A former intelligence officer-turned-whistleblower told Congress Wednesday that top government officials have hidden a top-secret program to find and study alien UFOs — and that he fears for his life for choosing to speak out.
“I’ve suffered retaliation for my decision, but I am hopeful that my actions will ultimately lead to a positive outcome of increased transparency,” Air Force Maj. David Grusch told the House Oversight Committee Wednesday.
Grusch claimed that a highly secret program exists to retrieve and reverse-engineer extraterrestrial unidentified flying objects — and that Congress has never been briefed on its operations, or even knew of its existence. The former officer was working at the satellite-focused National Reconnaissance Office, or NRO, on a task force created in 2019 to study unmanned aerial phenomenon or UAPs.
“I’m speaking to the facts as I’ve been told them,” Grusch said. “I was informed in the course of my officials duties of a multi-decade UAP crash retrieval and reverse engineering program, to which I was denied access.”
The retired airman’s testimony in front of Congress will likely to inflame suspicion among the growing proportion of Americans who have little trust in government, especially when fascination with extraterrestrial objects is on the rise. In a 2021 Gallup poll, more than 40% of respondents blamed alien spacecraft for at least some of the unidentified incidents in recent years.
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