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Ex-intel officer says US hiding info on alien craft

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Agence France-Presse

<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img alt="Screenshot of a UFO video the Pentagon released last year. Screengrab from video via AFP" src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2020/life/04/28/20200428-ufo.jpg"/><figcaption>Screenshot of a UFO video the Pentagon released last year.<em> Screengrab from video via AFP</em></figcaption></figure></div><p><br/>WASHINGTON, United States - We are not alone -- and American authorities are covering up the evidence, a former US intelligence officer told a congressional committee on Wednesday.</p><p>David Grusch testified that he &quot;absolutely&quot; believes the government is in possession of unidentified anomalous phenomena, or UAPs -- which has replaced the term UFO in official parlance -- as well as remains of their non-human operators.</p><p>&quot;I was informed, in the course of my official duties, of a multi-decade UAP crash retrieval and reverse-engineering program,&quot; Grusch said.</p><p>&quot;I made the decision, based on the data I collected, to report this information to my superiors and multiple inspectors general, and in effect becoming a whistleblower,&quot; he said.</p><p>Pressed for details in the course of the hearing, Grusch repeatedly said he could not comment in a public setting because the information is classified.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/overseas/04/28/20/watch-pentagon-releases-ufo-videos-taken-by-us-navy-pilots">WATCH: Pentagon releases &#x27;UFO&#x27; videos taken by US Navy pilots</a></li></ul><p>He said the US government is hiding information on UAPs not only from the public but from Congress, and that he personally interviewed people with direct knowledge of non-human craft.</p><p>&quot;My testimony is based on information I&#x27;ve 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,&quot; Grusch told lawmakers.</p><p>US Representative Tim Burchett supported the idea that the government was concealing information, saying at the opening of the hearing -- which also featured testimony from two former Navy officers who said they witnessed UAPs -- that &quot;we&#x27;re going to uncover the cover-up.&quot;</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/overseas/06/26/21/evidence-on-ufos-largely-inconclusive-us-intelligence-report">Evidence on UFOs &#x27;largely inconclusive&#x27;: US intelligence report</a></li>	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/classified-odd/01/13/23/us-govt-examining-over-500-ufo-reports">US gov&#x27;t examining over 500 &#x27;UFO&#x27; reports</a></li></ul><div><strong> &#x27;We don&#x27;t have the answers&#x27; </strong></div><p>&quot;This is an issue of government transparency. We can&#x27;t trust a government that does not trust its people,&quot; he said.</p><p>Asked if there may be life beyond Earth, National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said he does not have a position on the issue one way or another.</p><p>&quot;What we believe is that there are unexplained aerial phenomena that have been cited and reported by pilots -- Navy and Air Force,&quot; he said, adding: &quot;We don&#x27;t have the answers about what these phenomena are.&quot;</p><p>The head of the Pentagon office set up to identify UAPs that pose a potential threat also told lawmakers earlier this year that it had not identified signs of alien activity.</p><p>The All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office &quot;has found no credible evidence thus far of extraterrestrial activity, off-world technology, or objects that defy the known laws of physics,&quot; Sean Kirkpatrick testified in April.</p><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe allow="autoplay; fullscreen" frameBorder="0" height="100%" id="ivsplayer01" scrolling="no" src="https://player.ivideosmart.com/ivsplayer/v4/dist/html/iframe-src.html?iframeid=ivsplayer01&amp;key=e8c22c015ca9eafa76f1e3edfa03c603&amp;spid=3001339&amp;vid=2416859" width="100%"></iframe></figure><div class="iwantbar">Watch more News on <a href="https://www.iwanttfc.com/#!/browse/Genres/News/tag_id_genres/id_news" target="_blank">iWantTFC</a></div><p>The US government has however begun taking the issue of UAPs more seriously in recent years.</p><p>NASA held its first public meeting on UAPs in May, calling for a more rigorous scientific approach to clarify the origin of hundreds of mysterious sightings.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/classified-odd/06/10/22/nasa-gets-serious-about-ufos">NASA gets serious about UFOs</a></li></ul><p>The Pentagon also began paying closer attention to the subject after a slew of inexplicable sightings from US Navy and Air Force pilots.</p><p>The central worry was that the sightings could be of unknown aerial surveillance technology used by China to collect intelligence on US defenses.</p><div><strong>wd/nro</strong></div><div><strong>© Agence France-Presse</strong></div><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe allow="autoplay; fullscreen" frameBorder="0" height="100%" id="ivsplayer01" scrolling="no" src="https://player.ivideosmart.com/ivsplayer/v4/dist/html/iframe-src.html?iframeid=ivsplayer01&amp;key=e8c22c015ca9eafa76f1e3edfa03c603&amp;spid=3001339&amp;vid=2736387" width="100%"></iframe></figure><div class="iwantbar">Watch more News on <a href="https://www.iwanttfc.com/#!/browse/Genres/News/tag_id_genres/id_news" target="_blank">iWantTFC</a></div>

We are not alone -- and American authorities are covering up the evidence, a former US intelligence officer told a congressional committee on Wednesday.