Luis Elizondo - Wikipedia

Luis Elizondo is a former employee of the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence (OUSDI).[1] He currently serves as Director of Global Security and Special Programs at To The Stars Academy of Arts and Science.[2] Elizondo claims to have held several key positions within the Office of the Secretary of Defense, including Director for the National Programs Special Management Staff and Director of Programs to investigate Unidentified Aerial Threats.[3] Also known as the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP), the latter was a secretive $22 million program initiated by the Defense Intelligence Agency in order to study Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP), formerly known as UFOs. [4] According to the Pentagon, it was cancelled in 2012.[5]

Elizondo grew frustrated that scores of unexplained UAP sightings having been recorded and reported by numerous United States Navy pilots over the years were not being taken sufficiently seriously by Pentagon leadership, and resigned from the OUSDI in October 2017 in order to publicly promote UAP research for scientific and entertainment purposes.[6] In April 2019, the Navy acknowledged that it was drafting new guidelines for pilots and other personnel to report encounters with "unidentified aircraft."[7] Elizondo called this policy decision “the single greatest decision the Navy has made in decades.”[8] A six-part History Channel series titled Unidentified: Inside America’s U.F.O. Investigation features Elizondo and others affiliated with AATIP.[9][10][11]

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1. ^ Warrick, Joby. "Head of Pentagon's secret 'UFO' office sought to make evidence public". Washington Post . Retrieved 2019-05-23 .
2. ^ "To The Stars Academy". To the Stars. 2017-10-10 . Retrieved 2019-05-23 .
3. ^ Kean, Leslie; Journalist, ContributorInvestigative; Author (2017-10-11). "Fmr. Manager of DOD Aerospace Threat Program: "UFOs are Real " ". HuffPost . Retrieved 2019-05-23 .
4. ^ Cooper, Helene; Blumenthal, Ralph; Kean, Leslie (2017-12-16). "Glowing Auras and 'Black Money': The Pentagon's Mysterious U.F.O. Program". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved 2019-05-23 .
5. ^ Blumenthal, Ralph (2017-12-18). "On the Trail of a Secret Pentagon U.F.O. Program". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved 2019-05-23 .
6. ^ Bender, Bryan. "The Pentagon's Secret Search for UFOs". POLITICO Magazine . Retrieved 2019-05-29 .
7. ^ Bender, Bryan. "U.S. Navy drafting new guidelines for reporting UFOs". POLITICO . Retrieved 2019-05-29 .
8. ^ Paul, Deanna (2019-04-25). "How angry pilots got the Navy to stop dismissing UFO sightings". Washington Post.
9. ^ "Watch Preview: Unidentified: Inside America's UFO Investigation: Aware Clip - Unidentified: Inside America's UFO Investigation". HISTORY . Retrieved 2019-05-29 .
10. ^ Cooper, Helene; Blumenthal, Ralph; Kean, Leslie (2019-05-26). " ' Wow, What Is That?' Navy Pilots Report Unexplained Flying Objects". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved 2019-05-29 .
11. ^ "Interview with 'Unidentified: Inside America's UFO Investigation' with former Special Agent Luis Elizondo". We Are The Mighty. 2019-05-28 . Retrieved 2019-05-29 .