Pentagon insider Luis Elizondo referred to as his testimony earlier than a Congressional listening to on unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) a “win-win” for the nation.
“This was really a historic day, both for Congress and for the American people,” Elizondo stated in an interview with NewsNation’s Chris Cuomo.
His testimony Wednesday earlier than two Home Oversight subcommittees was blunt and unequivocal.
“Let me be clear: UAP are real,” Elizondo testified. “Advanced technologies not made by our government, or any other government, are monitoring sensitive military installations around the globe.”
In a Wednesday night time debrief on “CUOMO,” Elizondo stated he feels just like the tide of public opinion on UAP is popping.
“Hopefully, the general public is getting an understanding of how lengthy our authorities has truly been concerned on this subject, regardless of many years of denial,” he stated.
Elaborating on what he informed lawmakers, the previous head of the Protection Division’s now-defunct Superior Aerospace Menace Identification Program, or AATIP, shared a historical past lesson, evaluating the expertise of confirmed UAP sightings within the Nineteen Fifties with the expertise of that point.
“Paperwork have been submitted to Congress that present, past a shadow of a doubt, that we’ve been coping with this concern because the early Nineteen Fifties,” Elizondo said. “I’m speaking about objects that, nonetheless to this present day, can function past any sort of efficiency traits of our fashionable plane.”
“These aircraft were captured on radar (in the 50s) doing 10,000, 13,000 miles an hour … and are able to execute an immediate right-angle turn, do 180 degrees, pop in and out of our atmosphere and even underwater,” he continued. “Where were we in the 1950s? We had barely broken the sound barrier and hadn’t even made it into space.”
Elizondo’s mandate at AATIP was to research the nationwide safety implications of navy encounters with UAP — a mission he stated was as vital as anything happening on the Pentagon.
“We now have completely been in a position to verify the existence of some type of expertise that has the flexibility to function with anonymity (in) managed U.S. airspace, function over our delicate U.S. navy installations, and probably … intervene with our nuclear equities,” the former Defense official said. “Now, if that’s not a nationwide safety concern, I don’t know what’s.”
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