Category: Culture

In relating an interesting story, The Debrief reports:

A former intelligence official turned whistleblower has given Congress and the Intelligence Community Inspector General extensive classified information about deeply covert programs that he says possess retrieved intact and partially intact craft of non-human origin.

The information, he says, has been illegally withheld from Congress, and he filed a complaint alleging that he suffered illegal retaliation for his confidential disclosures, reported here for the first time.

Other intelligence officials, both active and retired, with knowledge of these programs through their work in various agencies, have independently provided similar, corroborating information, both on and off the record.

There have been a large number of alleged UFO whistleblowers over the years, including many who were kooks and frauds. However, the whistleblower in this case has notable credentials.

His name is David Grusch, and he served as the National Reconnaissance Office’s representative to the Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon Task Force from 2019-2021. Afterward he served as the Nation Geospatial-Intelligence Agency’s co-lead for Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena analysis and its representative to the task force.

What he’s blowing the whistle on are reports that—in addition to the publicly known government UFO (or “UAP”) study groups that Congress has authorized—there are classified programs squirreled away in different agencies, that they have been operating without proper congressional oversight, and that they have been withholding information from Congress.

He says these programs include one dedicated to retrieving alleged offworld technologies, including materials from UFO crashes and landings. This program is said to be part of an 80-year-old Cold War to retrieve and reverse engineer such materials by the United States and near-peer competitor nations (think: Russia and China).

Most strikingly, Grusch claims that we have an intact UFO that was apparently abandoned at an undisclosed location.

In June of 2021, Grusch filed a complaint with the Department of Defense’s Inspector General about the withholding of information from Congress, and he says that afterward he experienced months of reprisals and retaliation—contrary to U.S. whistleblower protection policies.

He thus issued a new complaint, and in July 2022 the Intelligence Community Inspector General determined that this complaint was “credible and urgent.” The investigation into his reported mistreatment is ongoing.

What are we to make of all this? How credible is Grusch, and does someone in the U.S. government really have offworld tech?

Grusch has better credentials than many previous whistleblowers.  He not only worked for the Defense Department, he worked for the part of the defense department that deals with UFOs, and it’s plausible he may have learned about programs in other agencies that are hiding from Congressional oversight.

Also, as The Debrief reports, several highly placed officials who also worked for the UFO program have vouched for him, said he’s reliable, and/or confirmed parts of his story.

Finally, Grusch signed his complaint under penalty of perjury, so he’s got legal exposure if he’s lying.

All of this is in favor of Grusch’s credibility, but it doesn’t prove that he’s right. Only time and further disclosures will reveal that.

However, at least part of what he’s said is true. The U.S. does have materials that are alleged to have come from alien tech, and there have been recent studies of them that suggest that some of them have unusual properties. I’ve talked about that before.

What’s most striking is Grusch’s claim that we have an intact UFO that aliens abandoned for some reason. I’d love to know more about that claim and be able to investigate it.

However, it isn’t clear how much Grusch knows about it. Based on the reporting, it would appear that he has heard that the covert material retrieval program he’s blowing the whistle on has the craft, but he may not have seen it himself.

Consequently, he may simply be misinformed—which is par for the course in this area. Lots of UFO whistleblowers make dramatic claims based on what they’ve been told, only for it to turn out that the claim can’t be backed up.

Then there’s another possibility for what could be going on: Somebody could be conducting a psychological operation (psy-op).

During the Cold War, both the U.S. and the USSR played mind games with each other, and these included UFO reports. Sometimes, UFO claims were used to distract people from classified weapons and spy tech we were developing.

In 1987, a series of documents known as the Majestic 12 papers began to be published. These were allegedly internal memoranda and other documents that had been part of a UFO study program dating back to the Truman administration, and they revealed that the U.S. had a crashed UFO, and alien tech, and was in contact with aliens.

One of the individuals involved in the ensuing Majestic 12 affair was an Air Force intelligence officer named Richard Doty.

Doty had previously been involved with New Mexico businessman Paul Bennewitz, who believed he had uncovered an alien invasion at Kirtland Air Force Base. Doty confirmed Bennewitz’s fears, but Richard Doty is—in my opinion—a lying liar who lies. He has admitted that he was running a disinformation op on Bennewitz to divert him an actual classified program the businessman had stumbled onto.

Then Doty shows up in the middle of the Majestic 12 affair, which began at the end of the Cold War, when the Soviet bloc—and eventually the Soviet Union itself—fell apart. The Majestic 12 documents were exposed as frauds, and one of the motives may have been to fake out the Soviets and give them reason for pause. In their delicate situation, they might not act too aggressively if they thought the U.S. had alien tech and alien allies.

Now—36 years later—Russia is at war with Ukraine, Putin has been nuclear saber-rattling, and suddenly government sources are indicating that the U.S. has an intact UFO that we’ve been reverse engineering?

This could be another psychological operation. Someone might be using Grusch in a new attempt to fake out Russia—or Grusch might be an active part of the psy-op—or Grush might be innocently mistaken based on what he’s been told—or he might be absolutely right.

Only time will tell.