Claim · E-016
Luis Elizondo: Says he was very surprised to learn that To The Stars Academy had the Navy videos and that he did not know they would be published.
Luis Elizondo · Jan 2021 · Interview with John Greenewald (The Black Vault), January 2021 (Interview)
Direct knowledge Sightings, video, sensors
Contradicted
It is contradicted by a statement of his from October 2017, recorded in Garry Reid's official memorandum, in which he announced that TTSA would release previously unpublished government footage.
- In support
- According to Art Levine (Washington Spectator, critical), it was Christopher Mellon who got the videos to TTSA and the New York Times, a reconstruction that is itself unconfirmed.
- Against or denials
- TTSA launch video of October 2017 (cited in the Reid memorandum); packages labeled “L Elizondo” found on the web server of Christopher Mellon, who declined to rule out Elizondo's involvement in handing over the videos.
Sources
- The Black Vault – the Pentagon memoranda on Elizondo (resignation, AFOSI, videos), June 23, 2023 (analysis)
- Memorandum for Record by Garry Reid (OUSD(I)), late December 2017 – FOIA 22-F-1322, released April 2, 2024 (primary source)
- Art Levine, “Spaceship of Fools”, Washington Spectator, July 20, 2023 (analysis, skeptical)
On this site
People 1
Claims 2
- Luis Elizondo: Announces that To The Stars Academy intends to release previously unpublished footage from real U.S… Partly verified
- Luis Elizondo: Maintains that the three Navy videos were released by the Department of Defense, that the DoD made the… Contradicted
Inconsistencies 1
Documents 2
- Garry Reid's memorandum on AATIP and on Elizondo (December 2017) Original available
- The Pentagon's press release of April 27, 2020 on the official release of the three Navy videos Original available
Open in the interactive archive The whole section: Claims
UAPgrade's entries are compiled with artificial intelligence (three verifiers with opposing roles) and checked against the sources listed above: how we work. Have a document that changes this entry? Bring it to the Investigations Unit.