Imminent: Inside the Pentagon’s Hunt for UFOs, by Luiz Elizondo

This book promised so much and I previously thought the author was one of the angels but I found it disappointing and now suspect he isn’t. Why would that be?

I think that this book is intended to discuss the intersection of UAP, the USA and what we are not allowed to hear; not the intersection of UAP and humanity globally as that’s not its remit.

It represents an history of only the most recent stage of the 75 year long campaign to push the US “deep state” of civil servants and arms manufacturers to run out of manoeuvring options and be legally forced to disclose what they know. Any reasonable member of the public can see these opponents are organised, embedded pretty deep and have been fighting tooth and nail not to release what they know. The opposition to disclosure is not just from industry but also from Christian (zealot) civil servants who think unknown is just another word for demon. Then there’s the ground troops of politicians who essentially work for unelected power and their chums’ mutual wealth instead of for the general population for which they are supposed to.

One stroke of brilliance was when a colleague of Lue’s helped to set aside the stigma of investigating UFOs by calling them UAPs and changing the focus from awestruck hippieness to issues of practical defence security. We can all accept there are things seen in the sky which have not been identified. Whether they are man made of not is a separate question. Now think, if something in the sky within a nation’s airspace ignores air traffic control, can move faster and turn quicker than the best aircraft our species can produce and we cannot stop it doing anything it wants, then that potential for harm to air traffic is real and needs to be taken seriously.

That’s where Luiz Elizondo pops into frame, not that his story is all about him (after you progress past the Cuban-American childhood background context) but it is from his personal experience. Some is censored but, as far as I can see, the missing words are people’s names and some locations, so nothing sensational is lost.

Prepare yourself and steel your britches though. The author comes from a US military and “three latter agency” background, which is fine but you have to get used to his masculine barrage, acronyms beyond count, weapons and threats mindset. Apparently, he assumed this book will only be read by the citizens of just one of the world’s 194 countries, using wording to the reader such as “in our country” and “speak to your representative” together with a link to the US Government website page for identifying Congress folk. Non-North Americans are interested in this subject and we have a sky above us too. There’s US airspace a blind spot for outside the scope.

I can see this was written to brief people who have not been following the UAP topic, so if you are one of those who have been doing that for years, you’ll have to make concessions. As a member of the previously aware group, I was interested in totally new information such as the incident where presumably a narrow beam energy weapon had drilled through two very real and solid battle tanks in Iraq, but Luiz does not provide an explanation as to what caused it. Either he was never told the outcome of the investigation by the manufacturer, despite his counter-intelligence position and evident interest, or the answer was found but has been classified so he can’t say.

I was interested in the metamaterial containing magnesium and bismuth. This was not an alloy but a finely layered aggregate, which totally defeats the purpose of using it for an air frame that is intended to resist the heat of travelling through an atmosphere. What do I mean by that? Bismuth has a melting point of 271 °C (softening point even lower). Magnesium has a melting point of 650 °C. Magnesium and bismuth alloy (melted together) has a structural instability melting point of 650 °C. In other words, you want the highest structural cohesion temperature point possible but, selecting layers instead of alloy, this material falls apart 379 °C sooner that is necessary using the same elements! Just mix them! Actually, an alloy isn’t truly melted together in an even way because I’ve seen a ferric alloy through a scanning electron microscope and you get a large clump of iron molecules with platelets of carbon around its perimeter and then the second element outside of that so, if you get your eye close enough, alloys look more like a mix than the product of an even melt.

‘The Legacy Program’ is interesting. An official effort to retrieve off-world technology and study it is an exciting prospect, if such a thing is real. Lue says it is real but this alleged group’s efforts to stop any confirmation of their existence being made public or any of their materials being made available to science has, it seems, been entirely successful. It looks like they have closed ranks, sat out the year of media hysteria and won. We still haven’t seen a materials whistle blower or heard any progress on revealing the secrets of this shady enterprise, so we’ve run out of steam.

Now let’s get pedantic. There are various mild and unnecessary annoyances in this publication for readers to dislike. A typeface that doesn’t include full stops and uses crosses instead. Decimated means removing only 10 percent, where the remaining 90 percent are absolutely at full strength and fine to continue (the author uses the word more than once and doesn’t know that). Why use ‘fit’ if it reads weirdly because the correct word in this sentence is fitted? Then there’s the really significant editorial error of not understanding that you need to use capital letters for proper nouns. The word ‘earth’ refers to soil. Planet earth (sic) has not been capitalised at least a dozen times. It’s not just that, as references to The Secretary of Defence are written as “inform the secretary” — so that’s presumably any secretary, the genial typist who makes the tea.

