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This is the written testimony of Ryan Graves, a former Navy F/A-18 pilot and founder of Americans for Safe Aerospace, to the House Oversight Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs at its first public UAP hearing. He describes regular UAP sightings by squadron VFA-11 off Virginia Beach from 2014, including a near miss with a cube inside a sphere in Warning Area W-72. He argues that UAP are underreported and stigmatized, that the data is overclassified, and that commercial pilots need a way to report them.
access program. He couldn’t believe there was no discussion of an urgent safety of flight issue. He has stated publicly that after seeing the report, he didn’t believe these UAP represent any known human technology. Aircrews along the East Coast continue to encounter advanced UAP nearly a decade later, and the identity of these UAP remains unknown. Americans for Safe Aerospace aircrew and military UAP witness program Recognizing the need for action and answers, I founded Americans for Safe Aerospace, which now has nearly 5,000 members. What I did not anticipate was how many UAP military veteran and commercial aircrew witnesses would reach out to us. The organization has since become a haven for more than 30 UAP witnesses who were previously unspoken due to the absence of a safe intake process. Most do not want to speak publicly. They are afraid of professional consequences. They just want to add their account to the data set. Commercial pilots The majority of witnesses are commercial pilots at major airlines. What commercial pilots tell us can defy belief, often beginning with an apology like “I apologize, I realize this will sound crazy.” They describe UAP operating at altitudes that appear to be above them at 40,000 feet, potentially in low earth orbit or in the grey zone below the Karman line, making inexplicable maneuvers, like right hand turns and retrograde orbits, or j-hooks. Sometimes these reports are recurring, with numerous recent sightings north of Hawaii and the North Atlantic. They are trained observers, often former military pilots with decades of flying experience, who say they understand Starlink flares and are adamant that is not the explanation. Other domain military witnesses Other veterans are also coming forward to us regarding UAP encounters in our airspace and oceans. Veterans from all branches of service, who are authorized to come forward by the NDAA of 2023 to Congress and the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, are hesitant to do so due to stigma and a confusing process within government. Currently, there is no public-facing way for them to report their accounts. We are filling that gap. The most compelling involve observations of UAP by multiple witnesses and sensor systems, with supporting documentation or a roadmap to find it. I believe these accounts are only scratching the surface and more will share their experiences once it is safe to do so. In multiple cases, contemporaneous notifications were made up the chain of command, and in several, sensor data was escalated for analysis and there were profound irregularities in how the data was handled. Conclusion:
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