US Navy fighter pilot reveals horror UFO sighting and blasts government for hiding the ‘uncomfortable truth’
A FORMER fighter jet pilot has called on lawmakers in Congress to release the “truth” surrounding the mystery of unidentified aerial phenomena.
Lt. Ryan Graves revealed in 2019 that he and his fellow aviators spotted strange objects while on training missions.
In an op-ed for The Hill, Graves alleged that lawmakers and government officials are trying to tell the public an “uncomfortable truth.”
He said officials in Washington are struggling to explain the origins of the strange objects.
Graves, an ex-F/A-18 Super Hornet pilot, claimed: “Here is the hard truth.
"UAP are a national security problem and we urgently need more data."
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He has called for the culture in Washington to change if pilots are to come forward and document their experiences.
He has warned about a stigma that exists and laments the support that’s currently available.
Graves claimed: “There has been little support or incentive for aircrew to speak publicly about this topic.”
The former fighter pilot is not the first to express concerns about the supposed lack of support for aviators.
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Lt. Commander Alex Dietrich told CBS 60 Minutes in 2021 that fellow aviators kept quiet amid fears of being labeled kooky.
She was training with a strike group approximately 100 miles southwest of San Diego when she spotted a mysterious orb that looked like a Tic Tac in 2004.
She admitted that fighter pilots had struggled with how much to reveal about supposed encounters.
Dietrich said: “Over beers, we've said, 'Hey man, if I saw this solo, I don't know that I would have come back and said anything.' Because it sounds so crazy when I say it.”
The 2022 Annual Report on UAPs, produced by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, revealed that the orbs “continue to represent a hazard to flight safety and pose a possible adversary threat.”
The paper revealed that the number of UFO reports has increased amid attempts to try and de-stigmatize the topic.
Officials at the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office have said they've received 366 UAP reports since it was created in the summer of 2022.
The figure is way up compared to the 144 alleged sightings reported between 2004 and 2021.
Graves said: “Congress is exercising its oversight of a national security and air safety issue that was going under-reported, ignored, and even suppressed due to the stigma of UFOs.
“I am glad to see that Congress is taking this seriously, but there is much more work to do.”
Graves opened up about his alleged UFO encounters in 2019.
He told the New York Times that the orbs would be “out there all day.”
Graves was left stunned by how long unidentified aerial phenomena were able to remain in the skies.
He said: “Keeping an aircraft in the air requires a significant amount of energy.
“With the speeds we observed, 12 hours in the air is 11 hours longer than we admitted.”
Graves claimed that he and his fellow pilots saw the orbs zipping through the skies above restricted Virginia airspace daily.
The subject of UFOs was once restricted to the fringes of political debate, but it has become a national security issue.
It has sparked fears that the orbs could be drones sent by America’s adversaries such as Russia and China.
Sociologists have claimed that the recent Chinese “spy” balloon could trigger an uptick in UFO reports.
Meanwhile, believers think the origins of UFOs could be extraterrestrial.
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Lawmakers such as Senator Marco Rubio of Florida have called for the phenomena to be “seriously investigated.”
President Biden signed a law in the 2023 National Defense Authorization Act that mandates officials to examine alleged incidents from January 1, 1945.