Were the Nimitz Tic Tac Objects Megafilaments of Laser Produced Plasmas?
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UAP Insight significance score
- Author
- Avi Loeb
- Published
- July 23, 2026
- Event date
- 2015-11-14
- Location
- Nimitz
- Witnesses
- Military
- Object type
- plasma filament (proposed explanation)
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Original excerpt
Spatial evolution of a 3.5-picosecond CO2 laser beam propagating in air in the range of distances out to z=32 meters from the nonlinear focus of the mirror, M. Black diamonds indicate laser measurements in the focus. The blue line shows calculated propagation of the Gaussian beam in vacuum. The detected megafilament consists of two parts: a 5-meter-long visible plasma channel with an electron pla…
Key claims
- →Loeb analyzes laser-induced plasma channels as potential explanation for Tic Tac sighting
- →CO2 laser propagation demonstrated to produce 5-meter-long visible plasma channels
- →Theory addresses spatial characteristics observed in 2015 incident
- →Proposes exotic but terrestrial mechanism rather than unknown technology
UAP Insight Analysis— AI generated, not official
Avi Loeb proposes that the Nimitz Tic Tac objects observed in 2015 may have been megafilaments of laser-produced plasma rather than unknown craft, based on analysis of CO2 laser propagation behavior in air.
Alternative explanation
Loeb's laser plasma hypothesis offers a conventional physics-based alternative to exotic propulsion explanations.
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