{"id":529983,"date":"2021-05-20T14:36:19","date_gmt":"2021-05-20T18:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=529983"},"modified":"2021-05-20T14:36:21","modified_gmt":"2021-05-20T18:36:21","slug":"head-of-pentagon-ufo-office-government-in-possesion-of-exotic-materials-from-mysterious-vehicles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/head-of-pentagon-ufo-office-government-in-possesion-of-exotic-materials-from-mysterious-vehicles\/","title":{"rendered":"Head Of Pentagon UFO Office: Government In Possesion of \u2018Exotic\u2019 Materials From \u2018Mysterious Vehicles\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhead-of-pentagon-ufo-office-government-in-possesion-of-exotic-materials-from-mysterious-vehicles%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=529983&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/UFO-1200x800-2.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The former head of the Pentagon\u2019s Advanced Aerospace Thread Identification Program (AATIP) \u2014 also known as the Department of Defense\u2019s UFO program \u2014 told Fox News\u2019 Tucker Carlson Wednesday that he believes the United States government is in possession of mysterious, \u201cexotic\u201d technology as a result of encounters with unidentified aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>Luis Elizondo, who headed up the Pentagon\u2019s AATIP unit for years, until it shuttered in the mid-2010s spoke to the Fox News host ahead of what is expected to be a blockbuster Defense Department report detailing the United States military\u2019s encounters with unidentified aerial phenomena (AUP).<\/p>\n<p>When asked whether the government is in possession of physical evidence of advanced technology, Elizondo told Carlson that he \u201cbelieved it was true\u201d that military investigators collected \u201cexotic materials.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIs there debris or materials from any of these vehicles?\u201d Carlson asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe United States government is in possession of exotic material and I\u2019ll leave it at that,\u201d Elizondo responded.<\/p>\n<p>Elizondo has routinely stopped short of suggesting that any encounters with unidentified aerial phenomena \u2014 even those that might have produced \u201cevidence\u201d of superior technology \u2014 means that the U.S. government has had contact with extraterrestrial life. Officials who have spoken about the Pentagon\u2019s forthcoming report have instead noted that it\u2019s possible these \u201calien encounters\u201d were encounters with spy technology from foreign governments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMore analysis needs to be done,\u201d Elizondo said of the \u201cexotic materials.\u201d \u201cThere is enough uniqueness about it where it requires additional analysis and additional expertise and thankfully there are pockets in the US government that are willing to have the conversation and conduct the analysis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Elizondo did suggest that government officials investigating these \u201cexotic materials\u201d face pushback from other forces inside the Department of Defense and other agencies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not going to say what those elements are because I\u2019m worried about the same type of reprisal that I\u2019m facing,\u201d Elizondo told Carlson. \u201cBut there are pockets of people that are willing to do the right thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Elizondo has been a vocal advocate for investigating these AUPs, and interest in his Pentagon assignment has piqued since December, when then-President Donald Trump signed into law an order demanding that the Defense Department release information about the&nbsp; Advanced Aerospace Thread Identification Program by June 1.<\/p>\n<p>The report is supposed to contain details of AATIP investigations into certain military encounters with UAP, videos of which have leaked online. \u201cThe secret $22 million initiative was shut down in 2012, and its existence was acknowledged for the first time in December 2017, following a report about the program&nbsp;published by The New York Times. The Times reported that the program\u2019s initial funding came largely at the request of former Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid,\u201d NBC News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/science\/science-news\/ufos-are-make-way-us-senate-know-rcna973\">reported late last year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Elizondo believes that regardless of what the UAPs turn out to be, the military needs to confront the issue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey have the responsibility to always act in a manner that is in the best interest of the United States and the American people,\u201d he told NBC News. \u201cThis topic is no different than any other national security issue, and we must remain diligent, deliberate, and discerning.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The former head of the Pentagon\u2019s Advanced Aerospace Thread Identification Program (AATIP) \u2014 also known as the Department of Defense\u2019s UFO program \u2014 told Fox News\u2019 Tucker Carlson Wednesday that &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2312493,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/UFO-1200x800-2.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Head Of Pentagon UFO Office: Government In Possesion of \u2018Exotic\u2019 Materials From \u2018Mysterious Vehicles\u2019","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-529983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/UFO-1200x800-2.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Head Of Pentagon UFO Office: Government In Possesion of \u2018Exotic\u2019 Materials From \u2018Mysterious Vehicles\u2019","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2312493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}