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Grusch to Expand on Crash Retrieval Program Claims at Capitol Event

Reality Check with Ross Coulthart · Ross Coulthart Q&A: Whistleblowers, 'Manhattan Project 2.0' and China Lake · June 7, 2026
Grusch to Expand on Crash Retrieval Program Claims at Capitol Event
Reality Check with Ross Coulthart
Reality Check with Ross Coulthart
Ross Coulthart Q&A: Whistleblowers, 'Manhattan Project 2.0' and China Lake
"I've spoken to David, and he's being coy. He is telling me that he is going to expand on what he said previously. And I hope that that means an expansion on the revelations of what he has to reveal about what he discovered firsthand about the legacy crash retrieval reverse engineering program for UAP non-human tech."
Ross Coulthart reports that David Grusch plans to reveal additional information about alleged crash retrieval and reverse engineering programs at a June 9th Capitol event. Grusch, who previously testified to Congress about multi-decade programs involving non-human biologics, will speak alongside members of the UAP Caucus and potentially Senator Kirsten Gillibrand and former House Majority Leader Chuck Schumer. The event aims to pressure the White House for transparency after the administration appeared to mock UAP disclosure with the aliens.gov immigration website.

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In this episode of Reality Check Q&A, host Ross Coulthart and colleague Megan Medick address viewer questions about upcoming UAP disclosure developments, focusing heavily on a planned June 9th Capitol event and behind-the-scenes White House deliberations. Coulthart reports that whistleblower David Grusch will expand on his previous congressional testimony about crash retrieval and reverse engineering programs at the Capitol steps press conference, organized by journalists Leslie Kean and James Fox alongside members of the UAP Caucus including Reps. Eric Burleson, Paulina Luna, Jared Moskowitz, and potentially Senator Kirsten Gillibrand and former Majority Leader Chuck Schumer. The event aims to pressure President Trump on his transparency pledges after the White House mocked the UAP topic with the aliens.gov immigration website. Coulthart reveals that White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller has engaged with Rep. Burleson on a proposed 60-day amnesty for legacy program insiders, signaling serious high-level consideration despite CIA and intelligence community resistance. Coulthart also discloses that China Lake weapons facility is experiencing disruptive UAP swarms and was allegedly used to down craft using psionics and directed energy. He addresses legal constraints facing contractors versus federal employees in whistleblowing, explains physicist Eric Weinstein's Manhattan Project comparisons, and interprets Lou Elizondo's cryptic warnings through the lens of the 1973 sci-fi novella Chains of the Sea, which depicts humanity's irrelevance to indifferent alien intelligences. Coulthart expresses concern the Trump administration may repeat JFK files-style delays, urging public attendance at the June 9th event to demonstrate demand for transparency.

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