Luis Elizondo, a robust individual with a history of service in the U.S. military in Afghanistan and Kuwait, as well as involvement in counterterrorism missions against Islamic State, al-Qaeda, and Hezbollah combatants, appears to be someone who is not easily intimidated.
Even he concedes that he was chilled to the bone when his children described a green, glowing orb floating near them inside their Maryland home, just outside Washington DC.
The orb, three-dimensional and filled with a strange green light, seemed to move with purpose, halting abruptly in mid-air before gliding down towards a treadmill and vanishing. Luis Elizondo recounts a similar experience, witnessing the same type of glowing green entity, basketball-sized with indistinct edges, meandering from the kitchen to his bedroom door, just below the ceiling, before it faded into a wall.
His wife, Jenn, observed it for the entire ten seconds it manifested, providing him considerable comfort, as she had been highly skeptical of such phenomena.
Elizondo claims that evidence of aliens is hidden in plain sight here on Earth
The former Pentagon official has made alarming assertions regarding what his previous superiors actually know about aliens and the potential danger they represent to humankind.
He was skeptical about, yet firmly believed in, the existence of aliens already present on Earth.
Furthermore, the U.S. government is fully cognizant of the situation, yet opts to conceal it from the public in a significant cover-up.
These astonishing claims have now been made by Elizondo in a shocking new book, titled “Imminent – Inside The Pentagon’s Hunt For UFOs.”
The book has been deemed significantly important by some, as Elizondo is not merely an amateur ghost hunter, but a former military intelligence officer who spearheaded this pursuit.
At 52, he is the ex-director of the U.S. Department of Defense’s clandestine Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP).
He wants to make it known that it wasn’t until his tenure at AATIP that he began to observe these small, luminous green orbs, which he identified as one of the most frequently reported types of UFOs, now commonly termed Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAPs).
In his mind, the occurrences were too frequent to be mere coincidences. Similar sightings had been reported by his colleagues in their respective locales. Could it be a form of “more advanced intelligence” manipulating those who probed into these matters? Elizondo pondered.
His book has inevitably ruffled feathers in a community that has long struggled for legitimacy.
He possessed high-level access permits and served for seven years in a clandestine U.S. government UFO research unit. He asserts that the existence of this unit is being hidden from the public by certain Pentagon officials who are concerned that its disclosure could lead to widespread panic.
He contends that the clear UFO footage, which was disclosed a few years ago and captured by U.S. fighter pilots, demonstrates that these objects are highly sophisticated machines.
Unfortunately, our current defense capabilities are insufficient to halt their advances.
“These vessels are not of human origin,” Elizondo declares emphatically.
Humanity is not the sole intelligent life in the universe, nor the dominant species.
He asserts that these crafts have been operating with “total impunity globally since at least World War II,” possessing the capability “to maneuver in manners that contradict our understanding of physics, whether in the atmosphere or the ocean.”
According to him, UFOs represent “at the very least, a grave national security concern, and at the most, a potential existential threat to humanity.”
“To put it mildly, it’s the kind of topic that should have been mentioned earlier. Yet, no one has,” he states, attributing the silence to a clandestine group of U.S. government officials and major defense contractors who have allegedly been recovering UFOs and their extraterrestrial passengers since 1947 and concealing them.
This alarming narrative seems like it’s taken straight out of an episode of the sci-fi TV series The X-Files. However, this isn’t a Hollywood script but the claim of a man who served as a high-ranking military intelligence officer before joining the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) in 2009.
The group was established in 2007 at the request of Harry Reid, who was the Democratic majority leader in the Senate at the time, to investigate UFOs. This initiative was prompted by his friend, Robert Bigelow, a billionaire and the founder of Bigelow Aerospace.
Bigelow has stated he is “absolutely convinced” that aliens exist and have visited Earth.
Elizondo has been a notable figure, having resigned from his Pentagon position in 2017 due to his objections to government secrecy and insufficient resources.
He, along with others, created significant controversy by releasing startling videos of purported UFO encounters involving U.S. Navy aircraft.
His recent intervention supported the allegations made by another senior Defense Department whistleblower, Major David Grusch, before Congress last year.
Grusch testified that the Pentagon is concealing the remains of aliens recovered from the wreckage of at least a dozen separate incidents in remote areas of the United States.
Born in Texas in 1971, Elizondo, whose father was of Cuban descent and a guerrilla in the failed Bay of Pigs operation to remove Fidel Castro, studied microbiology and immunology at university. He served in the U.S. Army for 20 years as a counterintelligence agent.
Elizondo is, however, a controversial figure
He saw active service in South America, Korea, Iraq and Afghanistan and had actively participated in interrogations of suspected terrorists held at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba, but had been accused of torture.
He says a lawyer for one of the Sept. 11 suspects called him a “U.S. torture czar” in public session and says the European Court of Justice issued an open arrest warrant “for me and anyone else involved in interrogations of detainees.”
The book states that he was chosen in 2009 to head a clandestine Pentagon group, the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program.
Elizondo asserts that he had no fascination with UFOs or science fiction prior to his involvement in the project.
