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Ryan Graves
Witness Former Navy F/A-18 Pilot ASA Executive Director 🇺🇸 United States
In Brief
Ryan Graves served ten years in the United States Navy as an F/A-18F Super Hornet pilot with Strike Fighter Squadron VFA-11 out of NAS Oceana, Virginia. During the 2014 to 2015 East Coast workup cycle his squadron and the wider Carrier Air Wing One encountered unidentified objects daily on radar, infrared and visually. The GIMBAL and GOFAST gun-camera videos, both confirmed authentic by the Department of Defense in April 2020, were recorded during that period.
In May 2021 he became the first commissioned naval aviator to discuss those encounters on the public record. On 26 July 2023 he provided sworn testimony before the House Oversight Subcommittee alongside Commander David Fravor and David Grusch. He is the executive director of Americans for Safe Aerospace, the pilot-led organisation that lobbies for safe and transparent UAP reporting by commercial and military aircrew.
Notable Statement
"If everyone could see the sensor and video data I witnessed, our national conversation would change."
Where to Find Them
In the Archive
Editorial note. This profile is the short-card form for the Disclosure Network. The full life and career record lives on the gold-standard biography page. The archive takes no position on the substance of the encounters, only documents that they were placed in the public record under oath and corroborated by Department of Defense authentication of the sensor footage. If anything needs correcting, please get in touch.
