2004 USS Nimitz Tic Tac UFO FLIR footage (FLIR1)

[Smythe Bacchus]

They have it now, it's AARO right, so job done?

Does she deny explicitly any of explanations given for any recent high profile military videos? Including those by AARO?

In fairness, Lt Cdr Dietrich does acknowledge AARO later in the interview.

Anything other than her personal experience and other cases were not in the scope of the interview. She describes her priorities in life, which don't include UFO investigations, so I doubt she would be drawn on those matters.

(from timestamp 22:00)
We came back to the ship, nothing happened, in that nobody was hurt, there was no damage, and then I went on with my life, with my career, and so I don't lose sleep over it. People ask me if it haunts my dreams, if I ever, you know, have gone out and tried to investigate it on my own? No I just don't.

I've done a lot of other things with my life. I deployed to Afghanistan, boots on ground. I've had three kids, you know? I've had breast cancer, like there have been a lot of other things that have happened in my life that I choose to focus on.

So I when people ask me to, I will speak and I will be interviewed, and I will tell the story, and advocate for having an office, what are we calling it now? (interviewer - the AARO)

Yes the AARO is the current version of the office in the Pentagon that investigates UFOs, and so I think that's a good idea. I don't know that they've gotten it exactly right, to this point.

But you know, at least we're trying to fill in that crack of vulnerability that we had 20 years ago, and work on what's the best way, to make sure that service members feel encouraged and empowered to report, and that they know how.

But what are the needles she feels need looking for? A poorly chosen metaphor or are the needles "aliens or extraterrestrial life"?

Lt Cdr Dietrich makes it clear she has a pragmatic viewpoint at the end of the interview.

(from timestamp 25:28)
I don't know what it was that we saw that day. You're not going to pin me down by saying it's extraterrestrial or it's something, because I really don't know what it was.

But that doesn't mean that I'm not open-minded, and would accept some non prosaic, you know sort of otherworldly explanation? Something otherworldly like other dimensions, and meaning that it would break the current paradigm of what we know and think.

 

[Ann K]

But what are the needles she feels need looking for? A poorly chosen metaphor or are the needles "aliens or extraterrestrial life"?

From @Smythe Bacchus 's transcript:

Not to fuel any conspiracy theories about aliens or extraterrestrial life or anything like that, but to say as a service member, if you're out in training or if you're out on the front line, there should be a mechanism where you can report.

And you can register, not just your own anecdotal experience but compile it with radar data, FLIR footage, high resolution photos, anything else that you have, and then we can build a database that then can be used, you know?

The needles are unidentified. That's the whole point. And in the days of things like drone warfare, unidentified things are stuff to watch out for. It sounds as if she would like to say "Don't be ridiculous, we have no aliens zipping around in space ships. We have more important stuff to worry about", where "we" means the military and "more important" refers to unknown technology from hostile powers right here on planet Earth.

 

[deirdre]

So we need to click on something in order to know what you're referring to? Heck, even a paraphrase would have been better than just leaving us hanging.

just trying to fit in with the rest of the thread group.

 

[JMartJr]

just trying to fit in with the rest of the thread group.

Nah, lead by example! ^_^

 

[deirdre]

Nah, lead by example! ^_^

i (and others) have been doing that, and it doesn't seem to help. at least when I do something wrong i will get chastised, so the offenders can read the discussion about it. <that probably wont help either as i think some people think MB is like Reddit, but it was worth a shot.

add: and at least i gave a timestamp instead of just paraphrasing something she allegedly said in the interview without even giving a timestamp so people can check the accuracy of the paraphrase.