Can drones explain UFO sighting? | Ryan Graves and Lex Fridman

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Lt. Ryan Graves is a former Navy fighter pilot, who has worked on advanced research and development programs for DARPA, Office of Naval Research, and Air Force Research Labs on topics of multi-agent collaborative autonomy, AI-assisted air-to-air combat, and manned-unmanned teaming technologies. Ryan and people in his squadron detected and engaged with UFOs on multiple occasions, and he has been one of the few people willing to speak publicly about these experiences.
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[@vincebay1798]

The monotone in this conversation is impeccable.

[@alee7275]

😂

[@wa7019]

Imagine being in the best aircraft man has made and you see this stuff...that is the essence of the whole thing.

[@kevinescherle]

I love that he gives the topic of ufos so much space👏🏼

[@carefulcarpenter]

Did you know that "mystery" incites more interest than reality? Yes, people can make up stories in their mind that solves a need within them to feel like they are in control. Why all the stories about disclosure but never any data? Interviews elude to data but never provide any. I provide empirical evidence about a mystery involving the core fabric of reality yet I never receive any serious inquiry by critical thinkers, 8nfluencers, authorities, or curious amatuer scientists. Interesting observation over the years.....

[@carefulcarpenter]

"People bite off on the shiny object." ~~ Ryan Graves

[@teepot4539]

There's a lot to unpack

[@strawberryhangovermo]

Bro why did your dad leave

[@fighterscorner6787]

Great conversation

[@The_Weeezard]

Lex: Can you say the location that we're talking about? Ryan: Off the coast of Virginia Beach *BIG GULP*

[@MadelineBitchIDontLikeYou]

Thank you so much lex OMFG. These clips feed my dopamine receptors so much 😂😂😂

[@danf7411]

I have a friend who writes off every sighting as kids with drones fireworks and free times. I'm sure this has happened but IMHO if the thing in the sky you see doesn't take off faster than anything you've ever seen you haven't seen one.

[@aramsevakian4065]

Love your show. Thank you!

[@cyberpunkcomplex629]

something I have often wondered.

[@raymartin3527]

Sorta like the mechanical rabbit at the dog track. Testing the abilities of our military pilots.

[@Deatomizer]

So much technology and we still don't have a focused coloured video of a proper UFO. Strange isn't?

[@quinyboties]

There is 4k quality of US satellite imagery with occupants seen on board. It’s confirmed by memebers of congress and some members are trying to get it declassified. They stuff the released are shit & is the least compelling data. Search up National Geographic mapping mission. They caught a silver disc shape object while on a mapping mission with a 2 million dollar camera. There are crystal clear images of ufo out there that has been vetted by experts from different fields. Your comment above tells me you haven’t dove deep in this subject and flesh out all the nonsense bs

[@edimbukvarevic90]

Not that strange. They don't want to be recorded.

[@Deatomizer]

@@edimbukvarevic90 that's assuming they not what a recording is.

[@tobisteffen]

How do you shoot a focused video of something, that sits in it‘s own gravitational field? The field is bending the light rays.

[@quinyboties]

@@tobisteffen plus a lot of times they’re fast moving. It’s really hard especially at night time on an iPhone camera

[@farwander3722]

Maybe the physics involved in flight inside gravitational fields within a fluid are more complex than we know. Could it be possible to dodge anomalous forces? Like swimming diagonally against a riptide current. Do elements compounds need gravity to be fluid?

[@fredbrandl880]

The more I think I know about this topic of uap’s the less I actually know. It’s so frustrating!

[@william11724]

There aliens man not drones! They been seeing these things for decades ain't no country have technology like that even till today. And say if they were top secret aircraft? Why on earth are stalking are own military also going around large city's where people can see. It doesn't make sense that it's human.

[@michaelcorcoran3942]

That's the case with every subject in existence

[@b14ker14]

Check out alien scientist

[@christophercollard3284]

What is the difference between the ‘old radar’ and the ‘new radar’?

[@josephsperrazza3082]

Is It Tic Tac or. A Military. TAC TIC.

