“I was informed, in the course of my official duties, of a multi-decade UAP crash retrieval and reverse-engineering programme,” Grusch said. “I made the decision, based on the data I collected, to report this information to my superiors and multiple inspectors general, and in effect becoming a whistleblower,” he said. Pressed for details, Grusch said he could not comment in a public setting because the information is classified. He said the US government is hiding information on UAPs not only from the public but from Congress, and that he personally interviewed people with direct knowledge of non-human craft.
Asked if there may be life beyond Earth, National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said he does not have a position on the issue one way or another. “What we believe is that there are unexplained aerial phenomena that have been cited and reported by pilots – Navy and Air Force.”