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Veteran Combat Pilot Alex Dietrich Describes Tic Tac UFO Encounter

Retired Navy Lt. Commander Alex Dietrich, a veteran combat pilot, gave an eye-witness account of a Tic Tac UFO. Dietrich spoke to Anderson Cooper about what she saw off the coast of San Diego in 2004. At the time, she was on a routine training mission off the USS Nimitz aircraft carrier 100 miles southwest of San Diego.

Lt. Cmdr. Alex Dietrich and Cmdr. Dave Fravor, a graduate of the TOPGUN naval flight program, also appeared on 60 Minutes to discuss what they saw together.

They both described an “unsettling” experience with a Tic Tac UFO.

“It was unidentified. And that’s why it was so unsettling to us. Because we weren’t expecting it. We couldn’t classify it,” said Dietrich.

Strangely, the Tic Tac-shaped UFO had no exhaust plumes, markings, or apparent means of propulsion. Notably, both pilots reported their sighting in a debriefing but didn’t think there was any formal investigation at the time. Behind them, each pilot had a weapons system officer in the seat, who each witnessed the UFO.

Unsettling, Unexplainable Encounter

On November 14, 2004, Dietrich and her fellow crew gave “thorough debriefs” about the sighting minutes after landing. Furthermore, hours after landing, Dietrich says she gave a written account about the UFO.

Years later, she gave even more details in what she calls an “interrogation-style” interview to members of Navy intelligence and the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP).

Dietrich was a new pilot flying with the VFA-41, also known as the “Black Aces.” That day, she was flying a F/A-18F as part of an exercise to intercept and identify a “real-world contact,” after command redirected her squadron.

When the pilots arrived at the specified coordinates, it looked like something the size of a Boeing 737 had crashed, creating roiling whitewater.

“So my heart sank,” said Dietrich. “I went from being excited that we would go get those bad guys to, ‘Oh no, those bad guys have crashed and are sinking,” she said.

Suddenly, her heart-sinking feeling changed into the surprise of a lifetime.

Unpredictable Movement

All of a sudden, instead of the expected search and rescue effort, something extraordinary happened: a UFO that closely resembled a white Tic Tac appeared.

“Then, as soon as that happened, enter stage left – the Tic Tac,” said Dietrich. “And, that’s what we affectionately refer to it as because that’s what it looked like.”

Notably, Fravor’s account on 60 Minutes was somewhat different:

“We saw this little white Tic-Tac-looking object… and it’s just kind of moving above the whitewater area,” Fravor recounted.

“No predictable movement, no predictable trajectory,” Dietrich said.

According to their observations, the aircraft was about the size of an average aircraft fuselage.

“It was white, sort of a matte finish, just like a Tic Tac. And, it behaved in a way that we were surprised, unnerved. It accelerated, or it almost didn’t accelerate, right. It sort of jumped from spot to spot and tumbled around in a way that was unpredictable.”

See a clip of her appearance on 60 Minutes below:

https://twitter.com/60Minutes/status/1394289253895577603?s=20

Related: Charles James Hall: Tic Tac UFOs Belong to ETs He Encountered Called ‘Tall Whites’

Commander Engages the Tic Tac UFO

Upon seeing the Tic Tac UFO, commanding officer Fravor decided to engage with the craft. Meanwhile, an “uncomfortable and inexperienced” Dietrich (as she put it) fell back to give cover, circling above as Fravor approached.

When Fravor’s fighter moved forward, the Tic Tac abruptly disappeared. All the while, the stunned pilots discussed what was happening on their radio.

“It zoomed out of the picture so fast that we were all then scrambling on the radio,” Dietrich said. “And, the whole time we’re on the radio with each other sort of losing our minds.”

According to Fravor’s account, the Tic Tac began mimicking his moves as if aware of his presence.

60 Miles in Seconds

Seconds later, the USS Princeton’s radar reacquired the location of the Tic Tac UFO 60 miles away. Furthermore, the ship’s radar had also detected “multiple anomalous aerial vehicles” descending 80,000 feet in less than a second.

According to CBS News, the pilots later found out the USS Princeton had been tracking UFOs for days. However, the pilots were left uninformed and unarmed.

