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Crashed UFOs.

David Grusch said that

they were in possession

of an intact
extraterrestrial spacecraft.

Recovered alien entities.

Jesse
Marcel knew not only that there was

a crashed craft but also bodies.

Secret programs
to study otherworldly technology.

Bob Lazar said
not only are we reverse engineering UFOs,

but that he worked on one.

For more than six decades,

incredible claims have been made

about an extraterrestrial
presence on Earth,

and the government
has gone to great lengths

to discredit them.

Are we nearing the
day when whistleblowers

will finally be taken seriously

and their accounts proven true?

There's absolutely
fear of being treated like you're crazy,

but we have evidence
this is not crazy.

It's not made
up. It's-it's real.

There is a doorway

in the universe.

Beyond it is the
promise of truth.

It demands we
question everything

we have ever been taught.

The evidence is all around us.

The future is right
before our eyes.

We are not alone.

We have never been alone.

The subcommittee hearing

on unidentified
anomalous phenomena,

or UAPs, will come to order.

On Capitol Hill,
the House Oversight Committee

assembles for a landmark
congressional hearing

to record firsthand
accounts of UAP activity.

As we convene here,
UAP are in our airspace,

but they are grossly
underreported.

These sightings are not rare
or isolated, they are routine.

During the proceedings,
lawmakers listen to testimony

from three notable
whistleblowers:

Retired Navy pilots Ryan Graves

and David Fravor,

and former Air Force
intelligence officer

David Grusch,

who also served on
the UAP Task Force.

The military veterans
have come forward

to testify under oath
about UAPs that they claim

the government has
been covering up.

Parts of our
government are aware

of more about UAP
than they let on,

but excessive
classification practices

keep crucial information hidden.

Millions of people
are watching it,

and they're hearing this
beyond dramatic testimony

that, for the first
time, we're told

what everybody knows to be true.

The U.S. government
has been hiding secrets

about UFOs for over 70 years.

Whistleblower David
Grusch even suggests that the government

may be in possession
of alien technology.

I was informed in the
course of my official duties

of a multi-decade,
UAP crash retrieval

and reverse engineering program.

For UFO
researchers and lawmakers alike,

the hearing marks a
watershed moment,

as many believe the Pentagon

has been overly secretive about
unidentified aerial phenomena.

To have a UAP
hearing on the House Oversight Committee

was a first for
the history books.

There was a lot of information

that was shared and
alleged in that hearing,

which made it one
of the most, I think,

important hearings in the
Oversight Committee's history.

The
hearing's explosive testimony

made headlines across the world.

And like many
government whistleblowers,

the individuals who
sat before the committee

came forward at
great personal risk.

From a layperson's
perspective of what a whistleblower is,

it is a person who has
got inside information

about wrongdoing
who comes forward

and at their own peril

reveals this to
investigative reporters

or to government officials.

I had asked about
12 people to testify,

and we got down to those
three because the others had...

I think they'd been threatened
or warned not to come on.

And some of them
told us that, in effect.

If you're
gonna be a whistleblower,

you got to know that
whatever deep dark secret

exists in your life,
it's gonna come out.

These guys know that,
when they come forward

with something
as sensitive as this,

they're gonna pay a price.

Is the government

actively discouraging people
from speaking out about UFOs?

According to military insiders,

the answer is a resounding yes.

But the willingness of
whistleblowers to come forward,

despite the risk,

has led to more open discussion

about the UFO
phenomenon than ever before.

And the man who is most
credited with sparking interest

among lawmakers on Capitol
Hill is whistleblower Luis Elizondo.

Luis Elizondo, was a full-time,

military, career
guy, United States Army,

and a very high-ranking
counterintelligence officer.

He was retained in 2007

to a top-secret program,

which is the advanced
weapons special access program,

to investigate the
UFO phenomenon.

He became involved in setting up

some other special, kind
of less formal program

inside the Pentagon
that was called

the Advanced Aerospace
Threat Identification Program.

For almost a decade,

Elizondo studied UFOs

and interviewed
eyewitnesses for the Army.

But according to Elizondo,
the more he uncovered,

the more his investigation
was suppressed.

They were making some progress

in the military,
in the Pentagon,

but he's trying to get the
attention of his higher-ups.