[@joegarry8983]

Someone please show me a drone that emits a shock wave, that makes a very, very loud high pitched whirring noise, akin to a huge blade rotating at tremendous revs, that is cylindrical and circa sixteen feet in diameter, that is seamless and smooth and spins so fast it it almost a blur, is gun metal bluish black in colour and has a domed top with no protrusions, and I just might admit it was the U.F.O. I saw in broad daylight not more than a few hundred feet straight in front of me on the 19th. MAY of last year at about 4p.m. in the afternoon.

[@Stigmaru]

A lot of people saw glowing orbs in San Diego last month and the Navy claims they were military flares. Well... how do flares stay up in the air for 3 hours and also get spotted by airliners at 40,000 ft altitude

[@Stigmaru]

@Tarik St Patrick were you about to follow up with something?

[@ElectricIguana]

Where did you see it?

[@swasho2939]

That's quite a demand to impress a nobody on KZbin!

[@joegarry8983]

@@Stigmaru Seems there are an awful lot of folk in the U.S. military who do not know the difference between chalk and cheese, I would not give a lot of attention as to what they say or claim.

[@lowbudgetvinylchannel4840]

Awesome video, thanks for sharing!!🤘🤘🍻

[@teepot4539]

Bruh

[@leonagnew895]

Who's drones? Flying next to Navy Warships?

[@brandondetroitfanmichaels4325]

A secret entity

[@haroldt.5175]

Maybe drones from government groups that the “normal” military is not aware.

[@jackmanders7077]

U.S program that tests itself on its own military , would never fire , just wants to see maneuverability and see how well it’s own military is

[@epicapexplays8467]

@@jackmanders7077 that's a good point, but when they end the training and report the incident to their superiors they would've told them that it was US tech, or maybe the US is hiding some advanced tech for for a future big war to stay under estimated.

[@leonagnew895]

@@jackmanders7077 They know the capabilities of their own military. Also, they would be doing this knowing they'd be captured on radar, film and witnessed by pilots. Pretty dumb move.

[@vls3771]

Surprised Lex didn't ask if the submarine crews were training there as well launching hi teck drones .

[@tayzer22]

In a word... Yes.

[@bubbakushii]

The ECETI ranch sightings on KZbin are trippy

[@RaceoneRaceone]

Iink?

[@bubbakushii]

@@RaceoneRaceone type in Eceti

[@mrgreen8238]

stationary relative to the moving boat or stationary relative to the sea?

[@mrgreen8238]

you see, if it's stationary relative to the boat, that means the unidentified object has already gleened information of the boat (has scanned it) and that would definitely be of concern.

[@davidwesley1256]

My sister and I walking home from the store in 1977 age 13 & 11 She said, look a UFO . Above us was 3 lights two bright and one really bright.. I said, no it's a plane, she said No. No blinking lights. I said , maybe it's a helicopter and then realized there was no sound ! None ! I got scared and told her come on let's run the rest of the way home. We ran a block the whole time these three lights seem to be moving with us. As we crossed the street they continued to appear to be moving with us. As we ran into our yard and stopped the lights overhead stopped above us. We both stand there looking up at these lights and the three lights merged to one and it shot to the north west at least 10 times faster then a shooting star. Never made a sound. We both looked at each other in disbelief and she said, I told you !! Our Dad told us not to tell anyone because people might think we were crazy. It was more then a decade until I shared that story with anyone outside your family but from that day I've known UFO's are real. I'm also smart enough to know that the speed that it took off would kill a human. As far as it being a drone is highly unlikely considering this was completely silent. Been keeping an eye out every since and am intrigued by others storied.

[@lufasumafalu5069]

it just a balloon, stop calling everything ufo

[@brianvalley5223]

Definitely a wtf moment.

[@farwander3722]

When sailing you have the hydrodynamics of water and the air.

[@relativerust]

I hope how has him on too!

[@epicapexplays8467]

well said

[@teepot4539]

@@epicapexplays8467 bruh

[@edimbukvarevic90]

Yes, alien drones.

[@oldforestroad]

The only way, is through. You cannot go back.

[@tenacioustravis]

It's advanced military technology that is classified.

[@JohnnyRawks]

Most likely an artifact of the radar system itself. AFAIK only one "sighting" has been reported. The cube in a sphere. Has there been more than the one sighting?

[@franklin519]

There is a video of a cube UFO flying by a planes window

[@josephlebard2061]

If there drones , I want one that can disappear an reappear a thousand miles away in a split second !!!!

