David Grusch said he brought the Inspector General and Congress claims about a programme recovering evidence from landed or crashed UAP.
“simply what I brought to the Inspector General and what I briefed Congress both, you know, classified and in a public setting is the fact that we've had this recovery program of actually recovering that empirical evidence.”
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David Grusch said his complaint to the Inspector General was assessed as credible and urgent.
“And of course, this complaint was considered credible and urgent.”
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David Grusch said the Inspector General was required to forward his complaint to the Senate and House intelligence committees in summer 2022.
“Admiral Haynes was forced to send it to the Senate and House Intelligence Committees. in summer 2022”
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David Grusch said he later gave 11 and a half hours of classified testimony to the two congressional intelligence committees.
“and then I subsequently provided 11 and a half hours of classified testimony to the Senate and House Intelligence Committees.”
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David Grusch said he had seen indisputable evidence of craft on Earth that did not originate on Earth.
“Phil McGraw: So to be clear, you're saying that you have seen undisputable evidence that there are craft on this planet that are not from this planet, correct? David Grusch: Correct”
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David Grusch said he learned about United States retrieval and reverse-engineering activity through foreign intelligence reporting, archives and programme documentation.
“And I learned more from a particular peer adversary about what the U.S. was doing in terms of retrieval and reverse engineering of UAP than I learned from my own government officially until I started spelunking in different archives, talking to people that were able to provide me program documentation, et cetera.”
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David Grusch said the Defense Intelligence Agency refused to release classified foreign intelligence reporting on retrieval and reverse engineering to Congress.
“And once again, that foreign intelligence reporting, the Defense Intelligence Agency has refused to release those classified documents to Congress”
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David Grusch said more than 25 but fewer than 100 craft of non-human origin had been recovered and held.
“Phil McGraw: Are we talking five, six, 25, 50? What are we talking about? David Grusch: Under 100 but more than 25 is what i could say”
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David Grusch said recovered craft included disc-shaped vehicles.
“There's a lot of vehicle types. You have the disc.”
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David Grusch said recovered craft included sunfish- or boot-heel-shaped vehicles.
“You have the sunfish boot heel looking thing.”
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David Grusch said recovered craft included boomerang-shaped vehicles.
“You have boomerangs.”
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David Grusch said recovered craft included crescent-moon-shaped vehicles.
“You have crescent moon looking craft.”
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David Grusch said recovered craft included Tic Tac-shaped UAP.
“You have tic tacs.”
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David Grusch said recovered craft included egg-shaped vehicles.
“You have egg looking craft as well.”
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David Grusch said the origin of the recovered craft was difficult to determine because their point in space or time was unknown.
“Certainly, it's very hard to deduce origin because it's not like we know exactly what point in space or time these things came from.”
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David Grusch said there was great interest in the propulsion systems of retrieved craft as a motive for reverse engineering.
“Phil McGraw: I assume there's great interest in their propulsion system and how they're doing what they're doing. David Grusch: Yes.”
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David Grusch cautioned that the extraterrestrial hypothesis was only one part of the explanation.
“But I do caution to ascribe this whole phenomenon as merely just extraterrestrial. That's certainly a piece of the pie. That's likely what some of this is.”
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David Grusch said some anomalous intelligences might be ultraterrestrial.
“But there's other taxonomies of anomalous intelligences, we'll call it, that perhaps it's ultra-terrestrial. Perhaps it grew up here, and it left, and it came back.”
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David Grusch raised a shadow biome as another possible origin of the phenomenon.
“there's you know shadow biome there's other types of origins you know there's uh under the sea that we don't understand 70 of our oceans and what advanced intelligence might have uh developed on the seabed so to speak a wink wink”
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David Grusch said he did not have full exposure to government holdings and analysis and did not have all the answers.
“i certainly don't have all the answers and i'm not omnipotent and did not have full exposure of the U.S. government's holdings and analysis of that.”
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