The Pentagon undermined a whistleblower's claim about a secret government program that he said has been recovering crashed UFOs and reverse engineering their technology.

David Charles Grusch, a decorated Air Force veteran, told NewsNation, they are "retrieving non-human origin technical vehicles, call it spacecraft if you will, non-human exotic origin vehicles that have either landed or crashed.

"Well, naturally, when you recover something that’s either landed or crashed … sometimes you encounter dead pilots and believe it or not, as fantastical as that sounds, it’s true," Grusch said.

Susan Gough, a spokesperson for the Department of Defense, told Fox News Digital in an email on Tuesday that there is no "verifiable information to substantiate the claims."

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Gough is the mouthpiece for the Pentagon's All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), a section of the DOD tasked with investigating and identifying Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP), a government-created phrase used instead of UFOs.

"To date, 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," Gough said.

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Gough also said the AARO, working with the Office of the...

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