Obviously not “manned”, if it’s even real.
Then again, how do you even define real. Putting the obvious skepticism about the accounts being flat wrong or a hoax. If the observations or accurate, the object doesn’t even seem like an object at all. Mass cannot be made to accelerate like that without some EXTREME physical stresses. It all seems more optical to me. IE, like a someone moving a laser dot, although in 3D rather than being on a surface.
It had to have a mass to be picked up by the Nimitz radar.
[[Mass cannot be made to accelerate like that]]
Octane additives no doubt
[[without some EXTREME physical stresses.]]
Gorilla tape holds everything together I’m sure
If it’s holographic, what would be radar reflective?
I didn't realize that alien technology had to conform to your limited knowledge of what mass can and cannot do.
Consider for us an everyday event of a commercial airliner passing overhead. Now envision yourself in the world of the late Middle Ages. Say around 1500 AD. Only a bit over 500 years ago. If someone from that time were to see a giant craft passing overhead, larger than any bird they've ever see, no wings flapping, yet making in incredible sound as it moved thru the air; how would that person process such an image. They couldn't. Their frame of reference lacks anything to explain what they are seeing.
And that is just technology 500 years removed from the Middle Ages. Imagine civilizations 1,000, or 50,000 years more advanced than our own. The technology they possess would look equally odd to us and would be equally inexplicable.
What sort of G forces do you think were involved?
You should google UFO’s over Washington DC 1951 or 1952. ABC News footage.
A laser dot in the middle of the ocean showing on thermal imaging?
The legendary Project Blue Beam?
Most matter is empty space. What is possible is still a mystery.