Disclosure eventDavid Grusch House Oversight testimony (26 July 2023)

Maj. David Grusch, former AARO co-lead and a 14-year DIA/NRO intelligence officer, testified under oath to the House Oversight Subcommittee that the U.S. government operates a multi-decade non-human-origin craft retrieval and reverse-engineering program.

David Grusch testifying before the US House Subcommittee on National Security, 26 July 2023.Wikipedia Commons · Public domain · U.S. House Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs (screenshot from government website video broadcast) · 2023

The 26 July 2023 House Oversight UAP hearing: David Grusch, Ryan Graves, and David Fravor.Wikipedia Commons · Public domain · U.S. House Committee On Oversight and Accountability · 2023

What's documented

Maj. David Charles Grusch, USAF (ret.), a 14-year intelligence officer with service at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, the National Reconnaissance Office, and AARO (where he was the NRO’s representative from 2019 to 2021), filed a Department of Defense Inspector General complaint in May 2022 alleging that the U.S. government operates an illegal, unappropriated ‘crash retrieval and reverse-engineering’ program. He filed a parallel Intelligence Community Whistleblower Protection Act complaint with the Intelligence Community Inspector General; the ICIG found his complaint ‘urgent and credible.’ Grusch testified under oath before the House Oversight Subcommittee on National Security on 26 July 2023, accompanied by retired Cmdr. David Fravor and former F/A-18F pilot Ryan Graves. He stated that he had been told of recovered non-human biological remains; under oath, with bipartisan questioning from Reps. Tim Burchett (R-TN), Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL), and Jared Moskowitz (D-FL), he confirmed each major claim.

Notable & intriguing

Maj. David Grusch was the National Reconnaissance Office's representative to the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force (the AARO predecessor) from 2019 to 2021; his Intelligence Community Inspector General whistleblower complaint, filed in May 2022, was deemed 'urgent and credible' by ICIG Thomas Monheim.

Letter from ICIG Thomas Monheim, 5 July 2022; David Grusch sworn testimony, House Oversight Subcommittee, 26 July 2023
Under oath on 26 July 2023, Grusch confirmed to Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) that he had been told 'biologics came with some of these recoveries' and that they were 'non-human' — adding that this was 'beyond my [first-hand] knowledge.'

House Oversight Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs hearing transcript, 26 July 2023
Grusch testified under oath that he knew the 'exact locations' of recovered non-human craft and had provided this information in classified briefings to members of Congress and to the Intelligence Community Inspector General.

House Oversight Subcommittee transcript, 26 July 2023, pp. 41–43