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Phil McGraw
The claims the writer was given for Phil McGraw, in the order they were given.
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As many as 71% of adults in America say they believe humanity is not alone in the universe.
“As many as 71% of the adults in America say they believe that we're not alone in the universe.”
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Phil McGraw serves on the Presidential Commission for Religious Liberty.
“I serve on the Presidential Commission for Religious Liberty, and that involves the Department of Justice and other departments that have to do with constitutional rights.”
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The Presidential Commission for Religious Liberty involves the United States Department of Justice.
“I serve on the Presidential Commission for Religious Liberty, and that involves the Department of Justice and other departments that have to do with constitutional rights.”
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4
Phil McGraw has been broadcasting his television programme for 25 years.
“I've been on the air here 25 years talking about things that matter to people who care.”
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5
Credible people, including military pilots, commercial pilots, and people with trained instrumentation, made observations of UFOs that were being suppressed.
“We had credible people, military pilots, commercial pilots, people with trained instrumentation that were making observations that were being suppressed.”
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Witnesses reporting UFO sightings were sometimes threatened with prison time.
“In fact, they were being threatened with prison time, with substantial fines, even with the Espionage Act.”
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7
Witnesses reporting UFO sightings were sometimes threatened with substantial fines.
“In fact, they were being threatened with prison time, with substantial fines, even with the Espionage Act.”
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8
Witnesses reporting UFO sightings were sometimes threatened with prosecution under the Espionage Act.
“In fact, they were being threatened with prison time, with substantial fines, even with the Espionage Act.”
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9
Documents due to be released contain gun camera footage relevant to UFO sightings.
“they certainly know that all of that is contained in the documents that are going to be released and the gun cameras, the radar tracks that are going to be released.”
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10
Documents due to be released contain radar tracks relevant to UFO sightings.
“they certainly know that all of that is contained in the documents that are going to be released and the gun cameras, the radar tracks that are going to be released.”
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11
Phil McGraw considers the historical suppression of UFO reports comparable to a psyop like those seen in past war efforts where the media machine was co-opted to fabricate atrocities to gain public support.
“It's like a psyop that we've seen previously in war efforts when the entire media machine was co-opted into convincing people to get behind the war effort by mimicking war atrocities that were completely made up just to get people behind the war effort, that the same thing was going on concerning UAPs and UFOs.”
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Phil McGraw considers there to be a fragmentation of UFO-related information within the United States government.
“there's something that's going on here that there's a fragmentation of this information within the United States government.”
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Phil McGraw considers that some people controlling UFO-related information treat the President of the United States as though he were a temporary employee not given full candour.
“I think some of the people that are in control of this information kind of treat the president of the United States as though he's a temp employee... I'm not sure how candid some of the people in control of this information are with the boss, with the president of the United States”
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Donald Trump has decided it is time for transparency regarding UFO disclosure.
“I think he has decided it's time for transparency.”
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Donald Trump signed an executive order to declassify and disclose UFO-related information to the American public.
“his executive order about this was very clear to declassify this information and disclose it to the American public.”
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A fourth tranche of UFO files has been released.
“We've got the fourth tranche of information out there right now.”
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Phil McGraw reviewed the fourth tranche of UFO files before it became public.
“certainly in the one that we had the opportunity to dig into before it became public”
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Phil McGraw concludes from his review of the UFO files that there has been a massive cover-up.
“Number one, there has been a massive cover-up.”
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Phil McGraw concludes there is no question there are unexplained phenomena occurring in the Earth's atmosphere.
“there's no question there are unexplained phenomenon happening in our atmosphere here.”
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Meta documented internally that it knew its social media platform was addictive to teenage users.
“we got into their documents and we read their words where they say, we know this is addictive.”
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Meta documented internally that it knew its platform was contributing to poor mental health among preteens and teens.
“We know this is contributing to poor mental health of our preteens and teens, but we're doing it anyway.”
