Rear Admiral Timothy Gallaudet
Rear Admiral Timothy Gallaudet (USN, ret.) is a retired United States Navy oceanographer and flag officer who served as Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere and as acting administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Trump administration. He is the most senior former US naval officer to have made explicit public statements categorically affirming the reality of non-human intelligence (NHI) and calling for disclosure of maritime UAP data. Gallaudet is the author of the 2024 Sol Foundation white paper Beneath the Surface: We May Learn More About UAP by Looking in the Ocean, which is the most substantive published argument by a credentialed senior government official for treating Unidentified Submerged Objects (USOs) as a national research priority.
| Role | Rear Admiral, US Navy (Retired); former Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere; former NOAA Administrator; UAP disclosure advocate |
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Public Statements on Non-Human Intelligence
In a widely circulated NewsNation interview with investigative journalist Ross Coulthart, Gallaudet stated directly that non-human intelligence is visiting Earth. His exact words, as cited by UAP Gerb: "We're being visited by non-human intelligence with technology we really don't understand, and with intentions we don't understand it all either." When Coulthart pressed him on whether he was categorically stating that NHI is real, Gallaudet confirmed: "Absolutely. I think it's about time that we do disclose that we are in contact with non-human intelligence."
These statements are notable for their specificity and for the seniority of the speaker. Gallaudet framed his perspective as that of a marine scientist of three decades' standing who was "mystified" that more ocean scientists were not intellectually curious about what he called "the story of the century."
SOL Foundation Participation and Removed Footage
In November 2023, Gallaudet participated in a panel at the Sol Foundation's symposium held at the Nolan Laboratory of Stanford School of Medicine. During his participation he described receiving the GIMBAL and GOFAST UAP videos — the two of the three officially released Pentagon UAP videos — and having them subsequently and inexplicably removed from his inbox. He also commented on anomalous ocean activity in the Southern California region that appeared on satellite imagery and was later removed from Google Earth, suggesting active suppression of publicly accessible data relevant to USO activity.
2024 White Paper: Beneath the Surface
Gallaudet's 2024 white paper, published through the Sol Foundation, presents a formal scientific and policy argument for treating USO investigation as a national research priority. Its key arguments include:
- Institutional failure: AARO's Historical Report Volume 1 makes zero references to any USO case or maritime whistleblower account, a gap Gallaudet characterizes as a significant failure of official UAP reporting.
- Documented cases: The paper cites the 2004 Nimitz Tic Tac encounter, in which the UAP hovered over churning ocean water suggesting a submerged counterpart; the 2013 Aguadilla, Puerto Rico incident, in which a thermal camera documented an object entering and exiting the Atlantic at 95 mph without deceleration; and the 1960 Shelburne Harbor, Nova Scotia case, in which Royal Canadian Navy divers reportedly observed two disc-shaped craft on the seabed and occupants repairing one of them.
- Scientific stakes: Gallaudet argues that the confirmed existence of trans-medium vehicles — craft operating seamlessly across air and water — would require advances in engineering, materials science, and physics "beyond the state-of-the-art," and that the resulting knowledge could transform transportation, energy, agriculture, computing, manufacturing, space travel, and defense. In his words, this could "make those of the Scientific Revolution in the 17th and 18th centuries look like baby steps."
- Security threat: The paper frames the DoD's "concerning non-reaction" to unidentified objects entering US water space as a maritime security failure independent of any scientific questions about the objects' origin.
- Diversity of forms: Gallaudet draws from a body of literature to characterize USOs as appearing in multiple forms — luminous orbs, silver and grey discs, triangular and cigar-shaped objects, and large lighted craft observed beneath the sea surface without emerging.
The paper concludes that study of UAP within the ocean environment should be elevated to national research priorities, and calls for action to uncover the "unknown unknowns" associated with USO phenomena.
Significance
Gallaudet represents a convergence of institutional credibility and substantive UAP disclosure unusual in the US government context. Unlike many UAP witnesses or advocates, he holds a scientific background directly relevant to the phenomena he describes — oceanography — and served in a senior executive branch role overseeing ocean observation infrastructure. His willingness to make unambiguous public statements about NHI, combined with a formal published white paper supporting his position, makes him the most authoritative single figure in the USO subfield of UAP research as of 2024.