TFTRH #57 - Alex Dietrich: Clouds, Critical Thinking, and UFOs

Alex Dietrich served a 20-year career as a Naval officer and fighter pilot with two combat deployments. She was also deployed to Afghanistan as an Infrastructure reconstruction engineer. She then transitioned to academia, serving as a Naval Science Instructor and then a Military professor, teaching, among other things, Critical Thinking, Leadership, and Ethics. Alex is best known to the public as one of the pilots who witnessed the famous Tic-Tac UFO when flying off the USS Nimitz in 2004. She’s appeared on 60-Minutes, CNN, and other shows to discuss her experience and its implication for flight safety and national security. Original Dave Beaty Nimitz Recreation:    • The Nimitz Encounters   Dave Beaty Nimitz recreation from the jet's perspective    • Nimitz Encounters Visual Simulation of DIs...   Critical Thinking website https://www.criticalthinking.org/ Miniature Guide: https://www.criticalthinking.org/file... 00:00:00 - Start 00:01:44 - Cloud Appreciation 00:04:02 - Learning To Fly 00:08:00 - Critical Thinking 00:16:49 - What is Critical Thinking 00:20:51 - The Nimitz Incident 00:21:24 - Why do we care about UFOs? 00:24:56 - Crashed Craft vs. Flying Objects 00:31:09 - Funding Shenanigans 00:33:23 - Grusch’s more extraordinary claims 00:39:17 - Italian UFO 1944 00:43:27 - Why Mick cares about Alien Craft 00:47:17 - Other things are more important 00:49:36 - Why does the government have a monopoly on crashed craft? 00:52:43 - 5 Minutes vs. 10 seconds 01:02:07 - How did the Tic-Tac depart? 01:13:14 - Improving the process of reporting UFOs 01:22:03 - Starlink flares reported by airline pilots 01:28:12 - Escaping the Rabbit Hole (Mick’s Book) 01:29:39 - 9/11