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In 1947, Lieutenant General Nathan Twining told the United States Army Air Forces that the phenomenon under investigation was 'something real and not visionary or fictitious'.
“In 1947, Lieutenant General Nathan Twining told the Army Air Forces the phenomenon was, quote, something real and not visionary or fictitious was going on.”
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The United States Air Force denied for decades that Nathan Twining's 1947 assessment even existed.
“Well, the Air Force denied for decades that any such assessment even existed.”
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In 1949, a classified conference was convened at Los Alamos, New Mexico, home of the Manhattan Project, to address a wave of unexplained sightings over America's nuclear weapon sites.
“Then in 1949, a classified conference was convened at Los Alamos, home of the Manhattan Project, to address a wave of unexplained sightings over America's nuclear weapon sites.”
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There have been sightings of anomalous phenomena over the Pantex Plant nuclear site in Amarillo, Texas, in recent years.
“This has continued as recently as just the last few years we've had sightings over Pantex up in Amarillo, a nuclear site.”
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Five cities with nuclear concentrations have had a high incidence of verified UFO sightings over nuclear installations.
“We've got five cities with nuclear concentrations and they've had a high incidence of verified sightings over our nuclear installations.”
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In 1953, the Central Intelligence Agency's Robertson Panel of scientists convened and recommended a public education campaign built on publicising already-debunked UFO cases while saying nothing about unexplained ones.
“So 1953, the CIA's Robertson panel of scientists convened and recommended a public education campaign built on one strategy, publicize the cases that have already been debunked and say nothing about the ones that haven't.”
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After realising that retired pilots fell outside their jurisdiction under JNAP 146, authorities issued JNAP 146E, which extended restrictions to retired pilots.
“So they quickly did JNAP 146E, which did two things. It covered the retired and it imposed the Espionage Act, which upped all of the stakes across the board.”
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JNAP 146E imposed the Espionage Act on the pilots it covered, increasing the legal stakes for disclosure.
“So they quickly did JNAP 146E, which did two things. It covered the retired and it imposed the Espionage Act, which upped all of the stakes across the board.”
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Phil McGraw believes the redactions and cherry-picking of currently released UFO disclosures indicate an ongoing tug-of-war to get to the full truth of what the government knows.
“I believe that the redactions and the cherry picking of what's being put out right now, I think it's still a tug of war to get to the absolute truth of what they know.”
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Travelling to the Andromeda Galaxy at the speed of light would take approximately two and a half million years.
“to travel to the nearest galaxy, Andromeda, it would take two and a half million years traveling at the speed of light.”
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The speed of light is approximately 300,000 kilometres per second.
“And that's 186,282 miles an hour.”
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There is a time dilation theory under which a traveller could reach the Andromeda Galaxy in approximately two and a half decades of subjective travel time, while roughly two and a half million years would pass on Earth.
“I know there's the time dilation theory where there's a theory under which you could actually get there and two and a half decades or whatever but two and a half million years would have passed on earth if you did so”
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Phil McGraw concludes that if a non-human entity has travelled here from outside our galaxy, it must be technologically superior to humanity given the travel time involved.
“It that suggests that if someone has traveled here from outside our galaxy, you have to conclude that they're technologically superior to us or they packed a hell of a lunch because it takes a long time to get here. And that's technology we don't have. So that means they are technologically superior.”
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Phil McGraw considers the UFO information disclosed so far to have been provided without adequate context.
“you can't and this is already happening just with what's been given so far is it's being provided without context”
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Phil McGraw has been a pilot since he was 16 years old.
“i've been a pilot since i was 16”
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Phil McGraw considers the publicly released UFO videos to be intentionally grainy.
“I look at these, and by the way, they're, I think, intentionally grainy.”
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Phil McGraw knows that very high resolution gun camera video and radar tracks exist that could be released.
“I know that there is existence of very high resolution gun camera video and radar tracks that can be provided.”
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Some UAP have been recorded on radar appearing to move at approximately 64,000 kilometres per hour and execute a 90-degree turn.
