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Luis Elizondo - “Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs” | The Daily Show
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Former U.S. Army Counterintelligence Special Agent Luis Elizondo sits down with Ronny Chieng to discuss his career researching nonhuman intelligence and his new book, “Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs.” They talk about the reality of intelligent “alien” life based on observed incidents, their interest in our military, technologies, and nuclear capabilities, how bureaucracy & the U.S. government have squashed past conversations about Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon (UAP) and how the issue may become the great unifier in Congress. #DailyShow #Aliens #FBI #UFO

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Transcript:

thanks for coming on the show Louis
thank you for having me my honor and
privilege yeah it's uh really nice to
take a break uh talking about divisive
American politics to talk about what is
going on this
aliens well first of all we we don't
call them aliens anymore that's kind of
a uh a politically incorrect term we
call they woke the aliens are woke we we
we now call him in the Pentagon nhi
non-human intelligence okay um maybe we
should probably uh give people your
bonafides a bit you were you were you
ran you were uh in intelligence and
Counter Intelligence
yeah so after college I spent some time
uh went into the United States Army
spent some time in military intelligence
and then from there I was recruited into
some special activity programs where I
became a special agent in Counter
Intelligence investigating terrorism and
Espionage and 2009 early 2009 um I was
brought in to run Counter Intelligence
for that program what is now known as
atip the advanced Aerospace threat
identification program and later on uh I
wound up being one of its senior members
right so you are a military man a
veteran you are intelligence officer
Counter Intelligence officer a grown
adult uh by by your own words you're
also a fact-based person you've you've
said that in fact in interviews but I'm
also proof that you don't have to be
intelligent to be an intelligence well
no I wouldn't go that far let me just
put that out there okay well let me put
this out there what the is going on with
these aliens there's aliens so what is
alien what's going on there's aliens
what what is this so the US government
for many decades has been investing a
lot of taxpayer money looking into this
this topic here and it turns out that
there are absolutely technologies that
are coming into our controlled us
airspace over our sensitive military
installations may have the ability to
interfere with our nuclear equities and
um yeah it's real and not only are
pilots picking it up and and and
Reporting it also we've got on
electrooptical data like gun camera
footage Fleer footage and also radar
data and it's not just here it looks
like it's pretty pervasive all over the
world
now so what there's aliens there's
aliens they aliens on Earth right now
and they're doing what are they
doing how you put those two words
together I'm not sure they I'm not sure
they're necessar you can't hear me yo
they aliens come okay so what are they
doing what are they doing here what are
they doing so it appears that they're
very interested in our technology we
don't know yet I want to be very clear
here why they came here they don't want
to look at my iPhone
no but they got that flew across
the Stars they don't care about they are
very interested in in our military
equities and capabilities and also our
nuclear technology and I think what's
for me what was most compelling is that
in some cases you had literally
literally near misses of us combat
aircraft coming within 15 ft of these
objects in some cases literally
splitting a combat formation right down
the middle um these are things that can
do things that none of our vehicles can
replicate they're performance
capabilities are far beyond anything
that we have and quite frankly there's
not a whole lot we can do about it right
now so beyond beyond a shadow of a doubt
there You' you've seen the evidence
there are aliens oh we the government's
already come out look you have a former
Director of National Intelligence a
former director of CIA a former
president of the United States all
coming out and saying officially yeah
there's something to this I mean these
things look like there's that's they are
interested in our stuff and furthermore
when the government first came out with
their new UFO program called Arrow their
first report said yeah there's 143 of
these incidents but we expect these
numbers to go down as we figure them out
the next report that came out there was
over 300 the next report there's now
over 800 so the number is increasing not
decreasing okay so why is this getting
buried in the cycle or something because
Donald Trump says I hate Taylor Swift so
we just never see this stuff we me
presidents the the the government has
said these things are around
yeah there in Life's a problem it's a
bureaucracy look the the the men and
women find men and women of of the
Pentagon and the US government do
incredible work and and most of the time
are we are a lot better off as a society
because of their professionalism
unfortunately in this particular case
the bureaucracy was a problem we
continued to try to get alarm bells up
to the Secretary of Defense over and
over again but there was this layer of
these proverbial petorian guards that
didn't want to tell the secretary
defense that we were spending taxpayer
money looking into these things and oh
by the way turns out they're real okay
are you with all due respect is there
any chance that you are accidentally
describing the synopsis to Independence
Day because that's the movie that was in
the movie they couldn't get to the dude
because they wouldn't listen so you're
telling me aliens are going to take over
because of US government bureaucracy
well I certainly hope that's not the
case I I think you know when we look at
this this issue here this has been going
on for decades this has been going on
since the late 1940s now when I say that
people go wait a minute you talking
about Roswell was Roswell real was
Roswell real it was absolutely okay so
what what was that Roswell there was a
there was a crash it was a vehicle that
had broken into two pieces um and it was
recovered by the United States
government taken to a secure military
installation and then from there it went
out to certain locations um what is in
that book I'm allowed to talk about that
went through the Pentagon review process
so I am legally able to talk about
there are things that I'm still not yet
allowed to talk about well those things
tell us those
things well let's see here I don't I do
not look good in an orange jumpsuit so I
I got to be very careful I yeah are you
going to look good in the whatever
jumpsuit the aliens put on you you
better we better be we better be this is
the it sounds like we're battling aliens
and bureaucracy here can we I don't know
if we can fight a two-front war on this
can we choose a site to fight here I
think I'd prefer to fight aliens if I
had to choose between bureaucracy and
aliens to be honest with but okay so in
the book you say that and by the way I
mean I I read the book and it's it's a
very um uh it's a page Turner it's it's
