Lue Elizondo Tells Paying Audience Light Fixture Is Alien Mothership (Updated)

At a paid lecture on UFOs at a Philadelphia wine bar Monday, New York Times bestselling author Lue Elizondo presented what he said was an "unimaginable" and "impossible" photograph of an alien mothership taken in Romania in 2022. Elizondo said military pilots "describe it literally as the mothership, looking like the mothership from Close Encounters of the Third Kind." As you can see from the image he used, which he attributed to the U.S. Embassy in Bucharest (even though the photograph is from Arad, a city 360 miles away), it is almost certainly a reflection of a ceiling light on a window, photographed from the inside of a building. The reflection of the photographer's hair can be seen blocking part of the light he is standing in front of. (The original photo was posted to a Facebook group in 2023 and was not a secret U.S. government photo.) Elizondo said that the awe and mystery of this ceiling fixture's reflection is the kind of propulsive investigative program going on "behind the scenes" of both the executive branch and Congress. Insert your own joke here and then weep quietly.

UPDATE: In a social media post on October 30, Elizondo conceded the photograph depicts the reflection of a lamp and blamed a contact in the U.S. government for providing him with the photograph. In short: He believed it was an alien spaceship because someone told him it was, and the alleged head of a UFO program did not think to question, research, or check it out.