“This is certainly a historic moment for us, for our country, and I think, for our military and our intelligence community,” Luis Elizondo, who says he formerly led the Pentagon’s Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP), told Fox News’ “Tucker Carlson Tonight.”
“The question is: What is it? … One of the hypotheses when I was at AATIP was that this could be as natural to earth as we are, we’re just not at a point where technologically we’re advanced enough that we can begin to actually collect information on it, and begin to try to figure out what it is,” Elizondo told host Tucker Carlson. “There’s been other hypotheses that these things are possibly from underwater, and as outlandish as it may seem, there is some anecdotal evidence that supports all of these observations....”
He then brought up the “sea monsters” described by sailors in the Age of Exploration. “There really are sea monsters — but now, 500 years later, we call them great squids of the Pacific, great white sharks and whales,” he said back in April. “They’re part of nature and we learned to understand them.”
Elizondo said humanity could once again be faced with the same scenario. “Maybe,” he proposed, “this is just another expedition over the horizon. Maybe we’re going to realize that what we thought were monsters are really just our neighbors.”
“When I’ve had my private communications with some of my former colleagues and some people that are still in Washington DC, the conversation that these are non-human-controlled vehicles, but still intelligently controlled by something or someone, is certainly not off the table,” he said.
“These are conversations that are absolutely occurring, but … because of stigma and taboo, no one’s having this conversation really publicly … that’s part of the problem.”