| Date | Event | Detail | Source |
| 2004-2005 | Grusch admitted to the University of Pittsburgh on an Air Force ROTC scholarship. | DOPSR Approval – April 4, 2023 | |
| 2008-2009 | Grusch graduates from university. | Receives a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Physics as well as a Master of Arts with Honors in Intelligence Studies. | DOPSR Approval – April 4, 2023 |
| August 19th 2011 | Grusch is a 1st Lt., UFG intelligence duty officer. | “This is a fast-paced learning experience,” said 1st Lt. David Grusch, an [Ulchi Freedom Guardian] intelligence duty officer who volunteered to participate. “It took me out of comfort zone and pushed my operational knowledge”, explained Grusch, who serves as a wing space control intelligence officer at Peterson Air Force Base, Co. | Link |
| 2013 | Chief of Intelligence for the Air Force Space Command – 3rd Space Experimentation Squadron (SES). | @JeremyCorbell Post | |
| 2016-2021 | Served with the National Reconnaissance Office as Senior Intelligence Officer and led the production of the NRO director’s daily briefing. | From 2016 to 2021, he served with the National Reconnaissance Office as Senior Intelligence Officer and led the production of the NRO director’s daily briefing. Grusch was a GS-15 civilian, the military equivalent of a Colonel. | |
| ~June 2017 | Grusch says he was briefing a senior official on unrelated SAPs when the official told him about Lue Elizondo and AAWSAP. | “I remember in a very senior official’s office in McLean, briefing that senior official into about a couple hundred special access programs. At the time, I was a trusted individual advising the joint chiefs on certain black programs. And I remember that individual who was a coworker of Lue Elizondo mentioned, “oh, there’s this guy named Lue Elizondo over at the Pentagon. He’s running some UFO program. We think he lost his mind. He’s giving the under Secretary of Defense for intelligence a hard time. And this was six months prior to that Leslie Kean and Ralph Blumenthal article in December, 2017. And I was like, I don’t know who this Lue guy is. He sounds crazy to me. I don’t know about some UFO program, but little did I know about six or seven months after that, I saw that on the news and that’s what caught my attention.” | Tucker Carlson Interview |
| Early 2019 | Begins role as Reconnaissance office’s representative to the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force. | ||
| December 2019 | Grusch moves to Colorado Springs, CO. | ||
| 2019-2020 | Nat Kobitz gives Ross Coulthart names of people he claimed worked on crash retrieval program. | Ross Coulthart: “Nat was one of the chief geeks for the US Navy and he was dying and he gave me leads, and I’ve never spoken about this before, but he gave me leads that led me to people working in what they purported was a secret program involving the retrieval and attempted reverse engineering of non-human technology. And I’ve been speaking to those people for some time, and it was they who told me about Dave Grusch and it was they who vouched about Dave Grusch to me.” Kobitz died on April 5, 2020. | “Whistleblower David Grusch – Need to Know”, 06-05-23 |
| April 2021 | Grusch meets Harry Reid and presents slide deck to him. | “”The DoD IG FOIA release to BlackVault today highlights an organization proposal to succeed UAPTF that myself and my colleagues developed on our own time before the AARO office was created. Not only did I brief DoD IG Evaluations team on this proposal, but I also presented the same chart deck to Sen Harry Reid in April 2021 in a personal capacity for his guidance. He was very enthusiastic on the idea of a National Space Lab to receive records and UAP material from executive branch agencies who would then federate it out to academia and other partners in a whole of government approach. He was going to use the OSAR proposal as a basis of his next discussion with President Biden.” | |
| July 12 2021 | As part of the DoD IG’s “Evaluation of the DoD’s Actions Regarding Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena”, Grusch is interviewed and provides an Air Force point of contact regarding potential recovered UAP material. | He believed that his identity, and the fact that he had provided testimony, were disclosed “to individuals and/or entities” within the Department of Defense and the Intelligence Community outside the IG’s office. He did not allege that this information was improperly disclosed by any member of that office. As a result, Grusch suffered months of retaliation and reprisals related to these disclosures beginning in 2021. | DoD work paper documenting the Grusch interview |
| November 2021 | Begins role – IMA to the Commander, 318 Cyber Operations Group, Detachment 3, Nellis AFB, NV | Performed Commander duties as an augmentee for an active-duty unit. The mission of the 318th Group is to be an information warfare group, training and integrating advanced tactics, technologies, and tools arming America’s warfighters with decisive information warfare combat power. Leaves role April 2022. | |
