A former Pentagon official alleged that the US government recovered a nonhuman life form from their top-secret spacecraft crash retrieval program in a series of unearthly claims.
“The United States has been involved in the recovery of objects, vehicles of unknown origin that are neither from our country or any other foreign country that we’re aware of,” former senior US government intelligence Luis Elizondo told NewsNation.
Elizondo claimed that one of the two spacecraft the Department of Defense has is from the alleged 1947 unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) crash in Roswell, New Mexico.
However, the US government’s alleged interest in extraterrestrial life is not limited to the crafts but also the entities that operate them.
“We as a nation have been interested in not only the vehicles themselves but the occupants of these vehicles; to include biological specimens… We’re not alone,” Elizondo told the outlet.
“We are not alone in this universe and it is a simple fact. The US government has been aware of that fact for decades.”
The allegations of the US government’s involvement with alien life only become more chilling as Elizondo — who resigned from the Department of Defense in 2017 — has revealed more than any other US official has done in the past.
Elizondo claims to have seen a “technical device” that was removed from a member of the US military following a “UAP encounter” and that the object allegedly acted in a bizarre way when it was being “excised.”
“I saw a technical device that had been removed, excised by the Department of Veterans Affairs by a surgeon, a trained physician, from a US military service member who claimed to have a UAP encounter,” he told the outlet.
“The physician claimed that the object tried to run on him or evade being excised.”
The Department of Defense denied Elizondo’s claims, stressing the government has no “credible evidence of extraterrestrial activity,” according to NewsNation.
“The department is fully committed to openness and accountability to Congress and the American people, which it must balance with its obligation to protect sensitive information, sources, and methods… To date, we have not found any credible evidence of extraterrestrial activity,” Department of Defense spokesperson Sue Gough told the outlet.
“To date, AARO has not discovered any verifiable information to substantiate claims that any programs regarding the possession or reverse-engineering of extraterrestrial materials have existed in the past or exist currently.”
Gough also claims that 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.”
Elizondo wrote in an article for Newsweek on Tuesday that he “graduated from the University of Miami with majors in microbiology and immunology, with studies in parasitology.”
After a stint in the army, he claims to have “served as a special agent in counterintelligence” for the US and was tasked with helping protect “advanced aerospace technology” from falling into the wrong hands.
In 2008, however, Elizondo claims he took “a new position at the Pentagon,” where he was later “approached by two individuals who were part of a program I hadn’t heard of before,” who knew his “background” and were considering him to join their “organization.”
“After meeting the director and several other individuals, I agreed to take on a role in their program, which was called the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP), a niche program under the umbrella of AWSAPP,” he wrote.
He would eventually make his way up the chain in the AATIP, where a “typical day” would be investigating UAP reports, “primarily from the Navy,” specifically in incidents where they “came dangerously close to our aircraft.”
“These UAPs were not only able to fly unimpeded into our controlled airspace and combat theaters, but they were also performing in ways that far exceeded our technological capabilities,” Elizondo alleged.
The former Pentagon insider said he chose to come forward with the information because he believes the “American people have a right to know about the presence of UAPs in our skies” and claims the government is keeping it a secret because they are possibly a “threat for which there is no solution” and does not want to undermine the “confidence in their ability to protect their citizens.”
The full special, NewsNation Special Report: Confessions of a UFO Hunter, airs at 9pm ET on Friday, Aug. 23 on NewsNation, followed by a special edition of Banfield on which a panel of experts will react to the revelations.
