Government & military · Witnesses & participants
David Grusch
Former intelligence officer and congressional witness
Also known as David Charles Grusch
Photograph · Image credit
Who they are
David Grusch is a former intelligence officer who publicly alleged concealed UAP retrieval and reverse-engineering programs in 2023. In his congressional statement he described information supplied by other people and his reports to inspectors general. His profile follows the documented disclosure and testimony process while leaving the underlying classified evidence outside the inspected public record.
He is central to the timeline’s 2021–2023 complaint and disclosure sequence, as the source of allegations presented to reporters and Congress.
Selected contributions
- Publicly described alleged retrieval programs and the information supplied to him.Source ↗Source 2 ↗
- Testified at the July 26, 2023 House hearing.Source ↗
Primary records
Testimony · 2023
Opening Statement
Grusch describes information supplied to him about alleged retrieval programs and his decision to report it to inspectors general. The statement explicitly frames his claims as information he was told; it does not make the underlying classified evidence public.
David Charles Grusch’s prepared statement for the July 26, 2023 House hearing; the PDF also includes a closing statement.
Reading scope & citation
Fresh complete short prepared statement read; no classified records inspected.
Testimony · 2023
Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Implications on National Security, Public Safety, and Government Transparency
The official transcript preserves Grusch, Graves and Fravor’s testimony and congressional questioning. It provides a fuller record than the prepared statements, including the witnesses’ different bases of knowledge.
Official July 26, 2023 hearing transcript, Serial No. 118–53.
Reading scope & citation
Fresh cover, contents and witness listing checked; previously inspected witness and questioning passages reused. No fresh cover-to-cover or audiovisual review.
In the timeline
Documented connections
Documented · testified
David Grusch testified at the July 26, 2023 House hearing.
A hearing documents testimony; it does not authenticate every underlying claim.
Read the relationship record →Biography sources & portrait credit
- Intelligence Officials Say U.S. Has Retrieved Non-Human Craft ↗The Debrief
- David Grusch: opening statement ↗House Oversight Committee
- UAP: Implications on National Security, Public Safety, and Government Transparency — full hearing transcript ↗US House of Representatives / GovInfo
Portrait credit
U.S. House Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs (official broadcast still). Public domain (U.S. federal government work). Via Wikimedia Commons.
Photograph. Cropped to 4:5, resized to 320 × 400 and converted to WebP.
Image source & identification ↗ · Public domain (U.S. federal government work) ↗
