David Grusch and 2023 Congressional UAP Hearings
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Grusch testified under oath before Congress about alleged government UAP crash retrieval and reverse-engineering programs.
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David Grusch
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Former Air Force officer and intelligence official who testified in 2023 that the U.S. hides a UAP crash-retrieval program. His account is secondhand; the Pentagon says it found no evidence.
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2023 Congressional UAP Hearings
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On July 26, 2023, the House Oversight Committee's Subcommittee on National Security held a historic hearing on UAP featuring testimony from David Grusch, Ryan Graves, and David Fravor. Grusch testified under oath that the U.S. government possesses non-human craft and biologics, and that he was aware of people who had been harmed or injured in efforts to conceal this information. Graves described routine UAP encounters by Navy pilots, and Fravor detailed the 2004 Nimitz encounter. The hearing drew massive public attention and bipartisan congressional interest.
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Grusch's claims of government crash retrieval programs were disputed by AARO's historical review, which found no verifiable evidence.
Kirkpatrick's AARO historical review contradicted Grusch's claims, finding no verifiable evidence of crash retrieval programs.
Rubio commented publicly in 2023 on whistleblower claims brought to the Senate Intelligence Committee; he did not confirm Grusch's claims.
The dramatic testimony at the July 2023 hearings built momentum for the Schumer UAP Disclosure Act amendments.
Fravor testified before Congress about the 2004 Nimitz Tic Tac encounter.
Graves testified about routine UAP encounters by Navy pilots during East Coast training exercises.
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