Elizondo Warns That Cover-Up of UFOs puts US at Risk
Article by Michael Kaplan and Steven Greenstreet April 30, 2021 (nypost.com)
• In 2008, Luis Elizondo (pictured above) was a DIA intelligence officer assigned to Gitmo. Under a legislative mandate funded by former Nevada Senator and Majority Speaker, Harry Reid, Elizondo transferred to a Pentagon UFO research division known as the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP). He became the head of the program until that incarnation of the Pentagon’s ongoing study of UFO study was ended in 2012. In 2017, he left his Defense Department career due having to deal with the closed-minded non-believers who shunned his UFO research – an “intelligence failure on the level of 9/11”, says Elizondo. But he never stopped investigating UFOs and publicizing what he found, at least as far as his ongoing military non-disclosure agreement would allow.
• Now, with a bombshell government report on UFOs set to be released before the end of June, in the first of a series of articles in the New York Post Elizondo has revealed the reality of UFOs – vindicating believers of UFOs – the amazing things that they can do, and why decision-makers in the Pentagon don’t want this information made public.
• As part of his job as the head of the AATIP program, Elizondo had access to the Pentagon’s UFO data and he interviewed military eyewitnesses who encountered UAP on an almost “daily basis.” He spoke with Navy aviators who witnessed a 50-foot ‘TicTac’ UFO and a “sphere encasing a cube” that nearly collided with their jet. He studied data that showed the speed of a UFO at 14 miles per second, “making crazy right-angle turns” and being able to reverse “instantly”.
• Elizondo also revealed how some of these UFOs can achieve ‘transmedium travel’ both through the air and under water without compromising its level of performance. “When you see that, you recognize you are dealing with a technology more advanced than ours,” said Elizondo. ”Even the way in which these inexplicable flying machines manage to lift off blows away rational engineering. [These] things have no wings, no cockpits, no control surfaces, no rivets in the skin, no obvious signs of propulsion – and somehow they are able to defy the natural effects of Earth’s gravity,” Elizondo marveled. “How is that possible?”
• But Elizondo is less worried that these could be of extraterrestrial origin than he is that an Earthly adversary may have leap-frogged American technology while military bosses turned a blind eye to the UFO phenomena. This creates “a real problem from a national security perspective,” says Elizondo. “This isn’t a silly conversation. This is a conversation about someone, from somewhere, displaying beyond next-generation technology” that allows craft to fly “in our controlled airspace. And there’s not a whole lot we can do about it.”
• Elizondo pushed his superiors to take his findings seriously. But Defense Department superiors found the UFO topic ‘off-putting’ and blocked him from informing top generals. To some senior Pentagon officials, the very existence of UFOs was “too much of a pill to swallow”. One senior official “told him to ‘stop’” investigating UFOs”. He told Elizondo that UFOs “are demonic and we should not be pursuing them.’” Dr. Eric Davis, Ph.D., a former rocket scientist for the Air Force Research Laboratory and currently a scientist at government contractor the Aerospace Corporation, confirmed: “They objected to UFOs as being Satanic! …So they let a finite group of engineers and scientists and investigators work [on UFO research] together.” Their findings “just collect cobwebs in the classified storage warehouses.”
• Nick Pope, who briefly worked within the UFO office in Britain’s Ministry of Defence, saw similar incidents of religion-trumping-science in the UK. “Some…people in government…think the phenomenon is real – but demonic,” Pope said. “Their belief seems to be that studying UFOs would thus give energy to attention-seeking demons, which should be avoided. This view comes, in part, from the Biblical description of Satan as ‘the prince of the power of the air.’”
• Some of this institutional reluctance to reveal the UFO truth to the public may also stem from a fear of panicking the public. As Elizondo points out, many UFO sightings were near vulnerable nuclear facilities, ships in the water and power plants. “We had never seen anything like it,” Elizondo noted. When Elizondo was asked if he believed the US government is in possession of UFO craft, he responded, “Yes. I believe so. And that’s all I’m prepared to say.”
