It's Coming: 'UFO fever grips Washington'

UFO fever grips Washington: Republican Congressman says UFOs may be 'ancient civilization' as Senator Marco Rubio worries craft retrieval programs are being run by 'internal military complex' that is 'accountable to no one'

By MATTHEW PHELAN SENIOR SCIENCE REPORTER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM

UFO fever appears to be gripping Washington after a series of extraordinary claims and revelations from lawmakers this week.

Claims of an illegal, hidden UFO crash retrieval program operating within the shadows were made public this month by Air Force and intelligence agency veteran David Grusch.    

Congressman and Marine veteran Mike Gallagher let loose his theories on the mystery this Tuesday, suggesting that UFOs might be time-traveling craft piloted by humans from the future, as in the 1984 film 'The Terminator.'

Florida Senator Marco Rubio also revealed he had been approached by several high ranking Government officials with top-level security clearances who said they had 'first-hand' knowledge of UFO programs.

Appearing on ESPN analyst Pat McAfee's sports talk show, Rep Gallagher, a Wisconsin Republican, floated his hypothesis that the unexplained phenomena 'could actually be an ancient civilization that's just been hiding here and is suddenly showing itself.'

But Rep. Gallagher also brought the conversation back down to Earth, airing his concerns that the airborne mysteries might prove to be breakthrough aerospace technology mastered by a US foreign adversary. 

'I'm probably the most interested in is whether it's adversary technology, particularly from China,' said Gallagher, who is also the chair of the House Committee on the Chinese Communist Party. 

Whether or not we are alone in the universe, the congressman is not alone among his fellow lawmakers in openly airing his UFO concerns. 

Senator Rubio — in the unaired portions of his interview with NewsNation on Monday — voiced concern over the apparent and 'very problematic' lawlessness of the alleged UFO crash retrieval and reverse-engineering program.

Behind closed doors, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, where Senator Rubio is vice chairman, has heard even more 'firsthand' testimony on these covert UFO programs from senior military and intelligence whistleblowers beyond Grusch.  

In a complete and uncut transcript of his recent interview, supplied to the DailyMail.com by a member of Senator Rubio's office, Rubio described the alleged UFO program as 'in essence, some sort of an internal military complex that's their own government and is accountable to no one.'

'It would be a huge problem,' the Florida Republican said, 'if it's even partially true.

Fresh claims of a deeply hidden UFO reverse-engineering program have exploded into public view in recent weeks, with news of an official whistleblower complaintfiled by former senior intelligence official and Air Force veteran David Grusch. 

'We are not talking about prosaic origins or identities,' as Grusch told The Debriefthis month. 'The material includes intact and partially intact vehicles.'

According to Grusch — who last position answered directly to the head of the Pentagon's ultra-secretive spy satellite agency the National Reconnaissance Office — the US has a trove of parts and equipment from craft 'non-human origin.'

In TV and print interviews as well as classified briefings on Capitol Hill, Grusch has said that the US and other nations are also engaged in top-secret '80-year arms race' to weaponize the crashed UFOs.

'The existence of complex historical programs involving the coordinated retrieval and study of exotic materials, dating back to the early 20th century, should no longer remain a secret,' in Grusch's view. 

But Grusch has also claimed that the information has been illegally withheld from Congress as the military, the intelligence community and their private contractors have raced to quietly take advantage of the technology. 

Senator Rubio did not mince words on the gravity of these allegations, in the cut portions of his NewsNation interview. 

'If that is accurate,' Rubio said, 'what you're basically saying is that within the government of the United States, there's a group of people who believe that they possess something that they don't need to share with anybody including elected officials who they view as temporary employees.' 

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