The man who ran the Pentagon’s secret UFO investigation program is not hedging his words. Luis Elizondo, former director of the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, has made an extraordinary and unambiguous claim: the United States government is in possession of nonhuman biological specimens recovered from crafts of unknown origin—and has been aware of extraterrestrial

The man who ran the Pentagon’s secret UFO investigation program is not hedging his words. Luis Elizondo, former director of the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, has made an extraordinary and unambiguous claim: the United States government is in possession of nonhuman biological specimens recovered from crafts of unknown origin—and has been aware of extraterrestrial life for decades.
“The United States has been involved in the recovery of objects, vehicles of unknown origin that are neither from our country nor any other foreign country that we’re aware of,” Elizondo told NewsNation.
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“We as a nation have been interested in not only the vehicles themselves but also the occupants of these vehicles, to include biological specimens. We’re not alone. We are not alone in this universe, and it is a simple fact. The U.S. government has been aware of that fact for decades now.”
Elizondo’s book, “Imminent: Inside the Pentagon’s Hunt for UFOs,” lays out the full scope of his allegations, describing what he says is a long-running military program dedicated to retrieving, studying, and reverse engineering nonhuman technology—including biological remains recovered from crash sites. Among the most explosive claims in the book is his account of the 1947 Roswell, New Mexico incident.
According to Elizondo, a primitive electromagnetic pulse device may have inadvertently disrupted the craft’s propulsion system, and four deceased nonhuman bodies were recovered from the site.
Before Congress, Elizondo was equally direct and unsparing. Testifying before two House Oversight subcommittees, he stated flatly: “Let me be clear: UAPs are real. Advanced technologies not made by our government, or any other government, are monitoring sensitive military installations around the globe.”
He also accused a small group of government officials of keeping the truth about UAPs from the public for decades, arguing that “excessive secrecy has led to grave misdeeds against loyal civil servants, military personnel, and the public, all to hide the fact that we are not alone in the cosmos.”
Elizondo, a trained counterintelligence officer who served throughout Afghanistan, the Middle East, and Latin America, also described in his book a program he called the “Legacy Program”—an alleged long-standing government effort to recover and study nonhuman craft and occupants in collaboration with select defense and aerospace contractors.
He says the program has retrieved both technology and biological remains of nonhuman origin, held at classified locations that remain undisclosed even to most members of Congress.
The Pentagon has pushed back on aspects of Elizondo’s account, issuing statements disputing the precise nature of his role within AATIP.
However, Elizondo’s supporters and allies within the UAP disclosure community point to a 2009 memo from the late Senator Harry Reid—the program’s original sponsor—as documentation confirming Elizondo’s involvement in and leadership of the program from its earliest days.
The broader UAP disclosure movement has gained unprecedented institutional momentum. Congressional briefings from whistleblowers are now described as routine. New witnesses, Elizondo says, are prepared to come forward with additional testimony, provided they receive adequate legal protections.
The question being asked in Washington is no longer whether something extraordinary is being hidden — but how long the full truth can remain classified.