Alexandro C. Wiggins is an active-duty U.S. Navy senior chief operations specialist who entered the public UAP record through a September 9, 2025 House Oversight hearing and a written statement submitted for that hearing.123 His dossier rests on a first-person account of a February 15, 2023 encounter from USS Jackson, the committee hearing transcript, and the public release of alleged source-video frames by Jeremy Corbell and George Knapp.2345
Public Role and Hearing Context
The House Oversight Committee hearing page lists Wiggins as "Chief Alexandro Wiggins" and identifies him as a UAP witness for the Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets hearing in HVC-210 on September 9, 2025.1 In the printed hearing transcript, Chair Anna Paulina Luna introduced Wiggins as a Navy senior chief operations specialist testifying in his personal capacity, and Wiggins said his views did not represent the Department of the Navy or any subordinate organization.3 The hearing was announced as an inquiry into UAP disclosure concerns, Department of Defense and intelligence-community transparency, and the effectiveness of the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office.6 The committee post-hearing summary framed Wiggins' testimony around better UAP reporting channels, witness protection, and preservation of sensor data.7
Service Role and Platform
Wiggins' written statement identifies him as an active-duty U.S. Navy Senior Chief Petty Officer, Operations Specialist, with approximately 23 years of service at the time of the hearing.2 He said he was serving aboard USS Jackson (LCS-6) during the incident, moving between the ship's Combat Information Center or ICC-1 and the bridge wing to correlate sensor information with visual observation.23 The official U.S. Navy page for USS Jackson describes the ship as the sixth Littoral Combat Ship and third Independence-variant vessel.8 The Navy's commissioning release stated that Jackson was commissioned on December 5, 2015 and would be homeported at Naval Base San Diego.9
Encounter Account
Wiggins dated the encounter to February 15, 2023 at approximately 1915 PST in the W-291 warning area off Southern California.23 He testified that a self-luminous, Tic-Tac-shaped object appeared to emerge from the ocean, joined three similar objects, and departed with them in a synchronized, near-instantaneous acceleration.23 He reported no sonic boom, exhaust plume, flight-control-surface articulation, or conventional propulsion signature on the SAFIRE imaging system.23 He also reported that radar tracks dropped shortly after the departure and that the event was recorded inside ICC-1 with time and location overlays on source frames later made public by journalists.234 When Representative Eric Burlison asked whether the object was visibly under the water before emerging, Wiggins qualified the claim: because it was night, distant, and near the horizon, he could not provide visual proof that it came from the water even though that was his interpretation after the sighting.3
Witnesses, Sensors, and Published Material
In later questioning, Wiggins said the tactical action officer, the RCO, two other watchstanders, and Wiggins himself were in the same ICC-1 space looking at the SAFIRE screen at the same time.3 He said his watch station first detected the contact on radar, after which he went to the port bridge wing to verify the contact visually at an estimated distance of seven to eight nautical miles.3 Corbell and Knapp's April 8, 2025 release gave a timestamp of 7:15 p.m. PST, coordinates in W-291, USS Jackson as the vessel, and Star SAFIRE EO/IR as the imaging platform.4 Their April 15, 2025 episode page identified Wiggins by name as an active-duty Navy service member with 23 years of service and described the episode as his public account of the USS Jackson encounter.5 Wiggins' written statement cites that episode and the Weaponized news post as public documentation of the encounter, so the journalistic release is part of his source chain rather than independent government authentication of the objects.245
Reporting and Follow-Up
Wiggins told Representative Lauren Boebert that he made his report to the tactical action officer on watch, asked the SAFIRE watchstander to slew the system toward the location, and knew of no reporting beyond that point.3 He said no government agency had debriefed him or his shipmates about the USS Jackson EO/IR and radar-confirmed encounter, and he had received no military follow-up outside the day of the event.3 When Representative Scott Perry asked whether an investigation, after action, or documentation had occurred, Wiggins said there had been no after-action report or investigation to his knowledge.3 In his opening statement, Wiggins asked Congress for standardized checklists, training to capture better real-time sensor data, protected reporting channels, and declassification of metadata-preserved sensor excerpts when operational security permits.3
Dossier Assessment
The directly evidenced record establishes Wiggins as an active-duty Navy senior chief who gave public, first-person congressional testimony about a February 2023 USS Jackson UAP encounter.123 The record also establishes that the committee received a written statement and that Wiggins' source chain points to public video-related material from Corbell and Knapp, including metadata claims for the ship, time, approximate location, and imaging system.1245 The record does not establish an official Navy or Department of Defense identification of the objects, an official release of the underlying sensor files, or a completed post-incident investigation made available to Wiggins or the public.234 For that reason, Wiggins is best treated as a first-hand operational witness whose account is unusually specific about platform, time, sensors, and reporting gaps, but whose central object-identification claim remains unresolved in the public record.2347