{"id":534734,"date":"2026-09-09T22:53:39","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T12:53:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=e8bcdc2e9dd58f014f6a3b4935f98837"},"modified":"2026-09-09T22:53:39","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T12:53:39","slug":"ross-coulthart-physicist-kevin-knuth-on-the-nimitz-tictac-data-reality-check","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=534734","title":{"rendered":"Ross Coulthart: Physicist Kevin Knuth on the Nimitz TicTac data | Reality Check"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ross Coulthart:
Physicist Kevin Knuth on the Nimitz TicTac data |
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\nIn this episode of “Reality Check,” recorded at the Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies conference in Toronto, Ross Coulthart sits down with professor Kevin Knuth, the University at Albany SUNY physicist and former NASA Ames researcher. His 2019 peer-reviewed paper in the journal Entropy estimated the 2004 Nimitz Tic-Tac at thousands of G with no sonic boom, no exhaust and no heat signature.<\/p>\n

Knuth opens with the anomalous experiences that shaped him long before physics, from a childhood intuition on a Wisconsin bench seat to the night he and his toddler son both saw a boy standing at a bedroom gate in their Albany home. The conversation moves through the 1988 Montana cattle mutilations, the Malmstrom missile shutdowns and Knuth’s own hypothesis for how a craft warping spacetime could knock out an ICBM’s navigation system, and his account that AARO had a copy of his paper two months before Sean Kirkpatrick told the Senate no such peer-reviewed work existed.<\/p>\n

He describes sonar data from a New Zealand Navy frigate showing an 800-foot object closing 2.5 kilometers in 25 seconds underwater, the UAPx sensor network now deploying radar and RF spectrum analysis in Connecticut, and the limits already placed on the new UAP Science Advisory Council, which has been told it will see only unclassified material. Asked what he wants most, Knuth says he would like to stand inside one of these crafts, and he has spoken with people who say it’s possible.<\/p>\n

Chapters<\/u>:
\n0:00 Intro
\n2:51 A Childhood Premonition
\n5:35 A Word from Our Sponsor, Odoo
\n7:02 The Boy in His Son’s Room
\n14:22 Montana Cattle Mutilations, 1988
\n17:17 Malmstrom Missile Shutdowns
\n21:51 The 2019 Entropy Paper
\n23:26 Kirkpatrick’s Senate Testimony
\n25:41 Energy Conservation and G-Limits
\n29:56 JAL 1628 and the NASA Report
\n35:42 UAPx Sensor Network
\n40:21 NDAs and Crash Retrieval
\n42:09 Transmedium Cases and Sonar Data
\n47:22 Stigma in Academia
\n52:03 The UAP Science Advisory Council<\/p>\n