In June 2023, former NGA and NRO intelligence officer David Grusch publicly claimed the US government operates a secret crash retrieval and reverse-engineering program for vehicles of non-human origin. In July 2023, he testified under oath before Congress that the government possesses 'intact and partially intact' craft of non-human origin and 'non-human biologics' recovered from crash sites. He claimed people had been harmed or killed to maintain secrecy. Grusch was deemed credible by the Intelligence Community Inspector General, who found his complaint 'credible and urgent.' The Pentagon denied his claims, stating it found no verifiable evidence of such programs.
“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. Non-human biologics were recovered from some of these craft.”
What they said vs. what the evidence shows
“AARO 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.”
— Pentagon / AARO (All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office) · Mar 2024
SourceFrom “crazy” to confirmed
The Claim Is Made
This is the moment they called it crazy.
When a career intelligence officer with decades of access to classified material decides to go public, it's worth paying attention. In June 2023, David Grusch, a former official with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and National Reconnaissance Office, did exactly that—publicly claiming the US government has been running a secret crash retrieval and reverse-engineering program for non-human aircraft.
What made Grusch's claim different from decades of UFO speculation wasn't the allegation itself, but his credentials and willingness to stake his reputation on it. Just a month later, in July 2023, Grusch testified under oath before Congress with remarkable specificity: the government possesses "intact and partially intact" craft of non-human origin, along with "non-human biologics" recovered from crash sites. He further claimed that people had been harmed or killed to maintain the program's secrecy.
The establishment response was swift and predictable. The Pentagon flatly denied everything, issuing statements asserting they had found no verifiable evidence of any such program. Official channels closed ranks, treating the testimony as baseless conspiracy theory rather than the sworn statement of a former intelligence officer.
But here's where the narrative complicates. The Intelligence Community Inspector General, the official watchdog tasked with evaluating exactly these kinds of complaints from insiders, found Grusch's allegation "credible and urgent." This wasn't some fringe validator—it was the internal mechanism designed to separate serious claims from noise. The IG's assessment carried weight precisely because these officials are trained to distinguish between paranoia and legitimate institutional concerns.
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The topic of UFO disclosure came up on Real Time with Bill Maher last night. Bill Maher seems convinced that NHI/Aliens are here on Earth - "I think they're here, I'm not shy about it". Rep Luna says members of Congress are receiving briefings on UAP that they are not able to explain.
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@1408270506894188545 — References to UAP whistleblower fears of retaliation for speaking to Congress corroborate David Grusch's testimony about whistleblower intimidation
References to UAP whistleblower fears of retaliation for speaking to Congress corroborate David Grusch's testimony about whistleblower intimidation
What emerged afterward suggested Congress itself was taking the matter seriously in ways the Pentagon wasn't. Representatives including Rep. Luna reported receiving classified briefings on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena that intelligence officials themselves couldn't explain. These weren't theoretical discussions—they were about objects with documented flight characteristics that defied conventional physics. The fact that sitting members of Congress were being briefed on unexplainable phenomena, then publicly acknowledging their confusion, indicated something real was happening at the institutional level, even if not everyone agreed on what it meant.
The documentary evidence—Grusch's testimony transcript, the IG's credibility assessment, congressional statements—creates a peculiar situation. We have a credible witness, an official validation of his credibility, and congressional acknowledgment of unexplainable phenomena. What we don't have is public access to the physical evidence itself, if it exists. The Pentagon's denial doesn't erase the IG's credibility finding; it simply means two parts of the government are saying contradictory things.
This matters because it reveals a fracture in how the government handles information. Either Grusch is lying under oath before Congress while an intelligence watchdog vouches for him—unlikely—or significant information exists within classified channels that the Pentagon is either denying or compartmentalized away from its own public spokespeople. Neither scenario reflects well on institutional transparency.
The Grusch testimony remains officially unresolved, classified in many crucial details, and dismissed by official Pentagon statements. Yet the supporting architecture—the IG credibility assessment, the congressional briefings, the testimony itself—makes this claim harder to simply dismiss than conventional UFO stories. For a public trying to understand what its government actually knows, that gap between official denials and official credibility assessments is precisely where trust erodes.
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This had a 0.6% chance of leaking — someone talked anyway.
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