FULL PRESSER: David Grusch & Lawmakers Call for UAP Records Declassification on Capitol Hill (9 June 2026)

0:00 good afternoon thank you all for attending this historic event my name is James Fox I've been investigating UFO cases now referred to as UAP across the globe for over 30 years I've directed seven feature-length documentaries on the subject in recent years Congress has held multiple public hearings on UAP which is a dramatic shift towards transparency thanks to many members of Congress the issue is now being taken very seriously we the people are finally hearing accounts in a credible setting from firsthand U.S. military personnel about highly advanced unknown craft that fly rings around our frontline fighter jets with President Trump's unprecedented directive to release UAP files we are seeing more and more of these type of craft captured on various government

1:00 sensors and I'm told this is just the beginning one of the aspects to the phenomenon that spoken about with less frequency are close encounters of the third kind reporting by witnesses of entities of non-human sentient beings connected to the craft don't take it from me some of these reports come directly out of the United States Air Force's own files in fact the very scientist who coined the phrase close encounters of the third kind investigated cases for the United States Air Force from 1947 to 1969 Dr. J. Allen Hynek according to Hynek it was cases like those at the United States Air Force desperately tried to keep secret because it's one thing to try and confuse the public with weather balloons and swamp gas and another entirely different when dealing with credible reports of non-human beings on the ground I personally investigated one such case for

2:01 over 16 years the case occurred in Varginia Brazil in 1996 and involves dozens of first-hand reports of UAP and direct contact with living intelligent non-human beings who according to multiple Brazilian witnesses were flown out of Brazil to the United States in in January of 1996 recently the former Brazilian Ministry of Defense Aldo Ribello confirmed the incident occurred and stated if the US disclosed information on this case then we in Brazil could do the same mr. President I'm respectfully requesting that you declassify and release all files related to this case and others like it we the people have a right to know reality should not be classified thank you hi everyone thank you for being here today

3:03 and I just want to say especially for the members standing behind us as you know this Congress we were given permission to stand up the task force on declassification of federal secrets many of our colleagues did not believe in this up until really the video started coming out and had it not been for the efforts of representative burles and Birchit Moskowitz and the countless of other members who have backed us in this fight and we probably wouldn't see some of these files and videos that are coming out today but it doesn't just stop here for some time we've been pushing for there to be legislation whether it be whistleblower protections or the UAP disclosure act and it's been time and time again stonewalled by various intelligence agencies and staff within the House of Representatives which is why we are grateful to the administration and their effort as well as Stephen Miller's office and pursuing the truth something that we all should deserve transparency on and so our next call to action will be that we are weaning with the White House we are requesting that whistleblowers receive temporary immunity or permanent immunity and if they are able to divulge whether it is

4:04 for those locations of craft and or advanced technologies as you know this is something that we are all wanting to know the truth on and again without your cooperation we wouldn't have been where we are yet today and so thank you I'd like to now introduce representative Eric Burleson thank you all for being here today I want to first begin by thanking everyone that's here and I want to thank my colleagues behind me this task force we could not do this without the incredible leadership of representative Luna and my colleagues on the team we also wouldn't be here today if it weren't for the brave men and women who have come forward as whistleblowers who have plowed that soil we wouldn't be here without these these individuals and we also wouldn't be here celebrating the the victories that we have weren't not for President Trump we finally have a leader that the American people can trust to challenge institutions that have grown far too comfortable operating without

5:05 accountability for decades the American people have been treated like children told that our government secrets that they don't get to know don't ask don't expect answers just trust the process well the American people are done with that answer and I'm done with that answer over the last three years we have made more progress on this issue than at any point in modern history we've held hearings we've reviewed Russian and Brazilian records including a formal FBI inquiry into the 96 Varginha incident where witnesses alleged the Brazilian military captured non-human entities and craft and buried the truth the truth today Aldo Ribello who was the Ministry of Defense at the time came forward and admitted that this is this event was true we've sent targeted inquiries into MIT Lincoln laboratories MITRE and every government agency that's been connected to UAP we've worked

