The Tic Tac UFO event (the USS Nimitz UFO event) happened somewhere between Catalina Island and Ensenada, Mexico on November 14, 2004.
I don’t know anything about weather radar, but Wikipedia says NEXRAD weather radar range is a couple hundred km (230-460 km, depending on what you’re looking for): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEXRAD
Given the reported location of the Tic Tac event, the San Diego weather station might have been in range of the Tic Tac incident. KNKX is the code for the San Diego radar station: https://www.weather.gov/sgx/KNKX
This is the radar data from KNKX on November 14, 2004: https://s3.amazonaws.com/noaa-nexrad-level2/index.html#2004/11/14/KNKX/ and more on the data is here: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/metadata/landing-page/bin/iso?id=gov.noaa.ncdc:C00345
Are there any meteorology students, retired people, or anyone else willing to browse through the data? I don’t know how processed the data is or whether it’s possible to track a large object. Still, it could be an interesting project if someone has the skills or time.
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