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Tim Gallaudet
Rear Admiral, U.S. Navy (ret.)
Timothy Gallaudet, born in 1967, is an oceanographer and retired U.S. Navy rear admiral. A Naval Academy graduate with a doctorate from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, he served as Oceanographer of the Navy and as Commander of the Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command before retiring from the Navy in 2017.
He then served as Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere from October 2017 to January 2021, and as acting Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) until February 2019. He has since led Ocean STL Consulting and supports several UAP groups, including as a research affiliate of Harvard’s Galileo Project and an adviser to the Sol Foundation.
On November 13, 2024, Gallaudet testified at a joint House Oversight subcommittee hearing titled ‘Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Exposing the Truth.’ He said that in January 2015, during a Navy exercise off the U.S. East Coast, he received an email headed ‘URGENT SAFETY OF FLIGHT ISSUE’ that, as he recalled it, reported multiple near-midair collisions and had the ‘Go Fast’ video attached.
Gallaudet testified: ‘The very next day, the email disappeared from my account and those of the other recipients without explanation.’ He said he concluded the information was held in a special access program he was not read into. He accused the Pentagon’s UAP office, AARO, of disinformation and urged Congress to pass the UAP Disclosure Act’s review board provisions.
His reading of the video is disputed. Six days after the hearing, AARO director Jon Kosloski told a Senate subcommittee that the office assessed ‘with high confidence’ that the Go Fast object was not close to the water but nearer 13,000 feet. He said a visual effect called parallax made it look as though it was moving much faster than it was.
Gallaudet says he never signed a non-disclosure agreement about UAP and describes himself as an advocate for government transparency who speaks out to support whistleblowers. He was among the former officials interviewed in the documentary ‘The Age of Disclosure’, which premiered at South by Southwest in March 2025.
Rear Adm. Tim Gallaudet, official Navy portrait, 2014. Photo: U.S. Navy (cropped) · Public domain · source
