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left-of-center2012

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Fri May 28, 2021, 01:31 PM May 2021

UFO whistleblower says Pentagon tried to silence him

A Pentagon whistleblower who has been outspoken about UFOs has filed a complaint with the inspector general accusing his former agency of “malicious activities, coordinated disinformation, professional misconduct, whistleblower reprisal and explicit threats,” according to Politico.

Luis Elizondo, who was head of the Pentagon’s discontinued Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, claims a senior-level official even threatened to call him “crazy” and wage a disinformation campaign to discredit him.

“I responded … by telling him that he can take any action he thinks is prudently necessary, but that I was not mentally impaired, nor have I ever violated my security oath,” Elizondo wrote, adding that the Pentagon’s press team even got involved.

Elizondo said he felt the need to become a whistleblower out of fear and concern for the country. “I became alarmed by the frequency and duration of UAP activity in and around controlled U.S. airspace,” he said. “The instances seemed more provocative, and during one instance, they came within feet of a U.S. fighter aircraft.”

A spokesperson for the Defense Department Inspector General's Office declined to comment.

https://thehill.com/changing-america/resilience/smart-cities/555955-ufo-whistleblower-says-pentagon-tried-to-silence-him

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UFO whistleblower says Pentagon tried to silence him (Original Post) left-of-center2012 May 2021 OP
Unidentified: Inside America's UFO Investigation Goonch May 2021 #1
Hmmm. Well he hasn't been muzzled stopdiggin May 2021 #2
I think this is a disinformation campaign. Midnight Writer May 2021 #3

Goonch

(3,608 posts)
1. Unidentified: Inside America's UFO Investigation
Fri May 28, 2021, 01:44 PM
May 2021

Luis Elizondo (born c. 1975) is a former U.S. Army Counterintelligence Special Agent and former employee of the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence.[1] After his resignation in 2017, he joined the company To The Stars as its Director of Global Security and Special Programs. Elizondo left the company in late 2020.[2][3] The company produced the History Channel docuseries Unidentified: Inside America's UFO Investigation, in which he stars.


https://www.youtube.com/show/SCNbaletAyp9HZoquyEL-p7w?season=1

stopdiggin

(11,312 posts)
2. Hmmm. Well he hasn't been muzzled
Fri May 28, 2021, 04:02 PM
May 2021

enough to stop him from creating a docuseries -- that focuses largely on -- yours truly. My point? I think the case can be made (quite adequately) -- without recourse to figures of this -- character? Getting the truth out is one thing -- a need for the spotlight something else (often with detrimental effect to the story itself). Is this person the 'patriotic whistleblower' that he (self-) advertises? I guess time will tell.

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