Timothy Gallaudet

Timothy Cole Gallaudet is an American oceanographer who is a retired Rear Admiral in the United States Navy. Gallaudet previously served as the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere within the U.S. Department of Commerce. In this function, he fulfilled the role of Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere and Acting Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) until February 24, 2019. He was the longest-tenured Acting Administrator of NOAA in the organization's history at the time he was replaced, but was subsequently surpassed by his successor, Neil Jacobs. Currently, he is the CEO of Ocean STL Consulting, LLC., and host of The American Blue Economy Podcast.

Gallaudet has also become prominent in the UFO Community. He claims to have seen footage of Unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) and Unidentified submerged objects (USO) while on active duty in the U.S. Navy, and has corroborated David Grush's whistelblower claims in US Congress, calling for the "de-stigmatization" of the subject across science, the military and the general public, as reported by The Hill and investigative journalist Ross Coulthart for NewsNation. He is listed as a member of the Advisory Board of Americans for Safe Aerospace which describes itself as a "military pilot-led nonprofit organization focused on UAP." He is a research affiliate with the Galileo Project that searches for evidence of extraterrestrial technological artifacts. Gallaudet and astronomer Avi Loeb, head of the Galileo Project, wrote a joint op-ed piece in The Hill calling for philanthropic funding of UAP research in academia and the private sector.