![]() She’s been teaching at George Washington University and the U.S. She’s been low-key about it all these years, answering questions on the Hill and at the Pentagon, listening patiently as debunkers found her private number and screamed at her over the phone. Because - let’s be honest - UFOs are still firmly in the realm of conspiracy and kooky. Because it was so weird and because even back at the ship, they saw it, too, on their radar.ĭietrich said she’s decided to be open about it now because she knows other pilots have seen similar UAPs and have kept quiet about them, afraid of the stigma. The daily newsletters had little green men cartoons. They left tinfoil hats all over the place. They looped alien-invader movies “Men in Black” and “Independence Day” to show on the ship’s channels. And in the days after the sighting, their colleagues were merciless. “We agree that if we had been solo, we wouldn’t have said anything,” she said. Over beers, during the many reunions she’s had with her commander that day, they look at each other and shake their heads. “There was no denying it, everybody had heard us on the radio.” “We all collectively lost our minds,” she said. “I’ll give you 10 minutes on the phone, then I have to go feed my kids,” she’ll tell them, and then patiently recounts the events of that day in 2004.Īs soon as they returned to their aircraft carrier they reported everything they saw and how it happened. “I just was an eyewitness to something in the course of my normal duties … that somehow makes me a portal.” “People have found me throughout the years,” she said. (Her first tweet was a charming “Radio Check,” a pilot’s version of “is this thing on?”) “I’ve never had a Twitter,” Dietrich said, but she created an account this month as a way to step out and connect with the thousands of people obsessed with the event and her. The video was released by To The Stars Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2017, but has gained a lot of traction after Pentagon verified it as authentic. The video, just one of the recordings from that day, captures a white object shaped like a Tic Tac and the howls and exclamations of the pilots who were tracking its otherworldly motion. ![]() Some days he asks you to keep high cover while he spars with a UFO,” Dietrich wrote in a tweet. “Some days your boss asks to you swab the deck. The object began mirroring his movements, then just disappeared. Dave Fravor, told her to hang back and be his wingman while he flew closer in to check it out. She was a newly winged pilot on a regular training flight with the USS Nimitz Carrier Strike Group that day when something moving fast and erratically came into view.ĭietrich’s boss, Cmdr. I don’t want to be someone who’s saying ‘no comment.’” If I can share or help give a reasonable response, I will. “I was in a taxpayer-funded aircraft, doing my job as a military officer,” she said. ![]() “I do feel a duty and obligation,” Dietrich said, when I asked her why she took my call and why she agreed to talk to “60 Minutes,” her national media debut. It’s coming next month and it’s going to be D.C.’s hottest summer read.Īnd now that UFOs join the pandemic and insurrection on the congressional agenda (when it comes to the weird year contest, 2021 is telling 2020 to “hold my beer”), Dietrich’s callers have moved from mostly the fringe, stalkery UFO fanatics who just want to be near her, to mainstream media freaks like me. ![]() Thanks to a bizarro little line in last year’s coronavirus relief bill, the director of national intelligence and the secretary of defense are ordered to generate a report on everything the government knows about UAPs including Dietrich’s sighting. ![]()
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