• As a result of this biased attitude, there appears to be a long-running campaign to discredit Elizondo and to keep his findings out of the limelight. “There are some people in the Pentagon that still don’t like me very much,” says Elizondo. “I think they’re pissed at me for the way I left. They’re…saying, ‘He had no assigned responsibilities with AATIP.’” Technically, it was the legislative branch that assigned him his UFO duties.
• “There are enough people now in the Pentagon and on the Hill who know exactly who I was and what I did.” Former Senator Reid remains a stanch defender of Elizondo. “Mr. Elizondo has spent his career working tirelessly in the shadows on sensitive national-security matters, including investigating UAPs as the head of AATIP,” Reid said. “He performed these duties admirably.”
• Though Elizondo, Pope and Davis are all pleased to see the June report coming out, none of them expect the government to reveal all. Elizondo figures it will be “an interim report … [laying out] all the unknowns”. Davis notes that UFOs “never went away. They’re still…causing aviation havoc, …getting in the middle of aviation operations, and that’s dangerous.” And Pope added, “If they know or suspect that UFOs are extraterrestrial, I hope they’ll say so.”
• When questioned whether UFOs could be vehicles from another galaxy, Elizondo offered a historic analogy. “Imagine the first person who decided to get on a boat and sail over the horizon. Back then there was talk of sea monsters and krakens that will destroy your boat. But [those sailors] did it anyway.” There really were sea monsters, as it turned out. “[W]e call them great squids of the Pacific, great white sharks and whales. They’re part of nature and we learned to understand them.” Now, faced with a similar scenario, “Maybe this is just another expedition over the horizon. Maybe we’re going to realize that what we thought were monsters (i.e.: extraterrestrials) are really just our neighbors.”
• “The level of interest (in UFOs) is reaching a critical mass,” says Elizondo. “Now that the government has acknowledged the reality of Unexplained Aerial Phenomenon… it’s going to be real hard to backtrack.”
UFOs exist — but the government doesn’t want you to know, says an ex-Pentagon official who says he ran the program investigating “unidentified aerial phenomena” or UAP.
“Let’s assume this is some sort of adversarial or foreign technology that for several decades now has managed to leapfrog us and evade all 18 members of the intelligence community,” controversial whistleblower Luis “Lue” Elizondo told The Post, painting a nightmare scenario of the United States being vulnerable to a human enemy with the highest of high-tech capabilities. “That would be an intelligence failure that eclipses just about anything else this country has ever faced.”
The feds have long covered up the existence of UFOs because of religious objections, concerns over tarnishing its own reputation and fears of inciting public panic, said Elizondo, who says he came into the Pentagon’s Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program in 2008, and headed it from 2010 until 2017.
Now, with a bombshell government report on UFOs set to be rel
eased before the end of June, Elizondo has revealed the shocking things he alleges to have learned — and the chilling reason why some in the Pentagon don’t want this information made public.
As part of his job, Elizondo said, he had access to the Pentagon’s UFO data and
interviewed military eyewitnesses who encountered UAP on an almost “daily basis.” Meanwhile, Navy pilots have testified about engaging 50-foot Tic Tac-shaped vessels only to see them disappear in the blink of an eye. Other pilots said their fighter jets had a “near collision” with a strange “sphere encasing a cube.” Elizondo scrutinized all this evidence, including radar and electro-optical data, that showed unknown aircraft zipping 60 miles in five seconds and descending at speeds of 14 miles per second.
“Do the math,” Elizondo, also a former intelligence officer for the US Department of Defense, told The Post. “You’ll see that it’s very fast.” (BTW: We did the math — and 60 miles in five seconds is 43,200 mph.)
Despite those mind-blowing discoveries, Elizondo was always swimming upstream. He tried to share frightening evidence with closed-minded non-believers who shunned his research, which he has now compared to an “intelligence failure on the level of 9/11.”
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