A former air force officer who said that unidentified spacecraft and dead alien carcasses had been recovered in the US and that reverse-engineering of had taken place has had his claims backed up by other Pentagon “whistleblowers”, it has been reported.
According to a US Senator, the officials are saying that they have “first-hand knowledge” of top secret UFO crash retrieval projects. Marco Rubio, a Republican Florida Senator, said that the personnel with “very high clearances” had occupied “high positions within our government” — the implication being that their claims had credibility.
The former Air Force officer, David Grusch, hit the headlines globally this month when he made his claims about alien craft and “bodies” — adding that these had been carefully described as “non-human intelligences”, as no one could be certain from where they really came.
Senator Rubio said some of the witnesses who had come forward and had spoken with the Senate Intelligence Committee were likely to have been among those referenced by Mr Grusch. Senator Rubio is vice chairman of that committee.
The American subscription television network NewsNation reported Senator Rubio as saying: “A lot of these people came to us even before these protections were in the law for whistleblowers to come forward.”
Mr Grusch, who joined the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) and the NRO after serving with the Air Force, told the inspector general that he had been subjected to “illegal retaliation” for making inquiries into highly classified UFO programs. Last July, the inspector general reportedly said Mr Grusch’s complaint was “credible and urgent” and forwarded files to Avril Haines, the US Director of National Intelligence, and Senator Rubio’s own committee, among others.
Senator Rubio stressed there had been similar “credible threats” to the committee’s other unnamed witnesses, their livelihoods and their lives. “I’m not trying to be evasive,” he said, “but I am trying to be protective of these people. Some of these people still work in the government, and frankly a lot of them are very fearful — fearful of their jobs, fearful of their clearances, fearful of their career, and some frankly are fearful of harm coming to them.”
Senator Rubio’s comments follow the newly created UFO whistleblower protections, enacted last year through a bipartisan amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act — and could also explain the recent bold moves by the Senate Intelligence Committee. Last week, it adopted a provision to cut off federal funding to any secret UFO reverse-engineering programs.
Despite this, Senator Rubio was cautious about commenting on the total accuracy of the whistleblowers and their claims. He said: “I don’t find them either not credible or credible. Understand some of these claims are things that are beyond the realm what any of us has ever dealt with.”
But Senator Rubio added that the sheer number and stature of the witnesses was at least a cause for concern and worthy of more attention. “You do ask yourself what incentive would so many people, with that kind of qualification, have to come forward and make something up?”
He called for “a mature understanding” from fellow legislators, policymakers and the public, adding that he felt a duty to “intake the information without any prejudgment or jumping to any conclusions in one direction or another.”
