Boeing F/A-18F Super Hornet pilots operating from the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) in 2015 encountered unidentified aerial phenomena

A recreation of the encounter between a US Navy VFA-41 squadron ‘Black Aces’ Boeing F/A-18 Hornet and a Tic-Tac shaped unidentified aerial phenomena in 2004 featured in the 2019 documentary film, The Nimitz Encounters

An F/A-18F Super Hornet of the ‘Red Rippers’ of Strike Fighter Attack Squadron (VFA) 11, taking off from the the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) on March 17, 2015

Former US Navy pilot Ryan ‘FOBS’ Graves, pictured in the cockpit of his Boeing F/A-18 Super Hornet when he was a pilot in the VFA-11 ‘Red Rippers’ squadron