The US is concealing a longstanding programme that retrieves and reverse engineers unidentified flying objects, a former Air Force intelligence officer testified Wednesday to Congress. The Pentagon has denied his claims.
Retired Maj. David Grusch's highly anticipated testimony before a House Oversight subcommittee was Congress' latest foray into the world of UAPs 바카라 or 바카라unidentified aerial phenomena," which is the official term the US government uses instead of UFOs. While the study of mysterious aircraft or objects often evokes talk of aliens and 바카라little green men,바카라 Democrats and Republicans in recent years have pushed for more research as a national security matter due to concerns that sightings observed by pilots may be tied to US adversaries.
Grusch said he was asked in 2019 by the head of a government task force on UAPs to identify all highly classified programs relating to the task force's mission. At the time, Grusch was detailed to the National Reconnaissance Office, the agency that operates US spy satellites.
바카라I was informed in the course of my official duties of a multi-decade UAP crash retrieval and reverse engineering program to which I was denied access,바카라 he said. Asked whether the US government had information about extraterrestrial life, Grusch said the US likely has been aware of 바카라non-human바카라 activity since the 1930s.
The Pentagon has denied Grusch's claims of a coverup. In a statement, Defence Department spokeswoman Sue Gough said investigators have not discovered 바카라any verifiable information to substantiate claims that any programs regarding the possession or reverse-engineering of extraterrestrial materials have existed in the past or exist currently.바카라 The statement did not address UFOs that are not suspected of being extraterrestrial objects.
Grusch says he became a government whistleblower after his discovery and has faced retaliation for coming forward. He declined to be more specific about the retaliatory tactics, citing an ongoing investigation. 바카라It was very brutal and very unfortunate, some of the tactics they used to hurt me both professionally and personally,바카라 he said.
Rep. Glenn Grothman, R-Wis., chaired the panel's hearing and joked to a packed audience, 바카라Welcome to the most exciting subcommittee in Congress this week.바카라 But members of both parties asked Grusch about his study of UFOs and the consequences he faced.
바카라I take it that you're arguing what we need is real transparency and reporting systems so we can get some clarity on what's going on out there,바카라 said Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md. Some lawmakers criticized the Pentagon for not providing more details in a classified briefing or releasing images that could be shown to the public. In previous hearings, Pentagon officials showed a video taken from an F-18 military plane that showed an image of one balloon-like shape.
Pentagon officials in December said they had received 바카라several hundreds바카라 of new reports since launching a renewed effort to investigate reports of UFOs. At that point, 바카라we have not seen anything, and we're still very early on, that would lead us to believe that any of the objects that we have seen are of alien origin,바카라 said Ronald Moultrie, the undersecretary of defence for intelligence and security. 바카라Any unauthorised system in our airspace we deem as a threat to safety.바카라Â
