The man who ignited the modern UFO disclosure movement returned with a crowd to Capitol Hill Tuesday with shocking accusations.
David Grusch, the former Air Force intelligence officer whose 2023 congressional testimony under oath upended Washington’s decades-long dismissal of UFOs as fringe territory, stood on the steps of the U.S. Capitol alongside a bipartisan group of lawmakers and demanded the government come clean about what he says it has been hiding from the American public.
It included billions in secret government spending, speculation on multiple species of non-human intelligence, and a direct call for Vice President JD Vance to investigate.
Grusch, who has now been named as a senior adviser to Rep. Eric Burlison (R-MO) for a four-month period specifically focused on UAP issues, made his stunning claims based on recent discoveries inside classified government programs.
“During my investigation, I found slush funds to the tune of billions of dollars per annum for these activities,” Grusch told reporters. “This is also a real fraud, waste and abuse issue.” He called on Vance’s anti-fraud task force to look into the alleged secret UAP programs, and said that many of President Donald Trump’s own team have been “kept in the dark by high ego, politically appointed actors” protecting these programs.
“There are several [programs] that this government is aware of,” he said about the study of extraterrestrial life. “It’s a continuum from corporeal bipedal type life to what I would consider as like sentient plasma life.”
In other words, there are aliens walking around on two legs… and some that are just intelligent goo.
He claimed the government possesses “several dozen” cases involving alleged non-human intelligence, including audio and video evidence, and specifically accused the Defense Intelligence Agency of obstructing oversight efforts.
Standing with Grusch were Reps. Burlison, Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL), Tim Burchett (R-TN), and Jared Moskowitz (D-FL), all bipartisan members of the House Oversight Committee’s Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets.
“This is the age of disclosure,” Burlison said. “Hiding behind classification is no longer acceptable. This is the moment. Use the authority that you have, Mr. President. The American people are behind you. And everyone listening today in government, working for a contractor, retirees anywhere in the world — come to Congress, come to this group of people. We will work with you. This is a worldwide call for action for what you know.”