His hearing will again give food for thought to believers in extraterrestrial life. Before a commission of the American Congress and under oath, David Charles Grusch, “whistleblower”, assured Wednesday July 26 to be “absolutely” convinced that the United States is currently in possession of a UFO. “As part of my duties, I learned that there was a program (…) aimed at recovering the remains of an unidentified device and analyzing it,” he said. “This testimony is based on information given to me by individuals with a known track record of legitimacy and service to this country and many have shared compelling evidence with me, in the form of photographs, official documents and of oral testimonies covered by secrecy”, he continued, before this committee of the House of Representatives focusing on national security issues.
The 36-year-old man with a muscular physique, wearing a shirt buttoned up to the collar at each of his public appearances, had already made international media headlines last June for claiming – three days after the publication of ‘a report from the Pentagon confirming the existence of more than a hundred unexplained aerial phenomena over the past twenty years – that the US government was conducting experiments on fragments of “non-human” aircraft, “intact and partially intact” in view of their “radiological signature”. The technology found would be skilfully analyzed so that it could be reproduced for decades.
These remarks would quickly be demolished, qualified as conspiratorial, if they did not come from a veteran of the American army. Colonel decorated during the war in Afghanistan, David Grusch served in the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA) for 14 years, under the aegis of the United States Department of Defense. Between 2019 and 2021, he was assigned to a team responsible for investigating UFOs, before being appointed co-head of the Agency for the analysis of “unidentified aerial phenomena”, as the American authorities officially call them. Until July 2022, he says he consulted images captured by American air pilots, on which objects with “unknown characteristics” would be visible.
David Charles Grusch left the US Department of Defense last April, a few days after submitting the information he intended to reveal to Congress, according to the American media The Debrief. The ministry thus validated, after an official procedure, the documents selected by David Grusch, so that they are revealed publicly.
Shortly before his departure from the institution, he would have received death threats in order to silence him. This is what would have prompted him to adopt the status of “whistleblower”, so as not to remain anonymous. “It’s easy to quietly attack someone who doesn’t have public support. There is of course a risk in becoming a public person, but it’s worth it: the American people can push their elected representatives and the president to obtain answers, ”he told our colleagues from Le Parisien.
Seeming to have taken on a mission, he never ceased, in each of his speeches, to show his great respect for the institutions, preventing himself from revealing any classified data. “I cannot discuss information that is still classified,” he regularly punctuates during his hearing before Congress. “I am still bound by my confidentiality agreement,” he explains in an interview.
Still, the career soldier thinks big. He wants to be a “thought leader” on the subject of UFOs. He even plans to launch a non-profit foundation this year, to “help the scientific community to start protocols. This would make it possible to look at these things scientifically”. An ambition that may seem excessive, but which would hardly surprise a recently retired American army colonel. According to Karl E. Nell, and according to comments reported by The Debrief, the profile of David Grusch until his departure from the Ministry of Defense would have been “without reproach”.
