David Grusch Written Statement for the House Oversight Committee

Grusch states that he served as an intelligence officer for 14 years in the Air Force and at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.

I was an intelligence officer for 14 years, both in the US Air Force (USAF) at the rank of Major and most recently, from 2021-2023, at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency at the GS-15 civilian level

Grusch says he served as an NGA co-lead for UAP and trans-medium analysis and reported to the UAP Task Force and AARO.

I was my agency’s co-lead in Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) and trans-medium object analysis, as well as reporting to UAP Task Force (UAPTF) and eventually the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO).

Grusch says he became a whistleblower through a PPD-19 urgent-concern filing after receiving reports alleging UAP-related government secrecy beyond congressional oversight.

I became a Whistleblower, through a PPD-19 Urgent Concern filing with the Intelligence Community Inspector General (ICIG), following concerning reports from multiple esteemed and credentialed current and former military and Intelligence Community individuals

Grusch explicitly says his testimony was based on information provided by other individuals, some of whom he says supplied photographs, official documents, and classified oral testimony.

My testimony is based on information I have been given by individuals with a longstanding track record of legitimacy and service to this country – many of whom also shared compelling evidence in the form of photography, official documentation, and classified oral testimony.

Grusch says he spent four years attempting to corroborate the information and assess the people who supplied it.

I have taken every step I can to corroborate this evidence over a period of 4 years and to do my due diligence on the individuals sharing it

Grusch says that in 2019 the UAP Task Force director tasked him to identify relevant special-access and controlled-access programs.

In 2019, the UAPTF director tasked me to identify all Special Access Programs & Controlled Access Programs (SAPs/CAPs) we needed to satisfy our congressionally mandated mission.

Grusch alleges that he was informed during official duties of a multi-decade UAP crash-retrieval and reverse-engineering program but was denied additional access.

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-on’s.

Grusch says he reported the information to superiors and multiple inspectors general and suffered retaliation after becoming a whistleblower.

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. As you know, I have suffered retaliation for my decision.

In closing, Grusch expresses hope that investigations of the alleged nonhuman reverse-engineering programs would trigger a broad reassessment and potentially enable technological progress.

It is my hope that the revelations we unearth through investigations of the Non-Human Reverse Engineering Programs I have reported will act as an ontological (earth-shattering) shock, a catalyst for a global reassessment of our priorities.