Tim Gallaudet

Tim Gallaudet is a retired U.S. Navy Rear Admiral and oceanographer who later held senior leadership roles at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. His UAP relevance centres on a 2015 Navy safety-of-flight email containing the video later known as GoFast, followed by his broader public advocacy for UAP transparency and scientific research.

Gallaudet says that while commanding Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command he received a secure email from U.S. Fleet Forces Command with a subject line describing an urgent safety-of-flight issue. The email included the GoFast video and asked flag officers about unidentified objects encountered during the USS Theodore Roosevelt strike group's work-up exercises.

He says the email subsequently disappeared from the network and the issue was not discussed with him further. He later interpreted this as evidence of excessive secrecy and possible compartmentation.

In November 2024 he testified before Congress and made substantially broader claims about UAP, non-human intelligence and undersea phenomena.

• Rear Admiral, U.S. NavyVerified

  Senior military rank and operational responsibility.

• Oceanographer of the Navy / meteorology leadershipVerified

  Highly relevant to environmental and oceanographic context.

• Senior NOAA rolesVerified

  Adds scientific-government experience.

• Direct visual witness to GoFast objectNo

  Gallaudet's firsthand experience is receiving the secure email/video and observing the organisational response, not seeing the object in the sky.

• A 2015 Navy safety email circulated GoFast as an operational concern
  Firsthand institutional testimony · Testimonial / partially corroborated by wider Roosevelt-era reporting

  Gallaudet says he personally received the message on SIPRNET and reviewed the attached video.

  Critical notes

  • The public testimony is strong evidence for his recollection of the email. The underlying email itself has not been publicly released in a form that independently verifies its wording, distribution and subsequent deletion.
• The disappearance of the email indicates unusual classification or concealment
  Interpretive / governance claim · Unresolved

  Gallaudet inferred that the message had been removed because the subject was shifted into a more restricted compartment.

  Critical notes

  • That is plausible but not the only possible explanation for message removal on classified networks. Access logs or records-management evidence would be needed to show why it disappeared.
• GoFast demonstrates extraordinary UAP performance
  Technical interpretation · Disputed

  Critical notes

  • The video is authentic military imagery, but later geometry analyses have argued that the apparent speed is substantially affected by parallax and platform motion. The clip alone does not establish extreme velocity.
• UAP/NHI interact with humanity and may operate in the oceans
  Broad public assertion · Unresolved

  Gallaudet's 2024 testimony expresses certainty that goes beyond the public evidence from the GoFast email itself.

• House Oversight Committee, Tim Gallaudet Written Testimony, 13 November 2024
• House Oversight Committee, Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Exposing the Truth, November 2024.
• NASA, UAP Independent Study Team Report, 2023, for data-quality and geometry context.