs are rarely balanced, giving the skeptical side of the story or even acknowledging that there is a skeptical side.  Some programs, like “Hanger One” and “Project Blue Book” start with real incidents and distort the facts, sometimes even making stuff up out of whole cloth.  I’m NOT saying that this is the case with the documentary you mentioned, because I haven’t seen it.  This is actually the first time I’ve ever heard of the “Nimitz encounter”.

I watched the YouTube and it certainly does look bizarre.  But a film like this you have to watch with skepticism.  You have to pay attention to exactly what they say are facts and what are almost-facts, and what is speculation.  One thing I would like to point out is the images of the UFO that you see in the film are NOT video taken from the aircraft!  They are RECREATIONS.  So we are relying on what the airmen say that they saw or what they think they saw.  Refer to our discussion of  ghosts.  Eyewitnesses are notoriously inaccurate when it comes to details.  And recalling in detail something that you saw at a later date, especially something that scared you, is generally even less accurate.  I’m not even going to attempt to explain what it was, because I’m not a jet pilot and I’m not familiar with the kind of things they come up against in their work.  It would be way outside my expertise.  I’m 61 years old and one thing I’ve learned is that it’s okay to just say, “Hey, I don’t know what that is.”  But just because I don’t know what it is doesn’t mean that someone else doesn’t.  Even if no one knows what it is, that doesn’t mean it was an alien spaceship.