Former Intelligence Official Claims U.S. Has Recovered Vehicles of Non-Human Origin

The Debrief published an article by journalists Leslie Kean and Ralph Blumenthal yesterday featuring testimony by former intelligence official David Charles Grusch, 36, in which he claims the U.S. is in possession of “partial fragments through and up to intact vehicles” found to be of non-human origin.

According to the article, Grusch is a decorated former combat officer in Afghanistan, is a veteran of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) and the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) and served as the reconnaissance office’s representative to the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force (UAPTF) from 2019 to 2021. Then, from late 2021 to July 2022, he was the NGA's co-lead for UAP analysis and its representives to the task force.

The UAPTF was later replaced by the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO).

UAP is the current government nomenclature for UFO.

Grusch, who has since turned whistleblower, said that information regarding the recovered craft has been illegally withheld from Congress and he has filed a complaint alleging that he has been the victim of illegal retaliation for his confidential disclosures.

He said that recoveries of materials up to and including intact vehicles have been made for decades—and continue to be made—by the U.S. government, its allies, and defense contractors.

Furthermore, he said, analysis performed on these materials has determined that they are “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."

“We are not talking about prosaic origins or identities,” Grusch said. “The material includes intact and partially intact vehicles.”

He also asserted that 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.”

Grusch said that he reported 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 told Kean and Blumenthal that the craft recovery operations are ongoing at various levels of activity and that he knows the specific individuals, current and former, who are involved.

“Individuals on these UAP programs approached me in my official capacity and disclosed their concerns regarding a multitude of wrongdoings, such as illegal contracting against the Federal Acquisition Regulations and other criminality and the suppression of information across a qualified industrial base and academia,” he said.

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Grusch was supported in his testimony by other former government officials, including Karl E. Nell, a retired Army Colonel and current aerospace executive who was the Army’s liaison for the UAPTF from 2021 to 2022.

Nell worked with Grusch at the UAPTF and characterized him as "beyond reproach."

“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,” Nell said.

Other insiders have also decided to come forward in light of Grusch’s testimony, such as Jonathan Grey, a generational officer of the United States Intelligence Community with a top-secret clearance who currently works for the National Air and Space Intelligence Center (NASIC) with his focus being on the analysis of UAP. Prior to that, he had experience serving Private Aerospace and Department of Defense Special Directive Task Forces.

“The non-human intelligence phenomenon is real. We are not alone,” Grey said. “Retrievals of this kind are not limited to the United States. This is a global phenomenon, and yet a global solution continues to elude us.”

Kean and Blumenthal wrote that the disclosures by Grusch and others "signal a growing determination by some in the government to unravel a colossal enigma with national security implications that has bedeviled the military and tantalized the public going back to World War II and beyond. For many decades, the Air Force carried out a disinformation campaign to discredit reported sightings of unexplained objects. Now, with two public hearings and many classified briefings under its belt, Congress is pressing for answers."

A congressional hearing on UFOs was held last April, just the second of its kind in 50 years, with the last most recent hearing having been held in May of 2022.

In addition, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) held a panel discussion last week to discuss their team's progress in studying UFOs—promising a report to be delivered by the end of July.

As to why he wants the information out there now, Grusch said that it was dangerous for this “eighty-year arms race” to continue in secrecy because it “further inhibits the world populace to be prepared for an unexpected, non-human intelligence contact scenario.”

“I hope this revelation serves as an ontological shock sociologically and provides a generally uniting issue for nations of the world to re-assess their priorities,” Grusch said.