Admiral Tim Gallaudet, former Navy chief oceanographer and NOAA administrator, discusses his journey from mainstream naval leadership to public advocacy on UAP/USO phenomena, drawing on classified experiences, whistleblower accounts, and his current role on the UAP Science Advisory Council reporting to the ODNI.
Family history and intellectual foundations
Gallaudet descends from Peter Wallace Gallaudet, personal secretary to George Washington, and grew up with a deep naval tradition.
As superintendent of the Naval Observatory, he worked with astrophysicists and internalized the scale of the universe — 100 billion stars per galaxy, over a trillion galaxies — making extraterrestrial life statistically probable.
The Silurian hypothesis (advanced civilizations evolving on Earth hundreds of millions of years ago and retreating underground or underwater) provides a framework for non-human intelligence potentially residing in the oceans.
The Go Fast video and the deleted email
As a one-star admiral on the Navy Secret Network, Gallaudet received an email during a carrier training exercise off the East Coast attaching the Go Fast video.
The exercise involved F-18s from VFA-11; a cubic/spherical UAP split a two-aircraft section at close range, creating a serious safety hazard and causing pilots to react audibly on tape.
Gallaudet knew the object was neither U.S. test technology (which uses instrumented ranges) nor adversary tech (he held top-secret SCI clearance and knew all known threats).
The email was subsequently deleted from all recipients’ computers — a “spillage” cleanup protocol indicating the material was TS/SCI or higher.
Jay Stratton (former UAP Task Force director) later confirmed the deletion; at the time, the intelligence community was uncertain whether the objects were adversary or off-world, so they defaulted to maximum classification.
AARO and the parallax dispute
AARO’s public stance (under former director Sean Kirkpatrick) dismissed Go Fast as parallax — an optical illusion making a high, slow object appear to skim the water at high speed.
Gallaudet does not dispute the speed calculation but emphasizes the omitted context: the object was one of four in formation, intelligently controlled, with no flight surfaces or visible propulsion.
Pilots’ audio (“Whoa! Got it!”) reflects genuine astonishment at anomalous behavior; carrier intel officers had no explanation.
AARO’s narrow focus on kinematics ignored the multi-sensor, multi-witness, formation-flight context.
Whistleblowers and retaliation
Gallaudet supports whistleblowers (Grusch, Borland, Brown) and condemns professional retaliation; he distinguishes ontological truth (nature of reality) from legitimate trade secrets.
He views the current PDNI memo waiving NDAs for UAP reporting as a significant step toward destigmatization.
Historical USO evidence and Ivan Sanderson
Ivan Sanderson’s Invisible Residents and Richard Dolan’s work document decades of Navy ships reporting unidentified submersible objects (USOs) entering and exiting water.
The ocean covers 70% of Earth; only 27% of the seafloor is mapped to modern standards, and only ~10% of ocean volume explored — vast habitat for concealed activity.
The teardrop UAP video from a joint task force
A credible source (military intelligence officer, J2 at a joint task force overseas) showed Gallaudet’s friend a video on a classified network with an unfamiliar color banner and unrecognized email domains (xxx.x.x format).
Infrared footage: teardrop-shaped UAP ~20 ft long moving under ocean surface, surfacing with zero water disturbance, hovering, then accelerating vertically “like gravity in reverse” beyond sensor tracking.
Attached email from a female naval intelligence commander to a distribution list of ~100: “We’ve been tracking these for some time… don’t know their origin or intention… seen in the ocean more than elsewhere… occurring in five to seven areas of the world with more frequency.”
The commander urged inter-agency data sharing, noting stove-piping due to SAP protectionism.
Rep. Tim Burchett’s “five to seven undersea alien bases” claim likely derives from this email, though the email described hotspots, not confirmed bases.
Submarine encounters and the “baffles” maneuver
Three submarine officers (two officers, one enlisted) independently reported to Gallaudet post-testimony: rapid-closing underwater objects with torpedo-like signatures (constant bearing, decreasing range).
Each sub executed emergency deep maneuvers; the object slowed and fell into the sub’s “baffles” (sonar blind spot) before departing — behavior no torpedo or known adversary platform can replicate.
A retired captain, former acoustic specialist on a Navy intelligence ship off Japan, reported two similar anomalous contacts.
Alex Wiggins and the USS Omaha
Wiggins, on the bridge of the USS Omaha off Southern California in 2019, witnessed a self-luminous tic-tac object emerge from the ocean and link up with three others; all four disappeared with synchronized, near-instantaneous acceleration.
Wiggins also shared video from the USS Jackson showing multiple erratic UAP at night; he stated the crew had become desensitized to frequent sightings.
Gallaudet encouraged Wiggins to engage Congress; Wiggins subsequently testified.
Aguadilla, Puerto Rico (2013)
Three-minute thermal video shows a transmedium object descending into and emerging from the Atlantic; corroborating sensor data needed but consistent with other USO reports.
