Luis Elizondo, former head of the U.S. government’s investigation into UFO reports (now: U.A.P.s: unidentified aerial phenomena) will have a book about it all, August 20, titled Imminent. Yesterday, the New York Times posted an article about the upcoming book.
Following is a letter I sent to the Times today, quoting from the article.
If Mr. Elizondo, author of Imminent, knew dangerously more than he can say, his life would be in danger—his security, not national security.P. S. If you think my allusions to DARPA are merely imaginative, think again:
It’s more likely that the “left” hand of DARPA [Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency] needed a cover program which the “right” hand (Elizondo’s unwitting distractive management) didn’t know about, e.g., how to make non-existent phenomena appear on radar.
You can’t infer from crashed objects that they are of “nonhuman origin.” They are from unknown origin, like DARPA experiments. A “super secret umbrella group” is credibly nothing more than a public relations operation distracting attention from “working with defense and aerospace contractors.” “Biolological remains of nonhuman origin” are instanced by monkeys.
Lots of astrobiologists believe that “humanity is…not the only intelligent life in the universe.” That’s why there’s S.E.T.I. But there’s no “in fact” about it yet.
So, “a yearlong security review by the Pentagon” affirmed (by letting the book be published) that there’s no There there, as DoD’s Sue Gough attests.
No wonder Elizondo had a “struggle” to keep the program constructive: DoD needed his program to exist, knowing it had no evidentiary basis. “To push for greater trans-
parency” would be to be more candid about the lack of evidentiary reason for the program’s existence.
If indeed there exists “technology that…far exceeds” what’s known, that would be “potential danger,” if it’s not U.S. technology, which is all the more reason for the U.A.P. program distraction from, say, DARPA activity.
One can’t infer from crashed experimental technologies that “nonhuman intelligence [is] controlling them.” Give me a break.
But thanks to Elizondo, public interest in U.A.P.s from afar was sustained, especially by validating a history of technological experimentation which was framed (when seen by persons) as being from afar. Gullible people will believe that aliens are going to flash lights in the sky then disappear, like kids teasing neighbors.
But the notion of “technology [which] could control the world” is Elizondo’s storyline, like “War of the Worlds,” nothing more. We have no evidentiary reason to worry. The highest intelligence among us is pacifist, not malevalent.
Keeping “much of the information collected by this program…classified” is congruent with it being U.S. military research. His real “security clearances” give him license to posture fiction as “firsthand knowledge.” “He got Pentagon approval” because he had nothing new to say beyond what “other sources” had previously had permission to say. Keeping public focus on something afar is the point.
If Elizondo had no “involvement in any other secret projects” (DARPA work, for instance), he would have nothing to say about that because he was never involved. But he affirms that there are other relevant programs, which could be DARPA projects that he’s kept away from.
Anyway, the pretense of Big Secrets is good for book sales. And his 2017 publicity campaign served U.S. interests exactly as it should: keeping attention on afar sources. The array of program names for the investigative activity is congruent with a program that never had a real purpose other than to be a distractive cover.
Especially important would be that a “chief scientist on highly classified projects” would be briefed on how little Elizondo knew, though “he certainly had clearances to get primary information.”
It’s luscious that only Elizondo and persons around him saw the orbs which could pass through walls (contrary to physics of the universe), targeting only his house in all the world, because he is on a secret mission of singular importance that the aliens not only monitor, but let him know that they are monitoring. Whtley Strieber, author of Communion: a true story, would enjoy the ruse. What Mr. Elizondo has to share is truly a good story.
Oh, Mr. Elizondo, your “friends from out of town” are not “a threat to humanity” because they are part of a story that will gain an avid audience, and therefore you are not alone.
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