UFO Whistleblowers Ask Trump to Waive Their NDAs

David Grusch spent years inside the Pentagon's most secretive programs. Now the UFO whistleblowers ask Trump to let them talk about what they saw, and they are doing it on camera, in public, together.

On September 19, Grusch, Dylan Borland, and Matthew Brown formed what they called an unprecedented coalition and publicly asked the president to waive their lifetime government non-disclosure agreements. They say the agreements are the only thing keeping them from telling the American public what they know about classified programs involving unidentified anomalous phenomena, and possibly extraterrestrial life. The request was coordinated by filmmaker and disclosure advocate James Fox.

In a video released by Fox, Grusch addressed the president directly and said the group was ready to speak the moment it got authorization.

The three names behind the plea

Grusch is the most familiar face of the group. A former Air Force officer and intelligence official at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and the National Reconnaissance Office, he testified before Congress in 2023 that the U.S. government had operated secret UFO crash retrieval programs for decades. According to the New York Post, Grusch claims to have personally seen photographs and video of recovery operations showing craft and what he described as non-human occupants, and says he is ready to brief the National Security Council and the White House chief of staff.

Borland, an Air Force veteran, testified to Congress in 2024 that he watched a massive triangular UFO hover over a NASA hangar for several minutes before it vanished in the blink of an eye. His pitch to Trump was the bluntest of the three. "Disclosure has to come from President Trump. He needs to rip the Band-Aid off and go out there and confirm we are not alone," he told the Post, adding that the government had recovered materials and biological entities.

Brown is the newcomer. A defense industry contractor, he came forward on the Weaponized podcast early in 2026 to describe an alleged secret government program called Immaculate Constellation that he says collects UFO data from across the government. Brown said the NDAs he signed bar him for life from publicly disclosing classified information from his national security work without prior written authorization. He argued that one confirmation from the president, that humanity is not alone, would reset history.

Why the existing waiver is not enough

The administration did create a pathway for insiders this year. The Department of War announced a legal waiver letting current and former government personnel report UFO and alien-related information to the federal government. The catch is the destination: information flows to the government through the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters, not to the public. As reported by the Post, the current setup still treats disclosure to the media as off limits, which is exactly what the whistleblowers want changed.

This comes just as the Pentagon released its sixth batch of UAP records, a document dump covered in the previous GenZNewz report on the PURSUE files. Fox framed the public nature of the new request as the whole point. "For the first time in history you have a direct public plea, not private... to the president of the United States, to have their NDAs waived and have them protected, so they can disclose what they know to the American population," he told the Post. "All they need is immunity from the president. Just the stroke of a pen. He's got the authority to do it."

Capitol Hill is paying attention. Rep. Eric Burlison, a Missouri Republican, praised the administration and said Trump could become "the most consequential leader in modern times" by going further. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna of Florida, who chairs the House Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets, said her priority has been protecting whistleblowers who feared retaliation. "I quickly discovered a lot of these whistleblowers were scared to go public in fear of retribution, so I made efforts to secure whistleblower protections as a top priority," she told the Post.

There is a reason the three are careful with their language. Everything they have described in public so far is still a claim, not a confirmed finding. The government has released six batches of Pentagon UFO files since May, including documents from a secretive military program that studied warp drives and wormholes, but those documents were reference studies of theoretical ideas, not proof that any of the technologies were built or confirmed, according to reporting on the releases. Nothing in the released files backs the whistleblowers' specific claims about recovered craft or bodies, and the men themselves say the evidence is still classified. Trump has dismissed other conspiracy claims outright before, as this earlier GenZNewz report on the missing scientists theory showed.

That is the bind they are trying to escape. They say they have evidence they cannot show and stories they cannot tell, and the only person they believe can free them is the president. So they asked him on camera, in the open, where everyone could watch. The UFO whistleblowers ask Trump for a single signature, and the whole country is waiting to see whether he gives it.

Read the full New York Post report on the whistleblowers' request. Additional coverage from Geekspin.