Luis Elizondo on unidentified aerial phenomena, extraterrestrials and the Pentagon's UFO programme

Luis Elizondo ran the Pentagon's secretive UFO/UAP programme for a decade... We had some questions. Early last year, the US government officially acknowledged videos of “unidentified aerial phenomena” filmed by its Navy pilots. Was it evidence of extraterrestrials? Here the former Pentagon intelligence officer in charge of investigating these incidents, reveals (almost) all he knows at GQ Heroes…
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Luis Elizondo on unidentified aerial phenomena, extraterrestrials and the Pentagon's UFO programme

[michaelphelps]

He's no whistle blower. He's a soft discloser. A person put forward to softly disclose the facts in a way that people can accept and somewhat understand. Deep inside, we all know we are not alone.

[Antipodean]

I'm from South Australia and back in the 1960s my father and I would sleep out on the front lawn in summer (no air conditioning) He was always looking into the night sky and one night we saw something truly incredible. It was very far away, just a bright light, but it traveled from one side of the sky to the other at a blistering speed. It was also erratic, stopping dead, then speeding off in another direction. My old man was a sailor in the merchant navy since he was 14 and had sailed around the world many times before he was 18 and had seen this type of thing many times. He had the direct phone number of a fella who ran a huge telescope up at Mount Lofty here. He rang him, told him where this thing was in the sky and he saw it also with his telescope. We were in the local news papers over it, they described it as a UFO, this was around 1966

[MrMelodyRoad]

In 1961, I was in the Coast Guard. The weather cutter I was on (USCG Owasco) was doing a 30 day weather patrol on Ocean Station Bravo which is about 1200 miles out to sea and about 500 miles south of Greenland. I was on radar watch.
I started tracking a target that appeared about 200 miles out which was coming straight for the ship. I plotted its course and speed and it was doing over 2000 knots headed straight for us.
I called the captain, he came in and he immediately darkened ship. The object got within 10 miles from us and in one sweep of the radar it had reversed course and did a 180 and was 40 miles away in the opposite direction going about the same speed.
I think the G forces applied to a pilot doing that maneuver would be impossible to handle back in 1961. We called headquarters in Washington and asked them if we had anything out in that area at the time. Answer was no.
Ever since that time, I have been a believer in the possibility that they UFO's exist. It was not a fluke in the radar. I had been tracking high altitude targets for 18 months by that time and would have known the difference.
It was a very errie feeling watching that object coming toward us. Everybody, captain included, was pretty freaked out. I have never forgotten it.
I know we had several aircraft back then that could travel that fast but non that could pull of that maneuver and still have the wings left on the plane.
So based on that experience I guess you could say I am a believer.

[jamesetal]

My father worked on US Air Force classified projects for decades. He briefed three sitting Presidents. He designed the commo gear for the moon landing which now, along with the reentry capsule, sits in the Smithsonian Air and Space museum. He told me every Air Force O-6 and higher he ever met believed we were being visited by off planet craft.

[GiampietroDiSanto]

He's not a whistleblower: he says just what he's allowed to. I think he's the trailblazer, one of those who are "preparing" the people little by little, very carefully. The US military is backing up releasing chunks of "official" videos and data slowly but constantly and admitting involvement in the issue. We have already crossed the point of no return here: the discussion is not if these things are real anymore but what they are and where they come from. We're already on the ship and we've left that beach (following Elizondo's analogy). There's a lot more to come in the following years. And many should apologize to all those who've been ridiculed, stigmatized and laughed at (to say the least) for pursuing the truth about this phenomenon over the years.

[patches]

Until you have your very own personal UFO/UAP experience, I just don't think anyone can ever truly understand not only the magnitude of this discussion, but the stigma & frustration you have to deal with from non believers or those who just do not care to know? What I experienced in 2019 completely changed my life and views on life, existence, God, religion & the universe as a whole. I only hope that everyone can experience something so powerful & life changing.

[westlakedon]

Well done GQ this is exactly the kind of serious conversation needed in the UK.

[rayskillings]

As a child I saw a very large flying triangle fly silently over a field by my rural house. Moments later two fighter jets flew loudly over the same area in pursuit of the triangle. The jets shook the ground and were so loud that I had to cover my ears. I have never seen anything like it before or since. That was 50 years ago…

[clarenceworley]

"Maybe this is another beach and we are looking out over a new horizon" That was so profound and eloquent in its delivery. I hope I have enough years remaining to see such a horizon cone to fruition.

[gnosis]

Well done GQ for covering this topic, the interview was very well done with no sensationalism.

