Ryan Graves
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PersonWitnessRyan Graves is a former U.S. Navy F/A-18 pilot and founder of Americans for Safe Aerospace, advocating protected reporting and scientific study of UAP.
Ryan Graves is a former U.S. Navy F/A-18 pilot and founder of Americans for Safe Aerospace, advocating protected reporting and scientific study of UAP.
ASARyan Graves is an American former Navy fighter pilot who flew F/A-18F Super Hornets with the “Red Rippers” squadron. Beginning around 2014, members of his unit operating from the U.S. East Coast reported repeated radar and visual contacts with unknown objects after sensor upgrades. Graves did not claim a close personal view equal to every account from his squadron, but he became the most prominent public representative of those observations.
Graves trained as an engineer and Navy fighter pilot, flying the F/A-18 in an environment where airspace awareness and collision risk were daily professional concerns. After leaving active-duty flying, he worked in aerospace and began speaking publicly when military sightings entered national news. Founding Americans for Safe Aerospace turned an individual account into an organization focused on reporting systems and pilot support. That progression—from operator to witness to nonprofit leader—defines his role in the modern field.
He founded Americans for Safe Aerospace to create a non-stigmatized reporting channel and advocate for pilots who encounter unknown objects. Graves has testified before Congress, participated in scientific and policy discussions, and framed UAP primarily as an aviation-safety and national-security issue. He has also been willing to consider unconventional explanations while emphasizing that identification requires better data.
Graves turned his experience as a Navy pilot into a sustained campaign for safer reporting and professional treatment of military pilot encounters. Through Americans for Safe Aerospace and testimony at congressional hearings, he shifted discussion away from ridicule and toward near misses, sensor collection, and institutional responsibility. His influence rests on making anomalous reports an aviation-safety issue regardless of their eventual explanation.
[Retweeted] Logan Labby guarded priority-level-one resources at a classified space base with Air Force Security Forces. One night in 2008, he and two others watched a football-field-sized V-shaped craft drift silently overhead, visible only through night vision goggles. New episode: https://t.co/5wNAU2ah1j
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In spring 2008, Logan was serving in Air Force Security Forces near Colorado Springs. He recalls that two fellow airmen also viewed the object through the goggles, yet none of them reported it that night. He says they feared what reporting a UFO might mean for their security clearances. Logan joins Ryan Graves to describe the sighting, explain why he stayed silent, and discuss what eventually led him to come forward to Americans for Safe Aerospace and speak with the FBI. He does not claim to...
New Military UAP Encounters and Witness Testimony with Ryan Graves
[Retweeted] Logan Labby guarded priority-level-one resources at a classified space base with Air Force Security Forces. One night in 2008, he and two others watched a football-field-sized V-shaped craft drift silently overhead, visible only through night vision goggles. New episode: https://t.co/5wNAU2ah1j
[Retweeted] Logan Labby guarded priority-level-one resources at a classified space base with Air Force Security Forces. One night in 2008, he and two others watched a football-field-sized V-shaped craft drift silently overhead, visible only through night vision goggles. New episode: https://t.co/5wNAU2ah1j
[Retweeted] Sol’s 2027 Symposium will feature aviation-focused panels from Americans for Safe Aerospace. Its director, Ryan Graves, recently joined Sol to discuss recent military UAP encounters and the challenge of making firsthand testimony public. Register for our March 11-13 event in Washington DC to engage Ryan and ASA in person: https://t.co/liqEzVJyp2
Ryan is doing fantastic work. It is worth recognising that Air Force Security are often on the front lines, when it comes to sightings over AF bases. This is [Quoted] Logan Labby guarded priority-level-one resources at a classified space base with Air Force Security Forces. One night in 2008, he and two others watched a football-field-sized V-shaped craft drift silently overhead, visible only through night vision goggles. New episode: https://t.co/5wNAU2ah1j
Logan Labby guarded priority-level-one resources at a classified space base with Air Force Security Forces. One night in 2008, he and two others watched a football-field-sized V-shaped craft drift silently overhead, visible only through night vision goggles. New episode: https://t.co/5wNAU2ah1j
[Retweeted] "What's being released is not satisfactory to me.” — Ryan Graves In a new CBS Sunday Morning report, Graves raises concerns about the limited UAP evidence made public despite seven tranches of government records. The Disclosure Foundation welcomes these releases as meaningful progress toward greater transparency. However, significant gaps remain, including historical intelligence assessments, investigative findings, high-quality sensor data, and records held by government contract...
