Rear Adm. Timothy (Tim) Gallaudet

Positions on the chart (2)

• Navy Oceanographer of the Navy Documented
  Leadership · People Registry
• NOAA Acting / deputy Administrator Documented
  Leadership · People Registry

Registry record

Past roles

Rear Admiral US Navy; Oceanographer of the Navy; Commander Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command; acting/deputy NOAA Administrator; acting Under Secretary/Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere

Credentials

B.S. Oceanography, U.S. Naval Academy (1989); M.S. Oceanography, Scripps (1991); Ph.D. Oceanography, Scripps (2001); marine acoustics; Rear Admiral, USN (Ret.)

UAP involvement

2015 Navy safety-of-flight email and GOFAST video (reported firsthand recipient); 2024 congressional testimony; USO/transmedium research and ocean-as-potential-hiding-place hypothesis (interpretation, not demonstrated fact)

Principal disclosures

Alleges 2015 email disappeared; criticizes AARO response; argues oceans may offer concealed operating environments for UAP; describes reports of transmedium phenomena and naval encounters

Evidence contributed

2015 Navy communication described in sworn testimony; public Go Fast video; 2024 House testimony | V99: NOAA FOIA DOC-NOAA-2024-000220 shows he forwarded the 23 July 2020 NYT UFO story; confirms circulation only (SRC-V99-062).

Knowledge type

Firsthand as email recipient and participant in described AARO meeting; secondhand regarding Mellon satellite account and some naval reports; ocean hiding-place theory is his interpretation

Corroboration

Congressional hearing confirms testimony; public video exists; original email not publicly verified

Assessment

Strong career credentials; testimony documented; object origin and email disappearance explanations unverified

Rank source

People Registry

Last reviewed

2026-10-29

Evidence (10)

• Received Navy safety-of-flight email including Go Fast video Claim unverifiedFirsthand
  E008 · 2015 · Firsthand account of official communication
• Testified before U.S. House UAP hearing Claim unverifiedFirsthand
  E009 · 2024-11-13 · Congressional testimony
• Submitted Connecticut UAP study support testimony CorroboratedFirsthand
  E010 · 2026-03-12 · State legislative testimony
• Gallaudet recalls receiving classified Navy safety-of-flight email with GOFAST video and says email later disappeared UnverifiedFirsthand
  E-GAL-2015 · 2015-01 · Firsthand retrospective testimony
• Gallaudet alleges AARO leadership tried to persuade him to accept its historical account and dismiss cases AllegedFirsthand
  E-GAL-AARO · 2024 · Firsthand meeting account
• Gallaudet relays Mellon account of purported 2017 satellite imagery of a UAP UnverifiedSecondhand
  E-GAL-SAT · 2017 event; 2024 testimony · Secondhand report
• Gallaudet argues oceans may serve as hiding places for UAP and discusses possible transmedium activity Claim unverifiedSecondhand
  E-GAL-OCEAN · 2026 · Expert opinion / hypothesis
• Gallaudet recalls classified Fleet Forces Command safety-of-flight email with F/A-18 video later identified by him as GOFAST ReportedFirsthand
  E-GAL-MEM-2015 · 2015-01; memoir 2026 · Retrospective firsthand witness account
• Gallaudet reports email and video absent the next day; infers SAP-controlled removal UnverifiedFirsthand
  E-GAL-MEM-EMAIL · 2015-01; memoir 2026 · Firsthand observation + interpretive inference
• FOIA-released NOAA email thread shows Gallaudet forwarded a link to the 23 July 2020 NYT story ReportedFirsthand
  E-V99-067 · 2020-07-25 · Government-released correspondence