(NewsNation) — One of the leading members of Congress trying to get to the bottom of the UFO mystery is unfazed by a recent report about the mental health of one of the biggest whistleblowers on the subject.
“It doesn’t matter,” Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., said of the story. “What matters is the fact that this man served his country and is suffering for it. And now, we’re stigmatizing this further,” Burchett said.
The story, which details how whistleblower David Grusch, an Air Force veteran and intelligence official, was committed to a mental health facility after making a suicidal statement, was published Wednesday. Ken Klippenstein, the reporter who wrote the article, said the records he received about Grusch were not confidential or medical.
“The UFO whistleblower is accusing me of using confidential medical records leaked to me by the intelligence community,” Klippenstein said on X, formerly known as Twitter. “Every part of that is false. I used publicly available police records I obtained under FOIA.”
But investigative journalist Ross Coulthart said Grusch believes someone in the government may have been responsible for releasing his health records to The Intercept in an effort to smear his credibility.
“Somebody told him where to look,” Coulthart says.
Grusch’s claims that the U.S. government has secretly been in possession of nonhuman spacecraft has sparked international attention. On Tuesday, Grusch said in a statement to NewsNation that he learned The Intercept...
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