“We have things that within context appear to be moving close to 40,000 miles an hour and making a right turn. I mean a 90 degree right turn.”
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Phil McGraw has flown with the Blue Angels and experienced forces of approximately 7.49 G.
“I've flown with the Blue Angels and we were pulling like 7.49 Gs at times.”
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Estimates of the G-forces some UAP would experience, depending on configuration, range between 10,000 and one million G.
“the estimates are, depending on how things were configured, that the G-forces would be somewhere between 10,000 and a million.”
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The highest G-force ever tracked on a rocket sled was approximately 25 G for about half a second.
“I think the most that's ever been tracked was on a sled at around 25 G's for a half of a second or something.”
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Phil McGraw considers that a human being would liquefy internally under the G-forces attributed to some UAP.
“I think you get anywhere near what they're talking about. we would liquefy inside that.”
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Phil McGraw considers that current human metallurgy could not withstand the manoeuvres attributed to some UAP.
“we also don't have the metallurgy to have any kind of aircraft that it would look like a yard sale if we turn.”
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Phil McGraw has been practising as a psychologist for close to 50 years.
“I've been doing this for close to 50 years.”
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Phil McGraw considers sudden, violent loss of a child to be the most severe stressor a person can experience.
“the highest stress within that category is sudden loss of a child. And then number one within that subset is violent and sudden loss of a child.”
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Phil McGraw considers the best predictor of future behaviour to be relevant past behaviour, a fundamental principle of psychological science.
“One of the most fundamental principles of psychological science is that the best predictor of future behavior is relevant past behavior.”
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Phil McGraw considers non-earth, non-earthly origin intelligence to have perpetrated no horrible or evil acts of violence against humanity so far as is known.
“So far as we know, they have perpetrated no horrible, evil acts of violence on us.”
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Phil McGraw infers non-aggression from whatever non-human presence may be engaging with the earth, based on its past behaviour.
“So I think we have to rely on an inference of non-aggression from whatever this presence may be.”
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Searches for Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) increased by approximately 400% after Phil McGraw began discussing the topic.
“I was amused to see that searches for UAPs, I think it went up 400% when you started talking about it.”
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Phil McGraw considers that some observed unidentified phenomena, if reverse engineered, could relate to the concealment of non-human intelligences engaging with the planet driven by money and power.
“Well, I guess it goes back to follow the money and follow the power.”
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Unnamed experts told Phil McGraw that some of the observed unidentified phenomena do not leave a heat signature.
“I guess if you could, in fact, reverse engineer some of the things that we have observed, some of these things don't leave a heat signature.”
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Unnamed experts told Phil McGraw that some of the observed unidentified phenomena do not exhibit obvious or known methods of propulsion.
“Some of them don't exhibit... obvious or known methods of propulsion. And I'm just going on what the experts are telling me.”
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Phil McGraw states that he is not a quantitative scientist and that quantitative analysis is not his area of expertise.
“As I say, I'm not a quantitative scientist. I can't add two and two and get five every time. So that's not my area.”
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Phil McGraw considers himself skilled at seeking out and finding people who know more about unidentified phenomena than he does, and at judging whether they are legitimate and telling the truth.
“But I do know how to seek out and find people that know more about it than I do. And I'm a pretty good judge of horseflesh in determining whether they're legitimate and are telling the truth or not.”
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Credible people have told Phil McGraw that there are genuinely unexplainable things going on regarding Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP).
“And credible people are telling me that we truly do have some unexplainable things going on.”
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Phil McGraw considers that reverse engineering and replicating the propulsion and navigation systems of the observed phenomena could wipe out the oil and gas industry.
“Now think about if you could reverse engineer and then replicate these propulsion navigation systems, all of this ability to make these turns and not leave a heat signature and do all the things that they're doing, my God, that would wipe out the oil and gas industry.”
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Phil McGraw considers that reverse engineering the observed phenomena's propulsion systems could wipe out nuclear power energy.
