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Luis Elizondo: Claims that “disclosure” has already happened, that UFOs are real and that this has been established also from a national security standpoint; adds that a colleague still at the Pentagon continues to work actively on the subject.

Luis Elizondo · Jul 2018 · Speech at the MUFON symposium (July 2018) (Conference)

Disclosure process

Hypothesis or opinion

Saying that disclosure has happened is an assessment with no verifiable criteria; the predictive part of the same speech (that the work would soon emerge officially) is dealt with in the predictions file.

In support: The Navy later acknowledged the videos as UAP (2019), and the DoD created the UAP Task Force (2020) and AARO (2022), a sign that institutional work on the subject has continued.
Against or denials: In Kloor's account, a Pentagon press officer gave 2012 as the end of the program; AARO (2024) states that AATIP was never an official program and that it found no evidence of extraterrestrial technology.

Sources

Keith Kloor, “UFOs Won't Go Away”, Issues in Science and Technology, Spring 2019 (analysis, skeptical)

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Luis Elizondo: Claims to have directed for almost a decade a sensitive aerospace threat identification program (AATIP)… Disputed

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