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Russian UFO engagements, secret 'Tic Tac' report and 3 key figures slip under radar at Congressional hearing

Chris Eberhart
Yahoo! News
Sat, 29 Jul 2023 03:21 UTC
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UFO whistleblowers at the July 26, 2023, House subcommittee hearing
Former Navy pilot Ryan Graves, ex-Navy commander David Fravor and former U.S. intelligence officer David Grusch testify before the House of Representatives subcommittee focused on UFOs while (left to right) George Knapp (red tie left of Grusch), Charles McCullough (light blue tie) and Jeremy Corbell sit behind them
Russian warplanes engaged UFOs, "chased them and even shot at them" at least 45 times by 1993, according to classified Russian documents that investigative reporter George Knapp obtained and smuggled out of the country.

That's just one snippet of information revealed in letters written by Knapp and investigative journalist Jeremy Corbell to the House's Oversight Committee before Wednesday's UFO hearing.

Both letters, which were first obtained by Fox News Digital and published in their entirety below, were entered into the Congressional record.

"Since 1969, the position of our military has been that UFOs pose no threat to national security and are not worthy of further study," Knapp wrote in his letter. "This dismissive attitude is directly at odds with what was revealed in documents, reports and internal memos."

As the country's eyes and ears were glued to three explosive testimonies, Corbell whispered something to Charles McCullough as George Knapp listened in with a smirk.

McCullough, who was President Barack Obama's former Intelligence Community Inspector General, represented Grusch in his Intelligence Community Inspector General complaint, purposefully seated behind him.


Comment: McCullough was also something of a whistleblower himself. In an interview with Fox News in 2017, he claimed that he had warned that Hillary Clinton's emails (stored on her private server) posed a potential national security threat. He was told to ignore it and threatened with reprisals for making an issue out of it.


These three men sat directly behind David Grusch, who was flanked by Navy pilots Ryan Graves and David Fravor during Wednesday's Congressional hearing about UFOs.


Comment: Two more interesting men were seated behind the witnesses: Ed Stanton (the bald man who somewhat resembles James Clapper) helped create the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics UAP program, and retired Rear Admiral Tim Gallaudet, the former acting administrator of the NOAA.

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The indefensible status quo: How defense contractors are hiding reverse-engineering programs, and fleecing the public

klaus
Substack
Thu, 27 Jul 2023 16:56 UTC
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As most of my readers likely know by now, there was a historic UFO hearing that took place in the House of Representatives on July 26th, 2023. Former Navy pilots Ryan Graves and Dave Fravor, along with former NRO and NGA official David Grusch, spoke before the House Oversight Committee on their experiences with UFOs during their time inside the US government.

At this point, the hearing has been covered by journalists and other analysts in detail that would be redundant to rehash again here, so my intention in this article is to provide context on a specific point that I personally find significant — and may have implications beyond what may appear at the surface level.

Grusch revealed that there has been significant wrongdoing by certain defense contractors in the name of UFO secrecy. In his interview with Australian journalist Ross Coulthart, he mentioned that he was aware of white-collar crime that had been committed to cover up the reality of UAP, and there were a few clues he left during his testimony that might give us some insight into what he was referring to.

A line of questioning by Democratic Rep. Jared Moskowitz may have been one of the most important of the day.
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David Grusch's whistleblower UFO testimony is slammed by head of Pentagon office as 'insulting' for accusing government of cover-up

Josh Boswell
Daily Mail
Fri, 28 Jul 2023 13:49 UTC
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Sean Kirkpatrick, director of the Pentagon's newly formed All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), issued a statement challenging whistleblowers' bombshell testimony on Wednesday
Sean Kirkpatrick, director of the Pentagon's newly formed All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), issued a statement challenging whistleblowers' bombshell testimony on Wednesday

The head of the Pentagon's UFO office has slammed Wednesday's shocking congressional hearing in which three whistleblowers claimed they had firsthand encounters or knowledge about secret government programs involving technology that is 'non-human.'

Sean Kirkpatrick issued a statement Friday denying some of the witnesses' claims - drawing a fiery rebuke from lawmakers.

David Grusch, a former top intelligence official, on Wednesday testified that in his role liaising with Kirkpatrick's office on UFOs he discovered the government was keeping crashed non-human spacecraft secret from the public and, illegally, from Congress.

But in his statement Kirkpatrick called the testimony 'insulting' and claims Grusch was 'never a representative' to his unit, officially called the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO).


Comment: Kirkpatrick is clearly revealing himself to be a bought-and-paid-for shill for the Pentagon and their aim to maintain secrecy around this topic of topics.


Comment: Kirkpatrick, and by extension the Pentagon itself, are being caught out in their lies for all the world to see:


UPDATE: Pentagon spokeswoman Susan Gough has been running damage control on Kirkpatrick's unprofessional outburst. She told The Debrief:
"The Department is aware of Dr. Kirkpatrick's post, which are his personal opinions expressed in his capacity as a private citizen and we won't comment directly on the contents of the post," Gough told The Debrief in an email.

