Some new information here. The Nimitz had apparently been tracking this thing on radar for 2 weeks prior to the actual visual by the pilots and crew.
I thought it was some other ship tracking it.
When I was a teenager (and never hearing of anything like this) I was out stargazing on a bitter cold and clear-as-a-crystal night. I saw a light, not a vehicle, zipping back and forth across the horizon at a speed almost like the blink of an eye and then it would go up and down at right angles without slowing. Its magnitude of light was like a large star. All of a sudden it became stationary, pulsed, grew to about the size of a volleyball, and vanished.
Impossible saucers don’t exist it’s all swamp gas!