Ryan Graves

Ryan Graves is a former U.S. Navy F/A-18 pilot who has become one of the most prominent UAP advocates. He chairs the aiaa Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Integration Committee and founded americans-for-safe-aerospace.

Key Positions

• Frames UAP as a national security and airspace safety issue rather than an extraterrestrial question, a strategy that has generated bipartisan political support
• Emphasizes the credibility of observers: “Highly credible people and professional observers are seeing objects” with unexplained capabilities
• Advocates for improved uap-reporting-infrastructure to reduce uap-stigma among military and commercial pilots

Affiliations

• aiaa UAP Integration Committee (chair)
• americans-for-safe-aerospace (founder)

Sources

• src-uap-landscape-2025 — Profiled as key figure
• src-ufo-research-progress-2025 — Perspective on UAP as national security issue
• src-uap-military-intercepts-ndaa-2026 — Americans for Safe Aerospace referenced as advocacy organization