Lt. Peterson

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Lt. Peterson

Background

Lt. Peterson is a pilot at Area 51.

During the events of Independence Day (1996) played by Michael Vacca

Major Mitchell and Lt. Peterson give a briefing to the volunteer pilots. President Thomas J. Whitmore gives a speech about human unity and how afterwards the 4th of July will not just be an American holiday, but one celebrated by the world. He finishes his speech and then gets inside his own jet. President Whitmore and the others attack the spaceships and the missiles hit their targets. President Whitmore fires his last missile at the main alien spaceship firing device but misses. Peterson then goes to fire his missile, but is blown up by an alien space craft.