Ex-Pentagon official believes UFOs are real.
Luis Elizondo is a former Pentagon official who was tasked with leading a recently revealed government program that investigated and researched potential UFOs. On Monday, the man acknowledged the possibility that Earth has been visited by extraterrestrials for quite some time.
Elizondo oversaw a government program called the Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program, which took shape under the orders of Harry Reid, a former Senate Majority leader who ensured the program received proper funding.
“My personal belief is that there is very compelling evidence that we may not be alone,” said Elizondo, who was in charge of the secretive government project from 2007 to 2012.
The ex-Pentagon official states that he resigned from the Department of Defense in October due to the excessive secrecy surrounding his program. Another reason, according to Elizondo, was the rising internal disputes that prevented the program from being funded which subsequently led to its termination in 2012.
But when it comes to UFOs, Elizondo remains just as convinced now as he was when he lead the programme. He said that the main focus of the programme focused on eyewitness reports or using the available tools to identify potential UFOs. During his time as the head of the project, Elizondo said that his team found a lot of aircrafts that displayed “characteristics that are not currently within the US inventory nor in any foreign country”.
Ryan Alexander of Taxpayers for Common Sense, a nonpartisan federal budget watchdog organization, thinks the program was a waste of money. The reasoning behind this was mainly because pilots are poised to see plenty of things that they can’t identify not all of which are UFOs.
The program benefitted from a $22 million budget, something that Alexander called “crazy”.
Reid, on the other hand, has defended the program on Monday, saying that it raised “serious scientific questions” about unidentified aircrafts.
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