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How the Pentagon Started Taking U.F.O.s Seriously | The New Yorker newyorker.com 5 facts
claimLuis Elizondo claimed the Pentagon's U.F.O. program continued operating after 2012 despite the lack of dedicated funding.
accountIn 2010, Luis Elizondo transformed an outsourced study of Utah cryptids into the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP), an in-house Pentagon initiative focused on the national-security implications of military U.A.P. encounters.
measurementOctober 3, 2017, was Luis Elizondo's last day of work at the Pentagon.
claimFollowing his resignation from the Pentagon, Luis Elizondo, along with Christopher Mellon, Hal Puthoff, and Steve Semivan, joined To the Stars Academy of Arts & Science, an organization founded by Tom DeLonge.
claimThe civilian intelligence official who succeeded Luis Elizondo in managing the Pentagon's U.A.P. portfolio argued that rigid bureaucracies require a formal process to handle uncategorizable observations to prevent overlooking data that does not follow standard patterns.
Grey Aliens Exposed - Hangar 1 Publishing hangar1publishing.com 3 facts
claimLuis Elizondo resigned from the Pentagon in 2017 to protest the secrecy surrounding Unexplained Aerial Phenomena (UAP).
quoteLue Elizondo, the former head of the AATIP program, stated: "I was privy to information and discussions that even most of the senior leadership of the Pentagon is not aware exists."
claimLue Elizondo claims he resigned from the Pentagon to protest the excessive secrecy surrounding evidence of non-human intelligence.
Disclosure movement - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org 3 facts
claimLuis Elizondo, former director of the Pentagon's AATIP program, stated that he is actively working behind the scenes as a disclosure advocate.
perspectiveLuis Elizondo, the former director of the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP), described a Pentagon report denying that UFOs are extraterrestrial as "intentionally dishonest, inaccurate and dangerously misleading."
claimLuis Elizondo stated that he is currently doing more work behind the scenes as a disclosure advocate than he did while running the Pentagon's secretive UFO program for a decade.
Disclosure or deception? New UFO Pentagon office divides believers nbcnews.com 2 facts
claimLuis Elizondo criticized the Pentagon's decision to place the new UAP office within the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence & Security in an op-ed in The Hill, stating that this location is ideal if the goal is to maintain 70 more years of secrecy regarding the topic.
perspectiveLuis Elizondo and Christopher Mellon, former government insiders who publicized military aircraft video of UAPs, applauded Senator Kirsten Gillibrand's amendment but expressed concern that it was watered down before final passage and might be buried by the Pentagon.
Ufology: From Fringe to Mainstream to Fringe? - Skeptic Magazine skeptic.com 1 fact
accountLuis Elizondo recounted that a senior Pentagon official told him to read the Bible when he lobbied the official to take action on UAP, reflecting a belief that UAP are demonic and that studying them gives them energy.