WASHINGTON DC – Could major countries have been retrieving materials from UFO crashes for nearly a century as part of a “secret” arms race?

Well, that’s what UFO whistleblower David Grusch is alleging, Knewz.com has learned.

David Grusch, a UFO whistleblower who previously served as a former United States Air Force intelligence officer, told the International Coalition for Extraterrestrial Research that China has its own UFO task force and that there had also been “engagement” from Russia.

Grusch further stated that some of the world’s major countries have been in a competition to find UFO materials following crashes since 1933, according to The Daily Star.

Speaking with podcaster Joe Rogan, Grusch referenced an alleged UFO crash event that took place in 1933 in Italy.

“Pope Pius XII and the Vatican were involved,” he said, “back channeling it through the OSS which became the CIA, and later to [then-president Franklin D. Roosevelt] and that’s how the U.S. knew something weird happened.”

That alleged crash predates the famous Roswell crash in New Mexico, where some believe parts of a UFO were recovered. Conspiracy theorists have gone so far as to theorize that aliens were rescued from the site and taken to military bases for testing.

Grusch said that the crash in Lombardy, Italy had major world players involved, including Germany‘s Adolph Hitler.

The major leaders were being sent descriptions of a “saucer-shaped” craft that allegedly crashed.

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