Clearly, disclosure is long overdue and needs to happen. Obviously, Luiz Elizondo and Chris Mellon did a very worthy job at breaking the impasse of official secrets and educating the general public that there are visitors in the sky that cannot currently be identified. Undoubtedly, this book provides an important answer by putting forward a single theoretical technology (compliant with the Theory of General Relativity) that the craft could use which would match the “five observables” that make UAP unique because human made aircraft cannot do them. Elizondo made a great personal career and salary sacrifice to do the right thing and make this happen, so he’s a hero right?

However… in the spirit of the US Government trying to hide guilt from the people:

In this book, Luiz Elizondo volunteers the information that he had personal charge over the prison within a prison at Guantanamo Bay where the inmates (who had not been charged or convicted of anything) were brutally tortured. He tells us that the terrorist defence team of lawyers called him in court “the US Government’s Torturer in Chief”. Actually, does Luiz have a criminal case to answer for this?

To clarify, hijacking aircraft and crashing them into populated buildings with the intention of mass murder is extreme terrorism. I’m sure reasonable public opinion would agree this act is a capital offence performed by evil dirtbags who must be processed through the justice system and, if found guilty, punished heavily. Religious affiliation should have nothing to do with it.

As a matter of general consensus between all nations’ legal codes, the law also considers torture of prisoners to be a criminal offence, doing it, ordering it and also supervising it without intervening. The CIA, DIA (or whatever acronym) is a faceless entity which will not give out the names of its torturers in response to freedom of information requests but Luiz volunteers the information that he was personally responsible for this notorious location, at a time in ‘The War on Terror’ when the USA was torturing more people than any other country on the globe. Is there an exemption then? Is it acceptable to torture terrorists because they are the lowest category of scum?

If you are from the US and you agree it’s okay to torture terrorists, then you have also agreed that it would be an act of justice for you yourself to be tortured. It sounds wrong but the logic behind this surprising argument stands up because, in international law, the USA is the only country in the world ever to have been convicted of terrorism (Nicaragua vs USA, 1984, International Court of Justice). The conviction still stands but the US used its position as a permanent member of the UN Security Council to veto its own sentencing. John Pilger, who won the United States’ Pulitzer Prize for excellence in his investigative journalism, published on this matter extensively; and on the underlying causes of Arabic terrorism toward the US. The argument inverts to is it okay to terrorise torturers?

For example, The US instigated the UN’s prohibition of ‘dual use’ medicine in Iraq which resulted in the deaths of ca. 250,000 hospital patients. This happened not during the first of second Iraq wars but in the time of peace between those wars. Everything, including paracetamol, was classified a dual use weapon and banned. Most of the fatalities were children for the simple reason that depleted uranium shells were left in the desert from the first war and the age range that went into the desert most often were children, whose work was to herd flocks of goats. When exposed to radiation and affected by radiation sickness, they were admitted to hospital to be treated for cancer but there were no medicines or painkillers they could be given because the UN (which could not implement a restriction without the US driving it) had blocked all humanitarian and medical means to save children’s lives in peacetime. John Pilger’s work was done to expose this political evil and the US gave him a prize.

It’s possible to get upset about these things but I am from neither of these countries and can therefore take the view that all crimes are wrong, not just the ones done to you by your nation’s opponents. All crimes should be punished. Including your own. Terrorism is a crime. Torture is a crime. Civil servants redirecting public money, withholding vital information from the elected representatives they are supposed to answer to and lying to them about its existence may also be a crime.

This book considers the interplay of right and wrong in the context of the UAP subject — how public service has been subverted into a type of self-service by anonymous cliques. The US measure of pride about standing up to terrorism is evident and it hints at extending this attitude to standing up to aliens, just in case they are a threat or “preparing the battlefield” in advance of an invasion. The military mindset runs the show here, but if you do not use the perspective of threat then there will be no official support or funding for the effort to reveal knowledge (and get the public behind you). Forget common sense. AATIP’s success depended on making a good case to the military and politicians, using their language. Therefore, investigation must use a military threat angle to be funded or progress becomes impossible.

If AATIP’s best guess at these visitors’ transportation technology is accurate, including time dilation, humanity would lose a conflict with them because we wouldn’t have enough time available to win it.

I am sure Luiz will go down in history as a great man, a noble agitator who did his best to bring truth to the people and change the human mindset away from ‘Are we being visited’ to ‘Okay, so we are being visited. What should we do next?’ He never claimed to be a completely innocent person with no blood on his hands and, on the whole, I think it is a net benefit for humanity that that he made his overall set of choices. I am also pretty sure that, whatever the alien agenda might be, they don’t give a damn about our ethical gymnastics. We are specks to them. It’s time we both introduced ourselves, warts and all. How long will this waiting continue?