On July 26, 2023, the House Oversight Committee's national security subcommittee convened one of the most remarkable hearings in congressional history. David Charles Grusch, a decorated former Air Force intelligence officer and National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency representative to the UAP Task Force, testified under oath that the United States government has been operating a multi-decade program to retrieve and reverse-engineer craft of non-human origin.
Grusch stated he had interviewed approximately 40 witnesses over four years and reviewed classified documents that corroborated the program's existence. "I was informed in the course of my official duties of a multi-decade UAP crash retrieval and reverse-engineering program to which I was denied access," he told the committee.
He went further, claiming that non-human biologics had been recovered alongside the craft. When pressed by Representative Nancy Mace on whether the US government had come into possession of "biological evidence" from UAP crash sites, Grusch answered: "That's something that's been reported to me, yes."
Alongside Grusch, former Navy pilots Ryan Graves and Commander David Fravor also testified. Fravor described his 2004 encounter with the Tic Tac UAP off the coast of San Diego, reiterating that the object demonstrated flight characteristics that exceeded all known aerospace technology.
The hearing drew bipartisan attention and marked a turning point in the government's public posture on UAP.