Estados UnidosUnited States.USS Jackson — Incidente Transmedium (Wiggins, 2023)USS Jackson — Transmedium Incident (Wiggins, 2023)

On February 15, 2023, at approximately 19:15 PST, Senior Chief Operations Specialist Alexandro Wiggins — a senior enlisted radar-systems specialist with more than two decades of Navy service — was on watch in the Combat Information Center (CIC) of the USS Jackson (LCS-6), a littoral combat ship, while the vessel operated in Warning Area W-291 off the Southern California coast, the same oceanic region as the 2004 Nimitz incident. Wiggins detected irregular radar returns and, turning his attention to the horizon, observed a light that, by his account, emerged from the ocean surface and ascended into the atmosphere. The object had a self-luminous Tic Tac morphology — cylindrical, with no visible wings or control surfaces.

Within minutes, the initial object linked up with three others of identical morphology, forming a four-object formation. The USS Jackson's Star SAFIRE multi-spectral EO/IR system captured imagery of the objects; the frames Wiggins later presented show visible timestamp and position data. According to his testimony, all four objects departed the area in what he described as a 'simultaneous, near-instantaneous departure,' leaving no recordable thermal signature, no conventional propulsion trail, and no audible sonic boom. The total duration of the event was several minutes.

A central feature of the case is that the USS Jackson did not file a formal incident report. According to Wiggins, the objects maintained a safe distance and showed no clear signs of aggression, conditions that under current Navy regulations do not automatically trigger the threat-reporting protocol — a gap that illustrates how the institutional system can leave anomalous contacts unrecorded when they are not perceived as hostile. The case entered the public record on September 9, 2025, when Wiggins appeared at a House Oversight Committee hearing devoted to UAP transparency and whistleblower protection, submitting a written statement and the imagery. In doing so he became, per the hearing's coverage, the first active-duty U.S. Navy member to testify publicly before Congress about a UAP incident — an institutional first in eight decades of formal investigation of the phenomenon. His testimony was part of a series of military-whistleblower appearances before Congress in 2023-2025.

El USS Jackson combina tres elementos raramente presentes juntos: comportamiento transmedium reportado (emergencia oceánica asociada a retornos de radar), confirmación de múltiples sensores a bordo (radar + EO/IR con marca temporal) y testimonio en servicio activo ante el Congreso — un primer institucional sin precedente en ocho décadas de investigación UAP formal. La proximidad geográfica y morfológica al incidente Nimitz 2004 (misma área oceánica, misma morfología Tic Tac, mismo tipo de teatro naval) establece una correlación de patrón a través de casi dos décadas. La ausencia de reporte formal inicial ilustra la fricción estructural entre el comportamiento observado y los protocolos de reporte vigentes: un sistema afinado para filtrar amenazas inmediatas, no para detectar anomalías persistentes.

La cautela editorial es obligada precisamente porque es un caso reciente y todavía en validación. Su valor probatorio descansa, hasta ahora, en un único testigo primario nominal —aunque altamente calificado y declarando ante el Congreso— y en imágenes cuya cadena de custodia y análisis independiente no han sido aún publicados ni evaluados por terceros ajenos al proceso de la audiencia. A diferencia de Nimitz, no hay (públicamente) múltiples operadores corroborando, ni telemetría de radar liberada, ni confirmación oficial del Departamento de Defensa sobre la autenticidad del material, como sí ocurrió con los videos de 2020. La similitud morfológica con Nimitz refuerza la coherencia del patrón, pero también obliga a considerar el efecto de encuadre: un testigo familiarizado con el caso Tic Tac puede describir lo observado en esos términos. Nada de esto desmiente el testimonio; lo sitúa en su estatus correcto — un reporte serio, institucionalmente significativo y aún no corroborado de forma independiente, cuyo peso en el corpus debería revisarse a medida que se publiquen (o no) análisis externos de las imágenes Star SAFIRE.

The USS Jackson combines three rarely co-present elements: reported transmedium behavior (ocean emergence associated with radar returns), multiple onboard sensor confirmation (radar + timestamped EO/IR), and active-duty congressional testimony — an institutional first without precedent in eight decades of formal UAP investigation. The geographic and morphological proximity to the 2004 Nimitz incident (same oceanic region, same Tic Tac morphology, same naval theater) establishes a pattern correlation across nearly two decades. The absence of an initial formal report illustrates the structural friction between observed behavior and existing reporting protocols: a system tuned to filter immediate threats, not to detect persistent anomalies.

Editorial caution is mandatory precisely because this is a recent case still under validation. Its probative value rests, so far, on a single named primary witness — albeit highly qualified and testifying before Congress — and on imagery whose chain of custody and independent analysis have not yet been published or evaluated by third parties outside the hearing process. Unlike Nimitz, there is (publicly) no multiple-operator corroboration, no released radar telemetry, and no official Department of Defense confirmation of the material's authenticity, as there was with the 2020 videos. The morphological similarity to Nimitz reinforces the pattern's coherence but also requires weighing a framing effect: a witness familiar with the Tic Tac case may describe what was observed in those terms. None of this disproves the testimony; it places it in its correct status — a serious, institutionally significant, and not yet independently corroborated report, whose weight in the corpus should be revisited as external analyses of the Star SAFIRE imagery are published (or not).