Michael Shellenberger’s June 7 article: US Has 12 Or More Alien Spacecraft – Triangle craft, chopped up helicopter with front bubble and upside down ram horns craft (4 morphologies)

https://public.substack.com/p/us-has-12-or-more-alien-space-craft?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2

This article came out the same week as the Grusch story and got kind of overshadowed. At the time, many people were wondering who Shellenberger was. This article bears revisiting now that he’s written two UFO articles, including this one, and has been corroborated by Ross Coulthart, who said on the recent Need to Know that he believes he and Shellenberger are speaking to many of the same sources in the program.

The relevant parts are quoted below:

Some of the same sources who shared information with Grusch, as well as others, spoke to Public about retrieved spacecraft that they say is in the possession of the U.S. government. “I know of at least 12-15 craft,” said one person, who said they shared the information with AARO and Congress. “Every five years, we get one or two recovered for one reason or another, from either a landing or that we catch, or they just crash.”

A different contractor said, “There were at least four morphologies, different structures. Six were in good shape; six were not in good shape. There were cases where the craft landed, and the occupants left the craft unoccupied. There have been high-level people, including generals, who have placed their hand on the craft, and I would have no reason to disbelieve them.”

One source described having seen three kinds of craft, including one shaped like a triangle and another that “looked like a chopped up helicopter, with the front bubble of a Huey helicopter, with the plastic windows, or more like a deep sea submarine, with a thick piece of glass bubble shaped, and where the tail rudder should have been, it was a black, egg-shaped pancake, and instead of landing gear it had upside-down rams horns that went from the top to the bottom and rested on the ends of the horns.”

The sources said they felt compelled to speak out publicly to validate Grusch’s claims but did not want their names used. “We have non-disclosure agreements or secrecy agreements that we are supposed to take to the grave,” said one person. Two of the three sources declined to answer certain questions, even off the record, out of concern for their safety and continued access to information.

The sources said that the Pentagon and military contractors keep the nonhuman spacecraft in different locations, including Area 51 in Nevada, and that they move the craft around to different facilities, both military bases and contractor facilities, for research.

The sources differed on whether the U.S. was able to operate them. “As far as I know, we are not able to operate them,” said one person, who said they were last briefed on the crashed craft five years ago. “There are people who say we have reverse-engineered them and are flying them. I never found any support for that. And found a lot of support for saying we can’t figure it out. If we do, it would be in some program at a higher security level.”

Others said that the U.S. has been able to fly at least one of the retrieved craft. “Some of the tech is very cutting-edge,” said a source, “and they have to travel to places like Italy, Belgium, and Indonesia to do flight testing. It’s worldwide. Some of our allies know about the programs. The clandestine places that they work out of have grown larger.”

The sources said they suspected that the Chinese and Russians had also retrieved craft, but they did not know for certain.

A Reddit user found a 2002 illustration of the chopped up helicopter, but I think their post was deleted since I can’t find it. Thankfully, I was able to find their source: https://m.aenigmatis.com/nellis-ufo-video/part-two/nellis-2.htm It’s from an analysis of the 1994 Nellis UFO Airforce Base video by Martin Powell.

Here is the image: https://m.aenigmatis.com/nellis-ufo-video/part-two/nellis-ufo-three-view-diagram.jpg The analysis article includes different screen grabs from the video showing how they came to this conclusion.

Edit: I found the image from the deleted post. It connects the different parts with the article description. https://imgur.com/a/7cG037z