| Late 2021 | Begins role as NGA’s co-lead for UAP analysis and its representative to the task force. | Serving as Senior Geospatial-Intelligence Capabilities Integration Officer for the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA). Debrief | DOPSR Approval – April 4, 2023 |
| February 2022 | Compass Rose Legal group begins representation of David Grusch | Grusch claims he retained Compass Rose in response to the government trying to revoke his security clearance. “And it turns out I found out after the fact I was under criminal investigation for four months. I was never interviewed. I didn’t even know what it was about. But then I found out afterwards when they tried to use that to revoke my clearance. Now mind you, I have a good attorney, the former inspector general, and we litigated that, we rebutted that and everything was, I was cleared of any wrongdoing. I maintained my clearance.” (Tucker Carlson Interview) | Compass Rose Legal Group Statement |
| March 2022 | Steven Greer claims he met with Grusch. | https://twitter.com/drbii95/status/1666511499282489353 | |
| May 25th 2022 | McCullough filed a Disclosure of Urgent Concern(s); Complaint of Reprisal on behalf of Grusch with the ICIG about detailed information that Grusch had gathered beginning in 2019 while working for the UAP Task Force. | An unclassified version of the complaint provided to us states that Grusch has direct knowledge that UAP-related classified information has been withheld and/or concealed from Congress by “elements” of the intelligence community “to purposely and intentionally thwart legitimate Congressional oversight of the UAP Program.” All testimony Grusch provided for the classified complaint was provided under oath. | |
| May 31st 2022 | David Grusch is interviewed by member of Canadian Parliament, Larry Maguire | Canadian MP Seeks Answers on UAP from US Intel Officer | |
| June 2nd-3rd 2022 | During the SCU conference, Grusch approaches Jeremy Corbell and George Knapp at a bar and introduces himself. | Knapp: We were at the SCU conference in Huntsville, Alabama. We went down there. It’s a great event. A lot of really interesting people live in that community working in defense programs, intelligence operations, and it was a great excuse for a lot of those folks to get together. And we were invited and we went along. We took a camera, and we’re in it. It’s held in this little place. It’s like a club and a bar, and we’re in there and you’re shooting video. Your buddy Niles is shooting video. Corbell: You didn’t really tell me exactly what we’re doing. You had some people that you wanted us to meet with and to record with, and one of those people was Jay Stratton. The world hadn’t known anything at that point. The world at large had not known anything. But we were also told well in advance that there were other people that are in position to know that we may be approached by or we may meet and man, yeah, let’s just be honest. It sounds so crazy, but it’s true. I brought my buddy Niles Harrison, we’ve covered that in another episode. And he was filming and little did I know, he’s filming at this public event. There’s not supposed to be cameras there, but they allowed us. So thank you, SCU, I got that moment. Niles got that moment when Dave Grusch leans over to you for the first time, unknown to the world. This was a year ago, over a year ago. And starts talking with you. And that’s when that Pandora’s box – by the way, we ended up meeting out at a bar with Gary Nolan, who’s awesome, and we ended up just having a couple drinks and talking. That’s when it really sunk in. (Weaponized Podcast) | |
| Mid-Late 2022 | Helps draft language on UAP for the FY2023 National Defense Authorization Act. | ||
| July 2022 | The Intelligence Community Inspector General found his complaint “credible and urgent.” | According to Grusch, a summary was immediately submitted to the Director of National Intelligence, Avril Haines; the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence; and the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. | |
| July 2022 | Grusch leaves role as NGA’s co-lead for UAP analysis and its representative to the task force. | ||
| Summer 2022 | A whistleblower reprisal investigation was launched, and Grusch began his communication with the staff of the Congressional intelligence committees in private closed-door sessions. | According to Grusch, certain information which he obtained in his investigation could not be put before Congressional staffers because they did not have the necessary clearances or the appropriate investigative authority. | |
| August 25-28th 2022 | Grusch introduced to TheUfoJoe by George Knapp and Jeremy Corbell while at the “56 Year Mission: Las Vegas” Star Trek convention. | Event Archive.org | |
| August 29 2022 | Grusch is placed on probation at his job. | During an interview, Corbell stated that the day after the convention, Grusch was placed on probation. | |
