An Air Force veteran and former intelligence official has claimed the US government has been collecting intact extraterrestrial craft for decades as part of a UFO retrieval program it has allegedly been trying to keep secret.
David Charles Grusch, 36, told NewsNation he recently turned over “proof” of the alleged covert program to Congress and the Inspector General of the Intelligence Community as part of a whistleblower complaint.
“These are retrieving non-human origin technical vehicles, call it spacecraft if you will, non-human exotic origin vehicles that have either landed or crashed,” Grusch said Monday of the so-called secret program’s alleged activities.
He also wildly suggested that more than just vehicles were found in some cases.
“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,” he alleged.
“We’re definitely not alone,” Grusch continued. “The data points, quite empirically that we’re not alone.”
Grusch — who once worked on the government’s Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) task force — didn’t offer up any evidence to back up his claims, which were first reported on by science site, The Debrief, earlier Monday.
He did confess that he hadn’t actually seen photos of the alleged extraterrestrial craft himself, but had spoken at length with intelligence officials who had allegedly come forward to him.
“I thought it was totally nuts and I thought at first I was being deceived, it was a ruse,” Grusch said of the alleged program.
“People started to confide in me. Approach me. I have plenty of senior, former, intelligence officers that came to me, many of which I knew almost my whole career, that confided in me that they were part of a program.”
A Department of Defense spokeswoman, however, appeared to shoot down Grusch’s allegations, telling The Post that the All Domain Anomaly Resolution Office — formerly the UAP task force — “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.”
The statement continued: “AARO is committed to following the data and its investigation wherever it leads. AARO, working with the Office of the General Counsel and the Air Force Office of Special Investigations, has established a safe and secure process for individuals to come forward with information to aid AARO in its congressionally-mandated historical review.
“AARO welcomes the opportunity to speak with any former or current government employee or contractor who believes they have information relevant to the historical review.”
AARO director, Sean Kirkpatrick, revealed at a public NASA meeting late last month that only a tiny fraction of the hundreds of UFO sightings reported over the past three decades are actually unexplainable.
Of the 800 sightings reported to the Department of Defense over the past 27 years, just 2 to 5% were “possibly really anomalous.”
The 16-member group of scientists and independent experts had met in Washington, DC last month for “final deliberations” before releasing a report detailing the findings of its nine-month UFO investigation, which is slated to be published in July.