In Brief: Pentagon Report Notes Pattern of Grusch Misconduct, Behavior Issues

1/9/2026

John Greenewald of The Black Vault obtained a highly redacted copy of the Department of Defense Office of Inspector General’s 2025 report on the whistleblower reprisal claim made by UFO advocate David Grusch. The report, which redacts Grusch’s name but aligns with the timeframe and content of Grusch’s allegations and the subsequent investigation, examined Grusch’s 2022 accusation that he was denied access to classified material and lost his security clearance because of his involvement in ufology.

The DOD IG concluded that Grusch’s UFO claims and reporting of supposed UFO-related wrongdoing did not contribute to the revocation of his security clearances, which instead occurred because of a “pattern” of redacted “misconduct” and “behavior issues” outside of his UFO claims. Of especial note, as Greenewald points out, is the Pentagon’s reaction to Grusch’s supposed UFO whistleblower activity: “On what grounds does [the Complainant] have for a whistleblower case. He didn’t blow any whistle or bring to light any info. What’s his grounds?” You can read Greenewald’s extensive writeup about the report and what it means, as well as the full document release, here.

6 Comments

Mean R Queried

1/9/2026 08:55:02 pm

Sadly, the Pentagon's reaction to the redacted complainant is exactly the same thing I thought when the news broke in 2023. Nearly everything said in the Debrief and on News Nation had been circulating as legend for decades, some known to be false. Wonder if the U.A.P. Task Force was anything like what Colonel Dr. John Alexander's UFO Working Group did decades before it. What transparency advocates wanted was an investigation to search for evidence of alleged secret legendary legacy programs. Whatever jet pilots may see and say is something else altogether.

Just to infuriate Kent, look at what Christopher Knowles posted.

https://thesecretsun.substack.com/p/paradise-lost-part-5-prometheus-unmasked

https://secretsun.blogspot.com/2026/01/the-prometheusmithraslucifer-axis-whats.html

Does anyone here care to take it apart? Yes, I know it is off topic, but other bloggers and History have tried to connect modern ufology to ancient history and mythology by alleging elite global powers do something with superstitious symbolism or whatever. Do not forget this tweet at the top just below the blog's header.

https://secretsun.blogspot.com/2023/07/i-scream-you-scream-we-all-scream-for.html

Did the author imply government sponsored mind control again?

Bread

1/11/2026 09:21:22 am

It seems simple to me: Prometheus is a myth. And those trusting in that myth have always for some reason taken after Wile E Coyote, always gleeful in impatient anticipation of what they can never attain.

Mean R Queried

1/13/2026 08:59:57 pm

Alas, if only it was so simple as myth simply being myth, but no. Apparently, Christopher Knowles suggests powerful elite occultists whom he calls "globalists" (just like Alex Jones says) secretly rule the world with ancient magical rituals disguised as entertainment. Sigh. That type of magical thinking applied to conspiracy theories has sadly become more prevalent online now more than ever. Seems like Christopher Knowles wants us to think pagans are somehow secretly orchestrating all tragedies to satisfy their gods, if that really is what he meant to imply. Eventually that type of fear mongering may make somebody mad enough to do hate crimes to pagans. Luckily, pagans are few and far between now.

Ironically, real coyotes can run faster than real roadrunners run, which means the cartoon Wile E. Coyote should not need gadgets. Somebody may point out Coyote is a trickster like Prometheus.

As luck would have it, Christopher Knowles wrote a sixth part.

https://thesecretsun.substack.com/p/paradise-lost-part-6-lamentations

https://secretsun.blogspot.com/2026/01/paradise-lost-to-lust.html

An Over-Educated Grunt

1/10/2026 01:38:06 pm

Do you have any idea how badly you have to screw up to have an IG investigation find a pattern of misbehavior that gets your clearance yanked? Short of a felony, that's exceptionally rare. It's so hard to hire and replace people that it is generally considered easier just to work around the problem child. Just being a weird UFO nut won't do it unless you're digging into programs that you have no need to know, and that's because you look like a spy, and even there, the bar to get a clearance yanked is pretty damn high. You have to be Kensington Rune Stone stupid to have that happen.

Mean R Queried

1/12/2026 01:37:48 am

If what you said is true, then it looks like David looks like a spy. In that case, the task of the U.A.P. Task Force had an ulterior motive to dig into real secret programs while using the hunt for unacknowledged special access programs like the alleged legendary legacy crash retrieval and reverse engineering programs as a cover story to conceal its true mission to spy on Americans. Is that what you intended to imply? If so, for whom was David (and presumably the rest of the task force) employed to spy? Alternatively, David could have accidentally stumbled upon a real secret program during his search for the alleged legacy programs. Both scenarios could have been avoided if Disclosure happened.

Thought the true story behind the Rune Stone hoax was all about ethnic pride for Scandinavian Americans descended from Scandinavian immigrants who immigrated to Minnesota in the 19th century, around the time of the Dakota Wars in Dakota Territory. No idea about the alternative narratives behind the Rune Stone hoax, as I do not remember watching that episode of Scott's show. You may remember in 2021, Jason included a link to a page about the Rune Stone on a blog post about the Trinity crash story hoax.

https://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/new-book-from-jacques-vallee-claims-evidence-for-1945-new-mexico-ufo-crash

Jason wrote, "the author explains that his uncle was an apparently third witness—perhaps the one Vallée alleges is the “new” witness that made revising the book essential—who saw the spaceship crash, and he explains in tedious detail his uncle’s later involvement with all manner of fringe conspiracies, from the Roswell crash to the Kensington Rune Stone," and in the same paragraph, Jason wrote, "The uncle alleged that crashed flying saucers and the Rune Stone shared a secret rune code that communicated messages from beyond."

Hopefully others remember that too. Also noticed links to that same website on another blog concerning crash story hoaxes.

https://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2025/04/kingman-ufo-crash-again.html

https://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-kingman-crash-and-mystery-letter.html

You may remember that alleged crash story set in Arizona because you posted the final comment below this post by Jason.

https://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/chris-mellon-releases-texts-from-government-official-claiming-a-crashed-ufo

Alright, let's put it all together. Appears like the unsaid reason David was in the U.A.P. Task Force was to spy on Americans when he claimed to search for a crash retrieval program that may or may not have existed. (Let's not forget Project Moon Dust was intended to recover foreign spacecraft that fell to Earth.) Could that explain why David's revelations in 2023 were rumors and hoaxes that had been told to the public in media for decades? Thought David had been sheltered from popular fringe media for the well known stories to have such a big impact on him in 2023.

Your mention of the Rune Stone hoax brought to mind two crash stories known to be hoaxes because those seemingly unrelated things were mentioned on a website linked on two or more blogs. Honestly, I do not think the Rune Stone hoax has anything to do with whatever the Pentagon alleged David did or did not do.

Apologies if this reply is too long. This got me thinking, and I felt like typing another rambling stream of consciousness info-dump. Thanks! Goodbye.

kent

1/12/2026 08:22:15 pm

"Apologies if this reply is too long. This got me thinking, and I felt like typing another rambling stream of consciousness info-dump. Thanks! Goodbye." You apologize, yet you keep doing, accompanied by an apology. I find that fascinating.

I believe the kids all it "Grebbing it up."

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