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Former senior intelligence official David Grusch has made waves all summer by accusing in public and secret settings that the US government has concealed crashed non-human spacecraft from both the public and, illegally, from Congress.
Grusch added to his sworn testimony and classified whistleblower complaint in a new interview with BBC radio Thursday – describing his claims of a secret UFO reverse engineering program and UFO-related deaths as “an act of truth to power.”
He warned that America’s alleged top-secret UFO portfolio “opens a Pandora’s box to potential military-weapon development-type reverse engineering activities.”
And for the first time, Grusch’s attorney in his active whistleblower complaint, Charles McCullough, also spoke publicly about his client’s allegations.
McCullough, the former Inspector General of the United States Intelligence Community (ICIG) appointed by President Obama in 2011, told BBC radio that Congress needs more information on UFOs “to properly monitor the things going on in the executive power’.
While Grusch has claimed he has “firsthand access” to any evidence to support his claims, neither Grusch nor McCullough have said the UFO whistleblower has seen crashed craft or recovered “non-human intelligences” .
David Grusch, a former senior intelligence official, testified under oath before Congress last week about his knowledge of classified UFO programs. To his right, Grusch’s attorney, former U.S. intelligence watchdog Charles McCullough (light blue tie), watched
“Our government relies on congressional oversight, the checks and balances of congressional oversight,” McCullough said BBC Radio 4’s The World Tonight last Thursday.
“David’s claim is essentially that Congress doesn’t have access to the information it needs to properly oversee what’s going on in the executive branch,” McCullough said.
McCullough — who was Obama’s chief legal watchdog over U.S. spy agencies after ten years with the FBI — also confirmed that his client Grusch was, in fact, informing both the House and Senate intelligence committees behind closed doors.
“He briefed both intelligence committees,” McCullough told BBC radio, “and he had a two-hour hearing with two hours of testimony last week.”
And the intelligence commissions seem to have taken Grusch’s testimony quite seriously.
Last month, Senate Intelligence Member Chuck Schumer, the Democratic Senate Majority Leader, in conjunction with Republican Senators Marco Rubio of Florida and Mike Rounds of South Dakota, led efforts to appoint a nine-member review panel to review all classified government data on UFOs. to judge.
That amendment, that contained language that echoed Grusch’s claims, has since passed a vote in the Senate.
However, critics are quick to point it out a statement from McCullough’s law firm in Junewhich seemed to dramatically distance the firm from aspects of the news media’s coverage of Grusch and their client’s own extraordinary claims.
While critics speculated that McCullough might have regretted his involvement with Grusch, the former official nonetheless stood by his client — quite literally when he attended the House oversight committee’s UFO hearing last week.
Grusch, a former Defense Department official, first appeared on camera for NewsNation to tell his story about deep-secret US programs that he says possess “intact and partially intact” craft of non-human origin
“It is unlikely that Grusch, speaking under oath to Congress, would commit so blatant perjury over such specific, falsifiable facts,” said another former Obama appointee, former Defense Department official Marik von Rennenkampff, wrote in The Hill this week.
“Especially with his high-profile lawyer sitting right behind him.”
If Grusch knowingly provided false material to the ICIG in his formal complaint, the UFO whistleblower could be fined up to $10,000 for the offense, under Title 18 § 1001 of the United States Penal Codeor worse, up to five years in prison, or both.
Such sentences raise intriguing, unresolved questions about both Grusch and the first-hand witnesses he says he referred to the current Inspector General of U.S. Intelligence.
“In view of the significant penalties for making false statements to an Inspector General,” von Rennenkampff wrote, “it is extremely unlikely that multiple high-ranking, highly qualified officials would falsely claim to have first-hand knowledge of myths and rumours.”
Ryan Graves, a former pilot, Air Force and Intelligence Service veteran David Grusch and Navy veteran fighter pilot Commander David Fravor testified under oath that they had firsthand UFO encounters or knowledge of secret government programs involving “non-human” technology
The US Navy’s 2015 so-called GIMBAL UFO video (above), taken with an F/A-18’s infrared targeting pod, infamously depicted a mysterious object flying in restricted airspace off the Atlantic coast. The airspace was cordoned off for use by naval pilots during training
Grusch turned philosophical when asked by BBC Radio 4 why he chose to come forward with his extraordinary allegations of federal government malfeasance regarding the UFO issue.
“I think the US government should be held accountable for potentially over- or misclassifying basic science,” Grusch told the BBC.
“I thought that was really important, for the general public to understand, you know, their place in the cosmos, their place in the universe.”
“It comes down to a sense of duty,” Grusch said, “an act of truth in power.”
Pictured: Supposedly a dead alien undergoing an autopsy after the Roswell incident
While Grusch is still prohibited from disclosing certain information under the terms of his Defense Office of Prepublication and Security Review agreement with the Pentagon, in his new interview he did manage to clarify and reiterate key facts. to emphasize.
“There are certain things that I have firsthand access to that I can’t discuss publicly at this time,” Grusch said.
“However, myself and other colleagues interviewed 40 individuals, both current and former top intelligence and military personnel who were specifically involved in these UFO crash retrieval programs.”
“And those who were willing, I referred to the Inspector General of Intelligence. In this way, the Inspector General could interview these people who do have direct, first-hand information.’
Grusch noted that the secret UFO program has existed in some form for more than 89 years and that it used secrecy protocols first established for the Manhattan Project: the top-secret U.S. military effort that built the first atomic bomb during the Second World War.
“They weren’t sure how ontologically shocking it would be for the world’s population,” Grusch said. “So they decided to keep it hidden for years.”