The UFO Lie: Shocking truth of Pentagon AAWSAP program | The Basement Office

Everything you were told is wrong. In 2017, the New York Times released a bombshell story revealing AATIP, the Pentagon's "UFO program" and Lue Elizondo, the director of that program. It proclaimed a shocking truth: UFOs are real. Since then, that story has been reprinted hundreds and thousands of times across the world and Mr. Elizondo has reached the status of cultural icon. But we've since learned that the whole story... was wrong. In this episode, we reveal the real story of the Pentagon's AAWSAP program - led by scientist James Lacatski - and it's even crazier than you could possibly imagine: $22 million in taxpayer money spent on werewolves, ghosts, goblins, and "dinobeavers" at the infamous Skinwalker Ranch in Utah. But UFO advocates, who are currently lobbying Congress to spend money on UFO investigations, hope you never find out about that. | Season 3, Episode 1

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DOCUMENTS AND SOURCES (in order of appearance)

Hal Puthoff and Scientology:

Project Stargate:

Elizondo's resignation letter:

To the Stars Academy Press Conference, Oct 2017:

The "party balloon" photo behind Chris Mellon during the TTSA press conference:

Leslie Kean's October 2017 HuffPo articles:

Dec 16, 2017 New York Times article:

Dec 16, 2017 Politico article:

AAWSAP program objectives and Lacatski's name:

All AAWSAP documents released (so far):

Skinwalkers at the Pentagon book:

New York Magazine 2018 interview with Harry Reid:

Dr. Eric Davis "Teleportation" and "Spoon-bending" paper:

Dr. Eric Davis "Wormholes and Stargates" paper:

Harry Reid November 2021 interview with George Knapp:

Pentagon statement that AAWSAP and AATIP were the "same program":

New Yorker 2021 article by Gideon Lewis-Kraus:

Lue Elizondo's tweet about having no involvement with AAWSAP:

Lue Elizondo 2020 email to Pentagon:

Bryan Bender April 2022 tweet about being "purposely misled" about AATIP:

Lue Elizondo complaint filed with Department of Defense Inspector General's office:

Podcasts included in this episode:

[Mortthemoose]

Wow!
Your journalism is outstanding! 👏👏👏👏👏👏
This had my head spinning! 🥴

[ROARINGLION]

Government Rule #1 - Tell different stories to confuse the public and put the truth in the middle of it. Mix it all up and nobody will have a clue what the truth is.

[tohmii]

Lues indirect reply,

Against my better judgement, I am climbing down into the morass to address yet another mis-characterization based on cherry picking of information. I have always maintained I was only tangentially involved in AAWSAP and my focus was on standing up a CI and Security capability for AATIP. In 2010, when asked to take over AATIP, the AAWSAP portfolio came with it (even though I had no problematic or operational involvement in AAWSAP) within 24 hours, my Deputy and myself decided we would only focus on the AATIP portion of the effort which is precisely what happened. In the future, I encourage folks to be cognizant of individuals with agendas. This is a complex issue. People who were not there or part of the effort at the time, simply don't know. Fortunately, the DoD IG is aware of the relevant details and as I have maintained, the truth will be proven in the end. Be cautious of people baring false witness. My involvement in AAWSAP was only in name as a matter of pro forma because it was the broader effort initially. Remember, just because you work on the Corvette assembly line doesn't mean you are involved in all Chevy products.

[YoungChunds]

Iirc, Lue didn’t disclose aawsap because it wasn’t his program to disclose, out of professional respect for Lakatski who wanted to reveal it on his own terms. Which he did with his 2021 book, Skinwalkers at the Pentagon. Lue Elizondo was only involved in an offshoot program that gathered strictly nuts and bolts reports ufo’s. 

Imo we’re fortunate they’ve been this transparent at all, giving us almost the entire timeline. Something that would be used against them because they dared to tie the ufo phenomena to poltergeist. But, alas, the ufo community does the the bidding of their own destruction, using terms like ‘dino beavers’ and ‘werewolves’ in a pejorative fashion, the same way the ufo community has been disparaged for years as chasing ‘little green men’. I just hope this dishonest campaign doesn’t thwart the real progress that has been made to effectuate change in congress

[christinehansen]

Shocker! A politician used taxpayer money frivolously to enrich their inner circle. And no one is held accountable.