"Hey, look, these cases
are really important.

"These encounters are
dramatic and unexplained.

We need to put some
resources into studying this."

And he got nowhere.
He kept getting blocked.

So, he took a-a pretty
courageous stance and resigned.

In October 2017,

Lue Elizondo resigned from AATIP

after Pentagon officials
refused to present

his findings to Defense
Secretary James Mattis.

I-I've seen too much.

I've talked to too many people.

I have too many reports.

I-I know it's real.

I-I can't in good conscience

just keep my head
buried in the sand.

I had to leave the
very job that I love

to get my point across.

He gets frustrated,

and he decides to
do something about it.

He becomes a whistleblower,

not just a whistleblower,

but perhaps the
whistleblower of all time.

Just days after resigning,

Elizondo shared his
story with reporters

from The New York Times.

And on December
16, the paper published

a front-page
article that revealed

the classified UFO program.

In many ways, that
New York Times story

really changed ufology

around the world,

because when The New
York Times got on board

and is saying, "Yeah,
there are UFOs out there,"

that opened a lot
of people's eyes.

Along with the
article, The New York Times released

three UFO videos
taken by Navy pilots,

including the now
famous Tic Tac encounter.

These videos
captured the world's attention.

And suddenly, it's like
we're in a new world.

We have these incredible
videos shot by Navy pilots

giving irrefutable evidence
that there is a technology

out there that is beyond
anything our near peers have.

Look at it fly!

Lue Elizondo was the core.

I mean, without him
as the whistleblower,

as the main impetus for it, that
story would never have happened.

The videos, though, is what
galvanized public attention.

Almost immediately
after Elizondo went public,

elements within the government

actively sought
to discredit him.

Lue Elizondo
went through a tremendous amount

of harassment from
senior Pentagon officials,

former supervisors
of his and the like.

Um, you had a-a statement

in 2019 that came from
the Pentagon spokesperson,

who stated that Luis Elizondo

had no official office
with this office at AATIP,

in the Advanced Aerospace
Threat Identification Program.

Lue Elizondo
knew he'd pay a price,

but it was almost immediate.

The Pentagon
undercut his credibility.

But he's a
courageous individual,

and he stuck to his guns,
and he changed the world.

From Lue
Elizondo's 2017 AATIP revelations

to the 2023 Congressional
UAP hearing,

whistleblowers today are
making their voices heard

like never before.

But they are just the latest in
a long line of whistleblowers

who've been coming forward
to tell their stories for decades.

And the most controversial
of their claims...

that the U.S. military is in
possession of alien technology...

can be traced all
the way back to 1947

and an Army Air Force Major

who was at the heart
of the Roswell incident.

Roswell, New Mexico.

July 1947.

An unidentified object
is witnessed streaking

across the night sky,

then crashes in the
desert north of town

near the Roswell Army Air Field.

Rancher Mac Brazel
hears the impact

and investigates
the next morning.

Mac Brazel is the first
to find the debris field,

and it's an
impressive debris field.

Pieces, objects and
things everywhere.

And Brazel reports it to
the local Roswell sheriff,

a man named George Wilcox.

And Wilcox, sends
some deputies out there,

and, the case just
gets crazier from there.

Roswell Army Air Field sends
people out to investigate it.

The next thing you know,
the press release goes out.

"Army captures flying disc."

Shortly after the
U.S. Air Force said,

"We've recovered a flying
disc," they reversed their position

and said it was just
a weather balloon.

The Roswell incident has become

the most notorious
alleged cover-up

of a UFO crash and
retrieval in U.S. history.

And at the center of it all...

is whistleblower Jesse Marcel.

My grandfather,
Major Jesse Marcel,

back in July of 1947,

was the head of intelligence
for the 509th bombing group.

That was heavily involved
in our atomic program

to end the second World War

and pretty well versed

in the latest
technologies, aircraft,

what have you at the time.

Major Jesse Marcel was
really the lead investigator

into what has become known
as the "Roswell incident."

On July 7,
Major Marcel was dispatched

from Roswell Army Air Field to
examine the mysterious debris.

According to his grandson,

Marcel was so
astounded by what he saw

that he took the
debris home with him.

He...

went and woke up
his son, my father,

who was about 12
years old at the time,

and his wife Viaud, and said,

"You guys got to come
take a look at this."

