Alex Dietrich is a retired U.S. Navy Lieutenant Commander and one of four aircrew who encountered the now-famous ‘Tic Tac’ UAP during USS Nimitz training operations off the California coast on November 14, 2004. She commissioned through Navy ROTC at George Washington University, where she earned a degree in Civil Engineering, and later earned an MBA. She served as a strike fighter pilot flying the F/A-18F Super Hornet before transitioning to a career in higher education, serving as faculty in the Department of Leadership, Ethics and Law at the United States Naval Academy, and Scholar in Residence at the University of Colorado Boulder. She currently serves as an executive at Syracuse University. She is a member of the Aircrew Leadership Council of Americans for Safe Aerospace, an advisor to Enigma Labs, has testified before Congress, the NASA UAP Independent Study and appeared on CBS News 60 Minutes, CNN, BBC, PBS, NPR, and multiple international news outlets. She does not claim to know what she saw in 2004. She has never stopped thinking about it.