[godfreydaniel]

The girl who became the mother of my children and I were camping in the desert beyond Death Valley on a moonless night in the 70's. No one was near for miles in all directions. I noticed a bright light in the sky some distance away moving closer to us. I didn't think a thing about it - just another plane in the night sky. It got closer and closer and I noticed two things - it moved slower than any airplane I'd seen before - and it was dead silent. It was too bright to make out any shape it might have had, and had none of the usual nav or wingtip lights. I watched in fascination. When it was directly above us - I had no idea how high off the ground it was - hundreds or thousands of feet - it stopped. Completely. Still dead silent. The desert sky around us was suddenly illuminated for hundreds of yards in all directions - easily bright enough to read a book or newspaper. Then - after what might have been 30 seconds or longer of it hovering above us - it sped off, still completely silent, in a streak of light faster than anything I've ever seen anything move, l like a meteorite, and vanished. What was it? To this day, I have no idea. All I know is that we both saw it - both agree on what we saw - and have never seen anything else like it again. No one could ever convince us we didn't see it, or that it didn't happen exactly as I've described here...

[darinfisher]

I'll try to shorten my story. I'm a nurse and I interviewed a patient of mine 92 talked about being in charge of a UFO program in 1966 in South America and turkey. Turkey definitely has recovered crafts in 1966 he saw the mothership that Commander favor saw under the water. He said for 2 and 1/2 hours him and his crew saw the large Mothership and 10 tic tacs come out of it going in and out of the ocean off San Diego in 1966.... he and his crew members were grilled for over 6 hours the next day to change their story he would not change his story and they actually put him in the program

[markhamanderson]

Having been an active duty Marine Corps Ground Intelligence officer for 24 years, I can tell you without reservation that this is not being ignored because of lack of you really think the worlds governments want to admit they cant do anything about these craft?

[zone]

I never realized it until he said it at the end: The technology we are seeing now was seen in the '40's. If any nation had that technology back then, they would be today's Super Power.

[MikeThaPhilosopher]

Amazing that this video only has 2 million views… this guy actually worked (probably still works) on secret government programs regarding ufos.. and basically telling us that these things are not of human origin.

[SophisticatedBob]

This is a very articulate man. Makes everything he says more valid.

[SuperSushidog]

Back in 1966 my mom, dad and myself (I was in the backseat) of a 1956 Chevy Impala, were crossing the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway headed south, towards New Orleans. There was only one span at the time. The second bridge didn't begin construction till 1967. It was on a Sunday afternoon and the sun was getting very low in the sky, but had not begun to set yet. My dad was driving and was the first to see it. It was a large spherical object, we estimated maybe 30-40 ft in diameter. It appeared reddish orange and looked like flames were flickering across its surface. It sort of looked like a mirrored surface that was reflecting the setting sun, which is what I suspect we were looking at. We first observed it to the southwest, maybe 7-8 miles away, perhaps 4-500 ft above the lake. My dad thought it was a burning helicopter cause it was moving too slowly to be a plane. It crossed the bridge in front of us as we were driving toward it and stopped and hovered maybe a mile or two on our left, south east of us. It started to slowly descend to the lake and touched the water. It looked like a ball sitting on a hard surface. Then even more slowly, it started sinking into the water till maybe 20-25% of it was immersed. Then it took off like a bottle rocket, without any sound. I was staring at it intently, but if you blinked you would have missed it. My dad thought it exploded, but there was no noise of any kind. It accelerated faster than anything with any appreciable mass could have moved. We were almost alongside it when it rocketed off. I found it strange (of course the whole sighting was strange) that when it took off, it didn't draw any water up with it, like one would imagine it might. It sort of upset us all, cause we didn't know what it was, but my parents were downplaying it so I wouldn't get scared, as I was only 11 yrs old at the time. I remember looking in the Times Picayune newspaper the next couple days to see if they mentioned anything about it, because there were dozens of other cars on that 24 mile bridge that saw it as well. The paper said that what people saw was a weather balloon. Yeah, right. I don't know what it was, but it wasn't a weather balloon. I figured I'd better share the sighting as both my parents are dead now.

[garth]

Out of all the videos British GQ has done this is one of their highest viewed uploads to Please British GQ take this as evidence that viewers see this as something very important and needs to be followed. Thanks

[artificial]

I'm loving all these comments/stories! Thank you all for sharing your experiences with us who only can hope to one day be around to one day understand what or who these phenomena is ☺️🙏

[ganybaus]

Late fifties, Dad was flying a DC-4 over the sahara on a charter flight to Australia. A UFO played games with his flight for almost an hour, dad said he'd go to his grave remembering it. Upon landing back in the UK, the crew was detained and individually debriefed for three hours by " authorities" before being allowed to leave, it's been happening for a very long time.