Luis "Lue" Elizondo
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PersonGovernment OfficialLuis “Lue” Elizondo is a former U.S. counterintelligence officer who says he led AATIP and became a principal public advocate for military UAP investigation.
Luis “Lue” Elizondo is a former U.S. counterintelligence officer who says he led AATIP and became a principal public advocate for military UAP investigation.
Luis Elizondo is an American former military and intelligence official whose career included counterintelligence and security assignments in the Department of Defense. He says he directed the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, or AATIP, from within the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence. In 2017 he resigned, arguing that UAP incidents were not receiving adequate senior attention.
Elizondo’s earlier career was in Army and Defense Department counterintelligence, including work related to terrorism, insider threats, and sensitive operations. After leaving government in 2017, he joined To The Stars Academy and became a central source for journalists and filmmakers introducing Navy cases to the public. Speaking tours, television, a memoir, and organizational roles turned him into a full-time disclosure figure, while disputes over documentation and the exact boundaries of AATIP followed that transition.
Elizondo then joined To The Stars Academy and became a central source for journalists reporting on military encounters and Navy videos. Through interviews, television work, congressional outreach, and his memoir, he has described recurring observations, alleged biological effects, secrecy, and the possibility that some objects represent technology outside known U.S. or adversary capabilities. Pentagon statements have disputed aspects of his program role, while documents and former colleagues support that he worked on UAP matters; the precise organizational history remains contested.
Elizondo is one of the defining figures of modern UAP disclosure. He helped connect pilots, videos, lawmakers, and media into a sustained public issue. His government service explains his access, but claims extending beyond released records remain source-attributed. His biography is essential to understanding both the momentum and the controversy surrounding the post-2017 disclosure movement.
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"Elizondo was the senior ranking person within AATIP, and our group deferred to his judgment and leadership on a regular basis." ~Jay Stratton (Alleged comments from @jaystratton re: @LueElizondo...via @thomaslfessler) "Without the efforts of Mr. Elizondo, AATIP would not have been able to raise issues and concerns to the appropriate levels of the U.S. government." ~Stratton H/T: @Schoolcraft420 and @Cortex_Zero ~ Full... "To whom it may concern, for record. My name is John J. F. Stratton, an...
New folks, feel free to ask anything that I don't make clear. Like, acronyms. I have to remember that a lot of new people have no idea about a lot of this insid [Quoted] "I believe the AATIP is a dark stain on the history of this topic." I think Gerb is gong to look a bit foolish when Stratton's book comes out. https://t.co/exMVZwuFXg
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Luis Elizondo, Ross Coulthart react to latest UFO files drop
Ross Coulthart: 75 years later, we're still asking the same UFO questions
Coulthart and fellow UFO expert Luis Elizondo were unimpressed by the latest release of files by the Pentagon Friday morning.
We’ve heard for years from the likes of authors Jim Marrs, Joseph P. Farrell, Richard Dolan, Catherine Austin-Fitts, and others about the idea of a Nazi Breakaway Civilization. Lue Elizondo, years back, stated something along the lines of, “if you let them know we know they exist, you run the risk of them taking action before we’re ready.” Elizondo was part of To the Stars Academy with Tom DeLonge of Blink-182, who after life-long interest in the subject, was given inside access as proven in...
We’ve heard for years from the likes of authors Jim Marrs, Joseph P. Farrell, Richard Dolan, Catherine Austin-Fitts, and others about the idea of a Nazi Breakaway Civilization. Lue Elizondo, years back, stated something along the lines of, “if you let them know we know they exist, you run the risk of them taking action before we’re ready.” Elizondo was part of To the Stars Academy with Tom DeLonge of Blink-182, who after life-long interest in the subject, was given inside access as proven in...
Part 1 argued that Corso has a genuine institutional kernel and an account that cannot carry its own weight. He was a real intelligence officer who ended his career in the Army’s foreign-technology office, inside a military that really did run recovery, transport and exploitation channels pointing at Wright-Patterson. But that was not the Air Force organization that received Blue Fly material; his manuscript, Dawn of a New Age, is hedged and inconclusive where the published book is categorica...
