US Statement David Grusch (former intelligence officer, as a witness)

Grusch's claims are published; he says the Inspector General found his complaint credible and urgent (reported as his claim)

On 26 July 2023 David Grusch, a former intelligence officer, gave an opening and closing statement under oath to the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability. Grusch told the committee that they had served 14 years as an intelligence officer, in the US Air Force and at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, and had co-led their agency's work on unidentified anomalous phenomena. Grusch stated that they had filed a PPD-19 Urgent Concern with the Intelligence Community Inspector General, and that they had been informed of a multi-decade UAP crash retrieval and reverse engineering program to which they were denied access. Grusch said the testimony rested on what others had told them, and that they had suffered retaliation.

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• Grusch described being an intelligence officer for 14 years, a Major in the USAF and, from 2021 to 2023, a GS-15 civilian at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.
• Grusch stated they became a whistleblower through a PPD-19 Urgent Concern filing with the Intelligence Community Inspector General (ICIG).
• Grusch said they were a member of the UAPTF from 2019 to 2021 and in 2019 were tasked to identify all SAPs/CAPs needed for its congressionally mandated mission.
• Grusch claimed they were informed of "a multi-decade UAP crash retrieval and reverse engineering program" and were denied access to it.
• Grusch said: "I am speaking to the facts as I have been told them," and that they had suffered retaliation.

Documents

• Document David Grusch opening statement House Committee on Oversight and Accountability· 2023-07-26· 3 pp.