Alex Dietrich

Alex Dietrich is a retired U.S. Navy fighter pilot who served as an F/A-18F strike fighter pilot with VFA-41 "Black Aces" out of Lemoore, California. During her military career, she logged over 1,250 flight hours and 375 carrier arrested landings while serving two combat deployments supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan.

Dietrich was an eyewitness to the 2004 USS Nimitz Tic Tac encounter off the coast of San Diego, where she served as wingman to Commander David Fravor in an F/A-18F Super Hornet. During this incident, she observed the Tic Tac-shaped object performing extraordinary maneuvers above the ocean surface.

She went public with her account in 2021, appearing on 60 Minutes and other media outlets. Her testimony, alongside that of Fravor and radar operator Kevin Day, helped legitimize the UAP topic in mainstream media and contributed to congressional interest in UAP transparency.