UAP Science Advisory Council
Gallaudet serves on this council reporting to ODNI; members include psychologists, engineers, physicists, oceanographers.
Goals: analyze videos/data for true velocities/trajectories, understand propulsion/mechanisms, assess intent.
Current lines of investigation: orb phenomena (including law enforcement encounters at a national security site in the West — “mother ship” launching orbs), and offshore orb data from the Tedesco brothers (Long Island), some showing water entry/exit.
Nova Scotia, 1960 (Sweep Clear Five)
Chris Styles’ book documents Royal Canadian Navy divers reporting two saucer-shaped objects on the seabed with occupants outside; divers allegedly took video.
Researcher Brian Fitzpatrick (20-year homicide detective, author of The Operator on cattle mutilations) is pursuing FOIA equivalents in Canada to recover the footage.
Law enforcement orb encounters
Pursue files include reports from law enforcement at a national security site: repeated orb interactions, including a larger “mother ship” orb launching smaller orbs.
AARO’s John Kosloski acknowledged a large percentage of orbs remain unexplained — not weather, known tech, or laser effects.
New Jersey drones (2024)
Trump claimed military knew origin (“coming from a garage”) but offered no evidence; nature remains unknown across local, state, federal levels.
Greg Scaduto (Americans for Safe Aerospace) published analysis in Rolling Stone; Gallaudet considers it a significant open question.
Japan and UAP disclosure
Gallaudet presented virtually to Japan’s UAP parliamentary caucus; interviewed by Japanese outlet The Liberty.
Japan’s PM office now establishing a UAP investigation unit; former defense minister Hamada engaged.
Fukushima’s Mount Senori hosts a UFO museum; NASA historian Takeno Jouen claims possession of Roswell material (unverified).
Global hotspots and the Catalina Channel
Gallaudet identifies: Bermuda Triangle/Atlantic region, Catalina Channel (Southern California), off Japan, South China Sea.
Preston Dennett’s Undersea UFO Base compiles eyewitness accounts but speculates on “Sycamore Knoll” (Point Dume) as a base — thoroughly surveyed via sub-bottom profilers; no anomalous structure found.
Gallaudet’s daughter’s teammate’s father (retired Navy captain, former F-14/F-18 pilot) reports repeated UAP formations over Catalina Channel.
Thomas Townsend Brown (electrogravitics pioneer) had a transformative orb encounter on Catalina Island in mid-century; his daughter says he “downloaded his life’s work” from the interaction.
Atlantis search
Gallaudet is under NDA with a team of archaeologists/geologists who believe they’ve located an Atlantic region matching Plato’s dimensional descriptions (canal widths, concentric rings, etc.) using proprietary high-resolution bathymetry.
A well-funded researcher with a dedicated ship and ROV expressed interest today in mounting an expedition this summer.
Lead researcher is an ER physician who spent 10 years compiling open-source geological/archaeological data; connected with physicist Max Derr (algorithm for detecting artificial structures in 3D topographical data).
Gallaudet facilitated the Derr connection; sees this as “outside the system” breakthrough akin to Schliemann finding Troy.
Göbekli Tepe and lost history
Archaeology consistently pushes civilization dates older (Göbekli Tepe ~9600 BCE); Atlantis may be a placeholder for antediluvian advanced civilization.
Randall Carlson and Graham Hancock link Atlantis to Younger Dryas impact hypothesis (comet airburst ~10,800 BCE), meltwater pulses, and global flood myths.
Baltic Sea Anomaly
Gallaudet dove on the anomaly (circular, Millennium Falcon-shaped feature between Sweden/Finland) with treasure hunter Dennis Åsberg.
ROVs and GPS fail near the object; electromagnetic anomalies resemble Skinwalker Ranch.
Seeks better-funded oceanographic expedition.
Skinwalker Ranch
Gallaudet visited at Brandon Fugal’s invitation; acknowledges DIA-funded research (Laszky, Kelleher, Knapp books) as de facto disclosure.
Anomalies accumulate across multiple sensors/witnesses; not a single binary “find” but persistent, varied phenomena.
Travis Taylor leads current scientific effort; Gallaudet sees serious researchers, not entertainment.
Liquid breathing divers and crash retrieval
Navy has a highly classified dive unit experimenting with liquid ventilation (perfluorocarbon) for extended bottom time — depicted fictionally in The Abyss.
Eric Davis states more crash retrievals occur in the ocean than on land; this unit would likely conduct them.
Gallaudet’s wife (Navy diver) was unaware of the unit until he learned of it.
Bluegill Triple Prime (1962) and Harold Malmgren
High-altitude nuclear test (Operation Fishbowl); Malmgren (elder statesman, interviewed by Gallaudet) claimed to hold debris from an object that fell from the blast plume.
