UFO whistleblower former US Air Force intelligence officer Retired Maj. David Grusch , who claimed that the US government is secretly holding alien spacecraft, gave evidence to the Congress on Wednesday.
Grusch said that the US is concealing a longstanding program that retrieves and reverse engineers unidentified flying objects.
Grusch also said he was asked in 2019 by the head of a government task force on UAPs (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena) to identify all highly classified programs relating to the task force’s mission.
“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,” he said.
Grusch’s highly anticipated testimony before a House Oversight subcommittee was Congress’ latest foray into the world of UAPs — or “unidentified aerial phenomena,” which is the official term the US government uses instead of UFOs.
Asked whether the US government had information about extraterrestrial life, Grusch said the US likely has been aware of “non-human” activity since the 1930s.
Grusch told the Congress subcommittee that he became a government whistleblower after his discovery and has faced retaliation for coming forward. He declined to be more specific about the retaliatory tactics, citing an ongoing investigation.
“It was very brutal and very unfortunate, some of the tactics they used to hurt me both professionally and personally,” he said.
Rep. Glenn Grothman chaired the panel’s hearing and joked to a packed audience, “Welcome to the most exciting subcommittee in Congress this week.”
But members of both parties asked Grusch about his study of UFOs and the consequences he faced. Grusch agreed upon providing the list of witnesses to the US secret program as an evidence to the Congress subcommittee.
Pentagon officials in December said they had received several hundreds of new reports since launching a renewed effort to investigate reports of UFOs.
