Episode Transcript: #1883 - Ryan Graves
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Nice to meet you, Ryan.
Nice to meet you, Joe. Pleasure to be here.
You're one of four or five people that I've talked to that have seen something that might be from somewhere else.
It's always weird when you talk to someone that may have seen something that...
Well, let's just, first, before we even get started, please tell people your credentials, what your background is.
Sure. So, you know, my name is Ryan Graves. I have an engineering degree, mechanical and aerospace engineering.
I promptly left doing that to go fly F-18s for the Navy as soon as I graduated college.
I did that for about a decade, both operationally in combat as well as an instructor role, teaching the new students.
And, you know, we did witness something while we were flying in our jets, but, you know, we were doing it under...
We witnessed it in the context of our just everyday flying in our missions.
And what year was it that you witnessed this?
So, we started seeing these in 2014, was the earliest that I know. 2013, late 2013, early 2014.
And could you describe what it was the very first experience?
Yeah, so, for me personally, the experience was simply just flying out to the area like I would any other day.
And instead of seeing an empty airspace with just my wing person or another squadron doing something in a different block,
there were all of a sudden a lot of different radar contacts, which is immediately a problem,
because, you know, we could be hitting one of those or someone working in our area.