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Exposing UFOs: Luis Elizondo’s journey and his new book
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Luis Elizondo, a former US Army Counterintelligence Special Agent, talked about his new book “Imminent: Inside the Pentagon’s Hunt for UFOs,” in which he details his struggle to inform the American public of his findings about what the government knows and doesn’t know about UAPs.

In part one of Holly Menino’s interview with Luis Elizondo they spoke about why this information is finally being brought to light and how he got involved in the Pentagon’s UFO program.

From: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L89pEog7hNA

Transcript:

the former head of the Pentagon program
tasked with investigating uaps also
known as unidentified anomalous
phenomenon previously called UFOs is out
with a brand new book Louise alzando is
a former US Army Counter Intelligence
special agent who served the nation in
that capacity for 20 years in his new
book imminent inside the pentagon's hunt
for UFOs he details his struggle to
inform the American public about what
the government knows and doesn't know
about uaps during an in-depth interview
I spoke with alzando about why he's
getting this information out now here's
part one of my two-part interview let's
start from the beginning let's talk
about the UAP crash incident 1947 in
Roswell New Mexico tell me a little bit
about that and then what came out of it
sure you know there's a lot of uh public
lore about Roswell when you when you
hear Roswell uh in New Mexico you know
you think of of sometimes these uh uh
people in uh morph suits and whatnot but
in reality there was a very significant
event that that occurred in the late
1940s in the deserts of New Mexico uh
near the vicinity of Roswell and in fact
there were there were two crashes uh one
of the vehicles was subsequently able to
recover itself uh and the other one did
not and when I say Crashers I'm talking
about a UAP an
unidentified anomalous phenomenon
otherwise in the vernacular known as
UFOs a lot of people when they hear the
word Roswell they think oh weather
balloon but turns out it wasn't a
weather balloon and that's very I think
very interesting because there's some
significance there um at the time in the
late 1940s one of the only capabilities
to deliver at then the brand new atomic
bomb was a modified b29 bomber and it
turns out that the only place that those
bombers were stationed were right there
near near Roswell in New Mexico and so
why why is that significant because in
the book we explore the known connection
the Department of Defense is long known
that UAP or UFOs have a seemingly Keen
interest in our nuclear equities and our
nuclear technologies and it turns out
that the birthplace of the US nuclear
program was right there in New Mexico
talk a little bit about the appearance
of uips in your own home how did how did
this start happening yeah so uh you know
that's a great great question I I don't
know if there were UAP to be completely
Frank with you um all I know is that my
entire family witnessed them some of our
neighbors even witnessed them and it
occurred about the same time as I
started getting into the UAP effort at
the Pentagon and it wasn't just my
family it was I I I learned very quickly
that other members of our effort of our
program were experiencing strange and
and B bizarre phenomenon in their homes
um and in fact I think there's going to
be a lot more of that revealed probably
in the the subsequent probably few years
um because there's people that are
coming out and having that conversation
now I want to be completely honest with
you I don't know if they're UAP um but
it did occur at the time which strangely
enough whether it's coincidence or not
around the same time that I was getting
involved in the UAP program and then
when I started divesting myself those
incidents stopped um these were green
diffuse balls sometimes about the size
between anywhere between a softball and
the size of a basketball but there were
luminous green balls of light now some
may describe them for example as perhaps
as ball lightning or even say almost
fire it's all possible could very well
be there could be a natural explanation
for what my family was experiencing it
was just very interesting that it
happened to coincide with my involvement
in the pentagon's UAP program uh no one
ever got injured uh nothing was ever you
know damaged or destroyed in the house
it was just really bizarre because it
would literally float right down the
hallway and disappear through a wall or
through a door um
I would say probably curiosity was was
the better part of our reaction uh a
little bit of surprise but I don't think
we ever felt I certainly never felt
threatened uh it was just just a very
very strange occurrence and again what I
find so interesting is that other
individuals that were involved in our
program also experienced similar
activities while they were also involved
in the pentagon's UFO program talk a
little bit about that how did you get
