David Grusch

Referenced in 20 episodes

Definition

A former intelligence official who has made significant claims about government secrets regarding UFOs, advocating for greater transparency in the disclosure movement.

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The Pentagon's UFO Debunker Is Lying. We Can Prove It.

WeaponizedOct 31, 2026

George Knapp and Jeremy Corbell accuse former AARO director Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick of lying in his latest attempt to debunk claims that Lockheed Martin once stored and analyzed recovered alien craft and nearly transferred leftover material to Robert Bigelow's ASAP program. They argue that multiple insiders, including Jay Stratton in his new book, corroborate the deal and that Kirkpatrick should be called before Congress under oath to back up his own allegations. The hosts also discuss newly released AATIP files on the Tic Tac incident and Skinwalker Ranch, including a 'monster map' of creature sightings, and defend David Grusch's claim that he viewed crash-retrieval footage in an official capacity.

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Chris Ramsay Returns: UFO Crashes, Disclosure Fatigue & Secret Technology

That UFO PodcastOct 22, 2026

Former magician turned UFO researcher Chris Ramsay returns to discuss disclosure fatigue, arguing that insiders who claim they know terrifying truths but cannot share them should either reveal the information or stay quiet. He explains why the 1948 Aztec, New Mexico crash is the case he believes in most, citing his own visit to the site, physical anomalies there, and deathbed witness testimony. He also explores Project Serpo, theosophy's influence on Nordic alien lore, and an anonymous caller who claimed the military uses predictive technology that may be non-human in origin.

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Keith Thompson: Anomalous Phenomena—UFOs, Apports, and the Mystery of Consciousness

Earth AncientsOct 21, 2026

Journalist Keith Thompson, who introduced Harvard psychiatrist John Mack to the alien abduction phenomenon, discusses his new book 'Anomalous Phenomena: Apports and the Mystery of Objects that Materialize and Translocate.' He describes the Scole Experiment, a five-year series of seances in which coins, a 1944 newspaper, and images on sealed film reportedly appeared from nowhere, along with his own teenage experience of cosmic oneness and a near-death experience while drowning in Hawaii. The conversation ranges across Navajo Rangers investigating Bigfoot and skinwalkers, stigmata, Lourdes healings, Charles Lindbergh's phantom cockpit companions, and the state of UFO disclosure.

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The White House vs UFO Gatekeepers: Who Controls the Evidence?

That UFO PodcastOct 20, 2026

Hosts Andy McGrillen and Pavel of Seco Activo dig into claims that the White House is bypassing an entrenched 'Legacy Program' to investigate UFOs itself, including alleged UAP luring and retrieval operations at White Sands Missile Range tied to Skywatcher's Jake Barber. They review Jay Stratton's new memoir and media tour, Garry Nolan's frustration that the UAP science council has received no data, and Dr. Phil's claims that the US holds 50 to 100 non-human craft. The episode closes with Pavel's investigation into a secretive Templar order allegedly recruiting prominent UFO figures like Chris Bledsoe and 'Science Bob' McGuire.

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12 UFOs at Lockheed? Unpacking Jay Stratton’s Claims

That UFO PodcastOct 16, 2026

Andy McGrillen and Pavel of CicoActivo dissect former senior US intelligence official Jay Stratton's new memoir 'Out of the Shadows,' which claims a hidden 'legacy program' has been recovering and reverse engineering non-human craft. The standout allegation, relayed from Lockheed's Jim Ryder, is that Lockheed held 12 recovered craft of non-human origin around 2009, with some occupants captured alive before dying. The hosts weigh whether the book delivers bombshells, breadcrumbs, or BS, noting that much of it is secondhand and that Stratton calls out unnamed whistleblowers and media proxies without naming them.

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#1030: Secret Societies And The Third Reich With Ricky Varandas

Tin Foil HatOct 14, 2026

Podcaster Ricky Varandas of The Ripple Effect joins Tin Foil Hat for a wide-ranging conversation that jumps from a plague scare and vaccine skepticism to the occult side of the Third Reich and claims that Hitler escaped to Argentina. Host Sam Tripoli argues that the world is run by 'sorcerers' practicing what he calls hardwired mysticism, and the guests speculate about elite rituals, Moloch, giants, and suppressed knowledge about human origins. The episode ends with UFO cases, telepathy research, Skinwalker Ranch, and David Grusch's disclosure claims, framed around the belief that governments are hiding humanity's true story.

