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Safe Aerospace Podcast
by Ryan Graves
What are pilots really seeing in our skies, and why aren't we talking about it? The Safe Aerospace Podcast brings together military aviators, commercial pilots, air traffic controllers, aerospace professionals, and policymakers to tackle one of aviation's most pressing and least discussed challenges: UAP (unidentified aerial phenomena) in controlled airspace. Hosted by Former F/A-18 pilot, Ryan Graves from Americans for Safe Aerospace, the podcast goes beyond the headlines to explore what UAP encounters mean for flight safety, national security, and the future of airspace transparency. Each…
Episodes
Scientist: What 112 UAP Videos Can't Tell Us | Ravi Kopparapu
29 Oct 2026 · 1 h 22
What can 112 released UAP videos actually tell us? NASA Goddard planetary scientist Ravi Kopparapu joins me to explain what he and Jacob Haqq-Misra could measure in the PURSUE videos, where the evidence runs out, and what better data would make possible. We examine three clips and discuss why an…
Navy Chief Watched a Triangle Hover Over a Cruiser, Then a Ship Fired a Missile | Ricky Harris
22 Oct 2026 · 1 h 23
A shining black triangle, bigger than a warship, hanging motionless over a moving cruiser. Red, blue, and green lights at its corners. Then, in an instant, it was eight miles away. Ricky Harris spent decades in and around naval aviation, first as a Navy avionics technician aboard EC-130 TACAMO…
Test Pilot Watched a 300-Foot Black Triangle Blot Out the Stars Over Edwards | Dan Isbell Part 2
15 Oct 2026 · 47 min
Stars winking out in the shape of a giant triangle. A beam of light that found him alone at his hot tub, with no source in sight. A sphere of plasma that stopped behind his house. And a veteran journalist’s warning: they’re tracking you. In this part two of a two-part series, and the conclusion of…
Air Force Test Pilot Saw a Silent Triangular Craft Over an English Golf Course | Dan Isbell Part 1 of 2
8 Oct 2026 · 1 h 42
A red Corvette alone on a dark English road. Strange lights closing fast in the rearview mirror, then stopping dead. A silent, color-shifting craft hovering just above a golf course. Dan Isbell spent his career at the leading edge of American airpower. He went straight into the left seat of the…
Black Triangles, Pilot Reports & the Search for UAP Evidence | JMill & Ryan Graves
1 Oct 2026 · 1 h 13
What are pilots reporting, and how do we turn those accounts into evidence we can study? I sit down with Jonathan Miller, known as JMill, to discuss his work on sensemaking and MIT's Confronting Unknowns program. We explore how researchers can study ambiguous data, separate signal from noise, and…
SpaceShipOne Astronaut Saw a Dozen Glowing Spheres in His Backyard | Kevin Curran & Matt Stinemetze
24 Sept 2026 · 58 min
A crashed spaceship. A career left in doubt. And six days later, a backyard full of light he couldn't explain. Brian Binnie was the second person to fly a private spacecraft to the edge of space — a Navy veteran with 33 combat missions, advanced degrees from Brown and Princeton, and the test pilot…
“That's No Balloon!”: F-18 Pilot Reconsiders His UAP Encounter | Austin Hulbert
11 Sept 2026 · 60 min
Three passes. A persistent radar contact. A brief glimpse of something silvery off the wing. Former Navy F-18 pilot Austin Hulbert and his weapons systems officer called it a balloon and moved on. Years later, Austin started building stratospheric balloons for the military. That explanation no…
Former DISA Contractor Saw a UAP Live on an MQ-9 Feed Over East Asia | Kevin Campbell
3 Sept 2026 · 50 min
What did a defense network engineer see while monitoring U.S. military drone feeds over the waters of East Asia? I sit down with former Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) contractor Kevin Campbell, who supported satellite communications and monitored MQ-9 feeds from Hill Air Force Base.…
Intel Officers Saw a Massive Craft Over Cheyenne Mountain Complex | Caison Best
20 Aug 2026 · 1 h 17
What really happened over Cheyenne Mountain in February 2022? Ryan Graves sits down with former Army intelligence officer Caison Best, whose own unexplained broad-daylight sighting of a massive craft led him on a journey through the military and federal intelligence apparatus. After attempting to…
Phantom NJ Swarms: Uncovering 13,000 UAP Police Records with AI | John Malaska x Ryan Graves
28 Jul 2026 · 1 h 32
What really happened during the 2024 New Jersey drone wave? Ryan Graves sits down with AI researcher John Malaska, whose own unexplained thermal-camera sighting led him to investigate the incidents through public records. After contacting municipalities across New Jersey, John assembled…
"The Size of a 737": Marine Fighter Pilot Benjamin Read on His UAP Near-Miss Over Houston
14 Jul 2026 · 1 h 21
A veteran Marine F-18 Hornet pilot, a commercial airliner climbing out of Houston, and an object "the size of a 737" hovering motionless between cloud layers — with air traffic control confirming an uncorrelated target that had been "popping on and off the scope all day." In this episode of the…
Inside the Radar Room: 26-Year Air Traffic Controller Jason Judy on UAP Sightings, Filtered Radar Data & the Chinese Balloon
10 Jul 2026 · 1 h 15
What do air traffic controllers actually see on their scopes when pilots report unidentified aerial phenomena? In the premiere episode of the Safe Aerospace Podcast, former U.S. Navy F/A-18F pilot Ryan Graves sits down with Jason Judy, a 26-year FAA air traffic controller turned corporate pilot,…