Ryan Graves (pilot)

Ryan Graves is the founder and executive director of Americans for Safe Aerospace and a former F/A-18F Super Hornet pilot with the United States Navy.

Ryan Graves
Graves in July 2023
Born	Ryan Graves
Occupation	Former U.S. Navy pilot
Organization	Americans for Safe Aerospace
Website	www.safeaerospace.org

Career

Graves and another Super Hornet pilot Danny Accoin shared with The New York Times on May 26, 2019, about unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs) that they and other pilots witnessed almost daily on radar, infrared, and visually from the summer of 2014 to March 2015 during training missions over the East Coast of the United States.^[1] Politico reported in August 2023 that the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) is "required by law to launch a public-facing website where witnesses can directly report potential UFO sightings" but that this website is "tied up in Pentagon red tape".^[2] Graves told Politico that "the existing reporting mechanisms only receive two or three reports a month" whereas his nonprofit group, Americans for Safe Aerospace, receives "this same number of reports every couple of days".^[2] Graves testified alongside David Fravor and David Grusch at a July 26, 2023 House hearing on UAPs.^[3]

References

1. Cooper, Helene; Blumenthal, Ralph; Kean, Leslie (26 May 2019). "'Wow, What Is That?' Navy Pilots Report Unexplained Flying Objects". The New York Times. from the original on 31 July 2023. Retrieved 14 August 2023.
2. Seligman, Lara; Gould, Joe (10 August 2023). "UFO reporting hotline is MIA". Politico. from the original on 10 August 2023. Retrieved 11 August 2023.
3. King, Michael (26 July 2023). "Officials and lawmakers push for more government transparency on UFOs". CBS News. from the original on 28 July 2023. Retrieved 21 August 2023.