The Tic Tac AKA the Nimitz Incident
In this issue I attempt to gather all the main point of the Tic Tac into one handy comic poster
This month I have made a comic poster — or is that a poster comic?
I had the idea that an infographic/poster type comic would be good for the back cover of the potential book. I was also hoping that a poster would be a little simpler to make than a comic and I could get back to publishing mid-month. As it turns out, making this poster was as intensive and research heavy as making a multi-page comic.
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(Thanks to Austin Kleon for inspiring the above text!)
The Tic Tac incident is one of the most well on and documented modern UFO cases. Made famous after the 2017 New York Times article,
Glowing Auras and ‘Black Money’: The Pentagon’s Mysterious U.F.O. Program.
The article discussed three declassified videos of UFOs (UAPs in the article), the Tic Tac, Gimble and Go Fast videos. In Lue Elizondo’s recent book Imminent, Elizondo discusses how he declassified the three videos. Elizondo had this to say in a recent interview,
"Go fast, Gimbal and FLIR those are those are the least compelling of all the videos that the government has...
those were kind of the low hanging fruit that could be released to the general public but there's stuff out there that's like 4K ultra high definition."
As always, I have done my best to undertake thorough research of this case. Here are just a few of the resources I used,
https://enigmalabs.io/library/94e21b37-7553-42cb-bca6-bf1f9db2e166
https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2021/05/19/alex-dietrich-ufo-sighting-ac360-intv-vpx.cnn
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/16/us/politics/unidentified-flying-object-navy.html
In the poster I have speech bubbles for various people involved in this. I have tried to directly quote them. However, in some cases I have paraphrased for brevity and clarity.
One of the challenges in making this – apart from finding good, in depth and detailed accounts – was deciding on the audience for the poster. By which I mean, is this poster for someone new to the event, someone who knows a few details, or someone extremely familiar with all the details. I hope that the poster has something for any level of interest. I also know that as soon as I publish this there will be corrections that people will point out. I am hoping that it’s the case. If there is any way I can make this more accurate, I want to do that.