He couldn't make heads
or tails or any sense

out of what he was looking at.

Even stranger,

while examining the wreckage,

Marcel's family discovered
several mysterious markings.

One thing they noticed was

it almost had no weight to it.

And my father picked
up what was a beam

about 11, 12 inches long.

And all of a sudden,
these symbols appeared.

And he really came to the idea

that, whatever this was, it
was not made by human hands.

The next morning,
Major Marcel was summoned

to the Fort Worth
Army Air Field in Texas.

There, he was
given strict orders

not to reveal the truth
about the Roswell crash,

and for three
decades, he didn't.

But in February of 1978,

Marcel finally
broke his silence.

My
Grandfather was a ham radio operator,

loved to talk.

He was talking on ham radio,

and somebody recognized his
name as being part of the air base.

And he talked a little
bit about Roswell.

And soon enough,

a gentleman by the name of
Stanton Friedman heard of it,

and interviewed my
grandfather about it.

And that was really
when it broke out.

Stanton Friedman was

an American-Canadian
nuclear physicist

who began scientifically
investigating UFOs

in the 1960s,
due to his curiosity

about what happened at Roswell.

When he learned that
Jesse Marcel was ready

to reveal the truth,
he went to visit him

at his home in
Southern Louisiana.

Major Marcel told me... I
was the first to talk to him...

that what they were trying

to keep under wraps
was actual wreckage

of a flying saucer.

General Roger Ramey,
head of the Eighth Air Force,

covered it up very
straightforwardly.

Roger Ramey
came to Roswell and said,

"Bring all the UFO
material to Fort Worth,

Eighth Air Force headquarters,
and we'll disclose the truth."

But Major Jesse Marcel
goes to Fort Worth,

and they bring out
a weather balloon.

And they make Jesse Marcel,

a radar-trained
intelligence officer,

stand in front of
a weather balloon

and admit that he was confused.

Everybody was
familiar with weather balloons.

The notion that Jesse Marcel,

the intelligence
officer for the 509th,

couldn't recognize a
weather balloon is ridiculous.

According to Friedman,

in order to ensure
that the truth

about Roswell remained
hidden from the public,

the military not only had

to stage the famous
weather balloon photo,

but also make sure
that Marcel and others

who knew the real
story toed the line.

You agree that you
will not reveal anything

you've learned
that was classified

to anybody without
a need-to-know

and an appropriate
security clearance.

There are darn few people who,

after the war, incidentally,
broke their security oaths.

My
Grandfather broke his bond of secrecy.

I think that, in
some small part,

he was looking for a
little bit of, you know, like,

"Hey, you guys, you know,
there is something to this."

Despite his excitement

over what he had
found in the debris field,

Marcel maintained his silence

until he was 70 years old.

People who are
involved in keeping secrets,

it poisons you, and you
feel this great release

when you finally get it out

and say, "Yeah, you
know, it's all true."

I've spoken to
military witnesses

who sat on stories for 50 years

out of loyalty, out
of a belief that...

that the law constrained them.

But Marcel, 30
years on, he was like,

"Okay, that's enough
of the cover story.

Here's what really happened."

After Marcel
broke his silence in 1978,

it caused a sensation,

and Friedman began
referring to the Roswell coverup

as a "cosmic Watergate."

Before 1978, the Roswell crash

was pretty much unheard of.

Only in the hardcore groups

of UFO people would
you know about Roswell.

Jesse Marcel blew open the door

to the most famous
UFO crash story

that you can think of today.

Could it be
that Jesse Marcel is just one

of dozens, or perhaps
even hundreds

of military personnel who have
witnessed unexplainable events

that they are
forbidden to reveal?

UFO researchers suggest

the Roswell incident
was the beginning

of a decades-long
government coverup.

One that involved an elaborate
disinformation campaign

disguised as an official
UFO investigation

called "Project Blue Book."

The famous Roswell incident

was just one of many
high-profile encounters

with unidentified flying objects

that occurred
during the late 1940s.

In June 1947,

pilot Kenneth Arnold

reported seeing nine
silver disc-shaped objects

flying near Mount Rainier.

Less than one month later,

sailor Harold Dahl reported

that a flying disc
dropped molten slag

onto his boat near
Maury Island, Washington.

