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Former Navy pilot Ryan Graves, who along with former Navy Commander David Fravor and former intelligence official David Grusch testified before Congress last month, says what was revealed about UFOs is just the “tip of the iceberg.”
Graves testified to back up the bombshell claims made by Grusch that, among many claims, the United States has retrieved and studied UFOs of non-human origin and recovered alien bodies.
Now, in an op-ed for Newsweek, Graves expounds on his UFO testimony even further.
“My story is this: Nine years ago, my F/A-18’s squadron, operating off the coast of Virginia Beach, observed and tracked UAP that had infiltrated military airspace,” he wrote. “The UAP had no visible propulsion or lifting surfaces but could remain motionless in Category-4 hurricane winds, accelerate to supersonic, and operate all day, outlasting our fighter jets by 10 hours or more. They even caused near mid-air collisions with our jets, triggering mandatory safety reports.
“Today, these same UAP are still being seen; we still don’t know what they are; and our government has no idea of the scope of the problem. That’s because pilots, both commercial and military, are encountering UAP, and the majority of these cases are going unreported.”
Graves, who founded Americans for Safe Aerospace, also wrote that since his testimony before the House “dozens more have contacted us” about their UFO encounters.
“The majority of UAP witnesses I talk to are commercial pilots at major airlines,” Graves wrote. “Often, they are veterans with decades of flying experience. Pilots are reporting UAP at altitudes that appear to be above them at 40,000 feet, potentially in low earth orbit or in the grey zone below the Karman line, making inexplicable maneuvers, like right hand turns and retrograde orbits, or j-hooks. Sometimes these reports are recurring, with numerous recent sightings north of Hawaii and the North Atlantic. Our most recent report was from Tuesday.”
He says the reason pilots reach out to him and other similar organizations is because “the FAA has no direct process for commercial pilots to report unidentified or anomalous objects in our airspace.”
Graves also wonders why when “commercial pilots are highly trained observers of our skies” does “our government [turn] its back on the UAP reports from credible eyewitnesses who are responsible for the safety of millions and are motivated to protect our national security?”