Person
Ryan Graves
Former Navy F-18 pilot; director of Americans for Safe Aerospace
2023– · New witnesses and pilots · Witness
A former Navy F-18 pilot and executive director of the association Americans for Safe Aerospace, on July 26, 2023 he testified before the House with Grusch and Fravor, describing among other things a 2014 object resembling a cube inside a transparent sphere. He appears in “The Age of Disclosure”; in 2025 he criticized the WSJ's investigation into “Yankee Blue.”
- Key claims
- Testified under oath about unidentified objects observed by Navy pilots, including a cube inside a transparent sphere in 2014.
Documented authority
It measures how documented and verifiable what the person claims is, not their honesty. Each criterion is scored from 0 to 2.
- Credentials 2/2
- His positions are listed in the official list of witnesses.
- Direct access 1/2
- Reports firsthand experiences of his own and of his colleagues, not publicly documented in the sources consulted.
- Evidence provided not applicable
- Not applicable: does not advance claims of their own on UAP facts.
- Claims track record not applicable
- The sources consulted do not trace the outcome of any verifiable claims made by this person.
- Conflicts of interest not applicable
- The sources consulted do not document financial interests tied to the topic.
Sources
- Transcript of the House hearing of July 26, 2023 (GovInfo) (primary source)
- DefenseScoop, July 26, 2023: the hearing and the lawmakers (press)
- NPR, July 27, 2023 (press)
- Sentinel News: reactions to the WSJ investigation (June 2025) (other, pro-disclosure)
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