27-7-2023 (WASHINGTON) A former US intelligence officer, David Grusch, testified before a congressional committee on Wednesday that he “absolutely” believes the US government is in possession of unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs), replacing the term UFO in official parlance, as well as remains of their non-human operators. Grusch said he was informed of a multi-decade UAP crash retrieval and reverse-engineering program during his official duties, but his information is classified and he could not comment on it in a public setting. Grusch also said that the US government is hiding information on UAPs from the public and Congress. Two former Navy officers who said they witnessed UAPs also testified at the hearing.
National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said that there are unexplained aerial phenomena that have been cited and reported by pilots, but he does not have a position on the issue of life beyond Earth. The head of the Pentagon office set up to identify UAPs that pose a potential threat, Sean Kirkpatrick, testified in April that the office had found no credible evidence of extraterrestrial activity, off-world technology, or objects that defy the known laws of physics.
The US government has, however, begun taking the issue of UAPs more seriously in recent years. NASA held its first public meeting on UAPs in May, calling for a more rigorous scientific approach to clarify the origin of hundreds of mysterious sightings. The Pentagon also began paying closer attention to the subject after a slew of inexplicable sightings from US Navy and Air Force pilots, with the central worry being that the sightings could be of unknown aerial surveillance technology used by China to collect intelligence on US defenses.
