Article by Michael Kaplan and Steven Greenstreet April 24, 2021 (nypost.com)
• The 2021 congressional appropriations bill included a mandate for the Pentagon and intelligence agencies to release a formal report in June on the reality of UAPs – “unidentified aerial phenomena” – aka UFOs. Longtime UFO believers are hungry for explanations of the tic-tac-shaped objects the Navy encountered in 2004, the strange “cubes within spheres” seen by Navy pilots in 2014, or the mysterious black triangles continually reported around the world.
• Luis Elizondo (pictured above) was the head of the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) for nine years, operating out of the secretive fifth floor of the Pentagon’s C Ring. Today a noted whistleblower, Elizondo says the upcoming UFO report touches down on the unexplainable. “I think the government has acknowledged the reality of UAP,” Elizondo told the New York Post, despite signing what he refers to as a “lifelong” NDA before he resigned from the Pentagon in 2017. “I think they all want answers and I think they are all willing to ask the hard questions.”
• In a recent press conference, Elizondo made clear that UFOs have been observed to have qualities that are nothing less than otherworldly, describing vessels that fly at 11,000 miles-per-hour and are able to turn “instantly.” In comparison, Elizondo said that with our most advanced jets going at that speed, “if you wanted to make a right-hand turn, it would take you about half the state of Ohio to do it.”
• Elizondo also talked about ‘transmedium vessels’ that can fly 50-feet above the Earth’s surface or 80,000 feet in the sky and even submerge underwater without a compromise in performance. “When you see that, you recognize you are dealing with a technology more advanced than ours,” says Elizondo. “[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 said. “How is that possible?”
• The existence of the AATIP was revealed in 2017, along with video of a dark circular object flying through the sky and another small object racing over the ocean at astonishing speeds in 2004 and 2015. The Department of Defense confirmed the authenticity of the footage, and a Navy spokesman confirmed the objects in the videos to be UAP. Former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) took credit for arranging $22 million in annual funding for the AATIP, telling the New York Times that it was “one of the good things I did in my congressional service.”
• In 2019, the Pentagon admitted that they’ve researched and investigated UFOs and continue to do so. Meanwhile, UFO sightings in NYC were up 31% in 2020 – marking a whopping 283% spike from 2018, according to the National UFO Reporting Center.
• For generations, US national security officials never wanted to release any information to the public about UFOs. “They felt that it made them look inept,” Elizondo said. “They felt in some cases that it challenged their philosophical and theological belief systems … They just couldn’t process it.” Also, “There seems to be a very distinct congruency between UAP activity and our nuclear technology,” Elizondo continued. “That’s concerning to the point where we’ve actually had some of our nuclear capabilities disabled by these things … There is absolutely evidence that UAPs have an active interest in our nuclear technology.”
• “This is not a conversation like fine wine where the longer we keep a cork on it, the better it gets,” says Elizondo. “This is a conversation like rotten fruit or vegetables in the refrigerator. And the longer it stays in there, the more it’s going to stink.”
The US government is actually gearing up to share information about the “reality” of
UFOs with the public — and not a moment too soon, says the man who claims to have run the Pentagon’s UFO program for 9 years.
Former President Donald Trump’s $2.3 trillion appropriation bill for 2021 contained a mandate that the Pentagon and spy agencies must file a report about “unidentified aerial phenomena” or UAP. Most of us just call them flying saucers or UFOs.
Whatever the jargon, noted whistleblower Luis Elizondo — former head of the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, which operated out of the secretive fifth floor of the Pentagon’s C Ring — told The Post about the resulting blockbuster document, which is reportedly slated for release in June.
Tied to the mandate, Elizondo said the upcoming report touches down on the unexplainable. Longtime UFO believers are hungry for explanations of the tic-tac-shaped objects the Navy encountered in 2004, the strange “cubes within spheres” seen by Navy pilots in 2014, or the mysterious black triangles continually reported around the world.
Such details promise to come via the much anticipated report — and at least one evolution of belief: “I think the government has acknowledged the reality of UAP,” Elizondo exclusively told The Post, despite signing what he refers to as a “lifelong” NDA before he resigned from the Pentagon in 2017. “I think they all want answers and I think they are all willing to ask the hard questions.”
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