Former Pentagon official: UFOs are real, there are three theories of origin

Luis Elizondo, former head of the Pentagon’s UFO program, said that UFOs are real, and he detailed the three main theories of their origin and five defining characteristics of UFOs that break the current U.S. understanding of the laws of physics. This is a diagram of a UFO.

Luis Elizondo, former head of the Pentagon’s UFO program, says UFOs are real, and details the three main theories of their origin and the five defining characteristics of UFOs that shatter America’s current understanding of the laws of physics.

Fox News reported on March 23 that Iris Sando, former director of ATTIP (Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program), said on “Fox & Friends” that The U.S. government used the same investigative methods for UFOs as it did for terrorist intelligence operations and found that the UFO phenomenon was not only “real” but that the information surrounding them was also “compelling.

The Pentagon presented three potential theories about the origin of UFOs, the report said.

The first “highly unlikely” theory claims that UFOs are secret U.S. technology, kept low and mysterious due to a lack of communication between government agencies, Irizando said.

He said the second theory speculates that the UFOs are “foreign hostile” technology created without intelligence to the U.S. government. Irizando said, “It would be a huge failure (of the U.S.) in terms of intelligence because we have leapfrogged forward in technology.”

Discussing the third and final theory, Elizondo came close to asserting that UFOs could be alien technology.

“If it’s not ours and it’s not (another country’s), then it (UFOs) originated from some other person or thing.”

Elizondo also outlined five “uniquely observable” characteristics of UFOs that help distinguish them from other identifiable aerial technologies.

These characteristics, he said, include instantaneous acceleration, high supersonic speeds, low observability, cross-media travel (the ability to fly in a variety of environments), and positive lift, in which the vehicle can fly without the need for an operating surface, wings or even engines.

Irizando said, “We’re seeing these (let’s call them flying vehicles, if we can), they’re entering controlled U.S. airspace, and they’re displaying performance characteristics that are clearly beyond our ability to replicate, or in some cases even understand.”

In January, thousands of CIA documents documenting UFOs, or unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) as the government calls them, were made available for download under the Freedom of Information Act from Black Vault, a site run by author and podcaster John Greenwald Jr.

The CIA says it has now provided all the information they have on the UAP, but there is no way to know if it is true.

Former U.S. Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe previously revealed that another report, to be released in early June, will detail “never-before-seen” and “unexplained” unidentified flying object (UFO) Discovery.

On March 19, former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe told Fox News host Maria Bartiromo that “there are more UFO sightings than have been made public.” He added that he had hoped to declassify the information and make it public before he left office, but that was not possible in such a short Time.

He said, “Some of it has been declassified. When we talk about sightings, we’re talking about objects that were seen by Navy or Air Force pilots, or captured on satellite maps. The movement of these objects is, frankly, inexplicable.” He added, “Those movements are difficult to replicate, and we don’t have the appropriate technology, or to fly at speeds above the sound barrier without a sonic boom.”

In the interview, Bartiromo told the audience that the Defense Department will release declassified reports on the UFOs by June 1.