"Shouldn’t it be the president saying this stuff?” Grusch said. “Like, I don’t want to be the purveyor of disclosure because I don’t have all the data.”
A new documentary, called “Close Encounters of the Human Kind,” by Ammar Kandil who started the digital storytelling platform Yes Theory, shows what was happening in the days leading up to the testimony about “Non-Human Reverse Engineering Programs."
"The documentary’s subtitle is '7 Days With The Man Claiming Aliens Exist (under oath in Congress),' although Grusch’s purported knowledge is secondhand and he has offered no hard evidence in public. To Kandil, this is sort of beside the point," said the Post.
“Our audience responds the most to moments of humanity,” said Kandil. He has since uploaded the doc to the feed's 8.5 million subscribers.
Grusch thought it would "make sense" to work through the Yes Theory guys, who boast such successful videos as Will Smith bungee jumping from a helicopter and a Justin Bieber look-alike eating a burrito from the middle first.
The film shows clips of the testimony, such as questions by Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) who asked whether the government retrieved bodies from crashed UFOs. Gorsuch told her that biologics were recovered. She asked if the extraterrestrial biologics were "human" – though the definition of extraterrestrial is not of Earth.
The hearing wasn't exciting the audience the way it once did, Kandil noticed. He framed the video as Grusch "stepping outside your comfort zone."
“The packaging needs to feel like it’s YouTube-native,” he said. He hopes to appeal to young viewers, "raised in a 'hyper, instant culture' that is 'constantly telling you to take the easier route.'"
Gruch has been treated like a nut since the hearing. NASA administrator Bill Nelson claimed there was no evidence of extraterrestrials in the UFO report, though that's not what Grusch discussed. He said there were biologics of extraterrestrial origin – that could be anything from single-cell organisms to elements not seen on Earth.
The meteorite known as "Mars rock" found in the mid 1990s, for example, showed evidence of possible microscopic fossils of bacteria-like organisms inside the rock. That doesn't, however, translate to little green men.
“The deeper you get into covering UFOs, the more almost all of this feels like an intergalactic game of telephone,” another UFO researcher, Garrett M. Graff, told Vanity Fair after Grusch’s findings were reported.
In Aug. the report explained that Intercept uncovered a 2018 incident in which Grusch was “committed to a mental health facility." The implication was that as an Afghanistan veteran, his PTSD might alter his understanding.
“David Grusch has this intensity, and we know the type,” said retired Navy pilot Ward Carroll who described at times "eccentric" members in the ranks, according to his YouTube video.
Grusch is the hero of the doc, saying that all he wants to do is make a difference.
After the hearing, Kandil held what he called "The true public hearing, "with Grusch where both skeptics and believers can be heard.
“Are we safe as, like, a human species?” asked one attendee. “Because, I mean, I might have watched too many movies.”
“The universe certainly has a yin and a yang, so there’s certainly dark with light,” Grusch explained. “So I think it’s a mixed bag.”
He mentioned a story of "a very senior Navy individual" who saw "a 300-foot triangular craft" and was dumbstruck. It was only after the fact he got photos. They showed his car covered in a milky color, which happens with ionizing radiation.
Harvard theoretical astrophysicist said he watched half of the documentary and saw a "narrative" but not scientific experimentation that included data collection.
"Somebody interviewing another guy who tells the story — who cares?" he asked.
The documentary had over 750,000 views as of Thursday morning.
See the full report at the Washington Post.
