Whistleblower David Grusch tells Congress: aliens, UFOs real

Aliens are real and the military has been covering it up for decades, according to an Air Force intelligence officer turned whistleblower.

Retired Maj. David Grusch testified in front of Congress on Wednesday in a highly anticipated hearing in which he described a covert program to reverse engineer UFO technology.

U.S. Air Force (Ret.) Maj. David Grusch, testifies before a House Oversight and Accountability subcommittee hearing on UFOs on Wednesday on Capitol Hill. (Nathan Howard/AP)

“I am driven by a commitment to truth and transparency, rooted in our inherent duty to uphold the United States Constitution and protect the American people,” Grusch told a House Oversight subcommittee. “I am asking Congress to hold our Government to this standard and thoroughly investigate these claims.”

In recent years, Congress has decided to take UFOs — officially known as UAPs for “unidentified aerial phenomena” — more seriously, following reports from Navy pilots about scarcely believable flying objects.

Grusch led a UAP investigation task force that was formed in 2019. He was charged with identifying all classified programs related to suspicious flying objects.

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“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,” Grusch testified Wednesday.

U.S. Air Force (Ret.) Maj. David Grusch, is sworn in before a House Oversight and Accountability subcommittee hearing on UFOs on Wednesday on Capitol Hill. (Nathan Howard/AP)

The program dated back as far as the 1930s, according to Grusch. The Pentagon has consistently denied running such an operation.

Defense Department spokeswoman Sue Gough said there was not “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.”

Grusch discussed the program with “individuals with a longstanding track record of legitimacy and service to this country” who provided him classified evidence “in the form of photography, official documentation, and classified oral testimony.”

The decision to blow the whistle ruined Grusch’s career, he told Congress. While leading the task force, he was given “a position of extreme trust in both my military and civilian capacities.” Afterward, he became a pariah.

“I am driven in this duty by a conviction to expose what I viewed as a grave congressional oversight issue and a potential abuse of executive branch authorities,” he said.

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