Former top Pentagon spy claims US has recovered ‘aliens’
Former US counterintelligence official and Pentagon UFO investigator Luis Elizondo told reporters he can confirm that one of two “vehicles of unknown origin” was recovered from the now-legendary 1947 Roswell UFO crash.
More strikingly, Elizondo said, “We as a nation have been interested not only in the vehicles themselves, but also in their occupants,” which he called “biological specimens.”
Elizondo helped release three of the most famous UFO videos in history after leaving his position at the U.S. Department of Defense in late 2017. His new The explosive allegations come amid the former spy’s press tour to promote his new memoir. They will air on NewsNation’s Special Report: Confessions of a UFO Hunter at 9 p.m. ET on Friday, August 23.
“We are not alone,” former Pentagon official Luis Elizondo (pictured) told Australian investigative journalist Ross Coulthart in a preview of an upcoming TC NewsNation special. “It’s a simple fact,” he added. “The US government has been aware of that fact for decades.”
Elizondo first rose to national prominence in 2017 in the pages of the New York Times, after helping to publish three U.S. Navy infrared UFO videos, including the GOFAST video (above).
The book contains, among its many and incredible revelations, details about a 2016 plan hatched by Elizondo and his military colleagues to catch a UFO in the ocean.
“The United States has been involved in the recovery of objects,” Elizondo told cable network NewsNation in the new interview, “vehicles of unknown origin that are not from our country or any other foreign country that we are aware of.”
“We are not alone,” the former Pentagon official told Australian investigative journalist Ross Coulthart in a preview of the channel’s upcoming special report.
“We are not alone in this universe and that is a self-evident fact,” Elizondo continued. “The United States government has been aware of that fact for decades.”
Elizondo first rose to national prominence in late 2017 in the pages of the New York Times, where he exposed widespread mismanagement and excessive secrecy by the U.S. military and intelligence community on the subject of UFOs.
His public resignation and opaque role within the Pentagon’s UFO-hunting portfolio, known to his Senate supporters as the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP), brought him fame and a starring role in a History Channel documentary series.
In April 2020, the Pentagon officially released three videos that Elizondo had helped leak in 2017, each taken by U.S. Navy fighter pilots who had allegedly witnessed “unexplained aerial phenomena” (UAP), as UFOs are now technically known.
The videos show, as Elizondo said, CNN‘things that have no obvious flight surface, no obvious form of propulsion (…) maneuvering in ways that include extreme maneuverability beyond, I would say, the healthy G-forces of a human or anything biological.’
Despite corroboration from his peers and the late Senate Majority Leader who helped create AATIP, Nevada Democrat Harry Reid,The Defense Department has maintained that Elizondo’s military role did not involve official UFO hunting duties.
Pentagon officials denied the existence of any “credible evidence of extraterrestrial activity,” in a statement in response to an upcoming NewsNation interview.
“As we have previously stated, Luis Elizondo had no assigned responsibilities for the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) while assigned to the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security,” Defense Department spokeswoman Sue Gough told NewsNation.
Gough’s critics have pointed out A 2003 research paper on psychological warfare which he wrote for the U.S. Army War College, implying that the Pentagon spokesman could be part of a coordinated campaign to undermine Elizondo’s credibility.
And in May 2021, Elizondo filed a 64-page complaint with the Department of Defense’s Office of Inspector General accusing senior military officials of trying to silence him by threatening his security clearances and concealing his work with AATIP.
DailyMail.com has obtained an advance copy of Elizondo’s book, Imminent, in which he makes the startling and unequivocal claim that a “Legacy Program” is “in possession of advanced technology created off-world by non-human intelligence.”
Elizondo said he suffered “malicious activity, coordinated disinformation, professional misconduct, whistleblower retaliation and explicit threats perpetrated by certain high-level Pentagon officials.”
These actions, he and his lawyers said, suggested “a coordinated effort to conceal the truth from the American people, while calling into question my reputation as a former Pentagon intelligence officer.”
In his new memoir, Imminent, the former Pentagon official opens up about far more incredible personal accounts, including the story of his own family’s disturbing experience with “green orbs” floating around their home.
In the book, Elizondo also details his and another AATIP member’s plan to capture UFOs on the high seas.
He told DailyMail.com that his investigations indicated that these craft had an apparent interest in military operations, nuclear energy and were often seen near bodies of water.
They then coordinated with the Navy and other branches to create ‘Project Interloper’: an attempt to lure out the mysterious ships and record them with high-tech equipment.
Above, veteran Australian television news presenter and investigative journalist Ross Coulthart, who conducted the first televised interview with government UFO whistleblower David Grusch last year, conducted the new interview with Elizondo, which airs in full on Friday.
“You take a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier strike group, a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, you have a nuclear-powered submarine and other nuclear assets in the area, and you put them in the water,” he told DailyMail.com.
The idea was to gather warships in the ocean, focusing their radar, sonar and cameras where they thought UFOs would appear.
“There was an official plan that was supported by everyone. The entire Joint Chiefs of Staff were briefed,” Elizondo said. “The intelligence community was very interested. Many agencies were involved in this. They were willing to put their effort and resources into it. And at the last minute they rejected it.”
“That, for me, was one of the last straws that broke the camel’s back,” he told DailyMail.com on Saturday.
NewsNation’s ‘Confessions of a UFO Hunter’ television special airs this Friday at 9 p.m. Eastern/8 p.m. Central.