UFO News Roundup: Lue Elizondo's New Book and Karl Nell's SALT Talk

​This week I unexpectedly received the copyedited manuscript for my book, which I need to review and correct over the upcoming holiday weekend. As a result, I am unfortunately a bit pressed for time this week, so I can only cover this week’s news in brief.

​First, after years of delays, Lue Elizondo announced the August publication of his quasi-memoir, Imminent: Inside the Pentagon’s Hunt for UFOs. The new book’s description is somewhat unexpected in that it contradicts official reports and documentary evidence on several key points, while the cover identifies Elizondo as the “former head of the Department of Defense’s Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program”:

The former head of the Pentagon program responsible for the investigation of UFOs--now known as Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP)--reveals long-hidden truths with profound implications for not only national security but our understanding of the universe.
 
Luis “Lue” Elizondo is a former senior intelligence official and special agent who was recruited into a strange and highly sensitive US Government program to investigate UAP incursions into sensitive military installations and air space. To accomplish his mission, Elizondo had to rely on decades of experience gained working some of America’s most sensitive and classified programs. Even then, he was not prepared for what he would learn, and the truth about the government’s long shadowy involvement in UAP investigations, and the lengths officials would take to keep them a secret.
 
The stakes could not be higher. Imminent is a first-hand, revelatory account inside the Pentagon’s most closely guarded secret and a call to action to confront humanity’s greatest existential questions.

​The Pentagon responded to Steven Greenstreet’s questions about the book’s claims by reiterating that Elizondo was never the head of any official program called AATIP, and the AATIP he pretends to have headed was an “informal, unofficial community of interest”—i.e., a social club of UFO kooks. It will be difficult to trust a book whose very cover seemingly stands athwart facts.

Meanwhile, Col. Karl Nell, formerly of the UAP Task Force (the same one that secretly employed Secret of Skinwalker Ranch and Ancient Aliens star Travis Taylor) gave a talk at the SALT conference in which he told the gathered super-rich tech and finance elites that “non-human intelligence” is real, in communication with unelected members of the U.S. government, and there is a vast coverup of this communication. Unfortunately, the UFO fanatic who has close ties with the UFO community had no evidence to offer beyond “trust me, bro.” He even cited Paul Hellyer as a source of evidence—the former Canadan Minister of Defence who openly admitted to becoming radicalized on UFOs in his dotage, decades after his government service, by watching a Peter Jennings UFO special and then embracing every cockeyed claim he found on the internet.
 
This is what passes for proof in the UFO field, and our moneyed nerd-kings lap it up, barreling headlong into an avoidable cultural apocalypse on the wing fantasy.