David Charles Grusch, a 36-year-old former combat officer in Afghanistan and Air Force veteran, has come forward with allegations of secret U.S. military programs that have been retrieving craft of "non-human origin" for several decades.
Grusch served as the National Reconnaissance Office's representative to Congress' Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force from 2019-2021 and later served as co-lead of unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) analysis and its representative to the task force at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.
Grusch claims to have filed a whistleblower complaint to Congress, and the Intelligence Community Inspector General (ICIG) on classified information that he insists proves the recoveries of partial fragments through and up to intact vehicles have been made for decades through the present day by the U.S. government, its allies, and defense contractors.
Grusch claims that the recoveries have been determined through analysis to be "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."
He also claims that "we are not talking about prosaic origins or identities" and that "the material includes intact and partially intact vehicles." Grusch alleges that many senior and former intelligence officers, many of whom he knew nearly his whole career, began confiding in him and provided documents and other "proof" that they were part of a secret craft retrieval program that the UAP Task Force "was not read into."
Grusch told The Debrief that unidentified flying object (UFO) "legacy programs" have long been concealed within "multiple agencies nesting UAP activities in conventional secret access programs without appropriate reporting to various oversight authorities."
He said he sounded the alarm to Congress on the existence of a decades-long "publicly unknown Cold War for recovered and exploited physical material a competition with near-peer adversaries over the years to identify UAP crashes/landings and retrieve the material for exploitation/reverse engineering to garner asymmetric national defense advantages."
Grusch recognizes the personal and professional risks of speaking out publicly, stating that a sophisticated disinformation campaign targeting the U.S. populace is highly unethical and immoral. He began providing hours of recorded, classified information transcribed into hundreds of pages, including specific data about the materials-recovery program, to Congress starting in 2022. Several current members of the recovery program have since spoken to the Inspector General's office, corroborating information in Grusch's complaint.
Karl Nell, a retired Army Colonel who worked with Grusch on the UAP Task Force, told The Debrief that "his assertion concerning the existence of a terrestrial arms race occurring sub-rosa over the past eighty years focused on reverse engineering technologies of unknown origin is fundamentally correct, as is the indisputable realization that at least some of these technologies of unknown origin derive from non-human intelligence."
While specific data, such as the locations of recoveries and program names, remain classified, and no physical materials have been provided to Congress, Grusch's allegations have sparked interest and concern among lawmakers and the public. The Pentagon cleared Grusch's intended on-the-record statements for open publication in April, just days before Grusch left the government.
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