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- An ex-intelligence officer told Congress this week that the US has evidence of "non-human" life.
- The whistleblower previously made a shocking claim that the Vatican was part of a 90-year cover-up.
- The Department of Defense has denied that a top-secret program with evidence of alien life exists.
The former intelligence officer who told Congress this week that the US has evidence of alien life previously made a wild claim that the Vatican was part of a massive UFO cover-up.
David Grusch is an ex-Air Force officer who said he worked on the Department of Defense's Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Task Force with a high level of security clearance.
Since leaving the UAP Task Force in March, Grusch has been blowing the whistle on what he describes as a top-secret government program that he believes has proof of alien intelligence on this planet.
A spokesperson for the Department of Defense previously told the Associated Press that there is no "verifiable information to substantiate" Grusch's claims that such a program has ever existed.
In testimony to Congress on Wednesday, Grusch said people with direct knowledge of the secret program have told him that the US government has recovered "non-human" "biologics" from crashed UAPs, commonly known as UFOs.
In an interview with NewsNation in June, Grusch expanded on his belief that there's a massive international cover-up of alien life that's been going on for 90 years.
He told NewsNation that in 1933 the Italian government under Benito Mussolini recovered a UAP, which it then "moved to a secure airbase in Italy for the rest of the fascist regime until 1944-1945."
Then, shockingly, Grusch said Pope Pius XII "backchanneled that" and the Vatican "told the Americans what the Italians had and we ended up scooping it."
The interviewer, Ross Coulthart, then asked, "You're saying that the Catholic Church — the Vatican — they know about the existence of non-human intelligence on this Earth?"
Grusch responded, "Certainly."
He told NewsNation that he's coming forward now because the American people have a right to know that they are being lied to.
NewsNation said Grusch didn't share photos or documents to back up his claims. The Vatican didn't immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.