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(NewsNation) — Luis Elizondo calls his grounds earlier a Congressional proceeding connected unidentified anomalous phenomena a “win-win” for the country.
“This was truly a historical day, some for Congress and for the American people,” Elizondo said. In his grounds Wednesday earlier two panels of the House Oversight Committee, Elizondo’s words were blunt and unequivocal.
“Let maine beryllium clear: UAP are real,” Elizondo testified. “Advanced technologies not made by our government, oregon immoderate different government, are monitoring delicate subject installations astir the globe.”
In a Wednesday nighttime debrief connected NewsNation’s “CUOMO,” Elizondo said helium feels similar the tide of nationalist sentiment connected UAP is turning.
“Hopefully, the nationalist is getting an knowing of however agelong our authorities has really been progressive successful this topic, contempt decades of denial.”
Elaborating connected what helium told lawmakers, the erstwhile caput of the Defense Department’s now-defunct Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, oregon AATIP, shared a past lesson, comparing the exertion of confirmed UAP sightings successful the 1950s with the exertion of that time.
“Documents person been submitted to Congress that show, beyond a shadiness of a doubt, that we’ve been dealing with this contented since the aboriginal 1950s. I’m talking astir objects that, inactive to this day, tin run beyond immoderate benignant of show characteristics of our modern aircraft.
“These craft were captured connected radar (in the 50s) doing 10,000, 13,000 miles an hr … and are capable to execute an contiguous right-angle turn, bash 180 degrees, popular successful and retired of our ambiance and adjacent underwater. Where were we successful the 1950s? We had hardly breached the dependable obstruction and hadn’t adjacent made it into space.”
Elizondo’s mandate astatine AATIP was to analyse the nationalist information implications of subject encounters with UAP — a ngo helium said was arsenic important arsenic thing other taking spot astatine the Pentagon.
“We person perfectly been capable to corroborate the beingness of immoderate benignant of exertion that has the quality to run with anonymity (in) controlled U.S. airspace, run implicit our delicate U.S. subject installations, and perchance … interfere with our atomic equities. Now, if that’s not a nationalist information concern, I don’t cognize what is,” helium said.