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New Military Whistleblowers, Four Soldiers Break Their Silence on Reddit, and Has David Grusch Gone Wild?

Somewhere in the SkiesOct 14, 2026

Host Ryan Sprague and co-host Suzanne Landers look at three new military UAP whistleblowers featured in Steven Greer's latest documentary, then read four dramatic military UFO encounters posted on Reddit. The stories range from a black seamless object in the Vietnam jungle to artillery shells fired at a cigar-shaped craft in Iraq and a dead alien recovered at McGuire Air Force Base in 1978. The episode closes with David Grusch's startling Joe Rogan claims about seven-foot reptilian beings, warfare between non-human species, and a foiled assassination plot against him.

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#1029: Repitlian Underground Civilizations With The Edge Of Wonder Boys

Tin Foil HatOct 10, 2026

Edge of Wonder hosts Ben Chastain and Rob Counts return to Tin Foil Hat after their YouTube channel was deleted and later restored, and they argue that intelligence agencies have spent enormous sums controlling the UFO and reptilian narrative. The conversation moves from David Grusch's disclosures and alleged black-ops programs to cryptids like Dogman and Bigfoot, which the guests suggest may be interdimensional beings or leftovers from a lost pre-flood civilization. They also take on Tartaria, Noah's Ark on Mount Ararat, pyramid origins, remote viewing of Mars, and the idea that true human history has been deliberately hidden.

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Secretary Of Energy Breaks Silence on UFOs

American AlchemyOct 7, 2026

Jesse Michaels interviews John Herrington, former U.S. Secretary of Energy under Ronald Reagan, about the long-reported link between UFOs and nuclear sites, and about how nuclear secrecy laws might shield UFO secrets. Herrington flatly denies Brent Friedman's viral story that he once confessed to being briefed on aliens in an underground West Virginia facility, calling it total fabrication. Friedman responds in a follow-up segment, standing by his account and speculating that the 1981 conversation may have been a test or initiation.

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Taken at the Truck Stop

Expanded PerspectivesOct 4, 2026

A former trucker describes being taken from his cab at an Ohio truck stop in 2018 by small gray beings who, he says, told him they had visited him since childhood and had repaired his fertility after radar exposure in Iraq. The hosts also share listener accounts of a featherless pterosaur flying over a California freeway, a pale crawling creature mimicking a woman's screams in Alabama, and a black humanoid racing up a sheer pit wall in Arizona. A retired military intelligence source alleges that Bigfoot-type creatures have killed soldiers and civilians and that government teams cover up the deaths and recover the bodies.

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Did Trump Authorize The Shootdown Of UFOs?

WeaponizedOct 2, 2026

Liberation Times journalist Chris Sharp joins George Knapp and Jeremy Corbell to investigate claims that President Trump authorized the shootdown of UAP over a US test range, likely White Sands, possibly as part of a 'luring' operation. Both the Department of War and the White House declined to deny the allegation, which Sharp ties to tests of the LOCUST laser system and the disappearance of its developer's former technology director. The conversation then turns to David Grusch's latest Joe Rogan interview, which described footage of non-human bodies, reptilian beings being shot, and alleged factions of competing alien species.

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The New UFO Whistleblower Waiver - 20 Questions The Government Wouldn’t Answer

WeaponizedSep 18, 2026

George Knapp and Jeremy Corbell dig into the Department of War's new PURSUE waiver, which supposedly creates a protected lane for UFO whistleblowers bound by NDAs. They sent 20 formal questions about who runs PURSUE and what protections it offers, and the only reply was a referral to the White House. The hosts argue the real threats facing whistleblowers are intimidation and break-ins, not NDA prosecution, and they suggest the deeper mystery lies with experiencers rather than hardware.

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Close Encounters in Sweden: The Fire People and the Owl Beings (SITS CLASSIC)

Somewhere in the SkiesSep 16, 2026

Swedish ufologist Fred Andersson returns to dig up forgotten 1960s and 1970s Swedish close encounters, including glowing fire humanoids seen in doorways of light, white-clad beings chasing children from a mine, and green antennaed figures that vanished into thin air. He links these strange, personal experiences to Scandinavian folklore about trolls, mine spirits, forest nymphs and fire spirits. He also argues that the UFO phenomenon behaves like a trickster with a sense of humor, and warns that the post-2017 focus on military witnesses risks losing sight of how weird the subject really is.

