Tim Gallaudet

Tim Gallaudet is a retired US Navy rear admiral and oceanographer who served as Oceanographer of the Navy and as acting administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration from 2017 to 2019. Since 2023 he has spoken about the subject in public, saying that in January 2015, while commanding the Navy's meteorology and oceanography command, he received an email with a video of an unidentified object near a carrier group off the east coast, and that the email was recalled the next day. He testified before the House Oversight subcommittee in November 2024.

His career is documented, and the video he describes is consistent with the GoFast footage later released; the recall of the email is his recollection. He argues that unidentified objects in the oceans deserve the same attention as those in the air and that the government has under-reported what it knows. He has not claimed to have seen retrieved material.

The corpus mentions him in an episode on the 2024 hearing but does not interview him. The knowledge base records his testimony as documented and his views on what the government holds as opinion.