The report revealed for the first time the name of an alleged UAP program, stating that the executive branch has been managing UAP issues without congressional knowledge or oversight, possibly for decades.
Shellenberger told NewsNation's Ross Coulthart he has been in touch with the whistleblower, whose exact role and other identifying details, including gender, he has withheld because they fear what could happen if they were publicly known.
"I don't think that they're faking it or that they're lying about their fear," he said. "This person discovered this material accidentally. This was not something they had expected to encounter."
That fear is why Shellenberger said the whistleblower did not share intelligence imagery showing UAPs.
Comment: According to Shellenberger's report, the program is apparently an umbrella program designed to siphon UAP reports and intelligence away from Military Intelligence and into a classified repository. The intelligence includes data from multi-sensor platforms (e.g. high-quality imagery intelligence [IMINT] and measurement and signature intelligence [MASINT]), such as infrared, full-motion video, and still photography, using assets ranging from low-earth orbit to ground level.
As is standard for USAPs, the Pentagon is denying its existence.
Google indicated the name of the program was only searched the week before Grusch's Congressional testimony last year, then immediately scrubbed the results.