“It could wipe out nuclear power energy.”
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Phil McGraw considers that someone hoping to reverse engineer a recovered spacecraft could use it as a power play to rule the world.
“It could replace everything and you could rule the world this is a this is a power play waiting to happen and so i suppose maybe there are people that are hoping that if they have captured if they have recovered a spaceship spacecraft of some sort and they can reverse engineer that”
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Phil McGraw considers that the government is hiding information about Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP), possibly for some good motives.
“But I think they're hiding it, and I think maybe there's been some good motives for it.”
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Phil McGraw speculates that unidentified phenomena concentrating around nuclear sites may be learning something or ensuring humanity does not do something stupid.
“Why are they concentrating around our nuclear sites? Maybe they're learning something. Maybe they're making sure we don't do something stupid.”
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Phil McGraw considers that it is usually the private sector, not the government, that solves problems when the government gets out of the way.
“And if you, Ross, if you look back, it's usually the private sector that solves the problems. It's not the government. It's the private sector that solves the problem when the government gets the hell out of the way.”
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Ross Coulthart considers it likely that Phil McGraw will get an opportunity in the next few months to speak with President Donald Trump.
“You're very likely, sir, to get an opportunity at some stage in the next few months to speak with President Trump.”
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Phil McGraw believes he has been given access to Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) information because those granting access want him doing exactly what he is doing.
“Well, I think what I'm doing right now, I think the reason they're giving me access to this is because they want me doing exactly what I'm doing.”
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Phil McGraw has maintained independence in his coverage of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP), stating that those granting him access are not scripting him or telling him what to say, but trusting him to be authentic, transparent and candid with the American people.
“and i have maintained independence uh in what i'm doing they're not scripting me they're not telling me what to say or not say they're just trusting me to be authentic transparent and um and candid with the american people”
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Phil McGraw states he does not want to create a 'Fauci moment' by saying one thing and being contradicted by a later disclosure.
“at the risk of being indelicate, I don't want to create a Fauci moment. I'm not going to say one thing today and then be contradicted by something that is disclosed tomorrow, which is why I say I'm going to tell you guys what I've seen so far”
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Phil McGraw states he does not believe that what he has been shown so far about Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) is all there is to see or know.
“And I'm not going to tell you that that's all there is to see or know. I'm telling you that I don't believe it's all there is to see or know.”
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Phil McGraw states he can say with confidence to the American people and the world that there has been a huge cover-up regarding Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP).
“That's why I've said the two things that I can say with confidence to the American people and to the rest of the world is there has been a huge cover up and there are things going on in our atmosphere that we cannot explain.”
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Phil McGraw states he can say with confidence that there are things going on in the atmosphere that cannot be explained.
“there are things going on in our atmosphere that we cannot explain.”
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Phil McGraw does not believe that the unexplained aerial phenomena are secret human-made technology starting to leak out.
“And I don't think we have some secret technology that is starting to leak out. I don't believe that at all.”
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Phil McGraw believes that the unexplained aerial phenomena were not created by humans and came from somewhere other than earth.
“I think there are things that we didn't create, we didn't make happen. So it came from somewhere, not here.”
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Phil McGraw considers the American public prepared to handle disclosure that non-human intelligences have been engaging with the planet, provided it is given context.
“And I think that the American public is prepared to handle that.”
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Phil McGraw considers that the government needs to be prepared to help those with mental illness, such as paranoia or schizophrenia, who may have difficulty coping with disclosure about non-human intelligences.
“If we have those that are easily destabilized mentally and emotionally, we have those that maybe struggle with mental illness, whether it's paranoia, schizophrenia, a difficult time maintaining their balance in this world”
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Teens and preteens in America are having the highest levels of anxiety, depression, and loneliness since records began.
“The teens and preteens are having the highest levels of anxiety, depression, and loneliness since we started keeping records.”
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Phil McGraw considers that some people might react to disclosure of non-human intelligence with fear, believing 'they're coming for us', and that those people may be right.