And in January 1948,

Army Captain Thomas Mantell
tragically died in a plane crash

while chasing a UFO
over Western Ohio.

These and other similar
events prompted the government

to launch Project
Blue Book in 1952.

Project Blue Book was

the U.S. Air Force

research and investigation
program into UFOs.

This was a project
that took some years,

but by the mid-60s,
there's 20,000 cases there.

So, this was one of the
most significant investigations

of UFOs of its time.

Project Blue
Book would last 18 years,

and involve dozens
of investigators.

Chief among them were Air
Force Captain Edward J. Ruppelt,

astronomer Jacques Vallée,

and Project Blue
Book's scientific advisor,

Dr. J. Allen Hynek.

According to
Dr. Hynek's son Paul,

the Air Force made its
agenda clear right from the start.

The Air Force came
calling to my father

in the late '40s, asking him

to tamp down reports

of flying saucers.

My father was very
useful to Project Blue Book

because he had the
academic credibility

to get people to
believe what he's saying.

J. Allen Hynek
was an astronomy professor,

brought on by
the U.S. Air Force.

And to start off with,

he-he absolutely
took the party line.

But while the
purpose of Project Blue Book

was to discredit UFOs,

over the course of his tenure,

Hynek grew to question
the project's mission.

My father was
muzzled by the Air Force

in terms of what they
would investigate,

how serious they
would investigate it,

and what he was
allowed to disclose.

He had a front row center seat

to the most confidential aspects

of the early days of
the UFO phenomena.

And my father went
from a diehard skeptic

to an acceptor

of the accumulated
weight of the data.

Hynek's findings
were dismissed by his superiors,

who demanded that he
continue to debunk UFO reports.

And when Project Blue
Book ended in 1969,

Hynek went public.

He was really the main person

to draw attention to the fact

that Project Blue Book was
not set out to find the truth

but to control the narrative.

J. Allen Hynek was
one of the most outspoken voices

about the government efforts
to suppress evidence of UFOs.

And some researchers believe
he would have spoken out sooner,

if it wasn't for a tragic event

that happened to
one of his colleagues...

Air Force Captain
Edward Ruppelt.

Edward Ruppelt was the
first director of Project Blue Book.

During his tenure,

which lasted close to two years,

Ruppelt was in charge of
all of the best information

that the United States
Air Force was acquiring

at that time about... as he
began calling them... UFOs.

And Ruppelt actually
gave us that term,

"unidentified flying object."

Project Blue Book
was ostensibly a military project

to debunk UFOs,

but Ruppelt wasn't
going along with that.

Ruppelt was saying, "no,
there's something going on here.

We need to look at this."

Captain Ruppelt
frequently found himself at odds

with his superiors.

Like when he tried to
investigate a major UFO incident

that occurred right
over the nation's capital.

On Saturday, July 19, 1952,

at 11:40 p.m.,

air traffic controllers at
Washington National Airport

and Andrews Air Force Base

detected seven
unidentified flying objects

on their radar screens.

The UFO sightings
caused a sensation,

and, incredibly,

more unidentified objects
were detected again

the following weekend.

For two
weeks, Washington, D.C.,

is buzzed by a
fleet of seven UFOs.

They literally fly
over the White House,

over the Capitol,
Washington National Airport.

Ruppelt was in Washington
while this is happening,

and he wanted to investigate.

And his frustration begins,

because he's told he
can't have a staff car

because he's not a general.

If he wants to investigate it,

go get himself a taxi.

Frustrated by what he saw

as a government effort
to debunk all UFOs,

in 1953, Ruppelt resigned
from Project Blue Book.

And a few years later, he
made his findings public.

In 1956,
Ruppelt publishes a book

about his experience as the
director of Project Blue Book,

The Report on
Unidentified Flying Objects.

This book is
incredibly important,

because this is the first time
that the public gets a glimpse

of the inner workings of the
government's investigations

into UFOs from an insider.

One of the things

Ruppelt pointed out in his
book that was really interesting

and important was to
show that, within the military,

particularly the Air Force,

many of them took UFOs
quite seriously and believed

that this was interplanetary.

That was the word they
were using back then.

Ruppelt's book
captivated readers across the country.

Its popularity led to an
updated version being published

four years later.

