Imminent Quotes

“Extrasensory perception had won over supporters in government who were initially dubious, then shocked that the technique worked. No one understood the mechanism. The CIA didn’t care why it worked; the only thing that mattered was that it did.”
― Luis Elizondo, Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs

“The Pentagon was content to maintain the status quo, to circle the drain endlessly talking, never acting on the intel. Meanwhile, we had very real national security threats posed by UAP. I knew that if the proper attention was not called to this matter, it could result in a national security failure eclipsing that of 9/11. All the while, the Legacy Program existed in the shadows, in possession of advanced technology made off-world by nonhuman intelligence, but seemingly no elected officials and no one at the Pentagon knew about it. Then there was the simple fact that the true nature of our reality—the fact that we are not alone in the universe—was being hidden from the American people and humanity at large. Say that out loud . . . it’s insane and wrong.”
― Luis Elizondo, Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs

“For example, it’s difficult to say, “God created man in His own image,” when we are forced to inquire whether humans really look like God, or if God has a favorite intelligent species among all others in His Creation. Neither governments nor religions want their followers questioning their faith or authority. But as I would find out later, Catholicism and now even Islam”
― Luis Elizondo, Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs

“This climate of hostility toward the UAP issue was a direct result of US government policies formulated by the CIA’s Robertson Panel in 1953.”
― Luis Elizondo, Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs

“The UAP legislation language is fifteen pages and available online. I highly suggest you read it all very carefully, because it will leave you with no doubt at all about the truth.”
― Luis Elizondo, Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs

“Only a few people were privy to the fact that humanity could truly be facing an outrageous extinction event of our own making because we’re not taking the threat seriously. Beyond the windows of my car, everywhere I looked, thousands of people sat trapped inside shiny metal boxes of their own reality. Three lanes of cars to my right and the two lanes to my left . . . filled with people thinking about PTA meetings, Little League, and ballet. Some listened to talk radio while others ruminated over how to hide their ongoing workplace affair from their spouse.”
― Luis Elizondo, Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs

“On more than one occasion, the US dispatched bombers in anticipation of a nuclear attack by the Soviet Union before the US realized that UAP had caused the Soviets to ready their missiles in error. Those nuclear missiles activated were pointed at us. That’s how close we’ve come to disaster.”
― Luis Elizondo, Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs

“At the dawn of the nuclear age, UAP started appearing in greater numbers—and sometimes they crashed. Roswell was one of those incidents.”
― Luis Elizondo, Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs

“A military response to such power would be like pitting a child’s kite against an F-22 Raptor.”
― Luis Elizondo, Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs

“This climate of hostility toward the UAP issue was a direct result of US government policies formulated by the CIA’s Robertson Panel in 1953. Claiming to fear US air defense communications might be overwhelmed by UAP reports, this CIA panel advised the Air Force to enlist the Walt Disney Company and the mass media in a campaign to “debunk” UAP.”
― Luis Elizondo, Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs

“But as I would find out later, Catholicism and now even Islam are beginning to prepare the public for the long-understood idea that humankind is not alone.”
― Luis Elizondo, Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs

“Institutions like the Vatican have formed alliances with UAP transparency advocates in Italy and the US and confidentially share historic accounts that are centuries old that may be UAP-related. Most people would be shocked by the amount of intelligence the Vatican has collected over the millennia, culled from eyewitness reports and perhaps even anecdotes shared in the confessional. Confessions are sacrosanct in Catholicism, but I’ve been told that the church routinely polled priests to speak in a general way about what troubled their parishioners.”
― Luis Elizondo, Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs

“A report prepared by Australia’s Department of Defense in the 1970s summed up the Blue Book strategy as follows: “By erecting a façade of ridicule, the US hoped to allay public alarm, reduce the possibility of the Soviet[s] taking advantage of UAP mass sightings for either psychological or actual warfare purposes, and act as a cover for the real US program of developing vehicles that emulate UAP performances.” Australia is one of the “Five Eyes” intelligence partners; that is, five nations—including the United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States—that have a long history of sharing intelligence cooperatively. We can rely on their frank assessment of the American program.”
― Luis Elizondo, Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs

