https://www.news.com.au/technology/science/space/we-are-not-alone-ufo-whistleblower-makes-bombshell-alien-claim/news-story/4ae96f83a15ce466f171d10bde72e1caWe are not alone – and American authorities are covering up the evidence, a former US intelligence officer told a congressional committee on Wednesday.
David Grusch, a former National Reconnaissance Officer for the Pentagon’s task force who led analysis of unexplained anomalous phenomena (UAP) – formerly known as UFOs – until 2023, testified that he “absolutely” believes the government is in possession of UAPs as well as remains of their non-human operators.
“I was informed, in the course of my official duties, of a multi-decade UAP crash retrieval and reverse-engineering program to which I was denied access,” Mr Grusch told the House oversight committee in Washington.
“I made the decision, based on the data I collected, to report this information to my superiors and multiple inspectors general, and in effect become a whistleblower.”
He was one of three witnesses that testified before a House Subcommittee on National Security Border and Foreign Affairs hearing titled “Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Implications on National Security, Public Safety and Government Transparency”.
Mr Grusch said he was asked in 2019 by the head of a government task force on UAPs to identify all highly classified programs relating to the task force’s mission. He said his role in the government was to investigate what military, defence and other agencies knew about aliens and alien craft, but he was prevented from accessing secret government UAP programs.
In 2022, Mr Grusch filed a whistleblower complaint and told the hearing he had “suffered retaliation” as a result of doing so, saying his allegations hurt him “professionally and personally”.
He confirmed to the committee that he had knowledge of “people who had been harmed or injured” in the government’s efforts to conceal UAP information.
When pressed for details over the course of the hearing, Mr Grusch repeatedly said he could not comment in a public setting because the information is classified.
