For decades, the channel separating Santa Catalina Island from the Southern California mainland has been a playground for tourists and a training ground for the Navy. But if you ask Rear Admiral Tim Gallaudet (Ret.), it’s something else entirely: a high-traffic zone for transmedium craft and the likely location of a submerged Non-Human Intelligence (NHI) installation.
→ The Admiral Breaks Rank
In late 2025, the disclosure movement shifted its gaze from the skies to the abyss. Rear Admiral Tim Gallaudet, the former Oceanographer of the Navy and head of NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration), has become the tip of the spear in this new front. Unlike the vague bureaucratic language of the AARO reports, Gallaudet has been surgically precise. His white paper for the Sol Foundation, titled Beneath the Surface, didn’t just speculate—it accused.
Gallaudet asserts that the Department of Defense is sitting on a classified “Range Fouler” folder containing sensor data of USOs (Unidentified Submersible Objects) interacting with U.S. nuclear submarines. His claim is stark: these objects are not just visiting; they are operating with impunity in our maritime domain. The Admiral has explicitly stated that we are dealing with a “non-human higher intelligence” that utilizes the oceans not just for concealment, but as a base of operations. The stigma that kept pilots silent is now dissolving for sonar operators and the stories they are telling are terrifying.
→ The “Wedge” Anomaly
The most compelling piece of evidence Gallaudet has brought forward isn’t a grainy video—it’s geology. The Admiral described a specific, anomalous underwater formation in the Southern California Bight, the stretch of water between Catalina and Long Beach. He identified a geological feature at a depth of approximately 700 meters (2,300 feet) that resembles a massive “wedge” cleanly removed from an underwater ridge.
This isn’t natural erosion. The precision suggests large-scale engineering or a kinetic displacement caused by a massive object entering the crust. Independent researchers have correlated this with the “Sycamore Knoll” anomaly, a table-like structure roughly 6 miles off Malibu that appears to have been scrubbed from recent satellite bathymetry data. If Gallaudet is correct, this isn’t just a rock formation—it’s an entrance. The “wedge” acts as a transit corridor for craft capable of transmedium travel, allowing them to move from the vacuum of space to the high-pressure depths of the Pacific without breaking stride.
→ The Tic Tac Connection
To understand why Catalina is the epicenter, we must look back to November 2004. The USS Princeton and USS Nimitz encounter—the famous “Tic Tac” incident—occurred exactly in this operational theater. Before Commander David Fravor engaged the object, the USS Princeton’s radar operators had been tracking these anomalies dropping from 80,000 feet to sea level in seconds for days.
Critically, Fravor reported seeing a disturbance in the water, an area of “whitewater” roughly the size of a Boeing 737—over which the Tic Tac was hovering. The object wasn’t just observing the ocean, it was interacting with something under it. Gallaudet’s theory connects the dots: the Tic Tac was likely rendezvousing with a larger mother-ship or docking at the undersea facility referenced by the wedge anomaly. The “whitewater” was the turbulence caused by a massive submerged object surfacing or submerging.
→ Why the Ocean?
The logic for an undersea base is sound. We have mapped the surface of Mars more comprehensively than our own ocean floors. A civilization seeking to observe humanity while maintaining plausible deniability would find no better sanctuary than the deep trenches of the Pacific. The water provides:
- Kinetic Shielding: Water is an effective barrier against most human directed-energy weapons and kinetic projectiles.
- Sensor Opacity: High-frequency radar cannot penetrate deep water; our primary surveillance grid stops at the surface.
- Resource Access: The seafloor is rich in rare earth minerals and geothermal energy sources.
Admiral Gallaudet’s push for the “UAP Disclosure Act” to include oceanic data is a game-changer. He is demanding that the Navy release the sonar data that correlates with the radar data we already have. When that happens, we won’t just be looking for lights in the sky, we’ll be hunting for cities in the deep.