The United States is hiding a decades-old program that retrieves and reverse engineers UFOs, as a former Air Force intelligence official testified before Congress on Wednesday. The Pentagon has denied his claims.
The much-anticipated testimony of retired Maj. David Grusch before a House Oversight subcommittee marks the latest congressional foray into the world of “unidentified aerial phenomena” (UAP), which is the official term the government uses in lieu of Unidentified Flying Object (UFO).
While the study of mysterious flying objects often evokes conversations about aliens and “little green men,” Democrats and Republicans in recent years have pushed for more research as a matter of national security due to concern that sightings observed by pilots may be linked to adversaries of the United States.
Grusch has said he was asked in 2019 by the head of a government task force on UAPs to identify all highly classified programs related to the task force’s mission. At that moment, Grusch was assigned to the National Reconnaissance Officethe agency that operates the country’s spy satellites.
“I was made aware in the course of my official duties of a multi-decade failed UAP reverse engineering and recovery program to which I was denied access,” he said. When asked if the government had any information on extraterrestrial life, Grusch replied that The United States has probably been aware of “non-human” activity since the 1930s.