After an admission by a US Navy fighter pilot and commander, questions related to UFOs and aliens have started surrounding the Pentagon. Has the US Department of Defense overlooked, or even worse, covered up any information about UFOs or UAPs (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena)? The answers are expected to be out soon as the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and other agencies deliver unclassified reports to Congress next month. 

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In an interview with 60 minutes, Lieutenant Commander Alex Dietrich, a pilot who served combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, revealed the details of her 2004 encounter with a UFO.

In November 2004, Dietrich saw numerous flying objects were picked up by ship radar. She was stationed off the coast of southern California on the USS Nimitz carrier.

“The objects descended impossibly fast, dropping a distance of 80,000ft in less than a second,” she told 60 minutes.

Out for investigation, Dietrich and Commander David Fravor saw a “White Tic Tac-looking object.” It was the size of his F/A-18F, with no markings, no wings, no exhaust plumes, Fravor adds. 

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“The Tic Tac’s pointing north-south, it goes, click, and just turns abruptly. And starts mirroring me. So as I’m coming down, it starts coming up. I want to see how close I can get. So I go like this. And it’s climbing still. And when it gets right in front of me, it just disappears,” Commander David Fravor told 60 minutes. 

The two further say that there were two other people on the investigation who saw the Tic tac.

“You know, I think that over beers, we’ve sort of said, ‘Hey man, if I saw this solo, I don’t know that I would have come back and said anything,’ because it sounds so crazy when I say it,” Dietrich says.

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“I don’t know who’s building it, who’s got the technology, who’s got the brains. But there’s, there’s something out there that was better than our airplane,” Fravor concludes. 

Earlier this month, the Department of Defense had announced that it was starting a probe into the Pentagon’s handling of unexplained sightings in the American airspace.

Pentagon spokesperson Sue Gough, in April, acknowledged and identified three separate photos which were labeled as “metallic blimp”, “sphere” and “acorn” shaped depending on their appearances in the pictures. The Unidentified Ariel Phenomenon Task Force, a separate wing of the Pentagon was created to investigate such sightings had included the pictures in their investigations.