Noted UFO expert, writer, and director Mark Christopher Lee has put forward a new claim contesting the widespread assumption that the puzzling Tic Tac-shaped UFOs, including those witnessed by U.S. Navy aviators in 2004 off California’s coast, represent advanced man-made military tech.

Lee asserts that these craft are not of this Earth, and evidence of their presence stretches back hundreds of years.

In his new documentary, “Project: Alien Earth,” now available on Amazon Prime Video, Lee presents compelling historical, eyewitness, and photographic evidence that suggests these advanced aerial craft have been seen long before the modern age of flight or drone technology—undermining claims that they could be the product of any contemporary Earth-based nation.

“We’ve been seeing these ‘Tic Tac’ shaped craft for centuries, and I believe it’s time to face the truth,” says Lee.

“The idea that they are man-made simply doesn’t hold up. How can we explain detailed sightings of the same type of craft in the 1600s and 1800s, before powered flight even existed?”

Lee points to key historical events that have been largely ignored by mainstream academia and media:

Nuremberg, Germany (1561): During a mass sighting, hundreds of citizens reported a battle in the sky involving numerous spherical, cross-shaped, and most notably, cylinder- or “Tic Tac”-shaped objects. The event was illustrated in woodcuts and described in newspapers of the time.

The Great Airship Wave (1896–1897): In the United States, thousands of credible witnesses, including judges, lawyers, and journalists, reported metallic, cigar or capsule-shaped aerial craft maneuvering with intelligent control—decades before the Wright brothers’ first flight in 1903.

Lee adds: “These objects were described in eerily similar ways to modern-day sightings. Silent propulsion, instant acceleration, no visible means of lift—the same exact features we see in the Tic Tac UFOs today. That’s not coincidence. That’s continuity. And continuity over centuries suggests an intelligent, non-human presence operating outside the boundaries of our understanding.”