Senator Marco Rubio says officials with ‘high clearances’ have ‘knowledge’ of UFO craft retrievals

More Pentagon whistleblowers have come forward with “firsthand knowledge” of covert programs to retrieve UFO crashes, U.S. Senator Marco Rubio, R-Fla., has revealed.

Former National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) officer David Grusch made global news earlier this month when he first spoke publicly about his own investigation of the top-secret programs as part of a Pentagon UFO task force.

But now Republican Senator Rubio of Florida has added that other officials with “very high clearances” who have held “high positions in our government” have informed the Senate Intelligence Committee of their direct knowledge of top secret UFO retrieval programs. crashes.

Senator Rubio said some of these witnesses who provided their “firsthand knowledge or firsthand assertions” were likely some of the same individuals Grusch refers to in his explosive public remarks and formal complaint to the U.S. Inspector General intelligence service.

Grusch, an Air Force veteran who worked at both the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) and NRO, told the inspector general that he had faced illegal retaliation for his investigation of the same top-secret UFO programs.

For his part, the Inspector General described Grusch’s complaint as “credible and urgent” in July 2022 and forwarded the application to, among others, U.S. Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines and Rubio’s own Senate Intelligence Committee.

Senator Rubio stressed that there have been similar credible threats to the other unnamed Senate Intelligence Committee witnesses, their livelihoods and their lives.

“I’m not trying to dodge,” Senator Rubio said, “but I’m trying to protect these people.”

“A lot of these people came to us even before these protections were in law for whistleblowers to come forward,” Rubio told NewsNation Monday.

“Some of these people are still in government, and frankly a lot of them are very scared,” notes the Florida Republican, “afraid for their jobs, scared for their release, scared for their careers, and some are honest come to them afraid of harm.’

Rubio’s comments speak to the urgency of recent whistleblower protections introduced last year as part of a bipartisan amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act.

But the senator’s remarks also add context to recent moves by the Senate Intelligence Committee, of which Rubio is vice chairman.

Commission last week passed a unanimous decision requires one immediately halt all funding for covert programs by the US government or defense contractors to recover or recreate unidentified craft of “non-terrestrial” or “exotic” origin.

Senator Rubio called for “a mature understanding” from his fellow legislators, policymakers and the public – saying he sees it as his duty to “simply include the information without any bias or hasty conclusions in one or the other direction’

An image from an unclassified video taken by US Navy pilots showing interactions with “unidentified aerial phenomena”

Despite the brutality of these legislative moves, Rubio was more cautious about the complete veracity of these high-level whistleblowers’ claims.

“I don’t find them credible or believable,” Senator Rubio told NewsNation Washington correspondent Joe Khalil. “Understand that some of these claims are things beyond the scope that any of us have ever faced.”

According to Rubio, the sheer number and status of the first-hand witnesses who briefed the Intelligence Committee is in itself a cause for concern and deserves more attention.

“Most of these people have at one time, or perhaps even now, held very high powers and positions in our government,” Rubio noted.

“So you wonder, ‘What incentive would so many people with that kind of qualification have to come forward and come up with something?'”

“These are serious people,” Rubio said.

Given the status of these sources and the volatility of their claims, the senator called for “a mature understanding” from his fellow lawmakers, policymakers and the general public. to conclusions in one direction or another.’

“We try to collect as much of that information as possible,” Rubio said.