

government and include multiple agencies, including both the Department of Defense and the intelligence community.

This suggests that recovery efforts are widespread within the U.S. Both cases involve classified work that takes place on a strictly need-to-know basis. government in general, particularly the Department of Defense CAPs are specific to the intelligence community. Grusch says the effort involves both special-access programs (SAPs) and controlled-access programs (CAPs). Under this structure, work on recovery and analysis can proceed, but few individuals know the true scope of the program. effort to recover and reverse-engineer craft, Grusch alleges, involves “multiple agencies nesting UAP activities in conventional secret access programs without appropriate reporting to various oversight authorities.” The nesting of these activities within multiple programs, instead of a single all-knowing UAP program, compartmentalizes information. government has “recovered and exploited” non-human vehicles with the intent of reverse-engineering the technology “to garner asymmetric national defense advantages.” He also alleges recovery of “partial fragments through and up to intact vehicles have been made for decades through the present day by the government, its allies, and defense contractors.” The vehicles are considered “exotic,” or of non-human origin, due to their shape and the unique nature of their materials, which includes unusual atomic arrangements and radiation levels.Ī landed flying saucer from the film “The Day the Earth Stood Still.” Getty Images From late 2021 to July 2022, he was the NGA’s co-lead for UAP analysis and its representative to the task force.”Īccording to Grusch, the U.S. Most recently, The Debrief reports, he “served as the reconnaissance office’s representative to the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force from 2019–2021. Air Force, then the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), and finally the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO). Grusch is a 14-year career intelligence official, first serving with the U.S. weapon systems, including the B-2 stealth bomber and America’s missile submarines? Getty Images Credit: Department of Defense.Has alien technology slipped into U.S. The AP is solely responsible for all content.Īn unidentified aerial phenomena is pictured as part of an investigation by the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force. The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Science and Educational Media Group. The meeting was held at at NASA headquarters in Washington with the public taking part remotely.Ī final report is expected by the end of July. No secret military data are included, such as anything surrounding the suspected spy balloons from China spotted flying over the U.S. The group is looking at what unclassified information is available on the subject and how much more is needed to understand what’s going on in the sky, according to astrophysicist David Spergel, the committee’s chair who runs the Simons Foundation. The study is a first step in trying to explain mysterious sightings in the sky that NASA calls UAPs, or unidentified aerial phenomena. “It’s precisely this rigorous, evidence-based approach that allows one to separate the fact from fiction,” Evans said. Several committee members have been subjected to “online abuse” for serving on the team, which detracts from the scientific process, said NASA’s Dan Evans, adding that NASA security is dealing with it. The team includes 16 scientists and other experts selected by NASA including retired astronaut Scott Kelly, the first American to spend nearly a year in space.

The space agency televised the hourslong hearing featuring an independent panel of experts. READ MORE: A brief cultural history of UFOs, from secret Soviet weapons to alien visitors (AP) - NASA held its first public meeting on UFOs Wednesday a year after launching a study into unexplained sightings.