“I felt the vulnerability of not having anything to defend ourselves,” Dietrich said on 60 Minutes. “And then I felt confused when it disappeared.

In all, the strange encounter lasted about five minutes.

Related: Many More UFOs Worldwide – Defying Explanation, Says Former DNI

Ending the Stigma of UFO Reports

After her story, Anderson Cooper asked Dietrich what she thought she had witnessed that day. However, she says she’s “not qualified to make the analysis.”

Although she isn’t sure what the UFO could be, she appeared to encourage other pilots to come forward. Even so, she may not have come forward at the time if she had been the only witness.

“If I saw this solo I don’t know if I would have come back and said anything because it sounds so crazy when I say it,” she told 60 Minutes.

Notably, both Fravor and Dietrich had endured “ribbing” from their fellow crew about their reports.

Today, she says everyone can contribute to a data pool of sightings.

“I’m trying to reduce the stigma for other aircrew so if they see something or when they see something, say something, and that they will not feel embarrassed or ashamed to make the reports,” she said.

By contributing their UFO reports, the veteran combat pilot hopes that intelligence analysts and scientists can use the data to draw “reasonable, rational conclusions.”

Today, the pilots say they have no idea who was responsible for the Tic Tac UFO.

We All Want Answers

After finally coming forward with her account, Dietrich says she’s seen many camps of people fascinated by her story. Thus, UFO enthusiasts, debunkers, conspiracy theorists, and religious fanatics have all shown interest on Twitter. Unfortunately, they seem intent to fight each other as much as getting to the truth.

“At the core, no matter how much they’re attacking each other, what I see is that they all want answers. They all want to know what it was. And, we can’t do that if we’re just attacking each other or if we’re shaming each other or sensationalizing it. We really have to cooperate and get more information, get more evidence so that we can come to some conclusions.”

See the interview on CNN or watch the clip from Internet UFO Database below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taqUPnWeLPI

Featured image: Tic Tac by Brett_Hondow via Pixbay, Pixabay License with the ocean by Free-Photos via Pixabay, Pixabay License with Screenshot via Twitter/60 Minutes

Quantum algorithm beats classical tools on complement sampling tasks

Quantum computers—devices that process information using quantum mechanical effects—have long been expected to outperform classical systems on certain tasks. Over the past few decades, researchers have worked to rigorously demonstrate such advantages, ideally in ways that are provable, verifiable and experimentally realizable.

NASA will return its moon rocket to the hangar for more repairs before astronauts strap in

Grounded until at least April, NASA’s giant moon rocket is headed back to the hangar this week for more repairs before astronauts climb aboard.

UFOs Outstrip Our Arsenal by 1,000 Years, Says Navy Witness Sean Cahil

In 2004, Sean Cahil, retired US Navy Chief Master-at-Arms, was aboard the USS Princeton when radar picked up extraordinary Tic Tac UFOs.

“The technology that we witnessed with the Tic Tac was something that we would not have been able to defend our forces from at the time,” Cahil said on CNN. (see video below)

Appearing with Christopher Mellon, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, Cahil described the Tic Tac UFO’s abilities.

“What we saw in the Tic Tac and what Mr. Luis Elizondo described as the five observables indicate a technology that outstrips our arsenal by at least 100 to 1,000 years at the moment,” said Cahil.

The Five Observables

In 2008, Luiz Elizondo was first detailed to the secret UFO program sponsored by Senator Harry Reid, then called the Advanced Aerospace Weapon Systems Applications Program. Later, it became the Advanced Aerial Threat Identification Program or AATIP.

During his time at AATIP, Elizondo compiled a list of extraordinary feats that unidentified aerial phenomena shared:

Anti-gravity lift
Sudden and instantaneous acceleration
Hypersonic velocities without signatures (vapor trails or sonic booms)
Low observability, or cloaking
Trans-medium travel (moving between air and water)

Tic Tac UFO Abilities

According to Sean Cahil, the Tic Tac UFO was capable of all of the five observables and more.