very well written it's easy to follow um
it like um in it you say like the best
case scenario right now is that aliens
are national security threat issue issue
because to determine if something is a
threat it's really a very simple
calculus it's capabilities versus intent
now we've seen some of the capabil
we still have no idea the intent so
therefore we don't know if it's a threat
but let me give you very quick analogy
here you probably live in a great lovely
area just like your audience here do you
lock your door I live in New York City
so no not really do you lock your front
door there probably there's aliens here
right now in New York City as we going
see yeah I do lock my front the way so
and most people do and let's say you
lock your windows and you turn on your
alarm let's say one Sunday morning you
come downstairs I have a hot cup of
coffee or tea and despite your doors
being locked and your window and your
alarm on there's now size 12 muddy
bootprints in your living room floor and
your carpet that weren't there the night
before now no one's been hurt nothing's
out of place but despite you doing all
this other stuff and locking doors and
making sure the alarm's on there are now
Footprints in your living room carpet
that weren't there the night before my
question to you is is that a threat and
so my response is from a national
security perspective I was wearing my
National Security hat it could be if it
wanted to be so we probably should
figure out how it's getting into the
house we should probably move at that
point we should probably get out of that
apartment that's bootprints they still
walking around so these things are are
we are encountering them over controlled
us airspace like I said over sensitive
military installations and so from a
national security perspective we've got
to figure out what these things are no
 no we got to figure out what's
going you see you're saying you're
you're being very professional you're
being very technical you're being very
calm as an intelligence officer and then
you're saying there's aliens here that
we don't know what they want what what
okay what do what should people take
away from this as aliens and what fire
when you see shoot on site what do no no
don't do that I I would recommend not
doing that um I I think what what people
need to know right now the US government
is taking this topic very seriously
there's there's several pieces of
legislation that are going through
through Congress right now there are
members in both the house and the Senate
that have been briefed by whistleblowers
on this topic people who have been part
of certain efforts UAP efforts in the
past you should is not getting mixed up
with the Border act right because that
when you say aliens I don't think they
really know which ones you're talking
about right well these I mean yeah you
have illegal aliens and then you got IL
go aliens yeah you
got so is who so there's acts coming up
there's legisl what we're legislating
against Intergalactic aliens well I
think the idea is to open the door for
whistleblowers to come out and be able
to have a protected conversation with
Congress so Congress can then have a
conversation with the American people I
think that's really what this is about
and certainly I think there are certain
people in by the way for the first time
this is a bipartisan issue you've got
both liberals and conservatives on the
hill can you believe it of all things
UAP right no see that's the most fet
thing you said it's just that that is
not who would have thought I'll believe
aliens but this there's no way these
guys are working together they are I I I
I swear to God I I I can't say who they
are but their names have already been I
think in the Press quite a bit but on
both sides they are taking this topic
very seriously a lot of these folks have
military backgrounds why don't they just
let it out just let the news out well
tell people just show them the freaking
show them the photo of the alien selfie
with the president and then let's get it
out there and let's handle it we we we
spent many decades backing ourselves
into a corner on this conversation and
the government has said publicly what
its position is now it's in a situation
where it's having to unwind that
conversation and say look folks we
haven't always been completely
forthcoming and truthful with you and
that's a hard conversation to have what
are you talking about there aliens have
the conversation there's aliens there's
aliens
that's
aliens I all right well uh can we can we
stop them um well I don't know I mean
that's not a question for me that's a
question for it's kind of a question for
you I think you're the only one who can
because it sounds like you're your
attitude also seems to be like yeah
they're here I've seen them they have
capabilities beyond our understanding
and nothing much we can do about it so
you know keep watching uh Paramount plus
and uh I don't know what we're supposed
to do about this now I think look I
personally think Americans can handle
the truth about this topic I think it's
it is I mean we can joke a lot about it
but the reality is is that these things
whatever they are wherever they're from
Aliens this is real so these are real
all right yeah it's real whatever it is
okay well is that a chance that if the
government tells people aliens are real
and shows them we'll unite together in a
global effort to defeat them and side
well you know they were there there was
a famous speech by uh by Reagan back in
the 80s where he said by Bill Pullman in
Independence
and him yeah that's right where they
said that if if if the truth of this
came out it would probably unite the
world but y we need it now let's go
aliens aliens let's go now this is the
time the reality is this is the time we
got a lot of going down now aliens
come aliens I'm now I'm down for aliens
now okay if if we look uniting Congress
is already a a big enough challenge
let's let's get these folks on the same
sheet of music let's get the briefings
they need and then let them have a
conversation with their constituents
you're talking about paperwork I'm
talking about
aliens okay but the the government
survives off paperwork it is a
bureaucracy unfortunately so we have to
look there's a there's a I've always
said there's a there's a right way to do
things and you can do also it right now
but they're not necessarily the same
thing doing things right and right now
may not be you know the same the same
thing what do you mean there aliens and
you want to go through bureaucracy and
try to unite Congress before you can
fight the aliens no fight the aliens get
the aliens out
I I I think there's opportunity here in
the last seven years I think we've come
further on this conversation than we
have the last 70 there are elements now
in the government that want this
conversation to occur they want the
American people to know look this is the
worst kept secret at this point probably
in in the US government it I mean it's
it's pathetic the fact that so many
people now in our in our militaries our
intelligence communities have even in
some cases come up close and personal
with these things wait what yeah okay
this is okay this is crazy anyway uh
imminent is
a imminent is available now uh I wish we
could we could talk for hours about this
thing but uh L Al everybody
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