Event · May 2022
David Grusch files his whistleblower complaint with the ICIG
In May 2022, David Grusch, a former Air Force and National Reconnaissance Office intelligence officer, filed a "Disclosure of Urgent Concern" and a reprisal complaint with the Intelligence Community Inspector General, alleging that information about UAP crash-retrieval programmes was being withheld from Congress.
According to Grusch and The Debrief, which broke the story in June 2023, the ICIG found the complaint "credible and urgent" in July 2022 and sent a summary to the Director of National Intelligence and both congressional intelligence committees; the ICIG has not published its determination. At the July 2023 House hearing Grusch testified that the specific locations he had identified, based on interviews with more than 40 witnesses over four years, were given to the Inspector General and in part to the committees.
The Pentagon's AARO later said it had found no verifiable evidence of such programmes; Grusch's claims and the counter-evidence are set out in the linked files.
Sources: The Debrief (2023) · House Oversight hearing (26 July 2023)
Facts and claims
- claimed In May 2022 Grusch filed a “Disclosure of Urgent Concern” and reprisal complaint with the Intelligence Community Inspector General, alleging that information about UAP crash-retrieval programs was being withheld from Congress. — David Grusch Source: thedebrief.org (archived)
- claimed According to Grusch and The Debrief, the ICIG found the complaint “credible and urgent” in July 2022, and a summary was sent to the DNI and both congressional intelligence committees. The ICIG has not published its determination. — David Grusch Source: thedebrief.org (archived)
- claimed At the July 2023 hearing Grusch testified that the exact locations he identified, based on more than 40 witnesses interviewed over four years, were given to the Inspector General and in part to the intelligence committees. — David Grusch Source: House holds hearing on UFOs, government transparency | full video at 49:27
Connected files
People
- David Grusch (filed by)
- Leslie Kean (reported by) — She and Ralph Blumenthal broke Grusch's story in The Debrief on 5 June 2023
Organizations
- Intelligence Community Inspector General (filed with)
- National Reconnaissance Office (related to)
Concepts
Events
Videos
- House holds hearing on UFOs, government transparency | full video (discussed in)
- Understanding UAP: Science, National Security & Innovation (House Oversight and Government Reform) (discussed in)
- Joe Rogan Experience #2065 - David Grusch (discussed in)
Mentioned in this file
- Department of War (Department of Defense) (Organization)
- House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform (Organization)
- All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (Program)
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- James Fox's Varginha press conference at the National Press Club (20 January 2026)
- ODNI Preliminary Assessment on UAP
- Disclosure Project press conference at the National Press Club
- Jon Kosloski named AARO director