“Now, others might look at that and go, oh, my God, they're coming for us. And those people, we need to help. They may be right, by the way. I don't think so.”
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Phil McGraw considers approximately 40% of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) sightings to remain unexplained.
“And I think 40% of these phenomenon have not been explained.”
Dr. Phil read the UAP files before the public, here's what he found | Reality Check 2026-07-21 00:37:41.8-00:37:46.6 opinion first hand
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Phil McGraw considers that the United States government's method of operation has been to hide Unidentified Aerial Phenomena information from the country going back as far as 1947.
“I guess the MO has been to hide this from the country going back as far as 1947, the Robertson panel”
David Grusch: The Whistleblower Who Told Congress We're Not Alone 2026-08-13 00:04:26.4-00:04:35.2 opinion first hand
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While publicly telling the American people there was nothing to Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, the United States government was simultaneously spending large amounts of money and dedicating large resources to investigating the phenomenon and keeping that secret.
“When they would say that and then simultaneously be spending huge amounts of money, dedicating huge resources to trying to figure out what's going on while they're telling the American people, eh, nothing to it, move along, nothing to see here.”
David Grusch: The Whistleblower Who Told Congress We're Not Alone 2026-08-13 00:04:42.5-00:04:58.7 opinion first hand
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Phil McGraw is furious that the United States government has been lying to the American public for 79 years about Unidentified Aerial Phenomena.
“the first thing I said about this when those documents came out was our government's been lying to us for 79 years and I'm furious about that.”
David Grusch: The Whistleblower Who Told Congress We're Not Alone 2026-08-13 00:05:05.0-00:05:14.4 opinion first hand
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Phil McGraw considers there is no question that drugs were used in Project MKUltra with the aim of enhanced interrogation, and no question that human rights were violated.
“I don't think there's any question that drugs were being used and the idea was enhanced interrogation and I don't think there's any question that there were violations of human rights”
David Grusch: The Whistleblower Who Told Congress We're Not Alone 2026-08-13 00:12:38.2-00:12:50.0 opinion first hand
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Phil McGraw considers there is a definite desire to keep the details of Project MKUltra from coming out publicly because they are unflattering to the United States government.
“there's a definite desire to keep all that from coming out publicly because it's not very flattering to our government when those sort of things come out”
David Grusch: The Whistleblower Who Told Congress We're Not Alone 2026-08-13 00:12:52.5-00:13:06.1 opinion first hand
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There was a focused effort to assassinate David Grusch's character and imply he was mentally unstable, using his autism to discredit him.
“there was a pretty focused effort to assassinate your character and ... imply that you were mentally unstable and impeach you as being mentally unstable, having autism, things that they could use to say, well, consider the source.”
David Grusch: The Whistleblower Who Told Congress We're Not Alone 2026-08-13 00:17:06.2-00:17:27.6 opinion first hand
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Phil McGraw considers the attempts to discredit David Grusch part of a psychological operation.
“And we've seen it and it's part of the PSYOP that goes into all of this, sadly.”
David Grusch: The Whistleblower Who Told Congress We're Not Alone 2026-08-13 00:20:51.6-00:20:59.2 opinion first hand
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Phil McGraw considers that Unidentified Aerial Phenomena disclosure so far has been form without substance.
“It's formed without substance so far.”
David Grusch: The Whistleblower Who Told Congress We're Not Alone 2026-08-13 00:22:32.4-00:22:34.6 opinion first hand
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Phil McGraw considers that disclosure of craft not of this earth and intelligent non-human life forms would have a significant impact on a portion of the population and could cause some people to have a serious psychological reaction.
“if there is something that is going to come out that involves aircraft not of this earth and intelligent non-human life forms, that that's going to have a significant impact, certainly on a portion of our population. that could be negative for them. It could cause some people to have a serious psychological reaction”
David Grusch: The Whistleblower Who Told Congress We're Not Alone 2026-08-13 00:22:39.6-00:23:07.4 opinion first hand
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Phil McGraw considers that the American Psychological Association, the American Psychiatric Association and medical associations need to plan in advance for the psychological impact of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena disclosure.
