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CNN’s Anderson Cooper talks to retired Navy Lt. Commander Alex Dietrich, a veteran combat pilot, about her report of spotting a UFO off the coast of San Diego in 2004
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This document contains the English transcript and German translation of an interview from May 19, 2021, on CNN's Anderson Cooper 360° with retired U.S. Navy Lt. Commander Alex Dietrich. Dietrich recounts her eyewitness experience during the November 14, 2004 'Tic-Tac' UFO/UAP encounter off the coast of San Diego while stationed aboard the USS Nimitz, and discusses the importance of removing the stigma surrounding reporting unidentified aerial phenomena.
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CNN’s Anderson Cooper talks to retired Navy Lt. Commander Alex Dietrich, a veteran combat pilot, about her report of spotting a UFO off the coast of San Diego in 2004.
Anderson Cooper 360°
May 19, 2021
ANDERSON COOPER: So Alex, just first of all, walk us through what it is you saw.
ALEX DIETRICH: I want to be careful because it’s been 16 years since that event.
COOPER: This was 2004?
DIETRICH: November 14, 2004. And I just want to be careful because we know right that the science of the mind, of the science of the memory, is we shouldn’t rely too much on my technical account at this point. But I will point out that we, the other aircrew and I, made thorough debriefs on that day within minutes of landing, and that I made a written account with as many arrows and details including comms, bearings and altitudes and all that, that I could, within I would say hours of landing. And then within a few years gave thorough, almost interrogation-style details to members of the Office of Naval Intelligence and AATIP.
But I’ll tell you, I’ll tell you overall what happened was that we were on a routine training mission off the coast of southern California off the USS Nimitz, which is an aircraft carrier. I was with VFA 41 which is a strike fighter squadron, as a new pilot. We were heading off to do air intercepts. We were heading off to do like a scrimmage, a practice air-to-air run, and we were redirected. We were given vectors to go and intercept, see if we can intercept and identify a real-world contact. So we are scanning where we would expect to see something that we’re merging with, and we don’t see it. But instead we do see something in the water below us, and so my heart sank. I went from being excited that we might “go get those bad guys” to, “oh no, those bad guys have crashed and are sinking, and now we’re on-scene commanders for search and rescue effort”.
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This document contains the English transcript and German translation of an interview from May 19, 2021, on CNN's Anderson Cooper 360° with retired U.S. Navy Lt. Commander Alex Dietrich. Dietrich recounts her eyewitness experience during the November 14, 2004 'Tic-Tac' UFO/UAP encounter off the coast...