Talk of UFOs is taking off.
The U.S. has spent the last several decades attempting to reverse engineer the technology found among the wreckage of crashed UFOs and has recovered “non-human biologics” during its work, a whistleblower told a House committee on Wednesday.
Former U.S. Air Force intelligence officer David Grusch testified alongside two former military pilots during a bipartisan hearing of the Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs, when he told lawmakers that though he has never seen an alien spacecraft in person, he has spoken to dozens of high ranking government officials who have.
Under direct questioning by U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.), Grusch said some of the “remains” of pilots discovered at crash sites were “non-human.”
“That was the assessment of people with direct knowledge on the program I talked to, that are currently still on the program,” Grusch said.
Grusch testified that, while assigned to the National Reconnaissance Office, he was tasked with identifying any government programs dealing with the appearance of unexplained aerial phenomena, or UAPs. During the course of that work, he told Congress, he made a startling discovery that he was then prevented from investigating, despite his high-level security clearance.
“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.
Ryan Graves, a former F-18 pilot, and David Fravor, a retired Navy commander, both also testified regarding their close encounters with UAPs during their time flying military aircraft.
Both men described objects they say flew in a manner that no man-made craft is designed for and performed aerial maneuvers at odds with the laws of physics. Both acknowledged the craft could have been advanced technology operated by the U.S. or another government, but said the flying objects seemed too incredible to be man-made.
“What concerns me is that there is no oversight from our elected officials on anything associated with our government possessing or working on craft that we believe are not from this world. If we in fact have programs that possess this technology, it needs to have oversight from those people that the citizens of this great country elected to office,” Fravor said.
Graves, who after leaving the military founded the organization Americans for Safe Aerospace, a UAP non-profit, claimed that he saw unexplainable flying objects off the Atlantic coast “every day for at least a couple years.”
Despite the somewhat far-out nature of the subject matter at hand, lawmakers seemed inclined to take the matter seriously.
“I take it that you’re arguing that what we need is real transparency and reporting systems so we can get some clarity on what’s going on out there,” U.S. Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) said.
A 2021 report published by the intelligence community showed no evidence that inexplicable aircraft spotted by pilots were extraterrestrial in origin, but also did not deny that such a link could exist.
However, according to the witnesses, encounters with unexplained flying objects are much more likely to go unreported than not, with many pilots fearing their flight status or security clearance could be at jeopardy if they report something unusual after flying.
The Pentagon has denied Grusch’s claims the government is involved in a “multi-decade campaign to disenfranchise public interest” in UFOs and extraterrestrial life.
A spokesperson said they had reviewed military records and did not find “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.”
Herald wire service contributed.