Former Intelligence Officer Claims US Government Suppressing Evidence of Extraterrestrial Vehicles
During a congressional committee hearing on Wednesday, a former US intelligence officer claimed that there is evidence suggesting that we are not alone in the universe, and further alleged that American authorities are actively concealing this information.
David Grusch testified that he “absolutely” believes the government is in possession of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena, or UAPs – which have replaced the term UFO in official parlance – as well as the remains of their non-human operators.
“During my official duties, I was briefed on the multi-decade UAP accident retrieval and reverse engineering program,” Grusch said.
“Based on the information I gathered, I made the decision to report this information to my superiors and several inspectors general, and I actually became a whistleblower,” he said.
Asked for details during the hearing, Grusch repeatedly said he could not comment publicly because the information is classified.
He said that the U.S. government is hiding UAP information not only from the public but from Congress, and that he personally interviewed people with direct knowledge of the non-human craft.
“My testimony is based on information given to me by individuals with long experience of legitimacy and service to this country — many of whom also shared compelling evidence in the form of photographs, official documents and classified oral testimony,” Grusch told lawmakers.
U.S. Rep. Tim Burchett supported the idea that the government is withholding information, saying at the opening of the hearing — which also included testimony from two former Navy officers who said they had seen UAPs — that “we’re going to blow the lid off.”
– “We have no answers” –
“This is a question of government transparency. We cannot trust a government that does not trust its people,” he said.
When asked if there could be life beyond Earth, National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said he had no opinion one way or the other.
“We believe pilots – Navy and Air Force – have mentioned and reported unexplained aerial phenomena,” he said, adding: “We don’t have answers as to what these phenomena are.”
The head of the Pentagon office established to identify UAPs that pose potential threats also told lawmakers earlier this year that it had detected no signs of alien activity.
The all-domain Anomaly Resolution Office “has so far found no credible evidence of extraterrestrial activity, extraterrestrial technology, or objects that defy the known laws of physics,” Sean Kirkpatrick testified in April.
However, the U.S. government has begun to take the UAP problem more seriously in recent years.
NASA held its first public UAP meeting in May, calling for a more rigorous scientific approach to unraveling the origins of hundreds of mysterious observations.
The Pentagon also began paying more attention to the subject after unexplained sightings by pilots in the US Navy and Air Force.
A key concern was that the findings could be related to an unknown aerial surveillance technology used by China to gather intelligence on US defenses.
