David Grusch
David Charles Grusch is a former U.S. Air Force intelligence officer and National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) representative to the UAP Task Force. He is the most prominent UAP whistleblower as of 2025.
Background
- Former USAF intelligence officer
- NRO representative to the UAP Task Force
- Filed a formal whistleblower complaint with the Intelligence Community Inspector General (ICIG), who found it “credible and urgent”
- Granted whistleblower protections
Key Claims
- The U.S. government operates a “multi-decade UAP crash retrieval and reverse engineering program” (crash-retrieval-programs)
- The government has recovered “non-human origin technical vehicles” — intact and partially intact
- “Non-human biologics” were recovered from crash sites
- Programs have been deliberately hidden from congressional oversight for decades
- “Quite a number” of craft have been recovered; multiple nations possess materials
- Pope pope-pius-xii allegedly knew of a 1933 UFO crash near Milan and backchanneled information to the U.S. government, which took possession after WWII (cited in the-age-of-disclosure and revisited in src-catholic-filmmaker-vatican-ufo-2026-04)
Congressional Testimony
Testified under oath before the House Oversight Committee on July 26, 2023, making his claims part of the official congressional record.
2025 Activity
Continued public appearances including an interview on The Megyn Kelly Show, addressing crash-retrieval-programs, legacy programs, and disinformation campaigns. lue-elizondo publicly vouched for him as “a patriot… a damn fine human being.”
Significance
Grusch’s testimony catalyzed the modern UAP disclosure movement and directly influenced legislation including the UAP Disclosure Act and FY2026 NDAA provisions. His claims about uap-reverse-engineering and non-human-intelligence materials form the foundation upon which subsequent whistleblowers like matthew-brown have built.