But, curiously, in
the new printing,

Ruppelt completely reversed his
position on the UFO phenomenon.

In 1960,

Ruppelt had a second
edition of his book,

and he said that
UFOs were a hoax,

that they did not exist.

The strange
thing is, is that he dies

within months of the
release of the book.

He's a 37-year-old man
who dies of a heart attack.

And now, on top of this,

the UFO community is
wondering what happened to him.

Is there a conspiracy here?

It is still one of the
most enduring mysteries

of when a UFO
investigator essentially left us

before their time.

Is it possible
that Captain Edward Ruppelt

paid the ultimate price for
exposing a government cover-up

regarding UFOs?

Perhaps further
clues can be found

in the statements of
another whistleblower

who claimed to have
reverse engineered

an alien spacecraft.

Throughout
the 1950s, '60s and '70s,

dozens of whistleblowers came
forward with incredible claims

about the government's knowledge
of extraterrestrial visitation.

But for many UFO researchers,

the most important
revelations of all

came in the late 1980s,

from a physicist
named Bob Lazar.

The first person Lazar told
his story to was his close friend,

retired CIA pilot John Lear.

Bob Lazar used to
work at Los Alamos.

Had the highest clearance
that you can get there.

And he worked for

three or four months
up there at Area 51.

While working at
the top-secret Air Force facility

known as Area 51,

Lazar revealed to his friend

that a remarkable
object was hidden deep

within the secret
military compound.

Was December 6 of '88.

He comes in, he sits
down there at, my desk

and he said, "I
saw a disc today."

And I said, "What?"

He said, "I saw a disc."

And I said, "You
saw a flying saucer?"

He said, "Yeah. Sure did.

"I saw 'em. I touched 'em.

They are real."

And I said, "Well,
there's no reason

"you should be here right now,

"because they're going
to have followed you.

They know exactly
what you're doing."

Four months later,

Lear learned that his
concerns about Lazar

being watched by the
military were well-founded.

Lazar revealed that
Air Force officers

at Area 51 had approached him

to let him know that they
had been keeping track

of not only him but also his wife.

They had
some private information

that his wife was
having an affair.

Said, "We can't have
anybody working with us

"who has, family
problems like that.

"So we need to suspend
your work up there

until, you get
things sorted out."

And that was April 7 of '89.

And, that's when
he decided to go public.

With Bob's permission,

Lear shared his story
with a reporter he knew

at the local KLAS-TV station,

George Knapp.

On May 15, Knapp
sat down with Lazar

for a live interview.

We had a five-minute
live interview segment every night.

And I don't remember
who it was that day,

but they canceled
late in the day.

And I didn't know
what we were gonna do.

And I thought, "I wonder
if Lear's UFO buddy

might be available."

I had no idea who Bob Lazar was.

And so we sent a live
unit up to Lear's home.

This skinny, bespectacled
guy comes out.

We had to hide his
identity. Silhouette.

We used a pseudonym
and we started interviewing

and out spills this story

of a secret facility built
up in the Area 51 complex.

Exactly what's
going on up there?

Well, there's several...

actually, nine, flying
saucers, flying discs,

that are out there
of extraterrestrial origin.

And they're being test-flown

and, basically just analyzed.

It is the highest-rated
locally produced series

ever airing in Las Vegas.

And it changed the
course of my life.

After Lazar's sensational claim,

Area 51 became the
center of public interest.

And UFO enthusiasts

began to comb the Nevada desert

in search of the secret
military installation.

Bob Lazar ultimately
revealed his identity.

And once he did, his life
would never be the same.

Bob Lazar,

he was ripped apart
for this information.

In fact, it got so bad

where his house was broken in,

he was harassed,

his family was threatened.

Lazar thought
he was gonna be killed.

We were being followed.

We were being tracked.

Our phones were tapped.

We were being watched.

I mean, I made an open
appeal to our audience.

I said, "Look, I know
there are people

"who are watching
this program now

"who know about the
reverse engineering.

And I want you to
reach out to me."

And six times in a row,

people who contacted me,

offered to meet with
me and go on camera,

were visited the very next day

by people purporting
to be government agents

who told them to
shut the hell up or else.

And in a couple of those cases,
they were threatened with death.

