Just to be clear, I think two questions are very different:
(1) Has anyone recovered alien spaceships/bodies/anything else?
(2) Is there a secret military program tasked with recovering such things?
If (2) is true, this may or may not be some democratic issue, or some institutional issue, something like this. Nonetheless, David Grusch is claiming both (1) and (2). The quotes you provide seem to point toward (2): there would be a secret program trying to recover alien stuff. They don’t say anything about whether the program has acquired anything.
Just to be clear, I think two questions are very different:
(1) Has anyone recovered alien spaceships/bodies/anything else?
(2) Is there a secret military program tasked with recovering such things?
If (2) is true, this may or may not be some democratic issue, or some institutional issue, something like this. Nonetheless, David Grusch is claiming both (1) and (2). The quotes you provide seem to point toward (2): there would be a secret program trying to recover alien stuff. They don’t say anything about whether the program has acquired anything.