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I want it to be true but as with everything related to this subject it's so opaque. On one hand I think, well he's testified under oath and if he's lying about it he's subjecting himself to either a hefty fine or jail time but we don't know what his testimony was.

It disturbs me that it's always the cia at the centre of all these ufo flaps. If this is some psyop I don't know what the point is, scare China and Russia into thinking the US has alien technology? To hide some secret propulsion advancement they've made?

I'm not sure that we can, or should, make much of him and his story quite yet. His story is certainly interesting and the people to whom Grusch has shown some sort of evidence seem convinced of the authenticity of his story. If we're to believe what we're hearing, this includes the Inspector General which, as Ross Coulthart pointed out, is arguably the bigger deal here. Why would the Inspector General, after internally investigating Grusch's claims, deem Grusch's claims to be "urgent" if they weren't?

Personally, the whole psyop angle makes zero sense to me because I see no clear target of any such psyop. Who would be the intended target? The general populace still seems largely convinced that this whole story is a nothing burger, so what point would there be in running an elaborate psyop to reassure them that this is, in fact, a nothing burger?

China and Russia? Grusch has also alleged that both countries each have their own crash retrieval programs. If Grusch is correct and the US, Russia, and China all have these programs then the cat is almost certainly already out of the bag within factions inside those militaries. If Russia and China are aware of the existence of these craft and have started reverse engineering them then they would certainly have been able to conclude that the US also had these craft and programs to reverse engineer them. If Grusch is incorrect then I don't see how trying to trick Russia and China into thinking we have a dozen alien craft in hangars somewhere will do anything other than turn the US into the crazy uncle at the international BBQ, so what sense would there be in "tricking" them into thinking that the US military has such a program if they don't?

And if a psyop were being run and it wasn't targeting our adversaries or our populace then...who is it for?

Ultimately, I think Grusch's story is interesting. The backing that he's gotten from the Inspector General (both current and former) is compelling. Realistically though I don't think there's anything that any one of us without security clearances and a need to know can do to try and determine the authenticity of Grusch's claims beyond waiting for the, hopefully public, congressional hearings. Until then I think this is just another interesting data point in the rich tapestry that is UFO/UAP lore.