"We do want to reinforce the Department's unwavering commitment to openness and accountability to the American people and Congress. The dedicated military service members, civilian personnel, and federal contractors who support AARO's efforts are deserving of the full confidence of our lawmakers and the American public."

"While much remains to be done to fulfill AARO's mandate, AARO's committed team has made great progress since its establishment only a year ago," Gough said.
Gough herself is as shady as they come:


She wrote an unclassified paper essentially saying that military public relations is inseparable from psychological operations. Reminder that it is technically illegal for the military to run psyops on the American public, but that won't stop people like Gough (and perhaps Kirkpatrick).

Rep. Luna, who co-headed the hearing last week, responded to Kirkpatrick's screed:
"It would be interesting to have him [Dr Sean Kirkpatrick] sit down in a skiff [i.e. SCIF] with Grusch.

"I want to remind people that I actually asked Grusch about Kirkpatrick during the testimony because Grusch said that he brought concerns to Kirkpatrick and that he didn't follow up on them or investigate."
Luna also told the Liberation Times:
"I think the stake of our Constitutional Republic is on the line here.

"A lot of people say, 'well, how is this pertinent to what's happening right now with the economy and the government? When you have a government that's hiding information from its citizens, you no longer have a representative government.

"So this is absolutely about accountability and transparency."

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Representative Luna told Liberation Times that she expects a response from Speaker McCarthy [on the creation of a special committee on UAPs] following the August recess.

Further actions are also planned - with Representative Luna confirming more hearings are on the way, stating, "we're going to do some field hearings."

That could mean Congressional public hearings held outside of United States Air Force facilities, such as Eglin Air Force Base in Florida, where Representatives Luna, Burchett, and Gaetz recently confronted officials regarding a UAP incident.

...

Representative Luna also confirmed to Liberation Times that she would support invoking the Holman Rule, commenting:

"I fully support it if we're continuing to be stonewalled. And I think that my other colleagues will also agree...if there are going to be people that are preventing this information from coming out, they need to be held accountable."


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The study of UFOs is finally becoming respectable science

Professor Avi Loeb
UnHerd
Thu, 27 Jul 2023 00:00 UTC
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© Drew Angerer/Getty ImagesFormer commanding officer US Navy Ryan Graves
USAF Ret. Major David Grush
Exec Dir. Americans for Safe Aerospace David Fravor
A rare bipartisan hearing in Congress shows that there is much to learn...

The Morning in America anchor of NewsNation, Markie Martin, said to me on Tuesday: "Avi, you are a Harvard astrophysicist and most of us do not have that education. How do you advise that we interpret the hearing at the US House of Representatives on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP)?" My reply was simple: "Just pay attention to the factual information presented by the witnesses. Think of yourself as a juror in a courtroom and decide whether to believe the witnesses."

Yesterday, we jurors had a chance to put that to the test. In a rare bipartisan effort, Republicans and Democrats came together at the US House of Representatives for a hearing on UAP. The three eyewitnesses spoke under oath, making them legally liable for anything they say and making it easier for lawmakers to pursue additional information. The trio included David Grusch, the former National Reconnaissance Officer Representative at the UAP Task Force in the Department of Defense, and two military pilots, Ryan Graves and David Fravor. Given the serious discussion surrounding these hearings, it suggests that UAP are finally losing their stigma.
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US first found out about 'non-human intelligence' nearly 100 years ago, whistleblower testifies

James Lynch
Daily Caller
Wed, 26 Jul 2023 14:42 UTC
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Former U.S. intelligence officer and UFO whistleblower David Grusch testified Wednesday to the House Oversight Committee, claiming that officials were aware of "non-human intelligence" as early as the 1930s.

Grusch spoke to the House Oversight Subcommittee on National Security, the Border and Foreign Affairs about his knowledge of the government's UFO operations from his time on the UAP Task Force.


Comment: Also from the Daily Caller:

"At the time, due to my extensive executive-level intelligence support duties, I was cleared to literally all relevant compartments and in a position of extreme trust in both my military and civilian capacities," Grusch said in his opening statement.

"I 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 to those additional read-ons when I requested it. I made the decision based on the data I collected, to report this information to my superiors and multiple inspectors general, and in effect become a whistleblower," Grusch added.

Grusch served in the U.S. Air Force and the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency where he was the agency's co-lead in identifying UFOs and reported to the UAP Task Force (UAPTF).

He was a member of the UAPTF from 2019-2021 and was told by the UAPTF director in 2019 to identify all Special Access Programs and Controlled Access programs to carry out the agency's mission.


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Here are the 5 most memorable moments from Congress' UFO hearing

Michael Mitsanas
NBC
Thu, 27 Jul 2023 12:15 UTC
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© Drew Angerer / Getty ImagesDavid Grusch, a former U.S. intelligence official, testifies Wednesday at a House Oversight Committee hearing about unidentified aerial phenomena.
Former military officials made a series of mystifying claims about unidentified aerial phenomena under oath at Wednesday's congressional hearing.

