An Air Force veteran and former intelligence officer has come forward alleging that classified information about the government’s possession of nonhuman craft is being illegally withheld from Congress.
David Grusch, 36, was a decorated combat officer in Afghanistan and is a former intelligence officer with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) and the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO).
Grusch first told his story to investigative journalists Leslie Kean and Ralph Blumenthal, who published the story in the science and technology outlet The Debrief on June 5. NewsNation aired an interview with Grusch later that evening.
Grusch, who has handed over classified information on the craft to Congress and the Intelligence Community Inspector General (ICIG), said he’s filed a complaint alleging that he’s suffered from retaliation since becoming a whistleblower.
Kean and Blumenthal, who have both researched and conducted numerous interviews on the topic, said what Grusch reported corroborates the testimonies of other intelligence officials they’ve interviewed.
According to Kean and Blumenthal, Grusch served as the NRO’s representative to the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force from 2019 to 2021, and from 2021 to 2022, he was a co-lead for Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) analysis for the NGA and its representative to the task force.
The task force—which fell under the Department of the Navy’s Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security—has been restructured and renamed the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office to include investigating underwater phenomena.
‘Broad Crash Retrieval Program’
Grusch told investigative journalist Ross Coulthart on NewsNation that the UAP Task Force was refused access to a “broad crash retrieval program.”
“These are retrieving nonhuman origin technical vehicles—call it spacecraft if you will—nonhuman, exotic origin vehicles that have either landed or crashed,” he said.
In response to Coulthart’s question asking if the government had spacecraft from another species and how many, Grusch said, “We do. Quite a number.”