[@zebonautsmith1541]

Human nature can explain UFOs

[@donelmore2540]

Neil DeGrass Tyson, I think on Joe Rogan’s podcast, said on these issues, that he was concerned with the calibration of the instruments. He said that, in astronomy, calibration is crucial. He said that some surprising astronomical discoveries were ultimately explained away by tracking down a problem with the movement of the telescope. When they took the problem with the mechanics into account, the discovery wasn’t there.

[@marklatham1414]

This stuff is corroborated with multiple systems and eye witnesses. That argument only goes so far.

[@donelmore2540]

@@marklatham1414 Agreed. I’d like to hear him interviewed again about all the new info.

[@MadelineBitchIDontLikeYou]

This nigga lex so cool 😭, lex.. let’s smoke sometime & chill

[@rheticus5198]

Without confirmation from a camera on a visual sighting of an object, these reports could be due to bad radar software. The lack of any confirmation from the conventional radar does not help. Not that I am a skeptic - there have been plenty of sightings - I just like to see more evidence than this particular case presents.

[@thelastbrobo7826]

Ya, alien drones.

[@chrislecky710]

Is humanity a technologically peaceful species or a technologically hostile species? Are we not too biased to perceive ourselves these day's?

[@Whitetail101]

Who else wants to watch Elon Musk interview this cat next 🔥 🔥 🔥

[@diegocalero296]

Gracias por el show. Pienso que es universo está hecho para la vida, no para el hombre solamente.... Me da la risa ese egocentrismo! Veremos

[@julieta203]

Oh yeah if Drones can the defy the currently know laws of physics.

[@stumpyhobbit2175]

I think they are drones, as the planes that saw the gimble were not armed I heard so a great way to test them. I could be wrong.

[@popelgruner595]

Drones? Maybe but not man made drones. Those things are reported since WW2.

[@stumpyhobbit2175]

@@popelgruner595 perhaps, Foo Fighters seem like ball lighting, these modern ones are launced from submarines IMO.

[@popelgruner595]

@@stumpyhobbit2175 Not only Fu Fighters but flying butane tanks. Those sound a lot like the tic tacs to me.

[@esotericinterests]

Glitch at 9:06 ..???....audio and video give me a post edited funny feeling....some of what Graves says sounds like it should be classified...yes or yes?....just thinking out loud...=)

[@lufasumafalu5069]

it just edited for this clip , no such glitch in the full interview

[@ryustreetfighter8722]

What was the UFO sightings back in the 70's? You saying Travis Walton was abducted for 5 days by a drone in 80's? Hmmm......

[@benhartland4708]

i believe Travis Walton's story almost as much as the Tooth Fairy

[@michaelharvey75]

I fell asleep with my head under the pillow once. .

[@ryustreetfighter8722]

@@benhartland4708I dont believe or disbelieve. Its interesting. Theres more evidence that him and the work crew he was with was telling the truth, than evidence of against it. All of them passed multiple lie detector tests.

[@benhartland4708]

@@michaelharvey75 that's what happened to Travis!

[@benhartland4708]

@@ryustreetfighter8722 so did i for my occupation, it wasn't even hard to do. joe rogan has convinced people that bob lazar and travis are legit, it's amazing!

[@gregorizi]

lex is pore dude which was controlled from beginning. Now we see his glitches

[@johndillon6330]

No

[@RogerM88]

Imagine such an advanced Alien civilization that mastered how to travel throughout Space at Light speeds, just to arrive at Earth to play hide and seek. With a small Spaceship, without space to even carry supplies or propellant. If there are Aliens spoting us, the contact would more certain to be made via signal messages or via robotic probes.

[@ryanh3951]

You’re assuming they use the same propulsion technology as we do. You’re close minded. People have sighted ufos for thousands of years. They don’t use jet fuel lol

[@MMXX444]

Well imagine not knowing what is on the planet. They are most likely camera type things studying our planet.

[@ElectricIguana]

Who says they aren't probes?

[@adamnagel7436]

Do you go around announcing yourself to ants or do you generally just pretend they don't exist when you are out walking around? If they are far more advanced they have no reason to pay us much attention at all. I mean humans spend a lot of time watching animals and try to be unseen and unknown most of the time unless they are hunting them. It really isn't that odd.

