Unidentified flying objects, or UFOs, are real, alleges a 36-year-old Air Force veteran — and the U.S. government, its allies and defense contractors have been hiding illicit but successful recovery efforts for decades.
David Charles Grusch recently submitted hundreds of pages of classified documents to Congress and the Intelligence Community Inspector General.
The classified material allegedly proves the retrieval of intact and partially intact objects of non-human origin.
Grusch is a decorated former combat officer in Afghanistan who served the National Reconnaissance Office as their representative to Congress' Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force — now called the All Domain Anomaly Resolution Office — from 2019-2021.
He also served as co-lead of UAP analysis for the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency from late 2021 to July 2022 and was its representative to the task force.
The "vehicle morphologies and material science testing and the possession of unique atopic arrangements and radiological signatures" are indicative of their "exotic" nature, he told The Debrief.
Some of the UFOs, which are now officially referred to as unidentified anomalous phenomena, or UAPs, contained the remains of pilots, he said.
Recovery of the spacecraft has been a part of a "publicly unknown Cold War," an "eighty-year arms race," he added.
The practice has become "a competition with near-peer adversaries over the years to identify UAP crashes/landings and retrieve the material for exploitation."
He said many stakeholder nations, including the U.S., have attempted to reverse engineer the craft in the interest of national defense.
Grusch said that the programs were illicitly hidden from Congressional oversight and that he was the target of harassment after launching the investigation.
He began the whistleblowing process, he said, because he felt the public should know about the work being done behind closed doors.
"There is a sophisticated disinformation campaign targeting the U.S. populace, which is extremely unethical and immoral," he told NewsNation.
Hiding the information from the public "further inhibits the world populace to be prepared for an unexpected non-human intelligence contact scenario," he said.
Included in the documents Grusch provided to Congress and the ICIG are reportedly the locations of the programs, in papers seen by The Debrief, though that information remains classified. No physical materials or evidence have yet been provided.
A Department of Defense spokeswoman told the New York Post that the AARO "has not discovered any verifiable information to substantiate claims that any programs regarding the possession or reverse-engineering of extraterrestrial materials have existed in the past or exist currently," however.
