UFO fever grips Washington: Republican Congressman says UFOs may be ‘ancient civilization’

UFO fever appears to be gripping Washington after a series of extraordinary claims and revelations from lawmakers this week.

Claims of an illegal, hidden UFO crash retrieval program operating within the shadows were made public this month by Air Force and intelligence agency veteran David Grusch.    

Congressman and Marine veteran Mike Gallagher let loose his theories on the mystery this Tuesday, suggesting that UFOs might be time-traveling craft piloted by humans from the future, as in the 1984 film ‘The Terminator.’

Florida Senator Marco Rubio also revealed he had been approached by several high ranking Government officials with top-level security clearances who said they had ‘first-hand’ knowledge of UFO programs.

Appearing on ESPN analyst Pat McAfee’s sports talk show, Rep Gallagher, a Wisconsin Republican, floated his hypothesis that the unexplained phenomena ‘could actually be an ancient civilization that’s just been hiding here and is suddenly showing itself.’

But Rep. Gallagher also brought the conversation back down to Earth, airing his concerns that the airborne mysteries might prove to be breakthrough aerospace technology mastered by a US foreign adversary. 

‘I’m probably the most interested in is whether it’s adversary technology, particularly from China,’ said Gallagher, who is also the chair of the House Committee on the Chinese Communist Party. 

Whether or not we are alone in the universe, the congressman is not alone among his fellow lawmakers in openly airing his UFO concerns. 

Senator Rubio — in the unaired portions of his interview with NewsNation on Monday — voiced concern over the apparent and ‘very problematic’ lawlessness of the alleged UFO crash retrieval and reverse-engineering program.

Behind closed doors, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, where Senator Rubio is vice chairman, has heard even more ‘firsthand’ testimony on these covert UFO programs from senior military and intelligence whistleblowers beyond Grusch.  

In a complete and uncut transcript of his recent interview, supplied to the DailyMail.com by a member of Senator Rubio’s office, Rubio described the alleged UFO program as ‘in essence, some sort of an internal military complex that’s their own government and is accountable to no one.’

‘It would be a huge problem,’ the Florida Republican said, ‘if it’s even partially true.’ 

Senator Rubio voiced concern over the apparent lawlessness of an alleged top secret UFO crash retrieval and reverse-engineering program Monday — in unaired portions of his NewsNation interview. Rubio said the program is a ‘huge problem […] if it’s even partially true’

Fresh claims of a deeply hidden UFO reverse-engineering program have exploded into public view in recent weeks, with news of an official whistleblower complaint filed by former senior intelligence official and Air Force veteran David Grusch. 

‘We are not talking about prosaic origins or identities,’ as Grusch told The Debrief this month. ‘The material includes intact and partially intact vehicles.’

According to Grusch — who last position answered directly to the head of the Pentagon’s ultra-secretive spy satellite agency the National Reconnaissance Office — the US has a trove of parts and equipment from craft ‘non-human origin.’

In TV and print interviews as well as classified briefings on Capitol Hill, Grusch has said that the US and other nations are also engaged in top-secret ’80-year arms race’ to weaponize the crashed UFOs.

‘The existence of complex historical programs involving the coordinated retrieval and study of exotic materials, dating back to the early 20th century, should no longer remain a secret,’ in Grusch’s view. 

But Grusch has also claimed that the information has been illegally withheld from Congress as the military, the intelligence community and their private contractors have raced to quietly take advantage of the technology. 

Senator Rubio did not mince words on the gravity of these allegations, in the cut portions of his NewsNation interview. 

‘If that is accurate,’ Rubio said, ‘what you’re basically saying is that within the government of the United States, there’s a group of people who believe that they possess something that they don’t need to share with anybody including elected officials who they view as temporary employees.’ 

Former intelligence officer David Grusch briefed Senator Rubio and others on evidence that a trove of parts and equipment from ‘non-human origin’ UFOs are now secretly held by the US.  At left, an image from an unclassified video taken by US navy pilots showing the ‘Gimbal’ UFO

Although the US Intelligence Community Inspector General found Grusch’s whistleblower complaint ‘credible and urgent’ in July 2022, Sen. Rubio was careful to note the many remaining questions regarding the truth of these allegations.

‘There are 1 of 2 things here that are true,’ Rubio said in his unaired response, ‘Either what he is saying is partially true or entirely true, or we have some really smart, educated people with high clearances and very important positions in our government who are crazy and are leading us on a goose chase.’ 

Having attended classified briefings by both Grusch and some ‘firsthand’ witnesses with ‘very high clearances’ to the government’s UFO reverse-engineering program, Rubio admitted that he was still ‘not in a position yet to make that judgment.’

But the senator believes that these whistleblower claims demand attention no matter what the truth underlying them is revealed to be. 

‘Either one is a problem,’ Rubio said. ‘Either what they’re telling us is true — or we’ve got some people in important positions that are doing this for some reason.’

‘We’ve got to figure this out,’  the senator said, ‘We can’t ignore it.’

Echoing Rep. Gallagher’s comments to Pat McAfee’s show, Rubio did not discount the chance that many UFOs sighted by US military personnel and the alleged UFO materials held outside congressional scrutiny might be evidence of a foreign nation’s advanced tech.

Both Rep. Gallagher, seen on The Pat McAfee Show above (center table) and Sen. Rubio have voiced concern that the UFO mystery may be breakthrough aerospace technology mastered by a US foreign adversary. Sen. Rubio described this outcome as his ‘biggest fear’

‘My biggest fear in all this, frankly, and I’m not, you know, ruling anything out, obviously,’ Rubio said, ‘is that some adversary has made a technological leap that would be really bad news, and that we have been caught flat footed on it.’ 

The senator noted that whether the reality of the threat comes from America’s adversaries abroad, ‘non-human intelligences,’ or unaccountable domestic actors from the military and defense sector, the credibility of the witnesses require action.

‘People who we entrusted to do some really important things for our country are saying some pretty incredible things,’ Rubio said, ‘that I think we have an obligation to take seriously and listen to.’

‘We are getting more information now,’ he added, ‘more people [are] coming forward than at any time in the history of our country about this.’

‘We need to find answers,’ Rubio emphasized, ‘because at the end of the day, anytime agencies of the federal government are unsupervised and do whatever they want, it’s generally not a good outcome for the country.’