David Charles Grusch

“is a veteran of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) and the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO)”

“At the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, Grusch served as a Senior Intelligence Capabilities Integration Officer, cleared at the Top Secret/Secret Compartmented Information level”

“was the agency’s Senior Technical Advisor for Unidentified Aerial Phenomena analysis/Trans-Medium Issues.”

“David Grusch, who was from November 2021 until April 2023 a Senior GEOINT Capabilities Requirements Officer with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency”

“From 2016 to 2021, he served with the National Reconnaissance Office as Senior Intelligence Officer and led the production of the NRO director’s daily briefing.”

“Grusch was a GS-15 civilian, the military equivalent of a Colonel.”

“will contribute his expertise to Rep. Burlison's efforts to promote transparency regarding UAP and other matters on the Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets”

“"David Grusch has risked his career to expose critical information."”

“In May 2022, McCullough filed a Disclosure of Urgent Concern(s); Complaint of Reprisal on behalf of Grusch with the ICIG about detailed information that Grusch had gathered beginning in 2019 while working for the UAP Task Force.”

“An unclassified version of the complaint provided to us states that Grusch has direct knowledge that UAP-related classified information has been withheld and/or concealed from Congress by “elements” of the intelligence community “to purposely and intentionally thwart legitimate Congressional oversight of the UAP Program.””

“According to the unclassified complaint, in July 2021, Grusch had confidentially provided classified information to the Department of Defense Inspector General concerning the withholding of UAP-related information from Congress.”

“The Intelligence Community Inspector General found his complaint “credible and urgent” in July 2022.”

“According to Grusch, a summary was immediately submitted to the Director of National Intelligence, Avril Haines; the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence; and the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.”

“As a result, Grusch suffered months of retaliation and reprisals related to these disclosures beginning in 2021.”

“current and former officials vouched for the whistleblower, David Grusch, while also corroborating the broad outlines of his allegations”

“the firm that formerly represented the whistleblower clarified that it “took no position and takes no position” on the substance of the explosive information provided to the intelligence community inspector general, which the whistleblower “has now publicly characterized.””

“According to Grusch, the evidence supporting his allegations is highly classified, a reasonable claim.”

“Karl E. Nell, a recently retired Army Colonel and current aerospace executive who was the Army’s liaison for the UAP Task Force from 2021 to 2022 and worked with Grusch there”

““His assertion concerning the existence of a terrestrial arms race occurring sub-rosa over the past eighty years focused on reverse engineering technologies of unknown origin is fundamentally correct, as is the indisputable realization that at least some of these technologies of unknown origin derive from non-human intelligence,” said Karl Nell, the retired Army Colonel who worked with Grusch on the UAP Task Force.”

“In 2022 while at NGA, Mr. Grusch filed a federal whistleblower complaint with the Intelligence Community Inspector General (ICIG)”

“A former intelligence official turned whistleblower has given Congress and the Intelligence Community Inspector General extensive classified information about deeply covert programs that he says possess retrieved intact and partially intact craft of non-human origin.”

“and helped draft the language on UAP for the FY2023 National Defense Authorization Act”

“Other intelligence officials, both active and retired, with knowledge of these programs through their work in various agencies, have independently provided similar, corroborating information, both on and off the record.”

“In accordance with protocols, Grusch provided the Defense Office of Prepublication and Security Review at the Department of Defense with the information he intended to disclose to us.”

“I would say and I have told people that you have to know where to look. They are not going to divulge it to you because of the classification levels. But if you know where to look and who to talk to, which is exactly where Mr. Grusch can point you then you have them.”

“But you have not seen any documentation that that is what is occurring? It is a theory? Mr. GRUSCH. Only theoretical framework discussion.”

“stated under oath in a congressional hearing on July 26, 2023 that he was aware that, along with crashed disks, “non-human biologics” were found.”

“members of Congress held another historic bipartisan UAP hearing. This time the hearing had highly credible military witnesses, Commander Fravor, Lieutenant Graves, and Dave Grusch, who were now testifying to the American people in Congress *under oath*”

“Have you seen any of the bodies? Mr. GRUSCH. That is something I have not witnessed myself.”

“the whistleblower – a former high-level intelligence official –”

“Beginning in 2022, Grusch provided Congress with hours of recorded classified information transcribed into hundreds of pages which included specific data about the materials recovery program.”

“He later worked as a senior intelligence officer at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) and National Reconnaissance Office (NRO)”

“Grusch said the recoveries of partial fragments through and up to intact vehicles have been made for decades through the present day by the government, its allies, and defense contractors.”

“Analysis has determined that the objects retrieved are “of exotic origin (non-human intelligence, whether extraterrestrial or unknown origin) based on the vehicle morphologies and material science testing and the possession of unique atomic arrangements and radiological signatures,” he said.”

“with a combat tour of duty in Afghanistan supporting counter-illicit finance, drug, and arms-trafficking operations with Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) and ISAF”

“Grusch served 14 years in the Air Force, reaching the rank of Major”

“there was an implication that our nation's leaders was not being provided this, you know, unbelievable information about our place in the cosmos”

“myself, my co workers, you know, friends, supervisors, you know, were attacked for enabling me and helping me in my investigation”

“after I fought off some of the administrative terrorism I faced and, you know, maintain my top secret clearance, you know, I went back at the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency.”

“from 2019-2021 officially represented the NRO on the UAP Task Force”

“alleging that elements of the U.S. government had thwarted Congressional oversight, withheld information from proper Executive Branch officials and illegally concealed programs tied to the recovery and reverse engineering of craft of unknown, non-human origin”

“David Grusch, a decorated former U.S. Air Force officer and senior civilian intelligence official”

“Grusch, recognized for his previous sworn testimony before House Oversight & Accountability Committee about the federal government's Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) activities”

“I think the phenomenon is a very complex and I like to leave an open mind analytically to specific origin.”

“Congressman Eric Burlison (R-MO-07) is pleased to announce David Grusch, a decorated former U.S. Air Force officer and senior civilian intelligence official, as a Special Advisor.”

“Grusch is represented by Charles McCullough III, senior partner of the Compass Rose Legal Group in Washington”

“From late 2021 to July 2022, he was the NGA’s co-lead for UAP analysis and its representative to the task force.”

“He said he reported to Congress on the existence of a decades-long “publicly unknown Cold War for recovered and exploited physical material – a competition with near-peer adversaries over the years to identify UAP crashes/landings and retrieve the material for exploitation/reverse engineering to garner asymmetric national defense advantages.””

“In a statement to NewsNation, the Department of Defense denied that the Pentagon’s new UFO office has uncovered the sort of activity alleged by Grusch.”

“In 2023, he testified before Congress”

“What I talked about in the June 9 presser is the Air Force did unsuccessfully try to file an SPI espionage act unauthorized disclosure complaint against me when I did go public”

“unfortunately I had to resign. my Air Force officer commissioned because I foresaw an attack of that nature.”

“So I had to essentially kill my career and miss my promotion to lieutenant colonel in the Air Force Reserve.”

“And I was only a couple of years away from retirement”

“I'm working right now to try to get a medical retirement and that promotion that I missed through a records correction process ... that's up to a particular board that works for the Secretary of the Air Force right now.”

“the amount of money I've spent on legal fees and the income I've lost was... was really unfortunate.”

“I guess I have a very high justice sensitivity with the little touch of autism and ADHD.”