Gallaudet and his wife helped Jeff Krulik analyze deck logs of nearby ships: unusual anchoring (excessive “shot” laid out for heavy lifting), power outages, senior officer (Admiral Starbird) emergency flight to US at 0400.
NNSA responded to a FOIA for UAP records from Starfish Prime series: “responsive records exist but forwarded to subject matter expert.”
Gallaudet: “very highly likely” an anomalous object was recovered; some deck log entries conspicuously absent (e.g., diver transfers).
NURO and classified undersea programs
Bobby Ray Inman (former DNI/naval intelligence) publicly acknowledged the National Underwater Reconnaissance Office (NURO) — Gallaudet, as Navy’s top oceanographer with full undersea program access, had never heard of it.
NURO (undersea counterpart to NRO) remained classified for decades; undersea capabilities are protected at highest levels because compromise threatens shore defense and warfighting edge.
Submarine community’s “Blind Man’s Bluff” revelations caused uproar; UAP observed by undersea assets would be held in similar compartments.
Rickover, John Piña Craven, and Bob Lazar
Hyman Rickover (nuclear Navy founder) and John Piña Craven (deep submergence, Polaris, Glomar Explorer) likely knew of UAP given their positions.
Bob Lazar recently revised his story: the “archaeological dig” he described at S-4 was actually a Navy seafloor recovery, not a desert site.
Pax River
Rep. Eric Burlison visited NAS Patuxent River; called it the most advanced naval aviation facility and the logical place to store/retrieve a recovered craft.
Speculation: Bigelow Aerospace may have attempted exfiltration of a craft from Pax for study.
Victor Vescovo and the Five Deeps
Vescovo (retired Navy commander, intelligence officer) built Limiting Factor submersible and support ship Pressure Drop; first to dive all five deepest trenches (Five Deeps Expedition), 14 dives to Challenger Deep.
NOAA partnered: scientists aboard for high-resolution trench mapping; data shared with NOAA (curator of US EEZ bathymetry).
Vescovo endorsed Gallaudet’s book; Navy named new T-AGOS surveillance ship class after Don Walsh (first Challenger Deep diver, 1960) and Vescovo.
Vescovo joined Atlantis expedition team after seeing presentation.
DEEP and undersea habitats
DEEP (company) deployed an underwater habitat in Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary; chief scientist Dawn Kernagis already dived it.
Proteus (Cousteau-founded) building another habitat; autonomy/robotics advancing rapidly.
NASA uses Neutral Buoyancy Lab (Houston) for astronaut training; prime contractor Rothy going public, Gallaudet on board.
Fermi paradox and the ocean
Kevin Knuth (council member) proposes water worlds as Kardashev Type IV civilization habitats; Earth’s oceans as logical base for elusive NHI.
Europa/Enceladus (subsurface oceans) are NASA targets; NOAA ROV tech (Okeanos Explorer) informs those missions.
Analytical overlay (mind’s tendency to construct narratives) is trained out; results include precise drawings of unknown geological formations.
Gallaudet participated in experiments, hit targets himself; views RV as validated consciousness phenomenon.
Division of Perceptual Studies (UVA), Diane Hennacy Powell (autistic savant telepathy) provide academic backing.
Hal Puthoff (Stargate founder) is colleague; Gallaudet sees consciousness research as parallel to UAP — both stigmatized, both fundamental to reality.
Naval Academy color-blindness waiver
Gallaudet failed Ishihara color vision test on day one (July 2, 1985); corpsman said “you’re going to be gone.”
Swim coach and athletic director secured unprecedented waiver: restricted line (intelligence/medical/oceanography only) — exactly the path he wanted.
Sees this as “pure intention” opening doors that should have been closed.
Kitty Hawk near-collision (2003)
As Officer of the Deck during Iraqi Freedom transit through Strait of Malacca: destroyer USS Curtis Wilbur ordered to plane guard but turned starboard into carrier’s blind spot at ~1,000 yards.
Gallaudet ordered hard rudder, flank speed, collision alarm, “brace for shock”; time dilated, visualized catastrophic loss of 200+ sailors.
Curtis Wilbur corrected at last second; captain/admiral confrontation followed.
Most precarious moment of career; outcome due to luck and ship’s response, not his control.
Susan Casey endorsement
Ocean author Susan Casey (The Wave, Voices in the Ocean, The Underworld, Devil’s Teeth) endorsed Gallaudet’s book Holding Fast in Heavy Seas.
Casey dove Mariana Trench with Vescovo; field-immersed journalist.
Bermuda Triangle diving plans
Gallaudet and family plan to dive Bermuda Triangle; acknowledges electromagnetic anomaly data but treats legends cautiously.
Continues diving globally: Blue Hole (Belize), Iron Bottom Sound (Guadalcanal WWII wrecks).
Merch and outro
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