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.
Ryan Graves has spoken many times about a black cube within a clear sphere that came within 50 feet of a fighter jet. This video was filmed in China in April 2026 and the object in the video matches his description exactly.
[Retweeted] The sixth tranche of UAP files is released by the @DeptofWar https://t.co/ypfwTuNV7l
The sixth tranche of UAP files is released by the @DeptofWar https://t.co/ypfwTuNV7l [Quoted] https://t.co/XuSWBwlxa4
[Retweeted] The Defense Department issued a legal waiver authorizing current and former personnel to share unidentified anomalous phenomena–related classified information, but it doesn’t extend to other agencies. https://t.co/vXBiYBQ9hO
David Grusch testified under oath that the U.S. government possesses craft and biological material of non-human origin. The IC Inspector General found his complaint credible and urgent. Ryan Graves testified that pilots fear reporting UAP sightings because of career consequences. Lue Elizondo testified under oath about secret crash retrieval programs funded by misallocated taxpayer dollars. These people didn't come forward anonymously. They used their names. They testified under oath. They ac...
David Grusch testified under oath that the U.S. government possesses craft and biological material of non-human origin. The IC Inspector General found his complaint credible and urgent. Ryan Graves testified that pilots fear reporting UAP sightings because of career consequences. Lue Elizondo testified under oath about secret crash retrieval programs funded by misallocated taxpayer dollars. These people didn't come forward anonymously. They used their names. They testified under oath. They ac...
[Retweeted] RELEASE: Department of War Issues Legal Waiver to Authorize UAP Disclosures to PURSUE "This waiver establishes an authorized, legally protected disclosure mechanism for current and former personnel to provide UAP-related National Defense Information (NDI) to designated representatives of the PURSUE effort. Under this directive, all current and former DOW service members, civilian personnel, and contractors holding or previously granted access to UAP-related National Defense Inform...
RT @SafeAerospace: Our newest episode is live. Former Navy F-18 pilot Austin Hulbert dismissed his encounter as a balloon. Years later, bu…
Our newest episode is live. Former Navy F-18 pilot Austin Hulbert dismissed his encounter as a balloon. Years later, building military balloons made him reconsider. Austin joins Ryan Graves to revisit what he saw and what changed his mind. https://t.co/qHRURtCISC
