A former intelligence official claims that the United States is in possession of several non-man-made aircraft. According to him, some of the ships are complete, but some have only parts.
The one presented in the media as a leaker By David Grusch according to which the matter has been illegally concealed from Congress for decades.
Grusch’s interviews have been published in the United States by an online publication focusing on science and weapon technology The Debrief and a cable news channel Newsnation. Newsnation programs are not shown in Europe, but it is tweeted excerpts from the interview.
– Empirical data definitely shows that we are not alone, says Grusch, published by Newsnation and a journalist by Ross Coulthart doing in the interview.
Grusch does not publicly present any evidence to support his claims, nor does he claim to have seen any unknown vessels that have ended up in the hands of authorities or companies. Instead, he bases his claims on classified intelligence documents he says he provided to Congress.
According to the debrief, Grusch has worked in the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) and the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) intelligence services. NGA processes geospatial data and NRO operates US intelligence satellites. Both operate under the Ministry of Defense Pentagon.
The Pentagon neither denies nor confirms to
asked the Pentagon for a comment on the veracity of Grusch’s claims. Pentagon spokesman Sue Gough sent a written statement that did not directly answer the question.
According to Gough, the Defense Ministry’s UFO Sightings Office (AARO) has no evidence of extraterrestrial “material” or reverse-engineering of technology, neither now nor in the past.
– AARO is committed to following data and research wherever it leads, Gough writes to in an email.
AARO, i.e. All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, is a unit whose mission is to investigate special anomalies detected anywhere, both in air, water and space.
Gough adds that AARO, together with other authorities, has established a secure method for people to provide information to AARO.
– AARO welcomes the opportunity to speak with any current or former authority or contractor who believes they have relevant information for the historical review, Gough writes.
Gough’s comments therefore only apply to AARO’s investigations, and not to the intelligence organizations under the Pentagon where Grusch has worked. The distinction is important because different organizations and individuals in the defense administration have different access to classified documents.
The whistleblower shared his revelations with Congress
The Debrief writes that it has received confirmation of Grusch’s claims from several current and former employees of the US intelligence community and presents some statements in support of Grusch in its article.
The intelligence community is the entity formed by all the intelligence services of the United States, which is supervised by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, ODNI.
ODNI’s responsibility is to report on UFO sightings made within the defense administration. It has published reports on the subject in Midsummer 2021 and in January of this year.
Grusch is not the first to claim that the United States is covering up not just sightings of unidentified flying objects, but even that the United States has acquired these objects.
Similar claims have generally been considered unfounded conspiracy theories.
However, Grusch’s case differs from the previous ones in that, according to Debrief, he has told the information he received both to the Joint Inspection Agency of the US intelligence community and to the intelligence committees of both houses of the US Congress.
According to Grusch, telling the inspection agency about the cover-up led to retaliation and countermeasures against him. He has submitted a complaint prepared by his lawyer about the events to ODNI.
According to Debrief, after resigning from the post, Grusch has acquired the defense administration in advance written permission to present the claims they made in the interviews. The clearance does not mean that the Pentagon confirms Grusch’s claims, but it means that his public claims do not reveal classified information, so he cannot be accused of divulging military secrets.
Instead, according to Debrief, Grusch has handed over to Congress a large amount of information classified as secret about secret projects that have been going on for decades, under the protection of which, according to him, UFOs have been studied.
Are UFOs near or far?
Recounting Grusch’s claims became possible with a new law protecting whistleblowers. Under the law, whistleblowers can share their findings with Congress and authorities, even if they previously had to make promises of non-disclosure regarding their work.
According to the debrief, Grusch worked between 2019 and 2021 as a representative of the NRO in the UFO research unit known by the acronym UAPTF. Since then, the unit’s name and mission have already been changed twice, and nowadays it is known by the abbreviation AARO.
Director of AARO Sean Kirkpatrick stated the Senate Defense Committee in the public section of the hearing in April that AARO “so far has found no credible evidence of extraterrestrial activity or technology,” although it has not been able to explain all UFO sightings.
Strictly speaking, Grusch does not even claim that the ships that ended up in the possession of the authorities and companies in the United States originated from outside the Earth. However, according to him, they are not human creations.
Grusch’s claims were published at a time when unidentified phenomena have been hotly debated in the United States.
On Saturday, a long-line intelligence specialist Christopher Mellon demanded In Politico magazine authorities to make public any material evidence of UFOs. Mellon has worked, among other things, as deputy assistant minister of defense in charge of intelligence.
Mellon did not want to comment on Grusch’s revelations to .
Last week, on the other hand, the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA kept its history of the first public seminar of UFO sightings and promised a written report on the subject this summer.