David Grusch UFO whistleblower claims

In 2023, David Grusch, a United States Air Force (USAF) officer and former intelligence official, was interviewed by journalists and testified in a U.S. House of Representatives hearing. Grusch claimed that the U.S. federal government, in collaboration with private aerospace companies, has highly secretive special access programs involved in the recovery and reverse engineering of "non-human spacecraft" and their dead pilots.

Grusch filed a whistleblower complaint in 2022 to Thomas Monheim, the Inspector General of the Intelligence Community, to support sharing classified information with the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. He also filed a complaint alleging retaliation by his superiors over a similar complaint he made the previous year. Grusch claims to have viewed documents reporting a spacecraft of non-human origin had been recovered by Benito Mussolini's government in 1933 and procured by the U.S. in 1944 or 1945 with the assistance of the Vatican and the Five Eyes alliance. Grusch claims that people have been threatened and killed in order to conceal the program. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) denied the claims, stating that extraterrestrial life had yet to be discovered and that there was no evidence supporting the claims of such a program.

In a testimony given to the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Accountability in July 2023, Grusch repeated several of his claims under oath. Testimonies were also delivered by Ryan Graves, a former U.S. Navy (USN) fighter pilot, and David Fravor, a USN commander, on their experiences with unidentified flying objects (UFOs). Grusch testified that he could not elaborate further publicly due to the laws behind classified information, but offered to provide further details to the committee in a sensitive compartmented information facility (SCIF).