{"id":283854,"date":"2021-06-25T17:24:50","date_gmt":"2021-06-25T14:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/normalizing-ufos-retired-us-navy-pilot-recalls-tic-tac-encounter\/"},"modified":"2021-06-25T17:24:50","modified_gmt":"2021-06-25T14:24:50","slug":"normalizing-ufos-retired-us-navy-pilot-recalls-tic-tac-encounter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/normalizing-ufos-retired-us-navy-pilot-recalls-tic-tac-encounter\/","title":{"rendered":"#’Normalizing’ UFOs – retired US Navy pilot recalls Tic Tac encounter"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#’Normalizing’ UFOs – retired US Navy pilot recalls Tic Tac encounter<\/strong>”
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WASHINGTON, June 24 \u2013 Retired US Navy Lieutenant Commander Alex Dietrich has found herself in the glare of media<\/a> attention ahead of a highly anticipated government report on UFOs, a subject she says she has little interest in, despite actually encountering one on the job.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t consider myself a whistle blower \u2026 I don\u2019t identify as a UFO person,\u201d the former fighter pilot told Reuters in a Zoom interview, days before the report, expected to feature her own experience and dozens of others like it, was due for presentation to Congress.<\/p>\n

During a routine training mission with the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz off the Southern California coast in November 2004, Dietrich and her then-commanding officer, fellow pilot David Fravor, were asked by another warship to investigate radar contacts in the area moving in an inexplicable fashion.<\/p>\n

She recounted they first noticed an unusual \u201cchurning\u201d of the ocean surface before seeing what she and Fravor have described as a smooth, white oblong object resembling a large Tic Tac breath mint flying at high speed over the water.<\/p>\n

When Fravor in his jet turned to \u201cengage with\u201d the object, \u201cit app<\/a>eared to respond in a way that we didn\u2019t recognize\u201d because it seemed to lack \u201cany visible flight control surfaces or means of propulsion,\u201d Dietrich recalled.<\/p>\n

Footage of what Dietrich and Fravor witnessed that day, now popularly known as the Tic Tac incident, will likely be included in the\u00a0upcoming report to Congress<\/a>, along with two other declassified videos taken by US Navy fighter jets in 2015 in similar encounters with what the government calls unidentified aerial phenomena or UAP.<\/p>\n

The US Navy has previously confirmed the videos as authentic.<\/p>\n

Dietrich, now a mother of three, has discussed her experience in a recent joint appearance with Fravor on the CBS News<\/a> program \u201c60 Minutes,\u201d and has since addressed dozens of video calls from other journalists asking to know more about what she saw in 2004.<\/p>\n

Her answer remains the same, as it has for the past 17 years.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t know what it was, but it could have been a natural phenomenon in human activity. But the point was that it was weird and we couldn\u2019t recognize it,\u201d Dietrich said, speaking from a Colorado hotel room she was sharing with her children and two dogs.<\/p>\n

Juggling media queries amid a cross-country family move is exhausting, but Dietrich said she wants to reduce the stigma attached to reporting UFO sightings and hopes more people can speak up without fear of ridicule.<\/p>\n

\u201cFolks might be concerned about their careers or their church or something like that. They don\u2019t want to be the kooky UFO person, so I guess I\u2019m trying to normalize it by talking about it,\u201d Dietrich said.<\/p>\n

Public fascination with unidentified flying objects has been stoked in recent weeks by the forthcoming report, as UFO enthusiasts anticipate possible revelations about unexplained sightings many believe the government has sought to discredit or cover up for decades.<\/p>\n

According to preliminary details reported by The New York Times, citing senior administration officials briefed on the report, US intelligence officials\u00a0found no evidence<\/a>\u00a0that UAP observed by Navy aviators in recent years were alien spacecraft, but the sightings still remain unexplained.<\/p>\n

Senior US officials cited in the Times article said the report\u2019s ambiguity meant the government was unable to definitively rule out extraterrestrial origins of the sightings. The Times said the report, to be presented by US intelligence in conjunction with the Pentagon, covers more than 120 documented cases of enigmatic objects exhibiting speed and maneuverability exceeding known aviation technologies.<\/p>\n

Dietrich said she has no opinion on the report and was not privy to its contents. She would like to hear more from pilots who have had similar UFO sightings.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a common humanity, I guess, of being a little bit shocked, a little bit delighted, a little bit nervous, confused, all of that. And so, recognizing that in another human, that can be comforting in a way,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

But Dietrich also voiced hope that public interest in UFOs would abate as the subject gains more mainstream attention.<\/p>\n

\u201cI hope I\u2019m not the UFO, Tic Tac person for the rest of my life. This is not what I envisioned for myself,\u201d she said.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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