“First of all, the aircraft had zero control surfaces; it had no means of propulsion that we could detect. It moved at hypersonic velocities, and it proceeded the pilots to their CAP [Combat air patrol] points. So, it seemed to have some knowledge of where the pilots were headed to ahead of time. And, we don’t posses those abilities to do that in our aresenal at the moment,” said Cahil.

Increasingly Bold UFOs

Host Chri Cuomo asked Mellon what he made of the matter.

“We clearly are vulnerable,” said Mellon. “And, this has been going on for too long. Finally, our Congress is learning of this situation. They’re beginning to react. We’ve got a lot of catch-up here, but it’s very concerning.”

Although the UFOs haven’t been hostile, the activities have become bolder, says Mellon.

“It’s not an imminent crisis or imminent threat. There’s been no hostility but there’ a lot of activity, and it’s increasingly bold. In some instances, we’ve had these things swarming around warships off the coast of California, swarming around strategic missile defense spaces in Guam,” he said.

Now, Mellon says, considering all the tensions in the world involving drone attacks, it’s something to take seriously.

See the interview below from CNN:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azZ4XAZuVk4

What’s Changed About UFOs?

Cuomo asked Mellon why there is a new urgency in studying UFOs today.

In response, Mellon discussed the frustration Elizondo faced in AATIP. As pilots on the East coast saw UFOs frequently, Elizondo’s program was low on resources and unsupported by the intelligence community.

In frustration, he retired in 2017 and joined a group organized by Tom DeLonge, “To the Stars Academy.”

Then, a report in the New York Times that year finally got attention from Congress. The report detailed $22 million spent on the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, exposing the Pentagon program to the world.

“Finally, our leadership in both branches of government became aware this was going on. So this has only just come to light,” explained Mellon.

A UFO Breakthrough

Next month, the US executive branch could issue a public UAP report of its activities related to the phenomenon for the first time in half a century.

Meanwhile, journalists at POLITICO and the New Yorker have detailed how Elizondo, journalist George Knapp, DeLonge, Mellon, and many others have pushed UFOs into the mainstream.

Today, DeLonge says there has been a breakthrough as the conversation has changed.

“You rarely read the ridiculous dismissals of the UAP phenomenon that were all too common over the past 70 years,” DeLonge told POLITICO’s, Bryan Bender. “We are witnessing the socialization of the UAP phenomenon in a much more accepting way. I am very optimistic about real research on this phenomenon happening in the near future.”

A Public UAP Reckoning

As we prepare for the June UAP report, nobody knows for sure what to expect. According to Cahil, the Tic Tac UFO encounter may be just the tip of the iceberg.

“I think that we’re going to find that this phenomenon represents a very large spectrum of different things,” said Cahil. “At edges of that spectrum are going to be near-peer technology of our adversaries here on Earth. At the other end of that spectrum is going to be something that we don’t yet understand and haven’t identified yet.”

Although he isn’t sure what the UFOs represent, Cahil knows they seem far beyond human technology.

“So, I hesitate to speculate on the source but I can tell you that I don’t believe that this is within our arsenal of any human technology at the moment.”

However, Cahil doesn’t necessarily think the UAPs are necessarily extraterrestrial.

“What we can say is we don’t know what this is and it’s here. It’s going to take all of us to figure this out together.”

Otherworldly Origins?

On the other hand, Mellon says there’s no reason to rule out extraterrestrial origins.

As for otherworldly origins, Mellon says, “There’s no scientific reason or basis to doubt that possibility. That’s a hypothesis that could explain the facts. People need to be open to that. We’re spending billions looking for extraterrestrial civilizations. We’ve got spacecraft that have already left the solar system. It’s possible somebody found us before we found them.”

So far, ETs haven’t made contact, and perhaps that’s because they see us as something like less intelligent animals in a zoo.

“If they’re as smart as we think they are then I think we’re kind of silly thinking we can guess their motives,” says Cahil.

Or, perhaps it’s like former Israeli space security chief Haim Eshed said?

“They have been waiting until today for humanity to develop and reach a stage where we will understand, in general, what space and spaceships are,” Eshed said.

More about the upcoming UAP report from POLITICO:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkVpihz2ayQ

Featured image: Screenshots via YouTube/CNN

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