[cheechoo]

I don’t know why the calling out of Lue - he’s many times stated the differences between AAWSAP and AATIP, always saying his role was the UAP angle. It does seem like ‘cherry picking’ a word or possible typo in a news article regarding the dates. If someone is playing ‘telephone game’, of getting a news story out quickly down the wire, info can get mislabelled. There is no denying the program and it’s actions existed. That should be the focus. If UAP were 3% of the program, it was.. there’s still no reason to discredit him. He hasn’t made things up that contradict what pilots, radar operators etc, have spoken about. Also 22M over 5 years is 4.4M a year. Pennies in the grand scheme of things. Bigelow/Reid connection is problematic tho’ - but it is so far-out the public would def. reject it whether or not activities are real or not. Finally.. yes! Looking forward to more episodes!

[euroszkeptikus]

I wonder why Steven didn't mention how the Pentagon press office fliplopped about Lue's role when Steven made inquiries, one press offcial even telling Steven he wasn't satisfied with how Lou was treated by the Pentagon. In other words, the Pentagon response has not been as uniform and unequivocal as presented here.

[RenegadeContext]

It takes a good character to admit when you're wrong and a commitment to the truth to need to set the record straight. Much respect to you sir

[gageackley-dechant]

31:36
Clearly shown in the video is a page from Senator Reid's request to make AAWSAP classified. It is only shown for a second as it pans over it, but it reads as follows -

"FY 10 Preliminary Bigoted List of Government Personnel:
1. Honorable William Lynn III, Deputy Secretary of Defense (Gov't)
2. Honorable Senator Harry Reid of Nevada (Gov't)
3. Honorable Senator Daniel Inouye of Hawaii (Gov't)
4. Robert T. Herbert (U.S. Senate)
5. Dr. James Lacatski, DIA (Gov't)
6. Jay Stratton, ONI (Gov't)
*7, 8, and 9 have been redacted*
10. Special Agent Luis Elizondo, USDI (Gov't)
*Presumably the 11th and final name has also been redacted*

This being part of Senator Reid's request to make AAWSAP classified and only the nickname AATIP being unclassified to those who aren't cleared to have access to any information about the program, means it was written and submitted back before the Pentagon pulled the funding or started asking questions in the first place. Didn't he say that took place in 2010? Senator Reid was the biggest player in the game of creating AAWSAP in the first place, so for him to include Elizondo in the original request, back in it's infancy, for classification and a strict list of only 11 individuals who should be granted the security clearance to have the access and involvement would have to mean Elizondo has been officially involved since it started or very shortly afterwards. I appreciate the honest attempt to be transparent, but why would a detail that significant be blatantly omitted all together? And why was there zero mention of the government's admissions that UAP's are real and they claim so far, are a total mystery to this point? Or the multiple foreign governments that have also acknowledged the exact same things over their territories? Just as the New York Times reporter omitting key details looks bad, this does too. Just saying...

Credit to @Jezhumberston for pointing out this frame

[SPAGGET_T]

Wait a second. Just because people didn’t report on AAWSAP doesn’t mean that what they were researching at skinwalker was a total waste of time. It’s because even if it was based on truth, the public wouldn’t take it seriously, so before revealing that to the public they needed to go step by step before risking losing all credibility.

I’m disappointed you have decided to ridicule instead of looking at this scientifically. Not to mention the way information wasn’t included to push this narrative

[kayty]

I now understand why Knapp's TV station keeps deleting my comment where I point out politicians, personal investments and propaganda

[hegemonycricket]

I'm undecided what to think of Lou Elizondo. He may be a sincere and honest whistle-blower, who has seen what the govt is up to behind the curtain. On the other hand, he could be a willing player in a wicked false flag the govt is preparing.

