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Tim Gallaudet

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Tim Gallaudet

Retired U.S. Navy Rear Admiral, former naval oceanographer, and former noaa acting administrator. As of 2024, signed no UAP-related NDA. Prominent UAP disclosure advocate; on-camera in the 2025 documentary the-age-of-disclosure.

January 2015 Roosevelt incident

While Commander, naval-meteorology-and-oceanography-command, received an “URGENT SAFETY OF FLIGHT ISSUE” email from the U.S. Fleet Forces Command operations officer warning of multiple near-midair collisions during a USS Theodore Roosevelt pre-deployment exercise off the East Coast. Attached: the now-declassified “Go Fast” FLIR video. The email vanished from his and other recipients’ accounts the next day; the matter was never raised again, even in weekly safety meetings. Gallaudet inferred a compartmented special access program excluding flag officers (see src-gallaudet-house-testimony-2024-11).

House Oversight testimony — November 13, 2024

Testified at the joint hearing “Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Exposing the Truth” with three pillars:

  1. Congressional oversight of aaro, odni, NSA on UAP; pursue UAP at IC, NASA, DOE, DHS, NSF; leverage UAP to fix drone-incursions vulnerabilities.
  2. Pass the uap-disclosure-act’s UAP Records Review Board provisions stripped from FY2024 NDAA conference.
  3. After enactment, designate a cabinet department lead for whole-of-government UAP coordination (endorsed by sol-foundation).

Alleged that during a 2024 meeting with then-acting AARO director tim-phillips and senior staff, he was the target of an “hours-long influence operation” defending AARO’s Historical Records Report Vol. 1 and disparaging UAP whistleblowers (src-gallaudet-house-testimony-2024-11).

May 1, 2025 expert briefing

Briefed Capitol Hill (hosted by UAP Disclosure Fund + House Oversight & Accountability) alongside chris-mellon and avi-loeb. Recounted a 2021 USS Dwight D. Eisenhower SH-60 Seahawk FLIR account of a metallic sphere accelerating to the horizon, plus many F-18 UAP encounters during the Eisenhower Strike Group deployment (src-uap-expert-briefing-2025-05, uss-eisenhower-uap-incident). Framed institutional response as “over-classification and a deliberate, decades-long disinformation campaign by the U.S. Department of Defense and the intelligence community.”

Other positions

  • Argues oceans warrant scrutiny for unidentified-submerged-objects; December 2025: “If there were any extraterrestrial visitors that did not want to be seen, this is where they’d hide.”
  • June 2025 endorsement of a disputed 1962 UFO recovery story drew criticism from researcher d-dean-johnson.
  • August 2023 Hill op-ed: “UFOs are the story of the century — wake up, America!”

Affiliations

On PURSUE Release 01 (May 2026)

Per src-defensescoop-pursue-not-disclosure-2026-05, sets the future-release standard: declassifying the classified Pentagon/IC videos/sonar/radar/FLIR he is “aware of” — of UAP “clearly objects of nonhuman origin due to their structure and performance characteristics” — is the test of “true transparency.” Quote: “If any of those are released, we will know whether or not true transparency is the objective.”

April 2026 Kirkpatrick clash

Public dispute with former aaro director sean-kirkpatrick. Kirkpatrick accused Gallaudet of conspiracy bias and AARO job-seeking; Gallaudet says his May 2024 meeting was actually with acting director tim-phillips after Kirkpatrick’s departure. See src-gallaudet-kirkpatrick-clash-2026-04.

UAP Science Advisory Council (June 2026)

Named to the uap-science-advisory-council (oceanography focus) in the full 12-member roster announced by the disclosure-foundation on June 14, 2026 (src-disclosure-foundation-uap-science-council-2026-06). Also co-signatory of the Sol Foundation’s May 8, 2026 press statement welcoming pursue Release 01 (src-sol-foundation-disclosure-statement-2026-05).

A June 30, 2026 AP wire profile of avi-loeb and the council attributes to Gallaudet a direct claim that the U.S. has recovered crashed aircraft controlled by “nonhuman intelligence” — more explicit wording than his prior public statements captured elsewhere on this page (src-loeb-council-profile-ap-2026-06).

A July 2, 2026 Scientific American profile (src-sciam-uap-science-council-2026-07) carries his clearest statement yet of the council’s technical scope: analyzing velocities and rates of movement from archival/released Pentagon video — explicitly not reverse-engineering. “Our job is just to research the phenomenon and make recommendations for further scientific study.” He does not rule out the effort surfacing “fundamental new science principles or results.”

July 2026 — “No conventional explanation” for the “mother orb” case

Per IBTimes UK (Jul 19, 2026; src-ibtimes-uap-council-clueless-2026-07), Gallaudet told the Washington Post: “I cannot think of any conventional explanation” for jon-kosloski’s June 5, 2026 aaro “mother orb” report — even while accepting avi-loeb’s ball-lightning and laser-induced-plasma hypotheses as valid explanations for many other orb sightings.

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