Faced with constant harassment,

Lazar retreated
from public view.

Then, in 2013,

24 years after Bob
Lazar's explosive interview,

a Freedom of
Information Act request

forced the government to finally
reveal the existence of Area 51.

While Air Force
officials still denied

that the facility
had anything to do

with extraterrestrial
craft or beings,

Lazar felt a sense
of vindication.

In 2018, he decided

to share his story in filmmaker
Jeremy Corbell's documentary

Area 51 & Flying Saucers.

In the late 1980s,

the U.S. government had
recovered alien spacecraft,

several of them,

and the technology
in the Nevada desert

that they were keeping
quiet and analyzing.

That's a fact.

I think after he saw
some time passing

and saw how people were
saying things that he never said,

it just finally got to him.

And he's a fighter.
So I think he just got

to a point where he was
saying, "Okay, enough is enough.

Here we go. What
do you want to know?"

I don't like being
in the public eye.

I don't have money
for doing this.

And, quite frankly, I
could make up a better lie.

And, quite frankly, I
could make up a better lie.

But I have no motivation to lie.

Jeremy's film was
an atomic bomb all over again.

A whole new generation of
people got to learn about Bob Lazar.

And I think it inspired
some of the people

who are now coming
forward as-as whistleblowers

to go ahead and have
the courage to speak up.

Could it be that Bob Lazar

was targeted by a campaign
to suppress the truth

about alien
technology at Area 51?

Many believe Lazar's
willingness to come forward

opened the door for
another whistleblower,

one who exposed a conspiracy
so vast it would take him

into the halls of the
United States Congress.

The Debrief,
a science news website,

publishes a
sensational interview

with military intelligence
officer David Grusch.

David Grusch,

he's a former intelligence
community officer,

he served on the UAP Task Force

under the directorship
of Jay Stratton,

and he was a representative

of the National
Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.

While I was on the
UAP Task Force,

Dave Grusch was given the job

to go and start
interviewing people

who worked on a
previous UFO program,

see what they were
willing to tell us.

And he found a lot of things.

In the Debrief
article, Grusch revealed

that as part of his official
duties at the Pentagon,

he was informed
of a decades-long,

top secret military program to
recover and reverse engineer

crashed craft of
nonhuman origin.

It was his job
to go and interview

some of the people in the system

who are actively responsible
for keeping it secret.

And he says it's all real.

Everything you've heard,
everything you've been told,

all the rumors
about crashed UFOs,

dead bodies, it's all true.

Grusch interviewed, he said,

about 40 witnesses

within the national
security establishment.

He stated that there are

multiple alien craft,

that the United
States government

or its licensed private
contractors have possession of.

And he stated that there
were what he called "biologics"

that were recovered.

That's his word
for alien bodies.

I've been in a
secure environment with Dave

and have had been briefed on
everything that he's uncovered,

and, everything
that he's saying in public

has been approved by,
the-the Defense Department

and, also, by the
Inspector General.

There's a-a "there" there,
as-as the saying goes,

and, we would all be
wise to listen to the stories.

Astonished
by the scope of the project,

Grusch came forward
as a whistleblower.

He decided that the Pentagon
was withholding critical information

on this subject from Congress,
which he argued was illegal.

And he, ended up
issuing a complaint about this

to the Inspector
General's office

of the intelligence community.

On July 26, 2023,

just seven weeks
after going public,

David Grusch and two
other whistleblowers

testified before a
Congressional hearing.

I have taken every step I can
to corroborate this evidence

over a period of four years

while I was with
the UAP Task Force,

and do my due diligence
on the individuals sharing it.

This is... Because
of these steps,

I believe strongly,
in the importance

of bringing this
information before you.

During his testimony,

Grusch revealed specific
details of military UAP encounters.

He also stated that despite
having nothing to gain

by disclosing this information,

his testimony made him a target
for significant repercussions.

Mr. Grusch,

have you faced any
retaliation or reprisals

for any of your
testimony or anything?

Yeah, I have to be
careful what I say in detail

because there is an open,

whistleblower reprisal
investigation on my behalf,

and I don't want to
compromise that investigation.

But it was very brutal
and, very unfortunate,

some of the
tactics they used to,

um, hurt me both professionally

and-and personally,
to be quite frank.