| December 2022 | Provided Congress with hours of recorded classified information transcribed into hundreds of pages which included specific data about the materials recovery program. | “Multiple sources confirmed that David Grusch’s Congressional testimony occurred in December 2022, at the Top Secret Sensitive Compartmented Information level. On the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, while no congressmen attended the briefing, over twenty congressional staffers, committee lawyers, Grusch and the Inspector General representative, were present. With their classified laptops, these staffers took notes while David Grusch testified for four hours. Now, things were different at the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and his is important. Grusch testified for over eight hours. Who was in the room for Grusch’s eight-hour testimony in December? Grusch, the Inspector General representative, a court reporter, and two committee lawyers.” | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FrloSlst1A |
| March 7 2023 | Grusch submits “DCG Summary” to DOPSR for public release. | The Black Vault | |
| April 4 2023 | DOPSR approves “DCG Summary” for public release. | UAP Research Wiki | |
| April 5 2023 | Grusch submits “Interview Questions” to DOPSR for public release. | The Black Vault | |
| April 6 2023 | DOPSR approves “Interview Questions” for public release. | UAP Research Wiki | |
| April 7 2023 | Grusch left the government on April 7, 2023, in order, he said, to advance government accountability through public awareness. | ||
| June 5 2023 | Debrief article published. | ||
| June 6 2023 | STATEMENT FROM DAVID GRUSCH re: Greer (Twitter) | Greer’s original statement: “Please note that this is extremely topical given the fact that one of the whistleblower’s is going out to the media wide today as this is a very timely and topical story. In fact, Dr. Greer mentored this key whistleblower David Charles Grusch, and has provided actionable intelligence to him and senior members of his team. The information Dr. Greer provided was essential in Grusch’s critical investigations and findings. Dr. Greer will discuss how these findings will impact his call for Congress to take Constitutional control of this issue.” Grusch’s Statement: “I took my job very seriously, and early on, I allowed various individuals that alleged they had information to speak their truth as part of my evaluation process. I have not been mentored by anyone, and my public disclosure has been done independently under my own free will. I emphatically request that Steven Greer cease using my name to promote his personal agenda” | |
| June 7 2023 | Le Parisien Interview | ||
| June 9 2023 | Compass Rose Legal Group issue a statement saying they have ended their formal association with David Grusch | ||
| June 11 2023 | Grusch’s first TV interview – NewsNation with Ross Coulthart | YouTube | |
| June 13 2023 | Statement to Jeremy Corbell | “During my investigations, very little was from the usual crowd that has some knowledge. Most people that confirm details to ICIG are current government employees with top secret clearances. People that literally handled the materials in the classified program. Those individuals provided exact locations of where the stuff was.” [Italics in the original have been converted to bold.] | Youtube |
| June 27 2023 | Interview with Max Moszkowicz of Nieuwe Revu | Nieuwe Revu by Max Moszkowicz | |
| July 23 2023 | Grusch testifies in front of United States House Committee on Oversight and Accountability | Testimony | |
| August 8 2023 | Interview with BBC Radio 4’s The World Tonight | Youtube | |
| August 8 2023 | Having become aware of impending reporting by The Intercept, Grusch releases statement on mental health | Statement on Mental Health | |
| August 9 2023 | Intercept publishes reporting detailing incidents related to Grusch’s mental health | The Intercept | |
| September 10 2023 | Grusch mini-documentary with Jesse Michels | Youtube | |
| October 21 2023 | Grusch interview with County Highway Magazine | Walter Kirn / County Highway Magazine | |
| October 25 2023 | Grusch has phone call with Senator Gillibrand. | Gillibrand Public Schedule | |
| October 31 2023 | Grusch statement to Brian Entin responding to Kirkpatrick’s claims AARO had invited him to interview. | Earlier in the day, Kirkpatrick had made this statement: “So, the last time I believe I spoke with Mr. Grusch was when I was in the J2 at U.S. Space Command about five years ago, and it was not on this topic. Now, we have interviewed a whole range of people, over 30 people now. I think we’ve interviewed most of the people that he may have talked to, but we don’t know that. And we have extended an invitation at least four or five times now for him to come in over the last eight months or so and has been declined.” Grusch’s response via Brian Entin: “I have zero emails or calls from them. That is a lie.” | Youtube |
| November 11 2023 | Grusch speaks at Robert Pinotti International Coalition for Extraterrestrial Research | Youtube | |
| December 11 2023 | Grusch says he recently got additional security approvals through DOPSR that will allow him to share his first hand specific knowledge of “some parts of the program”, and that he is currently drafting an Op-Ed that will be released “in the next few weeks.” | ||