Alex Wiggins

This air contact was maybe five, six nautical miles further than what we witnessed, the tic-tacs, and you can clearly see... The wings. You can see the propulsion. You can see the propulsion. Like when on a hot summer day, being from Las Vegas, George Knapp, I'm sure you know what that is. You can see that hot propulsion from the aircraft.

This air contact was maybe five, six nautical miles further than what we witnessed, the tic-tacs, and you can clearly see... The wings. You can see the propulsion. You can see the propulsion. Like when on a hot summer day, being from Las Vegas, George Knapp, I'm sure you know what that is. You can see that hot propulsion from the aircraft.

This air contact was maybe five, six nautical miles further than what we witnessed, the tic-tacs, and you can clearly see... The wings. You can see the propulsion. You can see the propulsion. Like when on a hot summer day, being from Las Vegas, George Knapp, I'm sure you know what that is. You can see that hot propulsion from the aircraft.

And I told the JOD, I said, like, what do you have to say now? You know, because it was funny to me that I was able to disprove. his skepticism, like within 20 seconds, that what we witnessed was probably an airplane. We were just zoomed in so far that it just looked like a small tic-tac, but disproved like within 20, 30 seconds. And he didn't really say anything after that.

And I told the JOD, I said, like, what do you have to say now? You know, because it was funny to me that I was able to disprove. his skepticism, like within 20 seconds, that what we witnessed was probably an airplane. We were just zoomed in so far that it just looked like a small tic-tac, but disproved like within 20, 30 seconds. And he didn't really say anything after that.

And I told the JOD, I said, like, what do you have to say now? You know, because it was funny to me that I was able to disprove. his skepticism, like within 20 seconds, that what we witnessed was probably an airplane. We were just zoomed in so far that it just looked like a small tic-tac, but disproved like within 20, 30 seconds. And he didn't really say anything after that.

He just kind of chuckled and laughed.

He just kind of chuckled and laughed.

He just kind of chuckled and laughed.

No. And I want to be clear on that. The Navy, the ship, you know, I'm not speaking for the Navy. I'm not speaking for the ship. I'm not the commanding officer of the ship. And I don't want to put words in the Navy's mouth by saying that there was a level of a chain of command where we were to report all this information and we just didn't. It was just something that was witnessed.

No. And I want to be clear on that. The Navy, the ship, you know, I'm not speaking for the Navy. I'm not speaking for the ship. I'm not the commanding officer of the ship. And I don't want to put words in the Navy's mouth by saying that there was a level of a chain of command where we were to report all this information and we just didn't. It was just something that was witnessed.

No. And I want to be clear on that. The Navy, the ship, you know, I'm not speaking for the Navy. I'm not speaking for the ship. I'm not the commanding officer of the ship. And I don't want to put words in the Navy's mouth by saying that there was a level of a chain of command where we were to report all this information and we just didn't. It was just something that was witnessed.

And again, I point out that it wasn't a threat to the ship. I want that to be very clear that the ship didn't skip any steps in reporting aircraft anomalies or aircraft that are getting close to the ship. And this was not close enough to the ship to have triggered an alert warning where we would have to investigate, is this craft about to crash? cause harm to our ship. Nowhere close to it.

And again, I point out that it wasn't a threat to the ship. I want that to be very clear that the ship didn't skip any steps in reporting aircraft anomalies or aircraft that are getting close to the ship. And this was not close enough to the ship to have triggered an alert warning where we would have to investigate, is this craft about to crash? cause harm to our ship. Nowhere close to it.

And again, I point out that it wasn't a threat to the ship. I want that to be very clear that the ship didn't skip any steps in reporting aircraft anomalies or aircraft that are getting close to the ship. And this was not close enough to the ship to have triggered an alert warning where we would have to investigate, is this craft about to crash? cause harm to our ship. Nowhere close to it.

So in that case, if it were, absolutely, I would let the tactical action officer know. Tactical action officer would, depending on lots of different variations, would notify the captain and then we'd take action to defend the ship as any other ship in the Navy would do. That wasn't this case.

So in that case, if it were, absolutely, I would let the tactical action officer know. Tactical action officer would, depending on lots of different variations, would notify the captain and then we'd take action to defend the ship as any other ship in the Navy would do. That wasn't this case.

So in that case, if it were, absolutely, I would let the tactical action officer know. Tactical action officer would, depending on lots of different variations, would notify the captain and then we'd take action to defend the ship as any other ship in the Navy would do. That wasn't this case.

Absolutely. Yeah. I was new there just checking in. Uh, and that's how I wind up actually going to the Jackson. A lot of folks that are either not in the military or not in the Navy, uh, Littoral combat ships, you can be moved around pretty often. For those that know, we know you get moved around a lot if you have certain NECs or different skills that they need on another ship.

Absolutely. Yeah. I was new there just checking in. Uh, and that's how I wind up actually going to the Jackson. A lot of folks that are either not in the military or not in the Navy, uh, Littoral combat ships, you can be moved around pretty often. For those that know, we know you get moved around a lot if you have certain NECs or different skills that they need on another ship.