Three former military officials told Congress Wednesday that they believe the government knows much more about UFOs than it is telling the public.

A House Oversight subcommittee held a hearing on UFOs — officially known as unidentified aerial phenomena or UAPs — and heard mystifying testimony about unexplained object sightings and government possession of "nonhuman" biological matter.

Comment: NBC follow-up:


See also:

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How the search for UFOs went mainstream: A tale in 5 moves

Saul Elbein
The Hill
Tue, 25 Jul 2023 18:33 UTC
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© US NAVYAn unexplained aerial phenomenon recorded by the U.S. Navy.
For many Americans, the news that Congress was holding hearings about a possible secret UFO program was a stark surprise.

The hearings on Wednesday appear to inject a dose of science fiction into the usual business of Congress — as well as a note of bipartisanship that, for the contentious House Oversight Committee, is almost as remarkable as the claims that the Pentagon may be hiding alien spacecraft.

But it has taken nearly two decades of sober, bipartisan legislative work to get to the point where the search for UAP (Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena) is politically mainstream.

Comment: The question remains, why now? This information has been collected for decades, so why is it only now coming to light? We need to remain skeptical of any information coming out and think about what greater agenda is being served here. The 'truth' may be being manipulated (or they might just have it wrong).

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Slate says 'nothing will ever be the same again' as UFOs re-enter the mainstream

Ed Simon
Slate
Wed, 26 Jul 2023 21:00 UTC
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© Photo illustration by Slate. Images via Paramount Pictures.
In the coming weeks and months, the phrase "Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon" — the rebranding of the old, loaded term "UFO" — is going to enter the popular lexicon as Congress begins a series of unprecedented public hearings on the topic.

Unidentified flying objects, or UFOs, are a mainstay of pop culture, but have long been considered fringe by both scientists and the media. There have been groups of people who believe that the government and various corporations are in possession of alien technology and bodies since July 1947 (or in some cases, even earlier), when it was claimed that a flying saucer of extraterrestrial origin crashed in the small desert town of Roswell, New Mexico. UFOs found their way back into the mainstream spotlight in 2017 when the New York Times reported on the existence of a clandestine Pentagon program dedicated to investigating "aircraft that seemed to move at very high velocities with no visible signs of propulsion, or that hovered with no apparent means of lift."

Six years later, two of the journalists who worked on that report for the Times — Leslie Kean and Ralph Blumenthal — published an article in the Debrief in which a former intelligence official named David Grusch claimed that the government and various aerospace companies possessed objects "of exotic origin (non-human intelligence, whether extraterrestrial or unknown origin)," including not just aircraft (or sea-craft, in some cases), but bodies of the creatures that piloted those vehicles. Grusch has already testified before Congress in closed-door sessions, and will join others in the public testimony that has been scheduled in the House of Representatives for July 26.

Despite the fact that UFOs have been in popular culture for decades, there's something about this moment that feels categorically different. After Kean and Blumenthal's initial report, we're no longer in tinfoil-hat territory — there's no music from The X-Files or clips from Independence Day playing in the newscasts. This time, we have a high-ranking former intelligence official claiming that much of what the fringiest conspiracy theorists have long claimed regarding UFOs might have the tinge of truth about it — and Capitol Hill is taking his claims seriously.
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Ex-intel official claims feds 'absolutely' have UFOs, materials of 'non-human' origin during bombshell hearing

Caitlin Doornbos and Ryan King
NY Post
Wed, 26 Jul 2023 17:54 UTC
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© REUTERSWhistleblowers were sworn in during the hearing on UFOs
A former Air Force officer and intelligence official told Congress Wednesday he believes the government is hiding captured UFOs — and claimed he could not reveal whether anyone was murdered to keep the secret contained.

David Grusch, a former national reconnaissance officer representative for the Pentagon's Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Task Force, made the startling remarks during a bombshell House Oversight subcommittee hearing on UAP — Pentagon jargon for UFOs.

Asked whether the government has possession of such vehicles, Grusch replied: "Absolutely."

"Based on interviewing over 40 witnesses over four years and where, I know the exact locations [the UFOs are kept]," he said. "And those locations were provided to the inspector general."
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Ex-top defense official expects bombshell details of Pentagon UFO recovery to be revealed to Congress

Ronny Reyes
New York Post
Tue, 25 Jul 2023 18:12 UTC
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Congress is poised to go over troves of UFO data released by the US along with testimony from whistleblowers and experts.
A former top US intelligence officer says defense officials told him UFOs have been recovered — and that bombshell details about the extraterrestrial craft are set to be revealed to Congress on Wednesday.

"I've been told that we have recovered technology that did not originate on this Earth, by officials in the Department of Defense and by former intelligence officials," said Christopher Mellon, the former deputy assistant secretary of defense for intelligence, to NewsNation's Chris Cuomo Monday night.
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