Official position · S-015
A press office response sheet dated May 17, 2021 reiterated that Elizondo had no assigned responsibilities for AATIP at OUSD(I); in the same month Gough specified that assigned responsibilities are the duties of an employee and that Elizondo had no role in the UAP Task Force.
Pentagon (Department of Defense) · Press office; Susan Gough, spokeswoman · May 17, 2021
AATIP and AAWSAP
What it denies and what it leaves open
It confirms the 2019 position on the formal assignment; it does not deny informal contacts with the program and does not concern his theses on retrievals.
- Original words
Luis Elizondo had no assigned responsibilities for AATIP while assigned to OUSD(I).
- Who disputes it
- Elizondo maintains that he led AATIP; according to Politico, in the same month the DoD acknowledged that AATIP dealt with UFOs without, however, correcting what had been said about Elizondo's role.
- Concerns
- Luis Elizondo
Sources
- FOIA release from the DoD Inspector General DODIG-2022-000313 (PDF) (primary source)
- The Black Vault, May 27, 2021 (analysis)
On this site
People 1
Documents 1
- The Inspector General's emails on Elizondo and the Pentagon's official line (2021) Original available
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