This story got weirder. Luis Elizondo, the former director of AATIP is one of the key people behind these "disclosures". Yesterday he went on a podcast and made some very outlandish claims.
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He states the US government is in possession of advanced technology not from earth. He doesn't go into details but suggests the "material" shows evidence of very advanced nanoengineering, yet was discovered a long time ago. Very specific claims.
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He confirms the Roswell crash was real. WTF??
He then seems to be validating a UFO crash in Italy before WW2. Its related to beliefs that Nazis acquired alien technology which the the US then obtained in Operation Paperclip. By the end of the interview I was expecting him to say Santa Claus and the tooth fairy were real.
My question is, why is this person being taken seriously? Not only that, he seems to be getting support from active and past senior politicians. Marco Rubio, Harry Reid. Rather than treating his claims with skepticism, the US government seems to be tacitly endorsing them.
Despite being picked to assess these UFOs, he has no background in engineering. He was a counter intelligence special agent working in foreign countries. My take is this is all an attempt by the US government to hijack the conspiracy movement.