“the American Psychological Association, Psychiatric Association, Medical Associations all need to be planning in advance”
David Grusch: The Whistleblower Who Told Congress We're Not Alone 2026-08-13 00:23:11.2-00:23:18.7 opinion first hand
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Young people are experiencing the highest levels of anxiety, depression and loneliness since records have been kept, so mental health resources are fully deployed.
“all of our resources as of today are fully deployed because particularly our young people are experiencing the highest levels of anxiety, depression, loneliness ... since records have been kept.”
David Grusch: The Whistleblower Who Told Congress We're Not Alone 2026-08-13 00:23:19.9-00:23:32.8 opinion first hand
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Phil McGraw considers that planning is needed in case five to ten per cent of the population has an adverse reaction to Unidentified Aerial Phenomena disclosure.
“if we're going to have a huge uptick of even five or 10% of the population that has an ab reaction to these sort of things, we need to plan for that and be there to support these folks.”
David Grusch: The Whistleblower Who Told Congress We're Not Alone 2026-08-13 00:23:38.9-00:23:49.7 opinion first hand
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Phil McGraw considers that elderly people must be protected from internet scams following Unidentified Aerial Phenomena disclosure, such as being told to sell everything to pay for a buried bunker to survive an alien invasion.
“We need to make sure that elderly people aren't scammed on the internet with people saying you need to sell everything and and we'll bury a school bus for you in the mountains to create a bunker so you can be safe from this invasion of aliens”
David Grusch: The Whistleblower Who Told Congress We're Not Alone 2026-08-13 00:23:50.0-00:24:04.2 opinion first hand
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Phil McGraw considers that if people feel human exceptionalism does not hold true, the evangelical community could have a problem with its belief systems.
“If people feel like human exceptionalism doesn't hold true, the evangelical community can have a problem in what their belief systems have been.”
David Grusch: The Whistleblower Who Told Congress We're Not Alone 2026-08-13 00:24:09.2-00:24:22.5 opinion first hand
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Phil McGraw considers that people deserve to know about Unidentified Aerial Phenomena and can handle the information, provided they are supported responsibly.
“But I think we can handle it. I think people deserve to know. I think they can handle it. I think we need to be responsible in helping them.”
David Grusch: The Whistleblower Who Told Congress We're Not Alone 2026-08-13 00:24:31.2-00:24:40.4 opinion first hand
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Phil McGraw objects that the released tranches of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) information have come with very little context, leaving people struggling to understand what the material means.
“Well, one of the things that I have objected to is that these tranches of information that have been released have been released with very little context.”
David Grusch: The Whistleblower Who Told Congress We're Not Alone 2026-08-13 00:28:23.6-00:28:35.6 opinion first hand
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Phil McGraw does not believe the lack of context in the released Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) document tranches is accidental.
“And I don't think that's by accident, frankly.”
David Grusch: The Whistleblower Who Told Congress We're Not Alone 2026-08-13 00:28:43.0-00:28:45.6 opinion first hand
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Phil McGraw spent a lot of time working in litigation as a trial scientist.
“I spent a lot of time in the litigation arena working as a trial scientist.”
David Grusch: The Whistleblower Who Told Congress We're Not Alone 2026-08-13 00:28:51.4-00:28:55.3 administrative first hand
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Phil McGraw observed litigation clients hiding a key document in plain sight by burying it among thousands of other documents so it would be lost in the volume.
“And I saw clients oftentimes, if you want to hide something, do it in plain sight. Cover them up with a sea of minutiae. and drop that key document in the middle of thousands of others of documents and hope that it gets lost in the confetti of documentation.”
David Grusch: The Whistleblower Who Told Congress We're Not Alone 2026-08-13 00:28:56.8-00:29:16.1 observation first hand
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Five tranches of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) material have been released.
