Safer skies begin
with better answers.

Alex Dietrich served for 20 years as a U.S. Navy officer, flying F/A-18F Super Hornets and teaching leadership and ethics at the U.S. Naval Academy. She was one of the pilots who reported the 2004 Nimitz UAP encounter, bringing firsthand operational experience to the discussion of unexplained aerial observations.

David Fravor commanded the U.S. Navy’s VFA-41 Black Aces, flying F/A-18F Super Hornets from USS Nimitz. A witness to the 2004 Nimitz UAP encounter, he testified before Congress in 2023, bringing a squadron commander’s perspective to questions about military observations and government oversight.

Michael Greene combines experience as a Marine Corps F/A-18D weapons systems officer with defense analysis and systems engineering. His career includes leadership in Navy cyber warfare analysis and technical roles at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, giving him a practical understanding of aircraft operations and complex defense systems.

Sam Fletcher is a retired U.S. Navy commander whose career combined F/A-18F operations with deployments to Iraq, Afghanistan, and East Asia. He also taught government and international relations at the U.S. Naval Academy and advised members of both the House and Senate on military affairs.

Jay Stratton is a former senior executive at the Office of Naval Intelligence with more than three decades of intelligence experience. As the first director of the UAP Task Force, he led an interagency effort to standardize the collection and reporting of unidentified aerial observations.

Christopher Mellon served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and minority staff director of the Senate Intelligence Committee. His nearly two decades in the intelligence community span executive branch policy and congressional oversight, giving him experience on both sides of government accountability.

Tim Gallaudet is a retired U.S. Navy rear admiral and oceanographer who served as acting administrator of NOAA and Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere. He also led the Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command, connecting scientific expertise with operational experience across the maritime environment.

Kirk McConnell spent 37 years on congressional staff, serving the Senate Armed Services Committee and the House and Senate intelligence committees. He participated in UAP investigations and helped draft related legislation, bringing extensive experience in defense oversight and the relationship between Congress and the intelligence community.

Susan McCue served as chief of staff to Senator Harry Reid and as the founding president and CEO of the ONE Campaign. She founded Message Global, building on a career in congressional leadership, strategic communications, and public advocacy in the United States and internationally.

Bryan Bender is a communications executive and former POLITICO defense editor and senior national correspondent. His reporting career also included the Boston Globe and Jane’s Defence Weekly, covering military operations, government secrecy, and national security; he now advises organizations on communications strategy at SMI.

Mike Gold is president of Redwire’s Space business and a former NASA Associate Administrator for Space Policy and Partnerships. His NASA work included leadership on the Artemis Accords and international cooperation, followed by service on the agency’s independent UAP study team.

David Radzanowski served as NASA’s chief financial officer and chief of staff, following work at the Office of Management and Budget and Congressional Research Service. He chairs the board of CASIS, the nonprofit that manages the International Space Station National Laboratory, bringing financial and policy experience to space research.

Robin Hanson is an associate professor of economics at George Mason University whose research examines prediction markets, incentives, and decision-making under uncertainty. With earlier research programming experience at NASA and Lockheed, he brings a perspective that connects economics, technology, and the assessment of competing explanations.

Avi Loeb is Harvard University’s Frank B. Baird Jr. Professor of Science and a former chair of its astronomy department. He leads the Galileo Project and has conducted research on black holes, the early universe, and the scientific search for evidence of extraterrestrial technology.

Garry Nolan holds the Rachford and Carlota A. Harris professorship in pathology at Stanford University. His work in immunology, cancer biology, and technologies for measuring individual cells combines laboratory research with biotechnology entrepreneurship, providing experience in the careful measurement and analysis of complex biological systems.

Ravi Starzl is an adjunct professor at Carnegie Mellon University’s Language Technologies Institute. His work combines machine learning, mathematical modeling, and large-scale data analysis across biological and other complex systems, alongside experience building biotechnology and software ventures and teaching advanced methods for working with data.