6:06 with lawmakers across four continents we've sought answers on cases like Matthew Sullivan a would-be whistleblower whose tragic death deserves far more scrutiny than it has received we've obtained video evidence including the MQ 9 footage of a UAP incident off the coast of Yemen delivered to my office through what can only be described as a Tom Clancy style dead drop someone felt that they had nothing about this someone felt they had to secretly hand information to an elected official a member of Congress why would anyone fear bringing information to Congress they shouldn't we are no longer asking hypothetical questions anymore Congress is requesting specific records and videos these agencies and contractors know that we know that they exist and we're going to get them released we continue to receive credible claims of recovered crafts and reverse engineering programs that may have operated for decades outside of any oversight those claims point to specific

7:09 facilities contractors records and people Congress has a constitutional duty to follow them and that duty does not vanish because someone stamped a document classified 30 years ago it does not vanish because some bureaucrat says so it does not vanish because a program has become so compartmentalized that even elected officials are expected to look the other way the Constitution gave Congress oversight authority for a reason no one elected no elected bureaucrat has that authority this information is not yours to keep it's belongs to the American people they own it and they deserve the truth the most important people in this story are the whistleblowers David Grush Admiral Gallaudet Dylan Borland Jeff Nussatelli and the many others who haven't been named yet their careers were upended their families were torn apart they endured an avalanche of stress all because they believed this information belongs to you the American

8:12 people and they attempted to and tried to get it to you some will say they should have used more proper channels to hell with the Safeway the Safeway protects the system these are people who simply wanted the American people to see what they know and they deserve protection they deserve our respect and they deserve a second chance and we are at a different time this is the age of disclosure Mr. President I'm asking you directly waive the non-disclosure agreements that still bind these patriots grant immunity to anyone and everyone who has already come forward and everyone who will come forward open the door and let them speak because unless people know they will be protected why would they come forward and step forward otherwise it is time that we flip the script entirely as well it has been said by people in positions that know that even presidents have been kept on a need-to-know

9:13 basis the Navy pilots admirals and generals describe programs to senior officials the commander-in-chiefs were never briefed on career bureaucrats who view presidents as temporary help here today gone tomorrow that is not classification that's a constitutional crisis transparency must be the default in the United States of America and it should be required for those with knowledge to come forward not wait for us to ask there must be real penalties for officials who knowingly withhold information from Congress playing dumb is no longer acceptable hiding behind classification is no longer acceptable mr. President you know that the agencies lie you know that they have lied to you they have lied about you they do not cooperate easily and they never have this is the moment use the authority that you have mr. President the American people are behind you and everyone

10:14 listening today in government working for a contractor retired anywhere in the world come to Congress come to these group of people we will work with you this is a worldwide call for action and what you know and help help us please release every record every file and every piece of information the time is now thank you and with that I'll yield to you to the general be brief be brilliant be gone well it's good to be with you all and it's great to be with my colleagues and people that want transparency in America and just like my good friend mr. Burleson representative Burleson said this isn't the government's information unless there's some kind of national security element that's going to imperil our safety this is our information we should have it every single bit of it and you shouldn't be

11:15 crazy and you shouldn't have your reputation destroyed because you want to disclose this is our government this is our country this is our information and damn it we demand it God bless you thank y'all my name is congressman Tim Burchett and I know y'all got up this morning and said dadgum I hope I get to stand out in the heat and listen to some redneck talking for too long well I'll keep it short I'm a redneck proudly but it's a pleasure being here with you I want to first salute the bravery of these folks standing back here on the back row for their guts this country was not created by a bunch of meek pansies as people that took a stand and these fellas took a stand and thank y'all so much I really appreciate that I appreciate my colleagues in congress I even had to say it I have to appreciate my friends in the media today so there you go I've crossed over the the the divide but you know I talked to the president about this issue and he kept his word to me he

12:15 kept his word and I think that's important but I think we also need to remember too when I'm sitting in a skiff and some little punk in a man bun tells me the president's on a need-to-know basis folks that ought to tell you right there what we're up against we're up against corruption we're up against a cover-up this thing's been covered up at least since 1947 dadgummit the public deserves the right to know it's your dadgum tax dollars it's not about little green men are flying saucers it's about what are we spending all these millions and possibly billions of dollars on that these idiots tell us don't exist and then yet we turn right around in the skip and then they tell us they do exist this is a cover-up you all know it we know it we demand the answers and dadgummit we're going to get them look we got we got one or two bites at this apple please be careful about the false information that's coming out of washington on all this stuff trust your gut you know what's right you know they exist you know this has been a cover-up since before most of y'all been born thank y'all so much let's keep fighting for the truth and thank

