REPORTER:
00:01:33
What do you think needs to happen to make sure we can better understand these incidents? Yeah. I think that we need to approach this systematically. Again, this is an important first step. We need to work together. When we talk about the Pentagon, we should also be talking about NASA. We should also be talking about the FAA. This is a national security concern. It's also a safety-of-flight issue. And of course, the big brain scientists at NASA and even in academia really should be a part of this to help us contextualize the data and make sense of it, maybe even see if there is some predictive trends in the data so that we can find when and where the next incident might happen. And I mentioned in the intro that you have your own experience seeing a UFO. What was that like? Can you tell us a little bit about what you saw? And how did you report it? Sure. Our incident, the USS Nimitz Tic Tac encounter is sometimes what it's referred to as-- happened off the coast of California in 2004. We were in the middle of training, predeployment training, getting ready to go to the Gulf. And so we were not carrying weapons. We were practicing our maneuvers. And we saw something strange. We couldn't identify it. It was the middle of the day, clear blue skies, calm waters. And we saw this strange object behaving strangely with weird physics. And so we reported it. We reported it through our intelligence channels and our chain of command. But part of the value of having these documents released today and talking about it in a serious and grounded way is to encourage other people who see strange things to say something, to report them, and then to have a system of office and analysts there to receive the information, the technology and tools to analyze it. And again, maybe we can predict when and where something will happen and make sense of whether this is a national security threat, a safety concern, or just something curious for scientists.
REPORTER:
00:03:58
And the follow-through, as you mentioned, is critical here. And this is just the first batch. So we'll see what else comes out from these releases. Lieutenant Commander Alex Dietrich, thank you very much. Thank you.
