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Tim Gallaudet

Witness Retired US Navy Rear Admiral Former NOAA Acting Administrator 🇺🇸 United States

In Brief

Timothy Cole Gallaudet retired from the United States Navy at the rank of Rear Admiral after a thirty-two-year career as a naval oceanographer. He holds a doctorate in oceanography from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. After uniformed retirement he served as Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere and acting administrator of NOAA.

He is the senior flag officer who placed the March 2019 USS Omaha Strike Group trans-medium UAP observations on the public record. On 13 November 2024 he provided sworn testimony before the House Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets alongside David Grusch, Luis Elizondo and Michael Shellenberger.

Notable Statement

"Among my many duties as Oceanographer of the Navy, I personally received the March 2019 video showing a green pyramidal craft and the spherical craft entering the ocean from the USS Omaha strike group."

Public statement · 2023

In the Archive

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