In 2014, the carrier task group USS Theodore Roosevelt was performing training missions in an offshore restricted area southeast of Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA, in preparation for a Middle East deployment. During these training missions, and after their radar systems had received recent upgrades, fighter pilots began reporting sightings and even near miss encounters with unidentified objects performing maneuvers that were beyond the capabilities of any known craft in the arsenal of the United States military or that of any of their most capable adversaries. These pilots observed UAP’s daily, over a period of several years. Lt. Ryan Graves, just one of many Navy fighter pilots in this training mission, participated in these operations and was concerned by the threat of midair collision that he and the other pilots in the training missions experienced.

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    Three videos became public through the New York Times article of December 16th, 2017. They each depicted UAP’s as recorded by Navy fighter pilots from FA-18’s through their FLIR gun cameras. Two of the videos, “Go Fast” and “Gimbal”, were recorded by Navy pilots from the USS Theodore Roosevelt in 2015, while involved in training missions offshore from Jacksonville, Florida. These videos have become icons of these Navy fighter pilot encounters.

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    Former Lt. Ryan Graves' experiences were featured in a New York Times article on May 26th, 2019, and also in a 60 Minutes episode segment titled "UAP". His efforts towards disclosure and understanding of the Phenomenon has continued after his retirement from service with his creation of “Americans for Safe Aerospace” (www.safeaerospace.org).

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    Ryan Graves testified, under oath, to the U.S. Congress on July 26th 2023, bringing his experiences and knowledge into the official record of the U.S. Government in a public and accountable manner.

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    Ryan Graves is just one of a number of individuals within the carrier task group who had experiences with UAP’s and the broader Phenomenon. We are grateful to all members of the Armed Services who have risked their reputation and who have sacrificed in so many ways to bring this information to our attention in the most credible, verifiable, and impactive ways possible, helping us all to begin to understand that...

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the neighbors are here

 

Our organization would like to extend a special thanks to Former Lt. Ryan Graves and Former Rear Admiral Dr. Timothy Gallaudet for their efforts in bringing the experiences of members of the US Navy with UAP and the Phenomenon to the general public's attention and for their continued efforts towards disclosure.