NewsNation and the New York Post reported that Lue Elizondo, a former Department of Defense intelligence officer, claims that “the United States has been engaged in the recovery of items, vehicles of unknown origin, that originate neither from our country nor from any other foreign country known to us.” He claims that one of two spacecraft owned by the Department of Defense comes from the 1947 Roswell, New Mexico, crash site.
In an interview with NewsNation, Elizondo stated: “As a nation, we have been interested not only in vehicles themselves, but also in their passengers; include biological specimens…We are not alone…The U.S. government has been aware of this for decades.”
Elizondo added that “Americans have a right to know about the presence of UAPs in our skies.” Elizondo echoed these themes on Joe Rogan's podcast, released on the same day as his novel book Imminent.”
The mysterious appearance of unknown objects in the sky has been publicly admitted by US government officials. Unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) reports by Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines led to the establishment of a novel office within the Department of Defense in 2022, called the Domain-Wide Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO).
AARO's official statement reads: “To date, AARO has not discovered any verifiable information to substantiate claims that any programs to possess or reverse engineer extraterrestrial materials have existed in the past or currently exist.” The key word in this statement is “extraterrestrial.”
There is a world in which both Elizondo and AARO are forthright in their reporting. In this world, UAPs are not known to U.S. domestic intelligence agencies, but are man-made. The data recovery and reverse engineering programs that Elizondo and David Grusch testified about exist. These programs investigate accident scenes of vehicles manufactured by hostile nations.
In this case, medical harm resulting from UAP encounters may be related to man-made technologies similar to the Havana syndrome, and any biological entities found at the disaster sites were terrestrial in nature. The concentration of UAPs near nuclear or military assets is a natural byproduct of espionage.
Some of the advanced technologies displayed by the UAP are unknown to American corporations and marked as anomalous to conceal confusion regarding their earthly origins. In this world, the United States' apparent vulnerability to national security threats explains why the Department of Defense has refrained from disclosing related details. Any public admission of the unknown terrestrial origins of UAPs would serve the military interests of the hostile nations that produced them.
The substantial question is whether we live in a world where both Lue Elizondo and AARO are honest. Yes, there are UAPs in the sky and there are programs to recover and reverse engineer debris from disaster sites. But while admitting they exist, the Department of Defense and the Director of National Intelligence prefer not to reveal classified information about the unknown terrestrial origins of some of these unusual objects. They would rather mislead public opinion. Even AARO has admitted that there is insufficient data to explain the nature of a few percent of all UAPs.
To find out whether we live in a world where both Elizondo and AARO are forthright, scientists need to collect their own high-quality scientific data. Neither the sky nor our oceans are classified. The Galileo project is currently operating a novel observatory at Harvard University and is building two other observatories to continuously observe the entire sky for any UAPs.
So far, we have identified one million objects in the sky and are currently analyzing them. A year ago, I led a Project Galileo expedition to the Pacific that retrieved anomalous materials from the crash site of the interstellar meteorite IM1, identified by the U.S. Space Command as having originated from outside our solar system.
We plan a second expedition next year to find immense fragments of this anomalous interstellar object, which was moving faster than 95% of the stars near the Sun and was made of material harder than the solar system's iron meteorites. In 2025, the Rubin Observatory in Chile will begin exploring the southern sky with a 3.2 gigapixel camera. The Galileo research team is currently developing software that will enable the discovery of novel UAPs and interstellar objects over the next decade in an unprecedented data stream.
Science-quality data is key to explaining whether UAPs are extraterrestrial.
Shortly after the news reports, in a television interview on NewsNation, I was asked, “Is Elizondo a credible whistleblower?” I hope to find out in the coming years. As a scientist, I can only respond to the direct evidence of scientific quality that I hope to collect through the Galileo project.
The second question was, “Can humanity handle the truth?” I consider this question irrelevant, because it is always worth knowing the truth about our cosmic neighborhood. Humanity has gone through similar learning experiences before. When Nicolaus Copernicus and Galileo Galilei presented scientific evidence that we were not at the center of the Universe, the Church responded by placing Copernicus's book De Revolutionibus as a banned book until the 19th century and placing Galileo under house arrest. This delay tactic, intended to protect the public from scientific evidence, has not worked. In 1992, the Vatican admitted that Galileo was right. It was 23 years after man landed on the moon.
Earlier this year I gave a public lecture in Toruń, the birthplace of Nicolaus Copernicus. The title of my lecture was: “The Next Copernican Revolution.” The day before this event, I participated in the Munich Security Conference via a Q&A forum on the search for extraterrestrial technological civilizations, led by the brilliant Rolf Dobelli, founder WORLD.MINDS. The timing of these two events highlights the two aspects of the UAP represented by Elizondo and AARO. The tensions between them I do my best, using the best learning tools at my disposal.
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