“as I see these five tranches of release and I see these grainy videos”
David Grusch: The Whistleblower Who Told Congress We're Not Alone 2026-08-13 00:29:19.2-00:29:24.4 observation first hand
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Phil McGraw considers the released Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) videos, radar tracks and infrared material to be heavily degraded versions of what is available, since gun camera video is crystal clear when it is meant to be.
“I've seen gun camera video. It is crystal clear if you want it to be crystal clear. And radar tracks and infrared, we're getting very degraded versions of what is available.”
David Grusch: The Whistleblower Who Told Congress We're Not Alone 2026-08-13 00:29:25.5-00:29:39.1 opinion first hand
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Phil McGraw believes Donald Trump intends there to be transparency on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) and that the degraded releases are not coming from him, but that the material becomes garbled once it enters the bureaucratic apparatus.
“So I'm concerned about the intention. I don't think it's coming from President Trump. I think he intends for there to be transparency here, but I think when it gets into the bureaucratic apparatus, it's getting garbled.”
David Grusch: The Whistleblower Who Told Congress We're Not Alone 2026-08-13 00:29:40.3-00:29:56.3 opinion first hand
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Phil McGraw was told that the nearest neighbouring system, the Andromeda Galaxy (M31), would take two and a half million years to reach travelling at the speed of light.
“And I'm told that our nearest neighboring solar system is Andromeda, and that it would take two and a half million years traveling at the speed of light to get there.”
David Grusch: The Whistleblower Who Told Congress We're Not Alone 2026-08-13 00:39:21.2-00:39:32.0 hearsay second hand
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The speed of light is approximately 300,000 kilometres per second.
“Speed of light, what's 186,000 miles per second?”
David Grusch: The Whistleblower Who Told Congress We're Not Alone 2026-08-13 00:39:51.8-00:39:55.5 measurement first hand
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Phil McGraw put Voyager's speed at approximately 29,000 kilometres per hour.
“I think Voyager is, what, 10% of that? 18,000 miles an hour, something like that?”
David Grusch: The Whistleblower Who Told Congress We're Not Alone 2026-08-13 00:39:58.1-00:40:04.6 measurement first hand
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No conventional runway takeoff fighter aircraft comes close to the speed of the Voyager spacecraft, and humans cannot travel at the speed of light.
“And that's a spacecraft, so we certainly don't have any of our runway takeoff aircraft fighters that get even close to that. So we can't travel at the speed of light.”
David Grusch: The Whistleblower Who Told Congress We're Not Alone 2026-08-13 00:40:05.8-00:40:21.0 opinion first hand
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Phil McGraw reasons that because the nearest neighbouring system is unreachable at human speeds, any visitors must be hugely more advanced technologically than humans.
“So by the process of this deductive reasoning, they would have to be hugely advanced technologically over what we have.”
David Grusch: The Whistleblower Who Told Congress We're Not Alone 2026-08-13 00:40:24.4-00:40:37.6 opinion first hand
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The manoeuvrability seen in tracking data of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) would create g-forces that human pilots cannot sustain.
“And from what we have seen on some of the tracking and all, their maneuverability would create g-forces that we can't sustain”
David Grusch: The Whistleblower Who Told Congress We're Not Alone 2026-08-13 00:40:38.8-00:40:49.3 opinion first hand
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Human metallurgy does not provide the structural strength to withstand the g-forces of turns made at the speeds Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) travel at, and the best human fighter aircraft would break apart attempting such a turn.
“we don't have the metallurgy to have the structural strength to sustain the g-forces that making turns at the speeds they're moving at our best fighter would look like a yard sale if they made that kind of turn at that kind of speed”
David Grusch: The Whistleblower Who Told Congress We're Not Alone 2026-08-13 00:40:50.1-00:41:05.2 opinion first hand
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Phil McGraw considers that successfully reverse engineering the propulsion of the recovered craft would render existing fuel and propulsion systems antiquated.
