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Joe Rogan Experience #1883 - Ryan Graves

Former Lt. U.S. Navy and F/A-18F pilot Ryan Graves was the first active duty pilot to publicly disclose regular sightings of Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon (UAP). Today, Graves serves as first Chair of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics UAP Community of Interest, and is the Director of Business Development at Quantum Generative Materials. www.uncertainvector.com

Joe RoganhostRyan Gravesguest
Jun 27, 20242h 38mWatch on YouTube ↗

At a glance

WHAT IT’S REALLY ABOUT

Navy Pilot Describes Daily UFO Encounters And Government’s Growing Concern

  1. Former Navy F/A-18 pilot and aerospace engineer Ryan Graves explains how a 2014 radar upgrade suddenly revealed multiple unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) operating daily in tightly controlled U.S. military airspace off the East Coast.
  2. He details radar tracks, FLIR footage, and near mid-air collisions, including the now-famous “Gimbal” video and visual descriptions of a dark cube inside a transparent sphere—objects that could hover in 140 mph winds and maneuver in ways far beyond known aircraft.
  3. Graves frames UAP primarily as a serious aviation safety and national security issue, describing formal hazard reports, NOTAMs, and later classified reporting mechanisms, as well as briefings to Congress and the Pentagon.
  4. The conversation broadens into speculation about nonhuman intelligence, trans‑medium craft, secrecy versus transparency, and how advancing technologies like AI may eventually help rigorously study and demystify these phenomena.

IDEAS WORTH REMEMBERING

5 ideas

UAP became visible after a major radar upgrade, not after they appeared.

Upgrading F/A-18s from the APG-73 to the more advanced APG-79 radar suddenly revealed numerous previously unseen contacts offshore, suggesting UAP were likely present all along but below earlier detection thresholds.

These objects posed real and repeated aviation safety hazards.

Graves describes daily UAP in training airspace, including a near mid-air where a cube-in-sphere object passed between two F-18s at the entry point of a working area, triggering formal hazard reports and a federal NOTAM warning pilots of “unknown objects.”

Observed UAP displayed flight characteristics inconsistent with known aircraft or drones.

They could hover motionless in 100–140 mph winds, meander in non-straight paths, fly racetrack patterns for hours, and in some cases execute extremely tight, instantaneous direction changes far beyond F-18 performance envelopes.

Military systems confirm these are physical, sensor-correlated objects—not just radar glitches.

Contacts appeared simultaneously on advanced radar and FLIR (infrared) sensors, sometimes as distinct heat or cold signatures at the exact radar-indicated positions, reinforcing that they represent real objects or energy sources in the sky.

The Gimbal incident involved a formation of UAP, not just a single object.

Behind the widely seen Gimbal FLIR clip was an SA (situational awareness) radar display showing a wedge formation of multiple small objects plus the main “Gimbal” target, which appeared to reverse direction via an extremely tight vertical U-turn—data that remains classified.

WORDS WORTH SAVING

5 quotes

They were out there when we took off, we’d see them, and then we’d go to land, they would still be out there. Every day.

Ryan Graves

He described it as a black or dark gray cube, and that cube was inside of a clear translucent sphere.

Ryan Graves

I see the signs of a safety problem brewing… and if we don’t have the command or operational support to tell the truth about what we’re seeing up there, then things have to change.

Ryan Graves

Without the FLIR footage, you would have never been able to see these things.

Joe Rogan

I think there is another actor involved… there is something that is not human that is interacting in some fashion.

Ryan Graves

Ryan Graves’ background and F/A-18 radar upgrade revealing persistent UAPCharacteristics, behavior, and shapes of observed UAP (cube-in-sphere, Gimbal, Tic Tac)Aviation safety risks, near mid-air collisions, and formal military reporting (HAZREP, NOTAM, UAP Task Force)Analysis of the Gimbal video and missing classified radar dataGovernment response: Pentagon briefings, congressional interest, emerging AARO/UAP frameworksSpeculation on origins: foreign adversaries, classified tech, nonhuman intelligence, trans‑medium craftBroader implications: secrecy, public disclosure, AI and scientific study of UAP, and human technological evolution

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