U.S. Navy photo by Chief Mass Communication Specialist Shannon Renfroe
Over the years, there have been a number of incidents in which US pilots reported seeing UFOs.
A former Navy pilot talked to Insider about her experience with an unidentified aerial phenomenon.
She was one of two F/A-18 pilots who observed the mystery object, nicknamed the Tic Tac, in 2004.
A former US Navy fighter pilot recently shared details and some of her thoughts on an unusual experience almost two decades ago, an encounter with an unidentified flying object nicknamed the Tic Tac.
In mid-November 2004, as the Navy s Nimitz Carrier Strike Group trained off the West Coast in preparation for an upcoming deployment, the destroyer USS Princeton detected several UFOs, also called anomalous aerial vehicles or unidentified aerial phenomena, moving in inexplicable ways around the carrier group.
On Aug. 4, 2020, the U.S. Department of Defense approved the establishment of an Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon Task Force (UAPTF). The mission of the task force is to detect, analyze and catalog UAPs that could potentially pose a threat to U.S. national security, according to the DoD website. HowStuffWorks
There s a reason why you may be hearing a lot about UFOs lately. In June, the Pentagon and the Director of National Intelligence will present to Congress an unclassified report about unusual sightings by U.S. service members of UFOs unidentified flying objects. National security folks, however, refer to them as unidentified aerial phenomena, or UAPs.
There was no denying it : Retired fighter pilot and mother-of-three who saw Tic-Tac UFOs in 2004 says Navy crew kept quiet due to fears of being labeled kooky
Alex Dietrich, 41, was on patrol near San Diego in 2004 when she saw a Tic Tac-shaped UFO appear flying at pace and erratically
When her Navy commander went into for a closer look, the object began mimicking its movements and then disappeared
The mother of three and former Lt. Cmdr. says she feels a duty and obligation to speak out about what she saw
She says other pilots were fearful of speaking about UFOs as they would be dismissed for being kooky