Mysterious glowing green balls the size of basketballs invaded the home of a high-ranking defense official whose job it was to find out the truth about UFOs, he claimed in his new memoir.
Luis Elizondo wrote in his autobiography about his time at the head of a top-secret program to investigate what the Pentagon called Unexplained Aerial Phenomena (UAPs). It took a full year for it to pass the Defense Department’s censorship board.
The book “Imminent”, was received from The New York Times and describes some of Elizondo’s experiences as an intelligence officer in the Defense Intelligence Agency’s secret Advanced Aerospace Weapons System Applications Program.
Much of his time there remains secret, but the book describes how he took his work home with him for seven years, claiming his Washington DC-area home was “raided.” The times reported, by green, glowing, basketball-sized balls. They could pass through walls and seemed to be “under intelligent control,” according to The times.
Elizondo writes in the book that his wife, their two daughters and their neighbors, whom they called “our friends from out of town,” saw the green orbs.
Elizondo, who is now retired from the DIA and has testified before Congress about the Pentagon’s knowledge of UFOs, says knowledge of their existence dates back to the 1940s.
This sign on US-285 north of Roswell, New Mexico, points to the alleged 1947 flying saucer crash site at Corn Ranch. In his book, the former DIA employee says the Pentagon was aware of UFOs as early as the 1940s.
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“We can no longer bury our heads in the sand. We know that we are not alone,” he says in the book.
Elizondo writes in his book that he served in the Army in Afghanistan, was involved in counterterrorism operations, and worked at Guantanamo Bay, but when he was assigned to participate in the UFO program, he was surprised by the extent of the Pentagon’s knowledge and the secrecy surrounding it.
Since the 1950s, he says, the Pentagon has amassed knowledge that was kept under the strictest secrecy, initially to prevent the communist Soviets from learning about it. “Whoever mastered this technology could control the world,” he wrote.
His program investigated encounters with unexplained phenomena in the sky reported by Navy pilots and collected recordings of seemingly impossible maneuvers by strange flying objects. Three of the collected videos were revisited in 2020 after being declassified by the Pentagon, three years after they were first released by The timesThe move confirmed that the messages did indeed come from Navy pilots, but did not confirm whether extraterrestrial intelligence was involved.
The videos that have been made public were recorded by cameras on board naval aircraft, which apparently captured aircraft movements that conventional aircraft could not perform.
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Elizondo writes that his work convinced him of the existence – and superiority – of extraterrestrial intelligence. Of the alleged spacecraft, he wrote: “The nonhuman intelligence controlling them represents, at best, a very serious national security problem and, at worst, a possible existential threat to humanity.”
The restrictions on what Elizondo was allowed to write add an additional intriguing dimension to his memoir: The former intelligence official said he could not talk about other secret alien-hunting programs, strongly suggesting that they exist and that they have never been fully disclosed.
His program only came to public attention because of the way it was set up in 2009 by then-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), with $22 million funneled into other expenses. More money followed, but the unit was shut down in 2012. Elizondo continued his work with the Navy, but resigned five years later in a letter to then-Secretary of Defense, retired Marine Gen. James Mattis, stating, “There remains a pressing need to determine the capability and intent of these phenomena for the benefit of the armed forces and the nation.”
After his retirement, Elizondo became the Pentagon’s most vocal former UFO official on the subject of UFOs, bringing a dark area of federal government activity even more into the public spotlight. Shortly after his retirement, he told the Daily Beast that the Pentagon’s UFO investigations would continue under new leadership. “I know that our UFO investigations in the United States take their duty to defend our country very seriously, and I am confident that they will take the necessary actions to ensure our defense against all threats.”
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The Pentagon continues to operate alien programs, as the memoir strongly demonstrates. It took Defense Department censors a year to release the book.
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In his memoirs, he reveals that he informed his successors about the Pentagon’s crash-object recovery program, and names Harold E. Puthoff as one of the 50 years who worked as the government’s chief alien scientist. Puthoff is a controversial figure. He has a PhD from Stanford, but has been accused of pseudoscience. Until his memoirs, it was not known that Puthoff, now 88, had worked for the government.
Puthoff said The times that Elizondo “has informed us of information that he has received that appears to be first-hand, and I have no reason to ignore that. He certainly had authorization to receive primary information.”
What Elizondo claims about the government’s knowledge going back to the 1940s goes beyond what officials have admitted. The CIA has declassified hundreds of documents detailing its UFO investigations since then, but any findings are inconclusive at best.
As part of Project Blue Book, the US Air Force investigated 12,618 alleged UFO sightings between 1947 and 1969. However, it stated: “There is no evidence that the sightings classified as ‘unidentified’ are extraterrestrial vehicles.”