The story that the govt pulled funding for AATIP, yet he somehow he alone kept it going smells suspicious to me. A key question for me is: did he continue the program while not getting paid? Or, did he keep getting a paycheck from this program that supposedly had no funding.

He seems very sincere though.

[ABCboy]

They probably chose not to do an interview because they didn't feel the need to justify anything, plus they're probably extremely busy. None of this changes the fact that Congress is now about to have talks regarding UAP's. I still 100% believe UAP are real and need to be investigated thoroughly.

[Jezhumberston]

At the 31:36 mark, when discussing the AATIP request letter, Luis Elizondos name is clearly listed at the bottom of the letter. So he obviously was involved. Why was this not clearly mentioned? Is it the case only selected information is being provided?

[lylemacdonald]

Obviously we all want accuracy and transparency. That being said, it appears key ex-government players may be using approaches which are less than ideal but I wonder if such an approach is necessary to squeeze the truth from the system into the light of day? If so does the goal of disclosure justify the means by which it is being attempted? I will suspend judgement for now but regardless of the concerns raised the fact remains we have the US NAVY videos and multiple interviews with many of the pilots and radar operators involved and the data certainly supports something very real is buzzing about that deserves study. Regardless of the apparent inaccuracies in the timelines being told by various reporters, the reality is that Mellon and Elizondo have worked to move the government to acknowledge their having startling information and objective evidence for the veracity of UAP's.

[nunyabiz]

"If you don't know where you're going, any road will take there. " Is a quote from Alice In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. Not Henry Kissinger. 🤣

[michaelchevalier]

So Mr. Greenstreet has now resorted to childish cartoons and other nonsense when talking about this very serious and REAL phenomenon. Greenstreet no doubt has a problem with those that have brought this issue to light yet he says nothing about the phenomenon itself and the fact that there is tons of evidence and testimony that backs up the fact that this stuff is happening. While I admire Greenstreet's amateur researching skills, his inability to see the bigger picture is quite disappointing.

[mwnciboo]

Imagine if $22million had been spent on say "Creating a master database of missing persons in National Parks"... The 411 missing is a definite thing that should be invested in - it is real people going missing...

[MunkeeLuv]

Unfortunately, this video muddied the water, even though there's plenty of evidence to support Lue Elizondo and his account. Specifically, letter from late Sen. Harry Reid acknowledging Lue as lead involved in AATIP. Additionally, Lue's knowledge about Navy accounts of UAP and videos that made headlines.
This video does a lot of disservice to conversions and advances on UFO /UAP disclosure. I'm sad that some of valid points were mixed with some of skewed and tailored arguments that fall apart once you think a bit about them.
Though I agree with the premise that misreporting by media outlets created a possibility of deception by omission from the side of the source. I think this was more to do with grooming by New York Times and all subsequent publications rather than with Lue Elizondo.
Additionally, I'm a bit concerned with claims about that Lue has made a hobby out of UAP investigating, which basically implies that all programs in government can be accessed by someone without a Need to Know requirements. Granted, even if data from Navy pilots is not classified, the data and it's access IS outside Lue's reach based on the scope and access across programs without special permissions. This implies Lue had special permissions, which would not be based on a hobby or interest but a legitimate reason.
Lastly, and most notably the BAASS, which bothered me from day one. Harry Reid and Bigalow connection has ALWAYS been problematic. For the future, don't accept political donations from perspective contractors, MAJOR conflict of interest. But that being said, they have not directly investigated Navy reports. Their scope was much more ambitious and exotic and had very tangled connections to Skinwalker Ranch and the paranormal occurrences. The UFO investigation was one of the aspects but the more credible accounts were brought forth from the Navy side, specifically video, radar and other telemetry data. These credible accounts seem to have been elicited by Lue Elizondo, whether as Director of AATIP or not, I don't know. BAASS seemed to have submitted reports regarding paranormal and the latest reports released through FOIA. I find that there might be overlap with some aspects of investigations by Lue and BAASS but overall direction and methodology were vastly different. One was hugely evidentiary and one was more speculative.

[asynchronicity]

Phenomenon = singular
Phenomena = plural
Thank you for your cooperation 😚