[@whyjerrywhy]

i think aliens are already here, living at the bottom of the deepest ocean. what we see on land are probes. I think they know hiding in the ocean is better than hiding in space, our scientist have said getting to know the ocean is harder than getting to know space. Even ancient civilizations have said that the bringer of knowledge and everything they know came from the ocean or that the entity came out the ocean. Even when it comes to resetting earth according to religious scriptures it was by water, they are here among us we are just to blind and too busy to really pay attention. In the UFO hearing that the US had a senator asked about seeing or tracking UFOS in the water and the guy giving the presentation said it was best to leave that for the private hearing meaning there has already been contact or have confirmed their in the water. I also think thats why they are able to maneuver so easy in our atmosphere, also the way people have described them moving was in the vertical plane. bob lazar also said this. They tilt up and then go forward [ kinda like boba fetts ship] now if you look at a boats engine they have to be tilted in the vertical plane compared to any other engine that has be laid flat. They are here and when humans have reached the peak of destroying the world is when were going to see them make contact and possibly reset the world again

[@CuchulainAD]

Drones in ancient Rome and medieval Japan? Yea alien drones lol 🤣

[@murrygondwana7260]

They are just drones. I build and fly them. They use magnets.

[@teepot4539]

Prove it.

[@murrygondwana7260]

@@teepot4539 Just did.

[@firstlast4567]

Lex milking this I love it once again Lex Ryan Bob on Joe Rogan will be the most popular video on KZbin history

[@briankendall65]

#disclosure 💯👽👽👽👽👽🎯👌👾

[@chrischris4181]

can narcotics and attention seeking explain UFO's?

[@AdamMaxx]

I bet you live in a city, huh. One summer night, go out somewhere dark, and star gaze. Here in Eastern Europe, I have seen impossibly fast UFOs, flying much, much higher than aeroplanes, and also moving in non-linear paths which do not conform to my adequate understanding of physics. No drugs, no attention-seeking. Explain?

[@lewisdoherty7621]

A vehicle which violates the laws of physics doesn’t exist. However, what does exist are plasma holograms likely used as decoys which generate infra-red and visible light, and, according to the UAP IN THE UK AIR DEFENCE REGION, plasma can reflect radar (FooFighters). This is the only thing which works within known physics and we have the technology to do which is consistent with what was observed. I saw a commercially available sky projection system over 20 years ago. It looks like something to the pilots, it shows up like something on infra-red and it generates radar returns like a craft, but it is an illusionist trick. Militaries love deception. Navies have a hidden weapons platform - submarines. So the cross structure seen in the water would be a laser array mounted on a submarine at periscope depth. The thing in the water isn’t a spaceship in the water, it is the projection system. The pilots wouldn’t be told before to assure an accurate test and wouldn’t be told afterward because the system would have been classified.

[@jtm0311]

That's a VERY interesting theory!

[@shaycase1834]

So people have been seeing holograms in the sky for centuries?? That is interesting and it makes sense, especially since people have been seeing ufos or uaps as far back as people go back

[@lewisdoherty7621]

@@shaycase1834 I'm addressing the ones the navy pilots saw - the artificially created ones. Someone leaked the video causing the blowup. What has been seen for centuries include optical mirages, naturally occurring plasma caused by lightning - FooFighters, Fulgurite ejecta - plasmaized silicon balls thrown into the air by lightning ground strikes, often referred to as "Ball lightning" and numerous other things. However, it is still possible some are space aliens or inter-dimensional visitors. But there are mundane explinations.

[@SV33381]

Interesting. I haven't thought of this. I like it

[@shaycase1834]

@@lewisdoherty7621 if there are visitors I tend to lean towards interdimentional.

[@michiganrealty]

It’s my DJI drone

[@oregonsbragia]

Sounds like just anomalies in radar system.

[@sandeepsingh-lq4xg]

It's coming.👽👽👽

[@travperk]

Lex Friedman is the same human as the Ukraine president. Zelenski goes by Lex Friedman when in the U.S.

