Ex-Air Force UFO Whistleblower Refuses to Cooperate With Pentagon

The former Air Force intelligence officer who claims the U.S. military is covering up evidence of extraterrestrial life has repeatedly refused to cooperate with the Defense Department agency that's investigating UFOs, its director said.

Retired Maj. David Grusch, who delivered bombshell testimony to a House subcommittee in July, "has not come to see us and provide information," Sean Kirkpatrick, director of the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office, told reporters on Tuesday.

Grusch had testified that he was told about a secret program to recover and reverse-engineer crashed alien aircraft and that possible "nonhuman biological material" was found at one site.

"I think we've interviewed most of the people that he may have talked to, but we don't know that," Kirkpatrick said. "And we have extended an invitation at least four or five times now for him to come in over the last eight months or so and it has been declined.”

Kirkpatrick also said the last time he spoke with Grusch was when Kirkpatrick was part of joint staff intelligence "at U.S. Space Command about five years ago and it was not on this topic."

Grusch could not immediately be reached by The Messenger for comment.

Kirkpatrick's remarks came during a news conference in response to a reporter's question about the launch of a new, secure website where current and former government employees, service members and contractors can blow the whistle on official programs or activities related to UFOs.

The website is eventually set to be opened to the general public.

The AARO was created by Congress last year and is using a "rigorous scientific framework and a data-driven approach" to address reports of unidentified anomalous phenomena," the Pentagon's latest official term for UFOs.

“These reports will be used to inform AARO’s congressionally directed historical record report and investigations into alleged U.S. government UAP programs due to Congress in June of 2024," Kirkpatrick said.

Kirkpatrick also addressed the claims of reverse-engineering.

"I currently have no evidence of any program having ever existed as a way to do any sort of reverse-engineering of any sort of extraterrestrial UAP," he said. “We do have a requirement by law to bring those whistleblowers or other interviewees in who think that it does exist, and they may have evidence that pertains to that. We do not have any of that evidence right now.”