13:16 you donald trump for keeping your word to me and you all deserve to be in that skiff with us we shouldn't be the gatekeepers and none of these jug heads up here should either all right let's get at it thank y'all and and i don't care if he's across the aisle or not he's one of the he's one of the smartest guys i know in congress and he's one of my best friends his name is jared moskowitz jared come up here brother all right that'll be used in my primary wonderful i hate his gut i don't like thank you thank you appreciate that i don't have a plastic jesus please see the correction for the record uh anyways it's a pleasure to be here it's a pleasure to be here uh with my colleagues and let me thank the the men and women uh behind them uh not just for their courage but for their service to the country and that's what's changed i mean look this conversation started years ago with people like the late harry reid

14:18 and then marco rubio and chuck schumer and now my colleagues and many others uh in the house but one of the things that changed is the quality and the caliber of people who are coming forward who have served our military decorated people with the experience that's what's changed and what's also changed is we started asking questions very simple questions and this is what got me interested in the topic we would ask questions and they would then push back and we would ask more questions and the pushback became more significant we would try to put language in an amendment in a bill and they would oppose it they would secretly go to the chairman of committees to strip that language out and that became clear to us that they were hiding something and so listen i don't know what the full truth is but i know we're being lied to and the american people

15:18 know that also and so look the time for disclosure is now disclosure today disclosure tomorrow the american people have a right to know we know about these advanced technology programs we know they come out of area 51 they did when we went to kill osama bin laden with an advanced technology helicopter that congress never funded there's trillions of dollars missing at the pentagon where does that money go and so it's time for the government to come forward and what we need is we need your help all of you here i get asked this question by people in my community more than anything else what does the government know and why aren't they telling us the american people can handle it they can handle it i trust them and it's time that we tell them the truth thank you

16:20 introduce yourself yeah yeah my name is leslie kane i'm one of the reporters who wrote the 2017 new york times story that fundamentally changed the conversation about uap in the years that followed members of congress met with navy pilots and received classified briefings some came to realize that the observed objects were highly unlikely to be american russian or chinese technology but nobody would publicly confirm what they were then in 2023 the conversation changed again former intelligent official and whistleblower david grush met with members of congress providing them with detailed information about covert government programs that he said possessed craft of non-human origin this had been hidden from congressional oversight for decades i was privileged to have interviewed mr grush extensively before publishing his story with my colleague ralph blumenthal three years ago six weeks after

17:22 the story broke mr grush testified under penalty of perjury in an open congressional hearing while under oath he spoke about an ultra-secret crash retrieval program and stated that some craft contained specimens or pilots which he called non-human biologics the potential existence of another living intelligent advanced species has more implications for humanity than the recovery of technological hardware now the conversation needs to shift again with more of a focus on biology and less on technology having served for decades on the staff of congressional intelligence and defense committees kirk mcconnell who is standing here today in the back he was present in classified settings when highly credible sources briefed senators including marco rubio about recovered non-human bodies unlike legitimate

18:22 national concern unlike legitimate national security concerns that require us to keep advanced technologies of non-human origin secret that justification should not apply to biological evidence knowledge of the existence of another life form studied and documented by qualified experts should not be considered a threat to national security by what authority can any institution withhold confirmation of what may be the most consequential scientific discovery in human history knowledge that we are not alone does not belong to any government or military it belongs to all of humanity today i call upon the president to prioritize the declassification and public release of any evidence concerning recovered advanced non-human biological entities thank you and i turn this over now to david

19:23 grush i'm tall i'll try to enunciate good afternoon i'm here today because my leadership on the disclosure issue is part of my continued service to the nation i took an oath as an air force officer swearing to allegiance to the principles and the framework of the u.s constitution i took that oh seriously then and i take that oh seriously now and this is if this is one of my final duties of public service i want it to be this helping congress and the president restore lawful accountability over activities and spending that have should never been placed beyond constitutional oversights and to be transparent with the american people there are a myriad of issues across multiple cultural religious and institutional spectrums the topics here that we're discussing today go beyond life in the universe there are serious homeland security and airspace safety issues there are relevant counterintelligence and technology technology protection issues that must be