[@Stigmaru]

Don't insult Lex Friedman

[@travperk]

@@Stigmaru its true tho jussta look attem' 😮

[@skyking6333]

It’s very interesting, but I know exactly what happened. It’s never as fantastically, supernaturally, off planet, technology. You must understand the big picture and where they were operating when they encountered this technology. It was simply a test of technology conducted in an approved/ controlled MOA (Military Operations Area) flight testing the new avionics against new technologies with a very limited/ controlled ‘need to know’ group. Only the very highest military commander was ‘read in.’ The Naval Fleet’s assets incl the Air Crews were never at risk by the technology. If any other aircraft were to stray into that AO, the exercise would have been halted until the airspace was cleared. There’s US technology now that would blow your mind. Don’t worry about it. It’s of this world and it’s ‘Made In The USA!’

[@brandondetroitfanmichaels4325]

Nope. They've been here for a very long time. And they're not from this realm.

[@benhartland4708]

when you know, you know

[@jackmanders7077]

Exactly . These things would need to be capable of light of speed travel to even get over here and at the speeds we recorded it would’ve taken thousands of years to get here.. not saying that huge jump we made in the 50’s and 60’s from even discovering flight not that long before is just crazy. Imagine what we have today .. who knows what the government knows

[@carefulcarpenter]

@@brandondetroitfanmichaels4325 Before the pyramids. I asked a question about the Great Pyramid on Lex Clips recently. Only a couple responded. I offered to share technological insights that existed before the Great Pyramid of Egypt was built. I have data that supports a relationship with off world as well as on the globe that correspond to the speed of light value. This technology is pre-material in its nature: non human intelligence. No curiosity? Interesting. What is the world affraid of? 👀🐡🌿🌾

[@lewisdoherty7621]

A vehicle which violates the laws of physics doesn’t exist. However, what does exist are plasma holograms generated by lasers likely used as decoys which generate infra-red and visible light, and, according to the UAP IN THE UK AIR DEFENCE REGION, plasma can reflect radar (the naturally occurring generated by lightning, FooFighters). This is the only thing which works within known physics and we have the technology to do which is consistent with what was observed. I saw a commercially available sky projection system over 20 years ago. I have illustrations on my KZbin site as to what was seen and how such a device was structured. The pilots wouldn’t be told before to assure an accurate test and wouldn’t be told afterward because the system would have been classified.

[@MrJackal43]

Hypersonic drones, that are trans medium (air, water), that can drop 80,000ft to sea level in 1.7 seconds? Lex, I guess you’re not as smart as you think they are. These are not human built machines… why are you asking radar questions? What a waste.

[@evilbetty9204]

First time ever seeing a cross-eyed Airman.

[@jonrussell3905]

This interview is a whole lot of dancing around the subject. It is both impossible to be a natural phenomena or human technology. There is no natural metallic boulders occupying the skies defying gravity. There is no nation that is 100+ years more advanced than the rest. Were smashing particles together in colliders because we have zero understanding how gravity works and where it comes from. There is zero chance a nation has built crafts using gravity technologies let alone even figured it out. That leaves only two possible choices, they are from another star system or another dimension. Period. People need to wake up and face the reality of this.

[@megmc80]

Or a phenomena that we’re not aware of yet. Sun dogs for example are crazy looking. Imagine something else we don’t quite understand. I’m with you but we have to think there could be something we can’t explain that is some kind of natural phenomena.

[@whyjerrywhy]

i think aliens are already here, living at the bottom of the deepest ocean. what we see on land are probes. I think they know hiding in the ocean is better than hiding in space, our scientist have said getting to know the ocean is harder than getting to know space. Even ancient civilizations have said that the bringer of knowledge and everything they know came from the ocean or that the entity came out the ocean. Even when it comes to resetting earth according to religious scriptures it was by water, they are here among us we are just to blind and too busy to really pay attention. In the UFO hearing that the US had a senator asked about seeing or tracking UFOS in the water and the guy giving the presentation said it was best to leave that for the private hearing meaning there has already been contact or have confirmed their in the water. I also think thats why they are able to maneuver so easy in our atmosphere, also the way people have described them moving was in the vertical plane. bob lazar also said this. They tilt up and then go forward [ kinda like boba fetts ship] now if you look at a boats engine they have to be tilted in the vertical plane compared to any other engine that has be laid flat. They are here and when humans have reached the peak of destroying the world is when were going to see them make contact and possibly reset the world again

[@MySamurai77]

A projection, like a laser or a hologram. A trick to deceive enemy attackers.

[@MySamurai77]

@@megmc80 Also possible - light, reflections, lasers, holograms - lots of things can move like they describe.