Person

Ryan Graves

Former Navy F/A-18 pilot, head of Americans for Safe Aerospace and host of the Safe Aerospace Podcast, where Dan Isbell told his Upper Heyford story. Testified to Congress in July 2023.

Witness profile

Former Navy F/A-18 pilot whose squadron saw unknown objects off the Atlantic coast almost daily in 2014-15. He testified under oath in 2023 and now runs Americans for Safe Aerospace, which collects pilot reports.

Describes the witness from the record, their own retellings and how they come across. No score for the person; the factors at the end belong to the cases.

From the record service · posting · clearance · testimony

Service	US Navy F/A-18F pilot, VFA-11, USS Theodore Roosevelt group, 2014-15Navy record	documented
Rank	Lieutenant (former)Navy record	documented
Testimony	House Oversight hearing, 26 July 2023, under oathcongress.gov	documented
Report	A 2015 near-miss hazard report was filedNavy safety report	documented
Since	Founder of Americans for Safe Aerospace; host of the Safe Aerospace PodcastASA	documented

Retellings over time from the transcript library and records

Following: Unknown objects almost daily off the Atlantic coast, 2014-15

2015 Hazard report after the near-miss · recordA cube inside a sphere passed between two jets; the lead pilot saw it, not Graves.
2019-05 New York Times · first tellingObjects seen almost daily for months after a radar upgrade. Not in the transcript library.
2023-07-26 House hearing, under oath · heldPilots were seeing them "every day for at least a couple years".
2022 Weaponized, Stratton interview · recordthe sphere with a cube in it that that Lieutenant Graves saw, you know, and the gimbal,▶ 20:01Stratton cites "the sphere with a cube in it that Lieutenant Graves saw".

first tellingheldclarifieddetail addeddetail shiftedrecord

On camera demeanour notes, timestamped

How they look and speak: hesitations, self-corrections, emotion. Dashed slots still need the video.

House hearing, July 2023

Delivery under oath; how he separates what he saw from what squadron mates saw.Needs the video on Igor's PC

Feeds case plausibility consistency · restraint · character

Current factor values from the case ratings. The arrow shows which part of this profile backs each one.

GIMBAL and GOFASTplausibility Very high

Consistent over time2Stable over time. ← Same account from 2019 to 2023.Character record2Trained professionals. ← The record table.

Grusch, Fravor and Graves under oathplausibility Very high

Consistent over time2Matches their earlier accounts. ← Matches his 2019 account.Character record2Decorated officers. ← The record table.

Profile updated 2026-10-23

What Ryan Graves said (4 claims)

Witness testimony 1

“A dark cube inside a clear sphere passed between two jets about 150 ft apart.”Witness testimonyThe Age of Disclosure

Graves relays the lead pilot's sighting; also sworn in 2023.

“An informal FBI working group of 12+ agents looks at UAP.”secondhandSourced, unconfirmedUpper Heyford: a silent triangle over the golf course

“The objects were operating from the ocean and could stay airborne all day with no visible propulsion.”firsthandSourced, unconfirmedGimbal & GoFast

“Best is the "former U.S. Army intelligence officer" in FD-1057”secondhandSourced, unconfirmedThe 'potato' over Colorado Springs

Cases (4)

Connected

Dan 'Tanna' Isbell person Eric Weinstein person Recommendations to Improve Acquisition and Management of Aviation-Related UAP Data document The new science of Unidentified Aerospace-Undersea Phenomena (UAP) document Detection, Characterization, and Evaluation of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena document

Sources

Wikipedia: The Age of Disclosure