Person · Registry ID 078
Lt. Cmdr. Alex Dietrich
Retired lieutenant commander; public aviation/UAP witness
Rank Lieutenant Commander, USN (ret.) Documented1 position on the chart
Positions on the chart (1)
- Navy F/A-18F pilot (2004 Nimitz encounter), 2004 Documented
Registry record
- Past roles
- U.S. Navy F/A-18F pilot; lieutenant junior grade during 2004 Nimitz encounter
- Credentials
- Navy tactical jet aviator; member of VFA-41 during 2004 encounter
- UAP involvement
- Firsthand visual witness, Nov. 14, 2004 USS Nimitz Tic Tac incident; flew wing aircraft while David Fravor approached object
- Principal disclosures
- Described white oblong object and unpredictable movement; emphasized uncertainty about identity/origin and limits of her own visual observation
- Evidence contributed
- First-person CBS 60 Minutes interview (2021); subsequent interviews clarifying rank and observation limits
- Knowledge type
- Firsthand visual witness; ship radar accounts and subsequent FLIR recording are separate evidence streams
- Corroboration
- Fravor and other flight personnel reported same encounter; no publicly accessible original Princeton radar data
- Assessment
- High relevance as direct visual witness; does not establish object origin or independently validate radar-derived speed claims
- Rank source
- People Registry
- Last reviewed
- 2026-11-01