Turns out former Clinton and Bush Administration Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence Chris Mellon was being awfully cute with his Saturday Politico op-ed claiming he’s referred at least four whistleblowers with knowledge of military studies of retrieved extraterrestrial spacecraft as on Monday one of them, former Army intel officer and Afghanistan combat vet David Charles Grusch came forward in a piece in the Debrief. On the byline are Leslie Kean and Ralph Blumenthal, two of the three authors credited on the famous December 2017 New York Times report first revealing a clandestine hybrid public-private program to investigate UFOs.

Taking advantage of new laws immunizing whistleblowers with information specific to the phenomena, Grusch has filed a complaint with the Intelligence Community Inspector General and provided Congress with what the Kean and Blumenthal describe as consisting of “extensive classified information about deeply covert programs that he says possess retrieved intact and partially intact craft of non-human origin,” which Grusch says is not “about prosaic origins or identities,” like ChiCom spy balloons or hobbyist balloons mistaken for ChiCom spy balloons.

We were looking forward to Mellon backing up his claims and sure enough he was definitely aware of this Debrief piece as he’s quoted in it extensively, which was real fucking cheeky of him to sandbag with that Politico piece. Grusch does not come across like a Bob Lazar or Phil Schneider-type scam artist given his credentials as a decorated combat vet who also served with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and the National Reconnaissance Office – and that the former Intel Community IG is willingly representing him. That said, people are still going to be disinclined to give any credit to his very much extraordinary claims which do not yet have any publicly available evidence to back them up. And it is a hell of a leap even to those among us otherwise very much open to the idea of alien craft regularly scouting our planet out.