Alexandro C. Wiggins is an active-duty U.S. Navy Senior Chief Petty Officer and operations specialist whose account of a 2023 shipboard sighting made him one of the few serving sailors to speak publicly about unidentified anomalous phenomena. In a statement submitted to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform in September 2025, he said he had about 23 years of service and was serving aboard the littoral combat ship USS Jackson (LCS-6) at the time of the incident. He stated that his views were his own and not those of the Navy or the Defense Department.

According to Wiggins, the 2023 USS Jackson encounter took place at about 7:15 p.m. on February 15, 2023, in the W-291 warning area off Southern California. Moving between the ship's Combat Information Center and the bridge wing, he says he watched a light rise from the waterline and join three similar "Tic Tac"-shaped objects, after which all four departed at once with no sonic boom. He says the objects appeared on radar and that crew members recorded at least two of them on the ship's Star SAFIRE infrared camera before the radar tracks dropped. Thermal footage and crew dialogue were first published in April 2025 by Jeremy Corbell and George Knapp with the witness unnamed, and Wiggins identified himself on their WEAPONIZED podcast a week later. No official analysis of the footage has been released.

On September 9, 2025, Wiggins testified at the House UAP transparency hearing convened by Rep. Anna Paulina Luna's Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets, alongside Air Force veterans Jeffrey Nuccetelli and Dylan Borland and journalist George Knapp. His written statement said he spoke to reduce stigma for service members with similar observations. DefenseScoop reported that he urged standardized sensors, training, witness protections and confidential reporting channels while saying he was not making claims "beyond my lane," and described him as the first active-duty Navy member to testify publicly before Congress about a UAP incident.

Wiggins became part of a wider dispute in 2026 over how the government treats UAP witnesses. He appeared with Borland and whistleblower Matthew Brown at the Contact in the Desert conference in May, and online summaries of their remarks described alleged pressure from AARO and other agencies after they came forward. In a WEAPONIZED episode released in September 2026, Wiggins said the Navy had supported his decision to testify and that AARO contacted his command after he declined to repeat his account inside a secure compartmented facility. Earlier, in April, former Defense Intelligence Agency official James Lacatski said some witnesses had lied to Congress but, according to researcher Joe Murgia, excluded Wiggins from that charge.

Wiggins's case stands out for its record rather than for any settled explanation: a named active-duty witness, a specific ship, date and warning area, and infrared footage published alongside testimony given while he was still on active duty. His statement that unidentified objects are reportedly encountered with some regularity off Southern California, the same waters as the 2004 Nimitz encounter, has kept those operating areas at the center of debate over military UAP reporting.