“It seems like if you could reverse engineer that and figure that out, that would revolutionize everything. I mean, the entire fuel systems and propulsion systems would become antiquated if you could reverse engineer what's making these things go.”
David Grusch: The Whistleblower Who Told Congress We're Not Alone 2026-08-13 00:41:23.0-00:41:43.0 opinion first hand
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Phil McGraw considers that David Grusch's character has been attacked and many things said about him, but that he has not been proven wrong.
“you know, they've said a lot of things about you, they've attacked your character, they've done a lot of different things, but they haven't proven you wrong.”
David Grusch: The Whistleblower Who Told Congress We're Not Alone 2026-08-13 00:45:59.1-00:46:10.5 opinion first hand
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David Grusch believes he could take Phil McGraw, if cleared by the president, to facilities in the western United States where a craft and a cadaver could be seen.
“Phil McGraw: you have the ability to take me to where we could see a craft and a cadaver somewhere, somehow. you believe you could- David Grusch: Oh yeah, we could take a little field trip out west, we'll say. Yeah, and we could certainly go to those facilities, so.”
David Grusch: The Whistleblower Who Told Congress We're Not Alone 2026-08-13 00:46:46.4-00:47:06.2 opinion first hand
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Phil McGraw has discussed the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) subject with Donald Trump, Stephen Miller, Tim Burchett and Anna Paulina Luna.
“And I've discussed this with the president. I've discussed it with Stephen Miller. I've discussed it with Representative Burchard and Luna.”
David Grusch: The Whistleblower Who Told Congress We're Not Alone 2026-08-13 00:47:40.5-00:47:51.0 testimony first hand
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Phil McGraw believes there are people from Donald Trump down who genuinely want transparency on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) and believe the American people are entitled to know their circumstance in the universe, but that the effort gets garbled downstream.
“I've had discussions and I believe there are people from the president on down that truly want transparency and believe that the American people are entitled to know their circumstance in the universe. I believe they truly want that to happen. I think it gets garbled downstream.”
David Grusch: The Whistleblower Who Told Congress We're Not Alone 2026-08-13 00:47:52.4-00:48:12.6 opinion first hand
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David Grusch has been open about his post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) from Afghanistan.
“I know you've been, as you say, been very open about your PTSD and all from Afghanistan.”
David Grusch: The Whistleblower Who Told Congress We're Not Alone 2026-08-13 00:52:25.4-00:52:32.3 testimony second hand
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David Grusch's wife wrote in Phil McGraw and Oprah Winfrey in 2008 as write-in candidates for president and vice president.
“she wanted me to tell you that she wrote you and oprah in in 2008 as candidates for president and vice president as writing candidates”
David Grusch: The Whistleblower Who Told Congress We're Not Alone 2026-08-13 00:53:36.5-00:53:42.5 hearsay second hand
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Phil McGraw considers that people have the right to information about Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) and to think critically about what it means to them.
“But you have the right to have information and think critically about it. And you have the right to decide what it means to you”
David Grusch: The Whistleblower Who Told Congress We're Not Alone 2026-08-13 00:54:39.8-00:54:49.0 opinion first hand
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Phil McGraw considers that the government works for the public and that the public is entitled to get the truth from it.
“And look, the government works for us. And we're entitled to get the truth from them.”
David Grusch: The Whistleblower Who Told Congress We're Not Alone 2026-08-13 00:54:54.4-00:55:01.8 opinion first hand
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Phil McGraw considers David Grusch to have shown courage in stepping up and bringing hidden matters to light.
“it's people like David who have the courage to step up and shine lights on things that we otherwise wouldn't know were going on”
David Grusch: The Whistleblower Who Told Congress We're Not Alone 2026-08-13 00:55:03.2-00:55:10.9 opinion first hand
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Phil McGraw is a friend of Donald Trump.
“During the interview with Dr Phil - a friend of President Trump - Grusch said”
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