involved in the pentagon's UFO program
how did you get involved in the Pentagon
tell me a little bit more of your story
in that way sure well uh I uh I
graduated college uh I uh in the major
of microbiology Immunology with advanced
studies in
parasitology not parasoy the study of
parasites microorganisms so I've always
been a disciple of the scientific method
uh later on in my military career and
then later in my federal career I was a
senior special agent Special Agent in
charge in Counter Intelligence so I've
always been an empirical data driven
person uh just the fact M kind of guy so
for me I've never been necessarily
interested in sci-fi as a kid or
anything like that and uh one day I was
brought into an office and a gentleman
with kind of shaggy hair rocket
literally a rocket scientist one of the
senior rocket scientists for the US
government uh asked me to be part of his
effort and uh and provide some Counter
Intelligence and security
support um gentleman
had uh glasses and I remember him
looking over his glasses and looking at
me and asking me a very direct question
and he asked me towards the end of our
conversation he says what do you think
about UFOs keep in mind at this point I
had no idea what this program was that
that they were asking me to to be part
of and so I thought for a moment and I
responded truthfully I said I don't he
said well what do you mean you don't you
don't believe in UFOs and I said no I I
didn't say that what I said is I don't
you asked me if I think about them and I
said no I really don't have the luxury
to think about them I'm too too busy
chasing bad guys and doing other things
uh and I remember him saying to me it
was almost this like an ominous warning
uh he said look don't let your analytic
bias get the best of you because you may
learn some information here that May May
challenge any preconceived notions that
that you may have uh and um from there
on I guess you may say the rest is
history but that's when I learned that
the US government did indeed have a UFO
program and it was a very robust program
uh there were a lot of very very good
people working that program and this
wasn't the only program there were other
programs at the US government had in the
past that also studied with equal Vigor
the the UFO
topic fascinating just listening back to
our conversation yeah that was part one
of my two-part interview with Luis
alzando alzando is out with a new book
called imminent inside the pentagon's
hunt for UFOs he says this is his own
personal account of his time working
with the advanced Aerospace threat
identification program and very much so
when we were interviewing he was like
ask me anything I'm open to anything and
he really wasn't trying to promote his
book I I did want to know about his book
but he was like No just ask me what do
you want to know I mean people want to
know what's out there what does the
government do know what do they don't
know I mean it's fascinating that's
going to be a good read for sure why is
this important to you to come out with
this information now why do you think
the American public needs to know about
it well first of all I believe that that
America can handle the truth I believe
that America deserves the truth and I
believe there are reasons to keep things
uh from a from a secrecy perspective
National Security perspective there are
always valid reasons to keep things
classified especially when you're
dealing with adversaries you don't want
to tip your hand and show the adversary
any type of technological advantage or
vulnerability you may have so there are
reasons to keep things classified but I
also believe uh there are reasons not to
keep things classified and you know the
law is very clear we we we classify
things to protect two things sources and
methods what we don't do is classify
things to hide things that are
embarrassing to the government or or mal
fees and at the end of the day there is
a distinct chain of command and I have
always believed in in three pillars and
that is transparency accountability and
anti-corruption and at some point
somewhere we began to realize that there
were groups of people who were keeping
this information hidden from people
within the government who had a
demonstrated need to know people in
Congress for example people in the chain
of command they were not being informed
that us payer tax dollars money your
money that you pay in your taxes was
being used to fund a UFO program and I
do not think that the mere fact that
we're not alone in the universe
potentially or that your tax dollars
paid for a UFO program should be
classified there there's no reason
reason for it uh other than to maybe
hide embarrassment and because of the
stigma and taboo associated with it I
think that this is not a conversation
like fine wine where the longer we keep
a cork on it the better it gets I think
secrets are perishable I think they have
a shelf life I think they're like
vegetables in your refrigerator and it
comes a point where if you leave them
there too long they begin to rot and