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FBI UFO Unit Revealed, Recovered Alien Beings, Sandra Bullock’s UFO & AARO’s Secret Deal

Somewhere in the SkiesSep 9, 2026

Ryan Sprague and Suzanne Landers break down a week of UFO news, from Sandra Bullock's account of five lights merging over St. Martin to journalist Tom O'Neill's claim that a congressional staffer described recovered craft and beings seen in classified briefings. They cover Rep. Anna Paulina Luna revealing the name and challenge coin of an FBI UAP investigation unit, plus a possible Pentagon AARO contract with David Marler's National UFO Historical Records Center. The episode closes with Robert Bigelow and Brandon Fugal discussing a consciousness-focused shift in Skinwalker Ranch research, including healing experiments and a suspicious oil drilling operation near the Mesa.

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He Saw Four TIC TAC UFOs - Then AARO Came Calling

WeaponizedSep 8, 2026

Navy Senior Chief Alexandro Wiggins describes watching four Tic Tac-shaped objects rise out of the ocean off San Diego in February 2023, move in perfect unison, and then shoot toward the coast at impossible speed. After testifying about the sighting before Congress with the Navy's full support, he says the Pentagon's UFO office AARO pressured his chain of command to force him into a classified briefing, even threatening to involve the Secretary of War. George Knapp and Jeremy Corbell call this witness intimidation and argue that the recent government UFO file releases are mostly recycled material.

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The Cote UFO Photo: The Clearest UFO Image Ever Captured?

Somewhere in the SkiesSep 7, 2026

In 1971, a Costa Rican government aerial mapping mission over Lake Cote captured a sharp, disc-shaped object on a single frame of high-resolution cartographic film, and no one aboard saw it. Filmmakers Adam Pillen and Megan Woomer discuss their documentary The Cote Photo, which traces the image's unbroken chain of custody, its analysis by researchers like Jacques Vallée and Richard Haines, and the lifelong UFO experiences of cartographer Sergio Loaiza. The conversation explores why this photo has held up to scrutiny for decades and why it may be one of the clearest UFO images ever taken.

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A New Wave of UFO News - Why They’re Spying on Whistleblowers

WeaponizedSep 2, 2026

Investigative journalists Jeremy Corbell and George Knapp return to discuss a chaotic summer of UFO news, warning that a flood of exaggerated claims may be a deliberate strategy to exhaust public interest. They detail Robert Bigelow's private meeting with President Trump, the government's ongoing release of UAP files including rare FBI 302 witness statements, and newly surfaced details about a Lockheed facility allegedly holding crash materials. They also highlight a career CIA officer's congressional testimony that the CIA illegally spied on ODNI investigators and the whistleblowers they contacted.

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Thomas Jane: Hollywood, UFOs, and Advanced Alien Visitors

Somewhere in the SkiesJul 27, 2026

Actor Thomas Jane, known for The Punisher and The Expanse, reveals his 15-year private study of UFOs and declares that advanced alien intelligences are visiting Earth as settled fact. He argues aliens deliberately make their presence known because humanity has reached a dangerous technological inflection point that began with the atomic bomb, and that recovered craft have already been reverse engineered in secret programs. Jane claims entrenched power structures hide this technology to preserve their control, and he previews his upcoming book, A Human's Guide to Visiting Aliens.

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U.S. Government is Luring UFOs, Catholics Prepare for Disclosure, Bigfoot Corpse Found

Somewhere in the SkiesJul 22, 2026

Hosts Ryan Sprague and Suzanne Landers return after a month-long break to cover a December 2025 incident in which U.S. intelligence officials reportedly succeeded in luring glowing orange orbs over a sensitive military site in the American Southwest. They also discuss Charles 'Snake' Stewart's claim that he found a Bigfoot corpse in the Adirondacks whose DNA shows it to be a Neanderthal-human hybrid, and a new Catholic documentary about how the Church may respond to UFO disclosure. The episode also honors Laurie Wickens, the late primary witness to the 1967 Shag Harbour UFO crash, and celebrates the rescue of the Roswell Daily Record newspaper.

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Grusch vs Clapper, The Age of Disclosure & the Growing Divide in UFO Disclosure

That UFO PodcastJan 11, 2026

In this episode, Andy and journalist Pavel analyze the complexities surrounding the UFO disclosure movement as of 2026. They discuss David Grusch's comments on the challenges faced by the movement and the criticism directed at senior intelligence figures. The conversation delves into insider testimonies, public readiness, and the future trajectory of disclosure efforts.

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