{"id":5340,"date":"2026-04-06T10:56:02","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T10:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ufosecret.net\/?p=5340"},"modified":"2026-04-06T10:56:02","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T10:56:02","slug":"ex-navy-pilot-on-ufos-we-need-to-focus-less-on-aliens-more-on-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ufosecret.net\/index.php\/2026\/04\/06\/ex-navy-pilot-on-ufos-we-need-to-focus-less-on-aliens-more-on-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Navy pilot on UFOs: We need to focus less on aliens, more on science"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Navy pilot Ryan Graves has urged Congress to look into unexplained aerial phenomenon (UAP), sometimes referred to as UFOs, in the sky above the United States.<\/p>\n

In a conversation with\u00a0Fox News Digital<\/a>, he opened up about his own encounters with UAPs.<\/p>\n

Graves was a Navy pilot for roughly 11 years, flying the cutting-edge fighter jet F-18 and served as a flight instructor. However, throughout his career, he has yet to receive a definitive answer on a phenomenon that he and other members of his squadron have dealt with for years.<\/p>\n

<\/div>\n

\u201cWhile I was in the Navy, myself and others in my squadron had an experience that continues to this day and at first was something that we didn\u2019t have a name for,\u201d Graves said.<\/p>\n

At first, objects showed up as \u201ccontacts on our radar, contacts on our camera system\u201d until eventually, Graves said, \u201cwe were seeing these with our eyeballs.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
Former Navy pilot Ryan Graves<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cTwo aircraft from my squadron were flying side by side and one of these objects went right between their aircraft,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Graves said that his squad member described the object as a \u201cdark gray or black cube inside of a clear sphere.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI think they need to separate the idea of something that\u2019s unknown\u201d from preconceived ideas like a \u201cUFO or ET hypothesis.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need to be able to agnostically, as a media, accept that there is uncertainty and look at it from a first principles approach. Because if we wrap it into all that context about little green men, we\u2019re going to be barking up the wrong tree,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Graves, who is now an advocate and the founder of Americans for Safe Aeronautics, noted that although these items occasionally remained stationary in an odd manner, they did not act like \u201ctethered balloons.\u201d<\/p>\n

That was because, Graves added, these objects might likewise move at incredibly high speeds.<\/p>\n

Graves made waves in February after he wrote an article detailing his experiences with UAPs in the military.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese were no mere balloons. The unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) accelerated at speeds up to Mach 1, the speed of sound. They could hold their position, appearing motionless, despite Category 4 hurricane-force winds of 120 knots. They did not have any visible means of lift, control surfaces or propulsion \u2014 in other words nothing that resembled normal aircraft with wings, flaps or engines.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI am a formally trained engineer, but the technology they demonstrated defied my understanding,\u201d Graves wrote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Former Navy pilot Ryan Graves has urged Congress to look into unexplained aerial phenomenon (UAP), sometimes referred to as UFOs, in the sky above the United States. In a conversation with\u00a0Fox News Digital, he opened up about his own encounters with UAPs. Graves was a Navy pilot for roughly 11 years, flying the cutting-edge fighter […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5341,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1446,1447],"class_list":["post-5340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ex-navy-pilot-on-ufos-we-need-to-focus-less-on-aliens","tag-more-on-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ufosecret.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ufosecret.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ufosecret.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ufosecret.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ufosecret.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5340"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ufosecret.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5342,"href":"https:\/\/ufosecret.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5340\/revisions\/5342"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ufosecret.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ufosecret.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ufosecret.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ufosecret.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}