“He recalls his background being in science.”
His recruiters encouraged him to keep an open mind, citing “data” that supported “strange sightings around the world” for decades. He was assigned to focus on phenomena that “defy our current understanding of physics.”
His perspective shifted after viewing the remarkable 2004 footage recorded by U.S. Navy F-18 Super Hornet jet crews during a training exercise off the California coast, where they were rerouted to check out unexplained radar signals.
When they arrived, they encountered an unusual white object floating above the Pacific. This object, lacking wings or apparent propulsion, moved at incredible speeds.
The cockpit videos recorded by an F-18 crew, one of three UAP footages released to the media in 2017, were later validated by the Pentagon after four years.
Elizondo asserts that the videos demonstrate UFOs as an immediate security threat due to their ability to elude defensive radars and outmaneuver the most sophisticated aircraft with astonishing speed.
The footage also delves into one of the most renowned UFO conspiracy theories – the 1947 event in Roswell, New Mexico.
Elizondo asserts that on that day, two flying saucers collided after their propulsion systems failed for an unknown reason, causing them to descend “like a 757 that lost all power from its jet engines.”
He refers to the well-known photographs of humanoid creatures with slit eyes, stating that “four deceased non-human bodies” were retrieved.
He states that the Roswell incident established the protocol for Washington’s handling of future UFO events for decades, which is to “admit nothing and deny everything.” This approach not only silences witnesses but also disparages non-compliant individuals and marginalizes the entire subject of extraterrestrial visitors.
Consequently, explosive revelations, such as the one referenced by Elizondo about an alien with a smooth-brained surface similar to “many lower animals on Earth” and possessing a combined gut, liver, and heart akin to reptiles, remained undisclosed.
The book’s remarkable assertions receive corroboration in a foreword by Christopher Mellon, the former deputy assistant secretary of defense for intelligence during the administrations of President Clinton and George W. Bush. Mellon, also a UFO enthusiast, is advocating for Congress to investigate the evidence gathered by pilots and sources like Elizondo and Grusch.
Should we abandon our current activities and flee to the hills?
Perhaps not yet. His assertions necessitate extraordinary evidence, similar to past whistleblowers who, for decades, have made comparable claims without substantiating them with proof, relying instead on their credibility to garner belief in their astonishing tales.
When challenged to present evidence, they frequently cite security oaths that bar them from disclosing their knowledge, or they allege threats from “Men In Black.”
However, Elizondo has already demonstrated unreliability, as he once declared that the official disclosure of UFOs was forthcoming in 2018.
In the UK, Nick Pope, who served in the Foreign Office’s UFO division for three years, ended his silence in 1996, declaring that “alien spacecraft are visiting Earth and urgent action is required.”
Similarly, Pope alleged to have encountered evidence in previously secret files that persuaded him of the presence of something unusual and potentially hostile nearing Earth.
However, when the State Department started releasing these records in 2008, the “evidence” was absent.
Critics have pointed out that Elizondo, a man who is aware of the skepticism he might face, not only referred to mysterious floating green orbs that reportedly appeared and vanished but also claimed to have worked telepathically with colleagues in the so-called “group remote viewers” to locate a terrorist thousands of kilometers away.
He also alludes to the notion that aliens might be angels or demons visiting Earth, and mentions that his previous superior at the Defense Intelligence Agency—who remains unnamed—was of the opinion that UFOs did not warrant further investigation as they were clearly acts of the Devil.
Skeptic Mick West, an expert in UFO video analysis, expressed to the Mail that Elizondo’s strange stories “imply he truly believes in a variety of unusual things that heavily rely on a supernatural explanation of reality, which are not yet supported by verifiable evidence.”
However, in the absence of solid proof, any theory could hold water, whether it’s one side of the argument or the other.
Moreover, even the head of the British Air Force during World War II, Sir Hugh Dowding, who was instrumental in the RAF’s triumph over the Luftwaffe, held a belief in fairies and was convinced that UFOs (referred to as Foo Fighters during WWII) originated from Mars and Venus. It seems we can afford to wait a bit longer before pressing the “Invasion Earth” alarm.
Nowadays, even well-informed children are skeptical of tales about an intelligence insider rushing to disclose secrets they’ve stumbled upon. It’s more plausible that an individual from AATIP was instructed by higher-ups to pen a book, then had its promotion amplified in a prominent tabloid. Such publicity would be costly, even for someone of Stephen King’s stature, and a regular intelligence officer likely doesn’t make that much in a year. Clearly, if there’s movement behind the scenes, it indicates that:
Setting aside the uninteresting chatter about green balls, the core of the narrative is that the alien siblings apparently present an existential threat to all of humanity. This is a significant shift from earlier portrayals of the aliens as a neutral or possibly friendly race.
This revelation fuels speculation that we may soon witness interstellar conflicts, or that such wars are already occurring. Indeed, the recent influx of unusual “meteorites,” which bear a striking resemblance to massive spacecraft, suggests that these conflicts have been underway for a while. Now, it seems they are escalating.