“The cover-up and disinformation campaign has been so successful that most scientists do not even know UAP are real. We need everyone to at least know this is all real so we can get a whole-of-government approach, much more funding, and the brightest minds in our country contributing to us winning, as we won the space race. China and Russia do not have the same stigma and can employ their scientists to work on this topic for them.”
― Luis Elizondo, Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs

“While the program was primarily focused on UAP, a small part of the effort also investigated unexplainable phenomena at a 480-acre property in Utah called Skinwalker Ranch. Bob Bigelow was the contractor running point on the investigation and had bought the land in the mid-1990s so that his scientists could study some of the unusual occurrences long associated with the property.”
― Luis Elizondo, Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs

“When the best remote viewers were in the “zone,” they could penetrate enemy installations and have a look around. They could locate personnel or vital assets. They could even allegedly disrupt or incapacitate the minds of adversaries. During a viewing session, a seasoned viewer could draw images, maps, coordinates, details of everything they had seen. I doubted”
― Luis Elizondo, Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs

“Some of our nation’s past leaders were briefed on all this, and that is why this matter is now being taken more seriously than ever before.”
― Luis Elizondo, Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs

“I was now seeing with clarity that GS-15 was not the Pantheon of the Gods. Instead, these much-vaunted practitioners more often made decisions based on political favors, not facts. That infuriated me immensely. I detested the bureaucracy. Countless hours of commuter traffic, department infighting, and the bureaucracy were getting old, despite the cushy aspects of the job. I’d almost rather engage in a firefight than play games with Beltway bandits. At least on the battlefield you know where the enemy is.”
― Luis Elizondo, Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs

“The sad truth is, DoD regards presidents, elected officials, and political appointees as temporary hires. They do not need to know since they will not be in their position for very long. Unless something happens or they really push for it, US presidents do not get briefed, and those who have been briefed have only been given the most basic information.”
― Luis Elizondo, Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs

“Four deceased nonhuman bodies were in fact recovered from the 1947 Roswell crash.”
― Luis Elizondo, Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs

“week later, lawyers from the 9/11 terrorist defense team had cooked up a legal petition painting me as the devil incarnate and claiming I was preventing their detainee clients from having a fair trial.”
― Luis Elizondo, Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs

“all these people had suffered brain scarring. I was told that this is what doctors call white-matter disease because the scars appear as white in medical images.”
― Luis Elizondo, Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs

“He wasn’t a DC debutante or a member of the Junior League.”
― Luis Elizondo, Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs

“even demonic?”
― Luis Elizondo, Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs

“My impression was that the philosophical and theological challenges were more of a roadblock than the pragmatic or bureaucratic ones, especially now that leaders of a religious bent had taken a keen interest in AAWSAP. To some degree, I understood their apprehension; the topic is frightening, and not because of religious reasons alone.”
― Luis Elizondo, Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs

“The stories I can’t share are even more mind-blowing.”
― Luis Elizondo, Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs

“for all the world to see.”
― Luis Elizondo, Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs

“Nixon was considered a loose cannon, so he was not taken completely into confidence, but I have reason to believe he was shown images of nonhuman bodies.”
― Luis Elizondo, Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs

“Carter came across as an open-minded, intellectually curious leader, one who matter-of-factly revealed the existence of the psychic Stargate program to the media.”
― Luis Elizondo, Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs

“Tim Burchett, a Republican representative from Tennessee, had also watched. Coincidentally, his district was near Oak Ridge, home to the nation’s uranium stockpile and a former World War II “Secret City” of the Manhattan Project and the site of countless UAP sightings.”
― Luis Elizondo, Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs