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, accumulating over 1,250 flight hours and 375 carrier arrested landings. She was a witness to the USS Nimitz "Tic Tac" encounter of November 2004 off San Diego — as wingman to Commander David Fravor she observed the object during its extraordinary manoeuvres over the ocean surface. In 2021 she went public with her account.

• Retired U.S. Navy fighter pilot, F/A-18F strike fighter pilot
• Served with VFA-41 "Black Aces" out of Lemoore, California
• Over 1,250 flight hours and 375 carrier arrested landings
• Two combat deployments supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan
• Eyewitness of the 2004 USS Nimitz Tic Tac encounter off San Diego as wingman to David Fravor
• Observation of the Tic Tac-shaped object during extraordinary manoeuvres above the ocean surface
• Went public in 2021 with 60 Minutes and other outlets; reinforced the credibility of Fravor's testimony and contributed to the growing congressional interest in UAP

For the UAP timeline, Dietrich is the indispensable second witness without whom the Tic Tac case would have been hard to push through in the mainstream press. Precisely because she appears as a pilot of her own rank with her own deployment profile, her account prevents any easy dismissal along the lines of "a single witness can be mistaken".