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Ryan Graves

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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

PURSUE Release 01 — evaluation framework (May 2026)

Per src-defensescoop-pursue-not-disclosure-2026-05, Graves articulates the “data alone is not disclosure” standard: useful releases require “clear provenance, sensor context, metadata, chain of custody, date and location, and enough operational context to allow serious independent analysis.” Ambiguous imagery without that surrounding data “is hard for pilots, researchers, or the public to evaluate responsibly.” Stated goal: “a durable, credible reporting and analysis process, not just periodic releases of low-context files.” Through PURSUE, americans-for-safe-aerospace is mining for aviation-safety-relevant records — sensor data, pilot and aircrew reports, operational-hazard analyses, and process changes that let commercial and military aviators report encounters without stigma.

June 9, 2026 — Grusch disclosure press conference

At the Capitol Hill UAP press conference, Graves warned that Russian and Chinese adversaries may run their own crash-retrieval programs and that withholding a “technology tree” leaves U.S. defenses inadequate (src-lawmakers-crash-retrieval-immunity-2026-06).

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