A former US Air Force intelligence officer has made explosive claims at Capitol Hill that the American government is aware of multiple alien species — including solid physical creatures and intelligent plasma energy beings — and is sitting on “smoking gun” proof of extraterrestrial life that it has refused to release to the public.
David Grusch, who previously testified before Congress on UFOs in 2023, stood alongside members of the House Oversight Committee’s Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets on Tuesday to publicly demand the White House disclose what he described as suppressed evidence of non-human life.
When asked directly how many alien species the US government had identified, Grusch gave a striking answer. “It’s a continuum from corporeal bipedal type life to what I would consider sentient plasmoid life, but there are several that the US government is aware of,” he said — claiming in effect that the government’s knowledge of alien life ranges from solid, two-legged physical beings to intelligent creatures composed of plasma energy with no traditional physical form.
Grusch also revealed there had been “several dozen” cases involving government examination of what he called “non-human biologics” — a term UFO researchers have interpreted as meaning recovered bodies from crashed unidentified craft.
The whistleblower and lawmakers also claimed that files from the Russian and Brazilian governments — in which military officers documented encounters with UFOs and extraterrestrials — had been independently confirmed to be authentic.
Several members of Congress used the event to publicly attack what they described as the deliberate withholding of classified information from the American people, accusing agencies of briefing lawmakers in secure settings before preventing that information from reaching the public. Congressman Eric Burlison of Missouri was among the most outspoken. “For decades, the American people have been treated like children, told there are government secrets they don’t get to know,” he said. “The American people are done with that answer.”
The event represents the latest escalation in a years-long push by a bipartisan group of lawmakers to force greater government transparency on the subject of unidentified aerial phenomena, following landmark congressional hearings in 2023 that first brought Grusch’s claims to wide public attention. Despite repeated promises of greater disclosure, critics argue the government has consistently failed to release the most significant material it holds.
