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UFO whistleblower Luis Elizondo, who claims to have once been the director of the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP), a covert Pentagon UFO investigative program, is looking quite a bit less credible these days.
The latest chink in his reputation comes in the form of a photograph of a UFO that he shared during a presentation at a recent private event in Philadelphia.
The high-res photo, which was leaked online, appeared to look, as Luis Elizondo put it during his presentation, “like the mothership from Close Encounters of the Third Kind.”
“Guess what we caught in Romania in 2022?” he asked attendees at the event, then gestured to the photo.
Calling it a “huge mini city floating in the sky,” Luis Elizondo’s claim was swiftly debunked by John Greenewald, Jr. of The Black Vault, who was able to use reverse image search on Google to determine that Elizondo’s “UFO mothership” was nothing more than a chandelier reflecting off a window.
Following the event, and the subsequent debunking of his photo, Luis Elizondo tried to explain on X (Twitter) why he was claiming a chandelier was a UFO mothership.
As you all know, I am always happy to be my own worst critic. A photo that was provided to me by a friend in Government a couple of years ago was presented by me two days ago at our engagement in Philadelphia. Looks like we can put this one bed, as our friends in Twitter figured/solved this one, major bravo to you! Excellent work to whoever solved this one and a big thank you! Crowdsourcing works. Now let’s see if together we can figure out the rest.
As folks at the show will attest, this is precisely why I showed the first few slides at the beginning with an example of a fake UAP. We must continue to be vigilant and always go where the data leads. As you know, I will always own up to any mistakes I make. A good lesson here, just because someone in Government gives me something, due diligence and scrutiny is always a good idea. Onwards and upwards!
Meanwhile, the Daily Mail reports, retired United States Air Force Staff Sergeant Jeremy McGowan, who has had his own experiences with UFOs, said he has “witnessed him exaggerate or outright fabricate information that simply wasn’t true.”
“I’ve been on the receiving end where Lue has pulled out his cell phone and shown me what he described as highly classified video,” McGowan told the Daily Mail.
“For him to think I would believe he would simply carry classified info on an unsecure civilian cell phone is just insulting. And it wasn’t just me, multiple podcast hosts were shown video Lue attributed to things they were not.”
Elizondo, recently published a book titled Imminent: Inside the Pentagon’s Hunt for UFOs, about his alleged time working on the Pentagon’s UFO program.
In 2017, a U.S. Department of Defense spokesperson confirmed the AATIP was real and it had been run by Luis Elizondo. However, after Elizondo began sharing some of his alleged UFO secrets, the Pentagon backtracked and claimed he “had no responsibilities.”