Luis Elizondo
Former Pentagon intelligence officer who says he ran AATIP and became the best-known UFO disclosure advocate after resigning in 2017.
2017 CE · 38.87, -77.06 · status: disputed
The account
Elizondo worked in the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and says he was recruited to AATIP in 2009. After resigning in late 2017 in protest at secrecy, he gave Navy pilot videos to reporters, joined To The Stars Academy, and later lobbied for transparency. His 2024 memoir 'Imminent' debuted at number one on the New York Times list, and in November 2024 he testified to a House subcommittee that the government has secretly retrieved UFOs and non-human bodies.
The sceptical view
Pentagon spokespeople gave conflicting accounts of his role, one saying he had no AATIP duties; he has offered no physical evidence, and images he presented were identified as a light fixture and an irrigation circle.
Connections in the atlas
- 'The Age of Disclosure' (film)
- "Glowing Auras and Black Money" (New York Times)
- ▶ From Skinwalker Ranch to the 2017 AATIP story
- Tom DeLonge
- ▶ The government UFO files
- To The Stars Academy publicises the Navy videos
- 'UAP: Exposing the Truth' hearing
- Christopher Mellon
- AATIP (Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program)
- The New York Times reveals AATIP
- USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac'