As a Navy flag officer, Gallaudet likely has access to information Pines can only speculate about. His credentials are extraordinary: Oceanographer of the Navy, Commander of the Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command, and Acting Administrator of NOAA. If anyone in the Navy knows the truth about underwater or transmedium UAPs, it’s Gallaudet. His background places him in a unique position to understand and contextualize these phenomena.
If you listen closely to Gallaudet he does say:
“I don’t know what they are.”
He does not say:
“I do know what they are but I can’t reveal that because it is covered by National Security.”
I take him at his word.
He does not know what the USOs are.