{"id":170,"date":"2019-11-27T04:40:12","date_gmt":"2019-11-27T04:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/micahhanks.com\/podcast\/?p=170"},"modified":"2019-11-27T04:40:12","modified_gmt":"2019-11-27T04:40:12","slug":"11-25-19-the-nimitz-witnesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/micahhanks.com\/podcast\/2019\/11\/27\/11-25-19-the-nimitz-witnesses\/","title":{"rendered":"11.25.19. The Nimitz Witnesses"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_1023\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-170-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/gralienreport\/112519_-_The_Nimitz_Witnesses.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/gralienreport\/112519_-_The_Nimitz_Witnesses.mp3\">http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/gralienreport\/112519_-_The_Nimitz_Witnesses.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/gralienreport\/112519_-_The_Nimitz_Witnesses.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/micahhanks.com\/podcast\/?powerpress_pinw=170-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/gralienreport\/112519_-_The_Nimitz_Witnesses.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"112519_-_The_Nimitz_Witnesses.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/micahhanks.com\/podcast\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/micahhanks.com\/podcast\/subscribe\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"More\" rel=\"nofollow\">More<\/a><\/p><p>On this week&#8217;s edition of <em>The Micah Hanks<\/em> <em>Program<\/em>, we continue our discussion of what is widely known as <em>The USS Nimitz UFO Incident<\/em>, involving events that transpired in 2004 as the U.S. Navy Carrier Strike Group 11 began detecting unusual radar returns during training operations off the Southern California coast.<\/p>\n<p>Joining us in the first hour to discuss this is Emmy-Award winning producer and cinematographer David C. Beaty. Dave is a UFO researcher, journalist, and filmmaker, whose career in non-fiction television and documentary spans more than 25 years, with productions having aired on the Travel Channel, History Channel and PBS. Beaty&#8217;s film, <em>The Nimitz Encounters,<\/em> features a culmination of his craft, including extensive use of 3D computer animation and graphics as well as electronic music and sound design all crafted by the filmmaker.<\/p>\n<p>Then in the second hour, we are joined by <span class=\"s1\">Gary Voorhis and Ryan Weigelt, both of whom served with the Navy\u2019s Strike Carrier Group-11, which became involved in this unusual incident while sailing 100 miles off the coast of Southern California in 2004. Voorhis, a former Petty Officer 3rd Class Fire Controlman aboard the USS Princeton, was at the time of this incident one of the only system technicians for the Cooperative Engagement Capability and AEGIS Combat systems, which included the AN\/SPY-1 Bravo radar system. Weigelt is former Leading Petty Officer and had been the power plant specialist of the SH-60B Seahawk helicopter. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Both men share facts and details with us about the systems they operated during their time in service with the US Navy Strike Carrier Group 11, and some of the possibilities they have considered about the famous USS Nimitz UFO incident of 2004. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Below are links to stories featured in this week&#8217;s episode:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PRgoisHRmUE\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Nimitz Encounters by Filmmaker Dave Beatty<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gralienreport.com\/x\">BECOME AN X SUBSCRIBER AND GET EVEN MORE GREAT PODCASTS AND MONTHLY SPECIALS FROM MICAH HANKS.<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"ezAdsense adsense adsense-midtext\">Sign up today and get access to the entire back catalog of<strong>\u00a0The Micah Hanks Program,\u00a0<\/strong>as well as \u201cclassic\u201d episodes of\u00a0<em>The Gralien Report Podcast,<\/em>\u00a0weekly \u201cadditional editions\u201d of the subscriber-only\u00a0<em><strong>X Podcast,<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0the monthly\u00a0<strong>Enigmas\u00a0<\/strong>specials, and much more.<\/div>\n<p>Like us on\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GralienReport\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Follow\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/MicahHanks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">@MicahHanks<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>on Twitter<\/p>\n<p>Follow Micah on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/micah_hanks\/?hl=en\"><strong>Instagram<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week we are joined by filmmaker Dave Beaty, director of &#8220;The Nimitz Encounters&#8221;,  along with Gary Voorhis and Ryan Weigelt, who discuss a UFO incident that occurred off the coast of Southern California in 2004.<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/micahhanks.com\/podcast\/2019\/11\/27\/11-25-19-the-nimitz-witnesses\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":171,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[150,149,144,145,147,143,146,151,148,10,4,135],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>11.25.19. 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