There's been a lot of talk -- and plenty of conspiracy theories -- about alien life (and the UFOs that come with it) over the past few months. These theories were heightened when David Grusch, a former U.S. Intelligence officer, told NewsNation in June that alien life is real, and further, that the U.S. government is in possession of crashed alien spacecraft.
Some of these craft, he said, included the bodies of the "dead pilots."
In July, Grusch, alongside two other whistleblowers, testified before a Congressional hearing on the realities and risks posed by these UFOs, referred to by these officials as UAPs (unidentified aerial phenomena).
Alongside witness testimony of live encounters with supposed alien craft, Grusch reiterated the claim he made about alien life, this time under oath.
"As I've stated publicly already, biologics came with some of these recoveries," he said, adding that these biologics were "non-human, and that was the assessment of people with direct knowledge on the program I talked to."
The phrase non-human biologics, like unidentified aerial phenomena, is intentionally broad, something that renowned astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson was quick to point out. The term, he argued, doesn't necessarily imply extra-terrestrial life.
"What would non-human biologics be? All I did was look at the kingdoms of life here on Earth. You have the plant kingdom, you have the animal kingdom, the microbial kingdom, the fungal kingdom," Tyson said. "Let's add them all together and subtract from it humans. Everything that remains is non-human biologic.
"I don't know what they got squirreled away, but if it's non-human biologics, it could be anything on Earth."
In their testimony the whistleblowers reported seeing craft that hovered completely stationary in category-four hurricane winds, before accelerating to supersonic speeds. The technology, they said, was "incredible."
"If everyone could see the sensory and video data I witnessed," Ryan Graves, one of the whistleblowers, said, "our national conversation would change."
The Anomaly Resolution Office released a Department of Defense video of a UPA during a Senate hearing in April. An analyst with the office, Dr. Sean Kilpatrick, said at the time that the video was "readily explainable."
"In our research, AARO has found no credible evidence thus far of extraterrestrial activity, off-world technology, or objects that defy the known laws of physics."