Lue Elizondo Claims Psychic Powers in Excerpt from New Memoir

​In recent days, former America Unearthed host and current ancient astronaut theorist Scott Wolter alleged that some very cheesy engravings of Grey aliens in Egyptian clothing and poses were as much as 17,000 years old, despite being obvious fakes in an amateurish contemporary art style. But more importantly, Lue Elizondo’s publisher released his forthcoming memoir Imminent to Google Books a month ahead of publication, and extensive excerpts appeared on the platform for about 24 hours before they disappeared and were replaced with a “No Preview” announcement. It was easy to see why Lue Elizondo and his publisher wanted the Google Books preview pulled: In the excerpts, Elizondo claims to have supernatural powers and to have appeared as an angel while engaging in psychic attacks on America’s enemies.

​The excepts temporarily available paint a picture of an intelligence community overrun with lunatics, riddled with “experts” who cannot distinguish fact from fantasy or evidence from anecdote. (Elizondo even claims members of his self-organized “AATIP” got “meaningful” tattoos to symbolize their AATIP pride!) Elizondo presents no conclusive evidence of aliens, no hard evidence of non-human intelligence, but instead tells many secondhand spook stories (pun intended) and makes wild claims about ESP and how psychic powers have helped government and government-adjacent eccentrics determine the motives of the interdimensional beings they forgot to prove actually exist.
 
After giving a laudatory description of Hal Puthoff’s failed Project Stargate, the CIA’s (and later DIA’s) remote viewing initiative, which the CIA concluded produced nothing of value and no evidence of any utility to remote viewing, Elizondo describes becoming a psychic warrior for the government under the tutelage of his handler, “Gene.” Elizondo claims he learned to relax, tune in to vibrations, and psychically see things from a distance, eventually leading to astral projection:

With practice, I got better. I would later take the techniques I learned with me to subsequent assignments. After a while, remote viewing became second nature to me. I was able to put myself in the zone without any sort of protocol or ritual.
 
I was excited to join the ranks of the few elite remote viewers when I was given the unfortunate news that the program had been completely dismantled. I would be going to Panama as an intelligence operations officer. On that note, I took the job, and just like that, I was released from my obligations to the Army as an enlisted soldier and became a civilian official working for the Army (though I was actually paid for this work by the NSA, which I never understood). To this day, I have no idea if Gene had originally intended me to be one of his remote viewers or if he was merely assessing me. Nevertheless, it wasn't for nothing; however, the skills Gene taught me I would use time and time again. While running counterintelligence operations, I routinely assessed counterintelligence reports. Let's say an informant said a particular location was important. Was it? I'd shift into remote-viewing mode and try to put myself in that location. How did I feel about the intel now? Once, in the Middle East, I had a bad feeling about a specific location that five of my men were scheduled to investigate the very next day.
 
"We can't do it," I told one of my subordinates. "There's something off about this. I don't want you guys going in."
 
"Well, that's fine," he said tersely, "but someone's going in. Besides, the British already cleared the area yesterday."
 
An allied team went in instead and encountered an IED.
 
In the following years, I was privileged to meet four other remote viewers who had been trained in the discipline. We often talked about our experiences with the technique. One afternoon we discussed the capture of a suspected terrorist who had been on the US government's radar for a long time. He was being held in a location thousands of miles from us. I had been to the location before.
 
As a test, we all gathered together in a secure facility at the Pentagon with our brown-bag lunches and attempted an act of group remote viewing. We directed our conjoined thoughts toward a specific terrorist in his cell. None of us had any sympathy for the ruthless killer, who gleefully took the lives of our comrades. I wondered if we would leave a real impact on him.
 
Something happened, all right. Months later, we learned that the terrorist had told his lawyers that the CIA had sent five angels to disrupt his sleep. Five figures washed in a white light stood over his bed and shook it violently, leaving him terrified. He felt that judgment was upon him. He shared the story with his attorney, and the tale later ended up in a mainstream newspaper article about a secret CIA program being used to harass his client. I told Hal Puthoff what we had done. He was not surprised.

​It’s interesting to note that Elizondo’s own memoir now confirms claims made in the book Skinwalkers at the Pentagon (2022), which depicted Elizondo as a loud braggart boasting about his psychic prowess and ability to wage warfare using the power of his mind. That said, I would have liked to see Elizondo mentioning the specific newspaper and article; perhaps it is in the end notes. But without a specific name, it’s difficult to find any confirmation of the allegation. It’s also rather astonishing that Elizondo is claiming credit for a psychic attack that violently shook a bed while not actually admitting to doing more than trying to view a guy in a cell. Is he saying that his mental powers act independent of his will and commit violence while he is merely peeping?
 
At any rate, including passages like this seems to suggest that Elizondo knows that the momentum has shifted away from ufology being seen as a “serious” scientific and government activity. In the wake of AARO’s recent report concluding there is no evidence for aliens and a group of quasi-religious extremists are behind the recent push for UFO “transparency,” ufology has mostly returned to the realm of kooks and crappy cable shows. Rebranding as a psychic warrior probably plays better on the UFO lecture circuit than it does on 60 Minutes.