A witness to an unidentified aerial phenomenon (UAP) captured on camera aboard a US warship off Southern California is now speaking about his encounter with a craft that emerged from the ocean.

The video, recorded by Navy sailors, made headlines, and one witness, Senior Chief Operations Specialist Alexandro Wiggins, has ties to Las Vegas.

The incident mirrors the famed 2004 “Tic Tac” UAP case, first investigated by a secret Las Vegas-based Pentagon program. This new encounter occurred in February 2023 near the same waters, documented by the USS Jackson crew.

During a recent Congressional UAP hearing, retired Rear Adm. Timothy Gallaudet encouraged witnesses to come forward. Wiggins, a 23-year Navy veteran, shared his account after learning the video had circulated. He connected with filmmaker Jeremy Corbell, who first released the footage on the podcast Weaponized.

Wiggins grew up in Las Vegas, attending Cheyenne High School. “I grew up in Las Vegas… watching 8 News Now Chief Investigative Reporter George Knapp’s reporting since my hair was as dark as Wiggins’s,” he said. His father worked security at Area 51.

In 2023, Wiggins served as a radar specialist on the USS Jackson. He and others spotted unidentified objects on their screens. “To my surprise… was a light I noticed on the horizon, it looked as if it were surfacing out of the water and going up,” Wiggins recalled.

Using the ship’s SAFIRE thermal sensor, they detected two tic-tac-shaped objects with no visible exhaust or propulsion. “We only saw the one, and then we see the second one… when we zoom out, we realize, holy crap, there’s two more out here, a total of four.” The objects then moved northeast at incredible speed—Wiggins called it “two steps behind instantaneous.”

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