UFO: Whistleblower claims US has intact ‘non-human craft’

David Grusch is an Air Force veteran and former member of the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA) and the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), where he was trusted with some of the government’s most confidential secrets.

The 36-year-old served as the NRO’s representative to the Pentagon’s Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) Task Force, also known as the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), which was recently established to investigate what are typically referred to as “unidentified flying objects” or UFOs.

But now Mr Grusch has provided Congress and the Intelligence Community Inspector General with extensive classified information about covert crash retrieval programs, which he says are in possession of intact and partially intact craft of non-human origin, The Debrief reports.

Mr Grusch claims the information has been illegally withheld from Congress, and his complaint alleges he suffered illegal retaliation for his confidential disclosures, according to the report.

“Grusch said the recoveries of partial fragments through and up to intact vehicles have been made for decades through the present day by the government, its allies, and defense contractors,” journalists Leslie Kean and Ralph Blumenthal, who broke the bombshell “Tic Tac” US Navy UFO story in The New York Times in 2017, wrote for The Debrief.

According to Mr Grusch, analysis had determined that the objects retrieved are “of exotic origin (non-human intelligence, whether extraterrestrial or unknown origin) based on the vehicle morphologies and material science testing and the possession of unique atomic arrangements and radiological signatures”.

In a separate interview with NewsNation, Mr Grusch said the government was “retrieving non-human origin technical vehicles, call it spacecraft if you will … non-human exotic vehicles that have either landed or crashed”.

“I thought it was totally nuts and I thought at first I was being deceived, it was a ruse … [but] people started to confide in me, approach me … [and told me] they were part of a program,” he said.

Mr Grusch said while he hadn’t seen the vehicles himself, he knew of other intelligence officials who had.

His whistleblower complaint can’t be made public due to the highly classified information it contains, which Mr Grusch understands may lead to scepticism.

But he insisted he was speaking the truth and putting himself at great risk to do so. “I am for real,” he said. “I am sitting here at great personal risk and obvious professional risk by talking to you today.”

Extraordinary claims

It comes after release NASA’s first UAP report and public address, which revealed flying metallic orbs were becoming an almost daily sight.

“We see these all over the world, and we see these making very interesting apparent manoeuvres,” AARO director Dr Sean Kirkpatrick said last week.

“While we are still looking at it, I don’t have any more data other than that. Being able to come to some conclusion is going to take time, until we can get better-resolved data on similar objects that we can then do a larger analysis on.”

Since recent upgrades on the government’s UAP reporting system, the Pentagon receives between 50 to 100 sightings of the foreign objects each month.

However only 2-5 per cent of these reports are “really anomalous”, Dr Kirkpatrick said.

“For the few objects that do demonstrate potentially anomalous characteristics, AARO is approaching these cases with the highest level of objectivity and analytical rigour,” he said.

“AARO has shared these cases with the appropriately cleared NASA team members in order to discuss and help recommend potential scientific areas of study that NASA may want to take lead on.”

Astrophysicist David Spergel, chair of the study group, added that for the program to determine whether a report is legitimate, extraordinary evidence is required to prove it.

“To make the claim that we’ve seen something that is evidence of non-human intelligence, it would require extraordinary evidence,” he said.

“And we have not seen that. I think that’s important to make clear.”

‘We’re not alone’

Mr Grusch’s disclosure comes just weeks after Stanford professor Garry Nolan, who has researched UAPs for the US government, made a similar claim about crash retrievals last month.

The pathology professor at Stanford’s School of Medicine, who has published more than 300 research articles and holds 40 US patents, was speaking at the Salt iConnections conference in New York last month during a session titled “The Pentagon, Extraterrestrial Intelligence and Crashed UFOs”.

Moderator Alex Klokus asked Dr Nolan if he believed extraterrestrial intelligence had visited earth.

“I think you can go a step further — it hasn’t just visited, it’s been here a long time and it’s still here,” Dr Nolan replied.

Dr Nolan noted that 12 US Senators had “signed onto a document that basically says we want the information” from Pentagon’s UFO office.

He added there had been the establishment of a “whistleblower program specifically that allows people from within who, I’m going to say this, have been working on the reverse-engineering programs, reverse-engineering of objects, so that they can come in and break their oaths but specifically just to talk to Congress and give that information in classified settings”.

“And the most recent one that happened was just last weekend and it created quite a hornet’s nest in Washington,” he said.

Dr Nolan said he had “personal experience” with “people who, frankly, I know have worked or are working on the reverse-engineering programs”.

“Of downed craft,” he stressed.

“Now the first question that people will ask is, well if they’re so frigging advanced why are they crashing? Because what’s crashing is not actual living things. I use this example a lot — if you wanted to study a tribe of cannibals in the middle of the Amazon, are you going to go yourself and show up in the middle of the tribe and not hopefully become dinner? If you’re an advanced intelligence, you’re not going to put your life and limb at risk by coming here.”

Dr Nolan claimed “mostly what you’re seeing here are either drones or some sort of advanced AI or whatever it is”.

Mr Grusch hopes by blowing the whistle on such information, more insiders will come forward to stop the government from “lying” to the public.

“There is a sophisticated disinformation campaign targeting the US populace which is extremely unethical and immoral,” he told NewsNation.

“We’re definitely not alone. The data points, quite empirically, that we’re not alone.”

— with Jamie Seidel and Frank Chung