A former intelligence official turned whistleblower has given Congress and the Intelligence Community Inspector General extensive classified information about deeply covert programs that he says possess retrieved intact and partially intact craft of non-human origin, according to two former New York Times reporters. Via The Debrief:
The information, he says, has been illegally withheld from Congress, and he filed a complaint alleging that he suffered illegal retaliation for his confidential disclosures, reported here for the first time.
Other intelligence officials, both active and retired, with knowledge of these programs through their work in various agencies, have independently provided similar, corroborating information, both on and off the record.
The whistleblower, David Charles Grusch, 36, a decorated former combat officer in Afghanistan, is a veteran of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) and the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO). He served as the reconnaissance office’s representative to the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force from 2019-2021. From late 2021 to July 2022, he was the NGA’s co-lead for UAP analysis and its representative to the task force.
So why didn't this run in the New York Times? According to Vanity Fair:
“To be clear -- the Washington Post did not pass on our story,” Kean wrote on Facebook Monday. “Ralph and I took it to the Debrief because we were under growing pressure to publish it very quickly.” Blumenthal told me that circumstances—including that Grusch’s identity as the whistleblower had leaked out on the internet—pushed them to “publish sooner than we’d hoped.” “If there had been no leaks, it might’ve been different,” Blumenthal said. But “people on the internet were spreading stories, Dave was getting harassing phone calls and we felt the only way to protect him was to get the story out.” When the pair realized the Post “just needed more time and there was no clear sense of when we might finish that process,” they took the story to The Debrief, an outlet that had published the two before and was “willing and able to move quickly,” he said.
Now out in the world, the reporting process is raising even more eyebrows. During interviews on NewsNation with both Grusch and Kean, it became clear that neither had seen photos of the alleged craft. NewsNation’s Brian Entin asked Kean about the lack of receipts: “He has the credentials, but there’s no documents that he’s handed over, there’s no pictures, and as a journalist, you want to see documents; you want to see pictures.” But Kean said the lack of documents or photographs did not raise red flags for her because “all of that information is classified.” She believes it, she said, “because of all the sources I have who have told me the same thing… I don’t think there’s some conspiracy among all these people who don’t know each other to make something like this up.”
To be clear, Grusch is saying that the information has not been shared with the UAP committee required by Congress to investigate and share such information with the public.
And the harassing phone calls are no joke. As I've mentioned, previous government sources have said there is a powerful contingent of Christian fundamentalists in the Pentagon whose members go to extreme lengths to suppress any information that validates extraterrestrials, claiming they are demons and fallen angels.
