Independent advocacy organisation
Americans for Safe Aerospace
A military-pilot-led nonprofit that treats UAP reporting as an aviation-safety and national-security issue and advocates protections for witnesses.
- Established
- 2023
- Status
- Active
- Country
- United States
- Parent organisation
- Independent nonprofit organisation
Overview
Americans for Safe Aerospace (ASA) is a U.S. nonprofit founded by former Navy pilot Ryan Graves. It frames unidentified anomalous phenomena primarily as an aerospace-safety, reporting and domain-awareness problem, regardless of what ultimately explains an individual event.
ASA combines witness support, public advocacy and legislative engagement. It is not an official investigative authority: accounts presented through the organisation remain testimony unless supported by records, sensor data or independent corroboration.
Purpose and remit
- Reduce stigma and professional risk for military and commercial aircrew reporting unusual objects or events.
- Advocate consistent reporting channels, data retention and investigation across civil and military aviation systems.
- Engage Congress and government stakeholders on aerospace safety, transparency and national-security policy.
- Connect pilots and other witnesses with routes for confidential or public disclosure.
Methods and outputs
Methods
- Pilot and aircrew outreach
- Legislative advocacy and public testimony
- Witness support and public education
Principal outputs
- Policy statements and legislative campaigns
- Witness-support initiatives
- Public briefings and congressional engagement
- Reporting route
- Confidential reports from pilots and veterans
- Data availability
- Public advocacy material; no open case database
History
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2023
Organisation established
Ryan Graves launched ASA as a military-pilot-led nonprofit focused on UAP, aviation safety and national security.
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18 July 2023
Witness campaign announced
ASA announced a campaign to support commercial and military aircrew who wanted to report experiences confidentially or publicly.
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26 July 2023
Founder testified before Congress
Graves testified at the House Oversight hearing on UAP, describing recurring reports among naval aviators and calling for a secure reporting system.
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2023 onward
Legislative advocacy continued
ASA supported proposals concerning pilot reporting, witness protections, government transparency and the preservation and review of UAP records.
Current work
Witness support
ASA offers a route for military and commercial aviation witnesses to contact the organisation and decide whether to remain confidential or enter the public record.
Policy advocacy
The organisation works with legislators and public officials on reporting protection, airspace awareness and disclosure proposals.
Public education
Interviews, articles and testimony present the aviation-safety case for collecting better data and treating reports without ridicule.
Key people
Linked names open the corresponding UAPRAD Human profile.
Ryan Graves
Founder and executive director
Former Navy F/A-18 pilot and the organisation's principal public advocate.
David Fravor
Pilot participant
Former Navy pilot whose 2004 encounter is frequently cited in ASA's public safety case.
Evidence assessment
ASA’s clearest contribution is to the reporting environment around aviation witnesses. By offering pilots and veterans a confidential route to describe observations, the organisation addresses professional stigma and the possibility that safety-relevant information may otherwise go unrecorded. Its testimony and policy work also place UAP reporting within established concerns about airspace awareness and hazard reporting.
Witness access does not resolve the evidential status of an encounter. A professional observer may provide valuable operational context, but identification still depends on contemporaneous records, sensor data, location, timing and independent corroboration. De-identification can protect a witness while reducing what an outside reader can verify, and referral to Congress or an agency records a further investigative step rather than confirmation of the reported interpretation.
ASA is an advocacy organisation with stated legislative aims. Its performance should therefore be assessed through the quality of its intake, the care with which testimony is represented and the practical effect of reporting protections—not by assuming that every account received through the organisation describes the same phenomenon or an extraordinary cause.
Scope and limits
What the record supports
- ASA gives aviation witnesses an organised route into policy discussion and treats reporting quality as a safety issue independent of extraordinary interpretations.
- Its pilot-led framing has helped connect UAP policy with familiar concerns about airspace awareness, hazard reporting and professional stigma.
- The organisation's influence is visible in testimony and advocacy; the evidential value of each reported encounter still depends on its own supporting record.
Limits on interpretation
- ASA is an advocacy organisation with a stated policy agenda, not a neutral regulator or accident-investigation authority.
- Witness support can improve access to testimony but does not by itself provide sensor corroboration or establish the cause of a report.
- Membership totals and organisational descriptions published by ASA are self-reported unless independently documented.
Evidence note: ASA documents witness concerns and advances policy positions. Advocacy and testimony identify matters for investigation but do not by themselves verify the cause of a reported event.
Sources
Sources are grouped by provenance so that official records, an organisation’s own account, research publications and independent analysis remain distinguishable.
Official records1 source
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Official
House Oversight Committee — UAP hearing
Provides the official hearing record for Ryan Graves's July 2023 testimony.
Institutional and participant sources4 sources
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Institutional
ASA statement on the UAP Disclosure Act of 2023
Records the organisation's policy position on archival disclosure and review-board proposals.
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Institutional
ASA announces UAP witness campaign
Documents the campaign's reporting purpose and the organisation's early witness network.
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Institutional
Americans for Safe Aerospace — official site
States the organisation's mission, leadership, advisory network and current policy priorities.
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Institutional
Americans for Safe Aerospace — Report a UAP sighting
Defines the organisation’s eligibility, privacy and follow-up process for pilot and veteran reports.