We were told that
individuals had been killed

protecting this information.

He's in fear of his life as well
as the, safety of his wife.

There is something more
nefarious at play here.

Almost immediately
following his dramatic testimony,

articles in the press
attempted to discredit Grusch,

making a string of accusations
aimed at questioning

his mental state.

They tried to say
that because he had deployed

and some of his
friends have died,

he might have PTSD.

They tried to discredit
him, which is just

the most egregious smear
that they could ever run

on a military service member.

The article
sensationalized his mental difficulties.

And it turns out that,

the author of it
actually acknowledged,

publicly, that he had been
contacted by, sources

inside the Defense Department
and directed to do this.

We have a
generations-long history

of the federal government
trying to discredit witnesses,

and I believe we saw
that with David Grusch.

The
U.S. military denies

David Grusch's
sensational allegations.

But if what he says isn't true,

then why did members
of the Defense Department

actively try to
discredit his testimony?

The claims made by David Grusch,

and other
whistleblowers like him,

have brought more attention
to the UFO phenomenon

than ever before.

And ancient astronaut
theorists believe that the truth

about an extraterrestrial
presence on Earth

may finally be revealed.

After more than 70 years

of whistleblower testimony

claiming that the
U.S. government

is covering up the
truth about UFOs,

members of Congress
finally decide to take action.

I'm pleased the NDAA
will include my amendment

on increasing
transparency on UAPs,

or unidentified
anomalous phenomena.

Senate Majority
Leader Chuck Schumer sponsors

the Unidentified Anomalous
Phenomena Disclosure Act.

The bill would
require the release

of all government
knowledge of UAPs.

But UFO researchers
are left frustrated

when it is finally signed
into law five months later.

Some really robust and
new whistleblower provisions

were drafted,

but not a lot of that

actually made it
into the final bill.

In fact, a lot of the
really interesting

UAP-related provisions
were negotiated out.

No independent review board,
no eminent domain provision.

No extra whistleblower
protections.

Were these
changes to the legislation

simply part of a routine
political process?

Or might it be the latest
attempt by the government

to suppress
information about UFOs?

Either way, many UFO
researchers remain optimistic

that we have entered an age
in which more whistleblowers

will come forward
than ever before.

The fact that Congress
gutted this legislation,

a lot of people in UFO
world see that as the end.

It's just the beginning.

And I think that
what's gonna happen

over the next months and years

is that additional
whistleblowers

are gonna go public,

and they're gonna
release documents

and they're gonna release videos

that are gonna be
very compelling.

Much of the information
that we've gotten about UFOs

has been from whistleblowers.

People who, are insiders,

they're in the military,

and they think that people
should know these things.

And so, they risk themselves

by becoming whistleblowers.

For the past eight decades,

the heroes of this movement have
always been the whistleblowers,

the insiders who decide
that the powers that be

can't withhold this information
from the American people...

and, indeed, the
human race... any longer.

They're dedicated, ultimately,

to what all of us are
seeking: the truth.

It is the whistleblowers

who will move us one step closer

to answering the
extraterrestrial question.

It's about time that
we're being told the truth

because we can handle the truth.

We're told we can't, but we can.

And so, I think we now live

in one of the
most exciting times

in the entire
history of our planet.

In the wake of the
whistleblower hearing before Congress,

could even more incredible
secrets soon be revealed?

Secrets involving
knowledge of a real

extraterrestrial
presence on Earth?

For now, the fact that UFOs

are being discussed in
the mainstream press,

and Congress, represents
monumental progress.

If we ever learn
the full truth about UFOs,

whistleblowers will
undoubtedly have played

a key role in
getting that truth out.

We'll look back at the history
of some of these people,

and we'll name
the names and say,

"These are the people who
enabled this to be done."

I see it as the Mount
Rushmore of ufology,

that one day, we'll
have those faces

carved in stone somewhere.

Hynek, Ruppelt,

Elizondo, Grusch
and many others.

They're all heroes.

What if the incredible
claims of UFO whistleblowers

are all true?

Could it be that first
contact with extraterrestrials

does not lie in the near future
but has already happened?

Perhaps, as more whistleblowers
continue to come forward, ,

the full truth will
finally be revealed...

and we will discover
that we are not alone,

even on our own planet.

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