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Ex-Official Who Revealed UFO Project Accuses Pentagon of "Disinformation" Campaign

posted by martyb on Thursday May 27 2021, @08:20PM   Printer-friendly
from the Close-Encounters-of-the-Federal-Kind dept.

takyon writes:

Ex-official who revealed UFO project accuses Pentagon of 'disinformation' campaign

The former Pentagon official who went public about reports of UFOs has filed a complaint with the agency's inspector general claiming a coordinated campaign to discredit him for speaking out — including accusing a top official of threatening to tell people he was "crazy," according to documents reviewed by POLITICO.

Lue Elizondo, a career counterintelligence specialist who was assigned in 2008 to work for a Pentagon program that investigated reports of "unmanned aerial phenomena," filed the 64-page complaint to the independent watchdog on May 3 and has met several times with investigators, according to his legal team.

The claim that the government is trying to discredit him comes weeks before the director of national intelligence and the Pentagon are expected to deliver an unclassified report to Congress about UFOs and the government's strategy for investigating such encounters. The report is expected to include a detailed accounting of the agencies, personnel and surveillance systems that gather and analyze the data.

"What he is saying is there are certain individuals in the Defense Department who in fact were attacking him and lying about him publicly, using the color of authority of their offices to disparage him and discredit him and were interfering in his ability to seek and obtain gainful employment out in the world," said Daniel Sheehan, Elizondo's attorney. "And also threatening his security clearance."

Pentagon UFO videos.

Previously:

Pentagon's UFO Investigation Program Revealed
UFO Existence 'Proven Beyond Reasonable Doubt': Former Head Of Pentagon Program
Newly-Released Video Shows 2015 U.S. Navy Sighting of UFO
The US Navy is Drafting New Rules to Report UFO Sightings
US Navy Spokesman Acknowledges UFO Videos
The Pentagon Releases Official Footage of UFOs. No, Seriously!
The Pentagon Has Continued to Investigate UFOs Under Renamed Program
You Can Now Easily Download All CIA UFO Documents to Date

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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by takyon on Thursday May 27 2021, @08:20PM (3 children)

    by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Thursday May 27 2021, @08:20PM (#1139431) Journal

    Military and spy agencies accused of stiff-arming investigators on UFO sightings [politico.com]

    Some military and spy agencies are blocking or simply ignoring the effort to catalog what they have on "unidentified aerial phenomenon," according to multiple current and former government officials. And as a result, the Biden administration will likely delay a much-anticipated public report to Congress.

    [...] "Just getting access to the information, because of all the different security bureaucracies, that's an ordeal in itself," said Christopher Mellon, a former Pentagon intelligence official who lobbied for the disclosure provision and is continuing to advise policymakers on the issue.

    For example, he asserts that a Pentagon task force established last August and led by the Navy has had few personnel or resources and only modest success acquiring reports, video or other evidence gathered by military systems.

    If they flat out say aliens are visiting in the report, you get to see an alien/UFO story on every major news site every day... for the rest of your life.

    If it comes back inconclusive, there's still years of mileage in the saga as the truth™ gets teased out (or not) amid a war of different Pentagon factions.

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  • (Score: 5, Funny) by Freeman on Thursday May 27 2021, @08:51PM (1 child)

    by Freeman (732) on Thursday May 27 2021, @08:51PM (#1139442) Journal

    I thought the documentary Independence Day had all this stuff figured out already.

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    • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 28 2021, @06:21AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 28 2021, @06:21AM (#1139557)

      I think it was the documentary, "Men who Stare at Goats", with the Runaway addendum. Acid with make you see lots of things. Not recommended for pilots of bus/semi drivers, however.

  • (Score: 2) by driverless on Friday May 28 2021, @06:45AM

    by driverless (4770) on Friday May 28 2021, @06:45AM (#1139562)

    Either that or the guy really is a bit of a nutcase, and the Pentagon guys are just stating the obvious. And "threatening his security clearance" would be expected if he's revealed classified information. Sounds like the whole story could just as easily have been written up as "Pentagon breaks silence on UFO nut", or something similar.