they begin to stink and you got a real
mess on your big mess on your hands uh
and that's that's what motivated me to
do what I'm doing that's what motivated
me to step forward and that's what
motivated me to write a book what is
Congress doing now when it comes to uaps
you know I I've got to give Congress a
huge Kudos um this is one of the rare
moments where you have both people on
the left and the right uh coming
together to try to figure out what we're
going to do about this topic it is truly
a bipartisan issue and and for that that
is I don't want to say that's historic
in itself but it's almost historic in
itself where both sides can agree to
something right um and they're a lot you
know you have people people from AOC to
Timber ched in the house that are
championing this cause they want uh
hearings public hearings to inform the
American people which is exactly what
they should be doing and they want
answers and they also want
accountability right they want to know
where all this money is going into the
defense industry that's unaccounted for
uh furthermore you have people on the
Senate side that are also like Chuck
Schumer on one hand and and Marco Rubio
or Senator rounds um also championing
this cost because they want
accountability and some of these folks
actually sit on committees where they
are entitled to that information right
if you sit on a committee like the city
 forgive me the Senate select
committee on intelligence they have a
demonstrated need to know and if they're
not being formed of where your tax
dollars are going and the and the type
of technology that we're producing and
the advantage that we have over our
enemies then there's something wrong
someone somewhere in the bureaucracy is
making a decision that is not
necessarily in the best interest of the
American people well you worked in this
department of the Pentagon what was the
most shocking information you uncovered
or came across when it and it's
information that you can share with me
today what was the most shocking piece
of information situation that you that
you came across during your time there
wow great question
um it wasn't a single event um there
were many many many things that occurred
uh that to me was was rather
compelling um in my book I go into a
little bit of those details the reason
why that's important is because it
actually went through the Pentagon
review process uh this is not a book
that I just penned and said here you go
it actually went through the Pentagon
almost a year it took for a security
classification review and even then the
Pentagon decided to redact some of the
information uh understandably so um I
think you know when you realize that
we're talking about technology that can
fly unimpeded into controlled us
airspace and over sensitive military
installations and perform in ways that
really are Beyond Next Generation
capabilities really doing things that we
we don't quite even understand the
physics yet how how they're doing that
and yet there they are doing it and
we're collecting that information off
radar and gun camera footage and also
trained observers and they're able to do
it over our controlled airspace and and
sensitive military
installations that's a problem right
that's that that's a real National
Security concern then you overlay the
fact that there seems to be some sort of
Keen interest in our our nuclear
equities our nuclear weapons our nuclear
production the nuclear power generation
um when you put all those pieces
together the jigsaw puzzle now begins to
come into focus and you begin to realize
we have a a significant problem on our
hand look if this was a let's say a
craft that had a Russian star on the
tail or a North Korean tail number this
would be all over the front page news
but because these things don't have tail
numbers they don't even have tails or
wings or control surfaces or cockpits
it's been crickets nobody wanted to have
the conversation in fact it was worse
because of the stigma and taboo you had
Pilots being being persecuted they were
being uh
basically flying a desk taking off
flight status and say Here's your desk
and we're going to give you a
psychological evaluation you don't ever
report this type of information keeping
in mind we have recorded incidents of
these things coming so close to military
aircraft that they are splitting a
combat formation now if you know what a
combat formation is these aircraft fly
very very close to one another so
imagine a UAP flying in between and
splitting a uh a formation of combat
aircraft so they're getting very
dangerously close to our to our military
pilots in some cases it's pretty
fascinating we're going to post this
interview on Ko's YouTube page alzando
out with a new book called imminent
inside the pentagon's hunt for UFO
he says this is his personal account of
his time working with the advanced
Aerospace threat identification program
he says the group of people that
reported directly to him received emails
and videos regularly of encounters with
uaps that interacted with military
equities