Ralph Norman is a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives who has represented South Carolina's 5th District since 2017, and a real estate developer from Rock Hill. His UAP record is brief: it rests mainly on hallway remarks to the Capitol Hill reporting project Ask a Pol after he met former Pentagon official Lue Elizondo in 2024 and after House Republicans received briefings on the subject.

Norman was born in Rock Hill in 1953 and earned a business degree from Presbyterian College in 1975. He works in the Warren Norman Company, the real estate business founded by his father. He served in the South Carolina House of Representatives from 2005 to 2007 and again from 2009 to 2017, after losing a 2006 race for Congress to Democrat John Spratt. In 2017 he won the special election for the seat Mick Mulvaney vacated to become White House budget director, after a Republican runoff he won by 221 votes.

In the House, Norman joined the Freedom Caucus and serves on the Budget, Financial Services and Rules committees, and GovTrack ranked him the most conservative member of the 117th Congress. In 2026 he ran for governor and finished third in the June Republican primary. After Sen. Lindsey Graham passed away in July, Norman entered the special primary for the Senate nomination, finished second in August and lost the runoff to Graham's sister Darline Graham, the interim appointee. His House tenure ends in January 2027.

Norman's best-known UAP comments followed a February 2024 meeting with Elizondo. He told Ask a Pol that the subject had been portrayed in the media as the work of "crazies" but was not, called Elizondo "very qualified," said he planned to bring him back and that everybody should know what he had heard. Asked whether Elizondo had corroborated the testimony of whistleblower David Grusch, Norman answered "Absolutely." A clip of him saying "we've got a real problem" circulated widely again on UFO accounts in February 2026.

In January 2025, minutes before the House vote for speaker, Norman told Ask a Pol that Republican Study Committee members had received "several" UAP briefings and described the mood as a thirst for hearings "that have some teeth." His lingering questions, he said, were who was behind the phenomena and who was funding it. Ask a Pol released more raw interview footage with him in May 2026. His significance on the issue is modest but concrete: a Rules Committee member who, after meeting Elizondo and sitting through briefings, said openly that colleagues wanted tougher hearings and asked who was funding the activity he had been briefed on.