WE ARE not alone – and American authorities are covering up the evidence, a former US intelligence officer told a congressional committee recently.
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.
He refused to comment whether the US
government had “made contact with intelligent extraterrestrials”, or that the
Pentagon had obtained bodies of crashed UAP pilots. But Mr Grusch did tell the congressional
hearing that the US possessed a “very, very large” spacecraft
of unknown origin and that he had personally witnessed “very disturbing
activity” forms of alien technology or beings on humans.
He said the US government is hiding information on UAPs not only
from the public but from Congress, and that he personally interviewed people
with direct knowledge of non-human craft. “My testimony is based on information
I’ve been given by individuals with a longstanding track record of legitimacy
and service to this country – many of whom also shared compelling evidence in
the form of photography, official documentation and classified oral testimony,”
Mr Grusch said.
US Representative Tim Burchett supported the idea that the
government was concealing information, saying at the opening of the hearing –
which also featured testimony from two former Navy officers who said they
witnessed UAPs – that “we’re going to uncover the cover-up.”
“This is an issue of government transparency. We can’t trust a
government that does not trust its people,” he said.
Asked if there may be life beyond
Earth, National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said he does not have a
position on the issue one way or another. “What we believe is that there are
unexplained aerial phenomena that have been cited and reported by pilots – Navy
and Air Force,” he said, adding: “We don’t have the answers about what these
phenomena are.”
The Pentagon has denied Mr Grusch’s
claims of a cover-up. As Mr Grusch made the allegations of alien contact under
oath, he risks facing five years in prison if he is found guilty of perjury.
The head of the Pentagon office that
was set up to identify UAPs that pose a potential threat Sean Kirkpatrick also
told politicians earlier this year that it had not identified signs of alien
activity. He said the he All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office “has found no
credible evidence thus far of extraterrestrial activity, off-world technology,
or objects that defy the known laws of physics”.
The US government has, however begun taking the issue of
UAPs more seriously in recent years.
NASA held its first public
meeting on UAPs in May, calling for a more rigorous scientific
approach to clarify the origin of hundreds of mysterious sightings. The
Pentagon also began paying closer attention to the subject after a slew of
inexplicable sightings from US Navy and Air Force pilots.
The central worry was that the sightings could be of unknown aerial surveillance technology used by China to collect intelligence on US defences. (news.com.au/AFP)








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