Elizondo's secure-room meetings (2020)
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| Date | 19 July 2020 |
|---|---|
| Topics | Government programs (topic) |
| People | Luis Elizondo |
| Testimony | Shellenberger testimony, p. 197 |
| Year | 2020 in UFO history |
| Timeline | 2020 on the UAP Timeline |
| Sources | 7 |
On Coast to Coast AM on the night of 19–20 July 2020, Luis Elizondo said he had recently met, at a classified meeting on Capitol Hill, a man who told him he had held Elizondo's job "back in the '80s", which Elizondo took as evidence of an earlier government UFO effort.[1]
The account
Elizondo, appearing with fellow To The Stars Academy member Christopher Mellon and host George Knapp, said he had been invited to a meeting on the Hill to answer questions at the classified level. An older man sitting in the corner did not introduce himself at first, then came up and said he had held Elizondo's job with a particular service, which Elizondo did not name, in the 1980s. Elizondo said the others in the room clearly knew who the man was.[1]
"We didn't get as far"
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Elizondo said the encounter made clear that AATIP was not the first effort of its kind, and that the man told him his group "didn't get as far as you guys". Elizondo said he did not know whether that referred to staffing, political support of the kind Senators Harry Reid, Ted Stevens and Daniel Inouye gave AATIP, budget, or findings. He did not identify anyone involved.[1]
Context
In the same broadcast Elizondo discussed the legality of any hidden programs. That year To The Stars Academy was briefing lawmakers, and Congress went on to require the intelligence community to produce a public report on UAP, delivered in June 2021.[1][2]
Assessment
The account rests on Elizondo's description of an unnamed person, and no record of a 1980s program matching it has been released.[1]
People and topics
- Luis Elizondo — Former Army counterintelligence officer who says he ran AATIP.
- Unidentified anomalous phenomena — The U.S. government's current term for unidentified objects in the air, in space and underwater.
- To The Stars Academy — The company founded by Tom DeLonge in 2017 that released the Navy UAP videos.
- Unidentified flying object — An object in the sky that can't be identified; the older term for UAP.
On the Timeline
- Gradisher–Gough FOIA coordination emails (10 July 2020) — A Navy spokesman's email shows efforts to coordinate FOIA replies about UAP across agencies.
- Navy UAP briefing cards (24 July 2020) — A Navy briefing card tells staff to say 'UAP', not 'UFO'.
See every 2020 event on the UAP Timeline →
References
- "Elizondo met UFO program point man from 1980s", Silva Record (July 2020) · silvarecord.com · archived copy
- Luis Elizondo — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- Documents on the vetting of 'Skinwalkers at the Pentagon' — The Black Vault · theblackvault.com · archived copy
- Skinwalkers at the Pentagon: book review — Bad UFOs (Robert Sheaffer) · badufos.blogspot.com · archived copy
- AARO historical report finds no evidence of alien technology (2024) — Space.com · space.com · archived copy
- AARO Report on the Historical Record, Volume I — The Black Vault · theblackvault.com · archived copy
Further reading
- Project Blue Book — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- Project Blue Book records — National Archives · archives.gov · archived copy
- Project Blue Book files — The Black Vault · theblackvault.com · archived copy
- To the Stars Academy — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
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