20:25 taken consideration for decades unknown objects are freely operated and restricted airspace in large metropolitan areas and critical infrastructure and the agencies responsible for securing the homeland cannot adequately defend against it this is a serious national security issue in my official duties i was exposed to human and signals intelligence information concerning foreign adversary uap crash retrieval exploitation and study efforts adversary views on u.s legacy program reverse engineering efforts and u.s held audio visual information related to crash retrieval matters such as the recovered vehicles and the associated biological material one must always be concerned about adversarial disinformation when you're getting foreign intelligence but i was able to cross verify this information internally to back up the foreign government assertions many of the president's team has been kept

21:25 in the dark by high ego politically appointed act actors both because of incompetence and malicious intent has subverted the president's order on this issue furthermore some of this foreign intelligence has not been provided to congress despite lawful requests to the defense intelligence agency last summer and also having formally been published across the ic and analyzed by such analytical centers such as nasic uh these below these records belong under congressional oversight and i believe dia should stop obstructing chairman luna's task force and provide those documents to congress and enter it through mandatory declassification review so the american public can see some of the foreign intelligence i had access to secrecy around this issue did not appear overnight subsequent executive orders secretary defense memorandums department of security basically nullified congress's role with the judicial branch with oversight of this issue

22:26 remember classification exists to protect the nation executive order 13 526 discusses what can and cannot be classified embarrassment hiding funds criminal activity and the basic information about uh scientific information in the universe is is unlawful for it to be classified and this is why whistleblower protections matter through my federal litigation ongoing with the department of war i learned that the air force worked with an external agency to seek an investigation of me for alleged unauthorized disclosures punishable under the espionage act after i testified in front of congress in 2023 discussing the results of my congressionally directed investigation in the support of the first trump administration this should concern every member of congress regardless of party to this day i'm still fighting years of record withholding administrative obstruction in a prolonged effort to get a medical military retirement that i still am not in retired status

23:27 this is also a real fraud waste and abuse issue president vance's task force is sharply focused on the issue of misuse of funds the same accountability problem applies here and during my investigation i found slush funds to the tune of billions of dollars per annum uh for these activities we cannot have one standard for the american people and another standard for the deep state that hide behind the veil of secrecy president trump has the authority to create an enduring legacy of government transparency accountability consistent with national security protections disclosure should not depend on leaks it should not depend on the public taking my word for it or anyone else's american people deserve more than vague denials and selective releases of prior administrations to include through troubled organizations such as era i applaud the president's efforts and has promised to show true american leadership on this issue of massive worldwide interest over a billion views on the file drop website so the time has come to stop asking

24:29 the public to trust secret conclusions instead provide an honest accounting of what it knows what it's done and what has been withheld god bless america i think um we have about four minutes before they call votes to open it up for a quick round of questions so if you guys can just let's start with real america's voice great i have a question for david rush i certainly don't have the compendium it's a continuum from uh corporeal bipedal type life to you know what i would consider is like sentient plasma life but there are there are several that the u_s_ government is aware okay during the course of your investigation it's been surfaced to the public that there's been a program by the name of immaculate constellation during the course of your investigation did you recognize that the infrastructure to support

25:29 such a program for exfiltration of data from federal systems would exist yeah i can't comment on the content of that program i've discussed on my um i interviewed uh in judicial watch that was a national security council program um and the secrecy started in 1954 through an eisenhower executive order that created that infrastructure thank you very much mr gresh christian fisher with the endless void when you look at where we are right now this moment for the disclosure movement what's at stake here i think the sovereign contract between the citizenry and its government i think the institutional rots that the lack of transparency in this issue is possibly going to cause uh an untenable socioeconomic condition um if the government is not transparent akin to uh certain other uh i don't want to say the epstein files that's a you know dirty word but we could we could have that kind of scandal if we're not transparent on this issue and do you have any advice for people who are new to the ufo uh topic the uap topic

