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Once the Air Wing’s planes arrived aboard
Nimitz, the Fire Control team on
Princeton saw an opportunity to use those assets and eyeballs to help solve the AAV mystery.
At the same time FASTEAGLE flight was wrapping up its scheduled training, the CO of Marine Hornet squadron VMFA-232, Lieutenant Colonel “Cheeks” Kurth, was completing a post-maintenance check flight not too far away. He was the first fast-mover contacted by Princeton. The communication was strange and intriguing. He was asked to investigate an unidentified airborne contact. This wasn’t a terribly unusual request while a Strike Group was in transit or deployed far from home waters, but it was more than a little strange practically in sight of the San Diego Homeport. To add to the unusual communications, he was queried as to what ordinance he had on board.
“If the government
issues a report saying it’s all artifacts of camera, balloons,
bokeh the ufologists are not going to accept it. Nothing
satisfies a true believer.” (Michael Shermer, )
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She picked up the kids after finishing her last call at work - there was some whining in the back seat - and raced to her home near Annapolis, Md., for family dinnertime. In between, she answered questions about the UFO. My life right now is very surreal, said Lt. Commander Alex Dietrich, who is a 41-year-old mother of three, a retired fighter pilot and one of the few people who gets regularly hauled into the Pentagon or before Congress for further questioning about the day in 2004 she saw a UFO - the Pentagon prefers to call them Unidentified Aerial Phenomena - from the seat of her Super Hornet in the skies near San Diego.