Occupation: US Military & Defense Intelligence. Former Pentagon intelligence officer who was head of the AATIP from 2010 - 2017 believes that UFOs exist and that the government should be more transparent about the subject matter. Luis Elizondo left his government position as head of the AATIP, Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, investigating UAPs. He became frustrated with the red tape involved with the government and some of its personnel. According to Elizondo's resignation letter, he wrote, 'The department must take serious the many accounts by the Navy and other services of unusual aerial systems interfering with military weapon platforms and displaying beyond next-generation capabilities... There remains a vital need to ascertain the capability and intent of these phenomena for the benefit of the armed forces and the nation.' Elizondo began to take UFOs more seriously as he encountered more and more overwhelming evidence. He explained, 'I was talking to pilots routinely. There's videos out there [in government, that the public haven't seen] – there's one that's 23 minutes long. There's another one where this thing is 50 feet away from the cockpit. I mean, it ain't ours. We know that. Sometimes you just couldn't believe it – you'd have seven or eight incidents in a single day. I'd get these emails from an admiral or a ship's captain saying, "Lue, what do you want me to do? I can't keep people below deck forever. These things are swarming my ship, they're all over the place."' • Born: Unknown • Nationality: United States • Category: Government, Military, Researcher, Debunker Key Links: • NY Times: 'Glowing Auras and "Black Money": The Pentagon's Mysterious U.F.O. Program' • 'Confessions of a UFO Hunter: Ross Coulthart interviews Lue Elizondo' (Length: 18:19) - Former Pentagon insider, Lou Elizondo, shares the story of what he claims the American government really knows about UFOs. • Citizens' Voice: '"Wow, What is That?"' (2019-05-31) - Described the sightings as 'striking'. • Newsday: '"U.S. report does not confirm, rule out UFOs"' (2021-06-05) - A former military officer described objects that defied known laws of 'flight and gravity.' • USS Theodore Roosevelt UAPs (2014-2015): Hundreds of UAP sightings were reportedly observed by US Navy pilots flying off of the USS Theodore Roosevelt in the mid-2010s. Two notable videos of such sightings—the 'Gimbal video' and the 'Go Fast video'—were verified as authentic by the Pentagon and were released to the public in 2019. • USS Nimitz UFO Incident (November 2004): The USS Nimitz incident is one of the most high-profile UFO sightings in recent history. Multiple U.S. Navy F/A-18 pilots witnessed a strange Tic-Tac shaped object in flight above the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Southern California. A FLIR video captured the object and led to widespread media attention. • Jay Stratton (Office of Naval Intelligence): First director of the UAP Task Force and a career intelligence officer who pushed for the use of the term UAP. • Leslie Kean (Investigative Journalist): Investigative journalist who broke the 2017 story that the US government has been tracking and studying UFOs through its Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program. • James T. Lacatski (Nuclear Engineer & Rocket Science): Defense Intelligence Agency rocket scientist and program manager for AAWSAP study on UAPs. • Christopher Mellon (Investor & Intelligence Officer): Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence who believed that UFOs could be a serious threat to national security and should be properly investigated. • Harry Reid (Lawyer & Politician): United States Senator who helped obtain funding for the government's Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program that investigated reports of UFOs. • Hal Puthoff (Parapsychologist and Engineer): In the 1970s and 1980s, Harold Puthoff and Russell Targ led research at Stanford Research Institute (SRI) on paranormal abilities, notably studying Uri Geller and Ingo Swann as part of the Stargate Project. Organizations: • United States Army: Served in U.S. Army for 20 years and ran military intelligence ops in Afghanistan and South America. Related Books: • 'Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs' by Luis Elizondo - The former head of the Pentagon program responsible for the investigation of UFOs—now known as unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP)—reveals long-hidden secrets with profound implications for national security.