26:31 who just really don't know where to begin there's just so much misinformation out there what is your advice to them uh i would go watch james fox's documentaries i like the disclosures a great great movie that's a good primer so and i also there is a declassified 1971 australian formerly classified secret assessment that a couple years ago was put in australian national archives i encourage people to read page 7 through 16 and that was the nuclear branch chief of the australian government discussing the u.s cover-up and the involvement of the cia back in the 70s and that's actually a little known document that is publicly available david a question with the whistleblower uh matthew sullivan is there anything that you know or is there anything that ties into what is happening here today and with his testimony that never happened because um he was he died two weeks i guess before um that's that that's an ongoing it's an ongoing federal investigation yeah they're leading up but i a lot of the stuff

27:32 that started happening and picking up speed is just weird that it somewhat correlates to the disclosure efforts what was he coming in to testify for that would be a question for rep rilson yeah david david david david oh yeah mr mr sullivan uh was on the legacy uh program uh i served on active duty with him in the air force but i don't want to discuss details of his knowledge until the federal investigation is completed okay joe um so just for those that are maybe not so familiar can you explain right now what the roadblocks are what is preventing lawmakers and if lawmakers from visiting locations that have been critical to reverse engineering or other things that the knowledge is there but the ability to go and see them i'll take a stop at that if congress says we're going to go to area 51 oh if congress says we're going to go to area 51 everybody says go to area 51 birchett all i'm going to get there's a good dead gum t-shirt all right the moving van's already going to be there

28:32 the problem you have is is that these things have been moved into private entities so that they don't have a foyer for you i could you know i could i could pull you ford motor company gary b but doesn't mean i'm gonna they're gonna do anything that's why they moved it out of the federal governments and that's part of the roadblocks other roadblocks we've seen we try to get a committee we've had staff members try to block us when this when we first started this thing with that first hearing that grush said that there's biological entities um they they tried to move it into the remember that russian balloon that flew over they tried to move it into that and what was it chinese excuse me they're all together i don't care no i know they're not but but they tried to move it into that we had staff members try to block us just the top the top level we've been in a skiff before and we had a member of congress come in and just try to disrupt the meeting try to disrupt grush throw him all these trick questions and he answered every dadgum one of them just right off the bat he knocked it out of the park so if there's um there's before we have to go because this is the last question um we do have a meeting set up

29:33 with the white house the white house is going to play ball on this so as rep burleson and burchett has stated they are following through on everything that we are sending them so the next course of action and something that they are willing to entertain is if you are an intelligence official or have knowledge of locations of materials and in doing our due diligence and following up the task force they are considering and i do believe that they are going to be providing immunity permanently um so that people can't be hit with a violation of the espionage act so again there's a lot of people that have a lot of information but it's really can we prove it and what information can we then bring forward to the american people so we are still relying on you guys wait a minute let the guy with the he's had his hand up the whole time ma'am go ahead thank you mr pritchett i have a question for mr brush uh quite quite a few several dozens so that's

30:35 uh an ongoing uh list so i could give you an exact number because i don't even have i don't even have full access to that information um several dozen bottom line we got to go vote bottom line um we wouldn't be here if it weren't for the bravery of these individuals who came forward mr grush and all of the whistleblowers we wouldn't be here if it weren't for the the political courage of my colleagues who took this issue from being a fringe issue to being something that everyone is talking about is no longer no longer a fringe issue and we wouldn't be here if it weren't for this president who has taken a decades-long request and finally brought us into the age of disclosure and so um and i and i want to say thank you to the press as well to james and to leslie and to everyone who has helped cover this topic um we're here to fight for the american people

31:35 fight for the truth and and again our last call to action is we want to challenge every foreign country do what the united states is doing see what we're doing here and we want to we want to see your country follow suit and we want to see if any individuals have any information do not be afraid to come to a member of congress we will protect you and we will we will make sure that the truth is out of course there's something going on you had 14 rabbis 14 preachers 14 used car salesmen disappear you'd be you'd be asking questions there's something going on what congressman thomas keene jr is missing congressman nothing to do with ufos i think he's just ill what's the biggest wow that you've seen uh congressman well since you bear a striking resemblance to stephen spielberg i'm going to answer

32:36 this but i want but matthew mcconaughey is going to play tim burchett in the tim burchett story okay i just want you to know that um i can't talk about it that's the problem i've got to go thank you all hey tell your people to call their dadgum congressman all right we want disclosure that's all you got to say you're welcome thank you all right you're welcome thank you all right you're welcome thank you all right

33:40 Thank you.