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We are not alone — and American authorities are covering up the evidence, a former US intelligence officer told a congressional committee on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
David Grusch testified that he “absolutely” believes the government is in possession of unidentified anomalous phenomenon, or UAPs — which has replaced UFO in official parlance — as well as remains of their operators.<\/p>\n
“I was informed, in the course of my official duties, of a multi-decade UAP crash retrieval and reverse-engineering program,” Grusch said.<\/p>\n
“I made the decision, based on the data I collected, to report this information to my superiors and multiple inspectors general, and in effect becoming a whistleblower,” he said.<\/p>\n
Pressed for details in the course of the hearing, Grusch repeatedly said he could not comment in a public setting because the information is classified.<\/p>\n
He said the US government is hiding information on UAPs not only from the public but from Congress, and that he “personally interviewed” people with direct knowledge of non-human craft.<\/p>\n
“My testimony is based on information I’ve been given by individuals with a longstanding track record of legitimacy and service to this country — many of whom also shared compelling evidence in the form of photography, official documentation, and classified oral testimony,” Grusch told lawmakers.<\/p>\n
US Representative Tim Burchett supported the idea that the government was concealing information, saying at the opening of the hearing — which also featured testimony from two former Navy officers who said they witnessed UAPs — that “we’re going to uncover the cover-up.”<\/p>\n
“This is an issue of government transparency. We can’t trust a government that does not trust its people,” he said.<\/p>\n
But the head of the Pentagon office set up to identify UAPs that pose a potential threat told lawmakers earlier this year it had not identified signs of alien activity.<\/p>\n
The All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office “has found no credible evidence thus far of extraterrestrial activity, off-world technology, or objects that defy the known laws of physics,” Sean Kirkpatrick testified in April.<\/p>\n
The US government has however begun taking the issue of UAPs more seriously in recent years.<\/p>\n
NASA held its first public meeting on UAPs in May, calling for a more rigorous scientific approach to clarify the origin of hundreds of mysterious sightings.<\/p>\n
The Pentagon also began paying closer attention after a slew of inexplicable sightings from US Navy and Air Force pilots.<\/p>\n
The central worry was that the sightings could be of unknown aerial surveillance technology China was using to collect intelligence on US defenses.<\/p>\n
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