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The recent hearings by the United States House Oversight Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs revealed nothing new on whether the US has been visited by ET.1<\/sup> Though there were other witnesses at the hearing, former Air Force Major David Grusch provided the \u201cbombshell\u201d testimony and received most of the media attention. Grusch worked for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), the Department of Defense\u2019s intelligence agency responsible for developing and deploying the country\u2019s most sophisticated reconnaissance satellites. In 2019, he participated in the newly organized task force responsible for receiving and analyzing Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP), formerly called Unidentified Aerial or Aerospace Phenomena.2<\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the hearings, Grusch made two outstanding claims, and two lesser, supporting claims. First, he claimed that the US military has been in possession of crashed UAPs for decades and has been trying to reverse engineer them for ostensibly military purposes. Second, he claimed that the US also recovered nonhuman remains of extraterrestrial \u201cbiologics,\u201d presumably extraterrestrial life. Neither of these claims are new or proven, as Hugh Ross, Kenneth Samples, and I document in our book, Lights in the Sky & Little Green <\/em>Men<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Third, he said that because of his previous public comments in June 2023 to NewsNation<\/em>3<\/sup> about these phenomena, he had faced \u201cretaliation.\u201d And fourth, he claimed that he knew of multiple colleagues who were injured by UAP activity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, Grusch\u2019s testimony is fraught with problems. When pressed, he declined to support his claims with any evidence. For the first two claims, he only said that when he was employed to be part of the UAP task force, he became aware of the program of captured UAPs and alien biologics, but was \u201cdenied access\u201d to the actual program. So he only heard<\/em> from someone that such a program existed but he never actually saw or participated in it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When pressed on the two subordinate claims, he offered no evidence of who may have retaliated against him or who the people were that he knew were injured by UAP activity. When pressed further, he told the House members that he didn\u2019t want to provide supporting evidence because he would have to reveal classified information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, for the first two claims, he only heard <\/em>of such a program. Unless he actually witnessed the program or its activities, his testimony is merely hearsay. The last two supporting claims are also problematic, though for different reasons. The Department of Defense Office of the Inspector General has guidelines for whistleblower protections for those who report illegal or improper government activity. It doesn\u2019t appear that Grusch followed those procedures, which would have protected him against retaliation.4<\/sup> Instead, he went public with his unsubstantiated claims in the media. Second, and most importantly, he contradicted himself at the hearings by arguing that he didn\u2019t want to reveal classified information to support his testimony. Yet, publicly discussing a so-called UAP retrieval program that also housed alien \u201cbiologics\u201d would have been, if true, highly classified, which he revealed publicly. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before Grusch\u2019s testimony, Sean M. Kirkpatrick, the first director of the Pentagon\u2019s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), testified\u2014in classified and unclassified settings\u2014to the US Senate Committee on Armed Services. The AARO is the successor to the earlier UAP task force. In his public testimony on April 19, 2023, he declared that \u201cAARO has found no credible evidence thus far of extraterrestrial activity, off-world technology or objects that defy the known laws of physics.\u201d5<\/sup> Congress, or some members of it, would have been in an uproar if Kirkpatrick flatly contradicted himself in a classified setting with his unclassified briefing. The standard way to discuss such controversial matters would have been for Kirkpatrick to avoid publicly saying what he said, but instead to \u201cneither confirm nor deny\u201d such allegations in public, if indeed such a program existed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In fact, a substantial bipartisan group of senators is currently proposing legislation requiring that the government or private parties reveal what they may know of such programs.6<\/sup> In other words, those responsible for oversight of the military and all government programs remain frustrated in the progress of understanding UAPs, mainly because the formation of the AARO and the previous task force has led to more and more UAP sightings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite the media hype, there remains no credible evidence of US involvement with capturing and reverse engineering UAPs or hiding alien bodies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Endnotes<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. For the general contours of the hearing, see Jeffrey Kluger, \u201cWhat We Know\u2014and Don\u2019t Know\u2014about UFOs after the Congressional Hearing<\/a>,\u201d Time<\/em>, July 27, 2023. See also Zamone Perez, \u201cUFO Whistleblower Claims He\u2019s under Threat for Revealing Secret Ops<\/a>,\u201d Military Times<\/em>, July 26, 2023.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. For background discussion on the current situation, see my previous blog posts from 2019 and 2021. Mark Clark, \u201cResponding to UFOs in the News,\u201d<\/a> Voices<\/em> (blog), Reasons to Believe, June 25, 2019; \u201cNew US Government UFO Report: A Christian Perspective<\/a>,\u201d Voices<\/em> (blog), Reasons to Believe, August 12, 2021.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Brian Entin, \u201cMilitary Whistleblower Claims US Has UFO Retrieval Program<\/a>,\u201d NewsNation<\/em>, June 6, 2023.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. Department of Defense Office of Inspector General, \u201cAbout Whistleblower Protection<\/a>,\u201d accessed July 27, 2023.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. Brett Tingley, \u201cPentagon Has \u2018No Credible Evidence\u2019 of Aliens or UFOs That Defy Physics<\/a>,\u201d Space.com<\/em>, April 19, 2023. 6.          Alexander Bolton, \u201cSenators to Offer Amendment to Require Government to Make UFO Records Public<\/a>,\u201d The Hill<\/em>, July 14, 2023.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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