US Senator Marco Rubio has announced that other Pentagon whistleblowers have provided “first hand information” about secret UFO crash recovery programs.
The Florida Republican senator said officials with “very high credentials” who have held “high positions within our government” have presented “first-hand knowledge or first-hand claims” about top-secret government programs.
Former Air Force officer David Grusch made global headlines earlier this month when he claimed alien spacecraft and bodies had been recovered and reverse engineered by US officials.
Senator Rubio said some of those witnesses who spoke to the Senate Intelligence Committee — where Rubio is vice chairman — were likely the same people Grusch was referring to.
Senator Rubio said some of those witnesses who presented their “first-hand knowledge or claims” were likely the same individuals that UFO whistleblower David Grusch referenced publicly and in a formal complaint to the Intelligence Community’s Inspector General
“Many of these people came to us before even these whistleblower protections were enacted into law to come forward,” Rubio told NewsNation on Monday.
Grusch, an Air Force veteran who later served with both the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) and the NRO, told the inspector general that he faced illegal retaliation for his investigations into the same top-secret UFO programs .
The inspector general, in turn, described Grusch’s complaint in July 2022 as “credible and urgent” and forwarded the file to US intelligence director Avril Haines and Rubio’s own Senate Intelligence Committee, among others.
Senator Rubio — vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee — stressed that there had been similar credible threats against the committee’s other unnamed witnesses, their livelihoods, and their lives.
“I’m not trying to be evasive,” Senator Rubio said, “but I’m trying to protect these people.”
“Some of these people are still working in government, and quite frankly, a lot of them are very scared,” noted the Florida Republican, “scared for their jobs, scared for their permits, scared for their careers, and some are frankly scared.” from being harmed.’ come to them.’
Senator Rubio called for “a mature understanding” from his fellow MPs, policymakers and the public, saying that he felt it was his duty to “just absorb the information without bias or jumping to conclusions one way or the other.”
An image from unclassified video taken by US Navy pilots showing interactions with “unidentified aerial phenomena.”
Rubio’s comments highlight the need for Congress’ newly created UFO whistleblower protections, enacted last year through a bipartisan amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act.
But the senator’s comments also help explain the bold recent moves by the Senate Intelligence Committee.
Last week, the committee unanimously passed a provision removing all federal funding for classified UFO reverse-engineering programs, whether conducted by the US government or hidden in the private sector via a defense contractor.
The Intel committee chose its words carefully, targeting broadly all reverse-engineering programs involving unidentified ships that were not Earth-born or “exotic.”
Despite the shocking directness of these legislative moves, Rubio has been more cautious as to the complete veracity of these high-level whistleblowers and their claims.
“I find them neither unbelievable nor credible,” Senator Rubio told NewsNation’s Washington correspondent Joe Khalil. “Understand that some of these allegations are matters beyond the realm that any of us have ever dealt with.”
In Rubio’s estimation, the sheer number and stature of the first-hand witnesses who informed the Intelligence Committee is a cause for concern and deserves more attention.
“Most of these people have had very high clearances and high positions within our government at some point or maybe even now,” Rubio noted.
“So you’re asking, ‘What would be the incentive for so many people with that qualification to come up and come up with something?'”
“These are serious people,” Rubio said.
Given the size of these sources and the inconsistency of their claims, the senator called for “a mature understanding” from his fellow congressmen, policymakers and the public, saying he felt a duty to “take the information without bias or prejudice.” to any conclusions one way or the other.’
“We’re trying to gather as much information as we can,” Rubio said.