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Ryan Graves

2014

Former Navy F/A-18 pilot who reported repeated 2014-15 East Coast UAP encounters; founded the advocacy group Americans for Safe Aerospace.

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Connections (7)

confirmedDavid Fravor
co-testified
Source: House Oversight UAP hearing, Jul 26 2023
confirmedDavid Grusch
co-testified
Source: House Oversight UAP hearing, Jul 26 2023
confirmedRobert Garcia
oversaw the subcommittee hearing where he testified
Source: House Oversight UAP hearing, Jul 26 2023
confirmedAATIP
active during his encounters
confirmedHouse Oversight UAP Hearing (2023)
testified under oath
Source: House Oversight hearing, 26 Jul 2023 (oversight.house.gov; C-SPAN)
reportedProject Palladium
referenced as a precedent for the sphere-in-cube radar returns Graves described after a radar upgrade
Source: The War Zone, Area 51 Veteran & CIA EW Pioneer on Navy UFO Encounters (2019); CIA reading-room, Stealth/Countermeasures/ELINT 1960-75
disputedSusan Gough
rejected his 2023 testimony alongside Grusch's
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