It’s been a big year for UFOs, or, to use the Pentagon‘s term, unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP).
In June, former U.S. intelligence officer David Grusch claimed that “non-human” objects and “intact and partially intact vehicles” had been collected and hidden by the U.S. government. Grusch then told NewsNation that the U.S. government had “quite a number” of these non-human craft and that “sometimes you encounter dead pilots.”
Grusch, who had been at the helm of analysis on UAP until earlier this year, doubled down on his claims in front of Congress, telling the House Oversight Committee in July 2023 that he had been barred from secret investigations run by the U.S. government.
He also told lawmakers that he had not seen evidence of any alien spacecraft himself, but his testimony was based on interviews with “high-level intelligence officials.” The Pentagon has denied the accusations, saying it has not found “any verifiable information to substantiate claims that any programs regarding the possession or reverse-engineering of extraterrestrial materials have existed in the past or exist currently.”
An explosive and eye-catching claim, anecdotes ultimately “don’t have a lot of weight in science,” said Seth Shostak, a long-time investigator of extraterrestrial life. Grusch told politicians that he could not divulge classified information without risking jail time.
Shostak is one of three scientists who spoke to Newsweek about their research into extraterrestrial life and the many avenues it can take. Shostak is a senior astronomer for the SETI Institute and suggested Grusch’s comments were the biggest moment of 2023’s search for proof of extraterrestrial life, but they fundamentally lack any hard proof.
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