Rishika Aradhya, Pune
The US Congress hearing on Wednesday featuring Whistleblower David Grusch has drawn a lot of public interest because of his allegations that the US government is hiding a long-running program that recovers and decodes unidentified flying objects.
The 36-year-old was once employed by the US Air Force and was a member of the intelligence community. He was a member of the Department of Defense’s Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force. The task force, which was established in August 2020, aims to identify, examine, and record Unidentified Aerial Phenomena that could be dangerous to US national security.
The committee questioned Grusch about his research on UFOs and how they could learn more about the government’s UAP (Unexplained Anomalous Phenomena) activities in a rare instance of agreement between the Republican and Democratic members. The Department of Defense, meanwhile, refuted claims of a cover-up and asserted that there is currently no proof that the suspected UAPs are manufactured by aliens.
David Grusch has asserted previously that the US government possesses evidence of UFOs. He has previously given interviews to a range of media organizations, including News Nation, The Debrief, and the French newspaper Le Parisien. In the latter, he claimed that the US military has informed some intelligence officers of “football field-sized” alien aircraft.
He claimed during the congressional hearing that he had been informed about “a multi-decade UAP crash retrieval and reverse-engineering program,” but that he had been denied access to it. He continued by saying that he had spoken to officials who were aware of aircraft of “non-human” origin from which “biologics” had been collected.
“As I’ve already stated publicly in my News Nation interview, biologics came with some of these recoveries… Non-human and that was the assessment of people with direct knowledge on the program I talked to that are currently still on the program,” he continued.
The Department of Defense refuted claims of a cover-up in a statement. According to a statement from the Defense Department, investigators have not found “any credible information to support allegations that any programs related to the acquisition or reverse engineering of alien materials have been in place in the past, or are currently in place.” The statement did not refer to UFOs that are “not suspected of being alien objects,” according to the Associated Press.