Former United States Army Counterintelligence officer Luis Elizondo has claimed the recent drone sightings across the United States are actually the Department of Defense effort to intercept real UFOs.
Elizondo made the explosive claims during an appearance on Chris Cuomo’s show.
Highlighting some reports of the UFOs appearing out of the water and “zipping off away at fantastical speeds,” Elizondo said that the whole panic has led to a “confused public.”
“We might have some people reporting true UAP events followed by a Department of Defense response by launching drones to go ahead and try to find these UAPs,” said Elizondo.
The former intelligence officer explained that such intercepts used to be performed by helicopter pilots, but technological advances now enable drones to be used for the same purpose.
Elizondo noted that the drones were performing grid pattern manoeuvres where they appeared to be “scanning for something,” adding that some videos show traditional drones “trying to intercept” the mystery lights.
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“And they wind up getting shut down and falling out of the sky and meanwhile the big set of lights just kind of disappears, as been reported by some law enforcement,” he added.
In another interview with Donald Trump Jr., Elizondo said the government was lying about the true nature of the drones and questioned why they had not already been shot down.
“The White House position was ‘well, we don’t wanna endanger the public, if we shoot one of these down it could hit somebody’s house,’ and yet there’s these incidents with the US Coast Guard where you have up to 10 of these things literally stalking a US Coast Guard Cutter (a commissioned vessel).”
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“You’re out in the middle of the ocean, why can’t you bring it down there?” asked Elizondo.
“It doesn’t make sense, the explanation of ‘oh by the way these are all lawful so don’t shoot them down but we don’t know where they’re coming from, we don’t know who owns them, we don’t know where they’re going, we don’t know what they can do and they are over sensitive military installations’ I think is not only utter nonsense I think it is a disservice to the American people,” he added.
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After the FAA banned drone flights over some areas of New Jersey yesterday, the Pentagon said it may take down drones that appear over US military bases.
