Imminent by Luis Elizondo: “We are not alone!”

Aliens are real, and every UFO sighting in the last 100 years might have been a prelude to invasion.

It’s a threat to national security and humanity, too, and Luis Elizondo, a former senior intelligence member at the Pentagon, seems upset that we haven't started sounding the alarm bells sooner.

In a fresh memoir book, Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs, Luis Elizondo does indeed reveal profound secrets, just as its annotation on Amazon promises.

And those “profound secrets” are just the tip of the iceberg of what he knows, yet is not allowed to tell as a lot of information is still buried under the “classified” rug.

What a book!

And when such a figure like Elizondo is pointing you to some hard facts not only about aliens being real but speculating about their motivation for visiting Earth so often, we must listen.

This is a narrative we’re not used to just yet. Stigma plagued the topic for most of the 20th century and continues well into the 21st century as well. Elizondo has spearheaded the change in public opinion – flying saucers and alien abductions are no longer in the margins of the mainstream press. It’s no longer a taboo to talk about it and risk being called a loony.

The proper term for extraterrestrial (not from Earth) technology sightings these days is “unidentified anomalous phenomena” (UAP). Not aerial, but anomalous since, as Elizondo explains, many UAPs were observed next to the water or disappearing into the oceans, hypothesizing they might be hiding in the deep waters. After all, over 70% of our plane is water. Mostly unexplored water.

For a more comprehensive report on the various Pentagon efforts to investigate and hide the phenomenon, you might want to read Garrett M. Graff’s book UFO: The Inside Story of the US Government’s Search for Alien Life Here – and Out There.

Imminent, on the other hand, reads more like a captivating novel, taking us through not only the most important chapters of UAP research but also through the personal sacrifices that Elizondo and his family had to make to legitimize the topic and bring it to our dinner table conversations.

Elizondo, who spent over 20 years as an intelligence officer working for the Pentagon, is the former head of the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP). He and his allies had been gathering intelligence on the topic for years.

What was bothering Elizondo was the fact that the establishment agencies had been sitting on this information for years, and yet, everything was swept under the rug.

“I felt hyper-alive, overwhelmed, and terrified. In some ways, it reminded me of what someone may feel as they are being marched to the guillotine. It was eerily silent, and everything seemed to be moving in slow motion, not just the traffic. Colors also seemed more vibrant for some reason,”

Elizondo writes.

That’s how he felt after realizing that humanity could be facing the “outrageous extinction event of our own making," but was not taking it seriously enough.

Being an intelligence officer and working with classified material, Elizondo couldn’t just share this information with politicians to raise alarm, let alone the press.

“Everything we’ve seen in the twentieth century could be a prelude to invasion. It is a possibility that we cannot ignore,” he writes.

And so, Elizondo started a war of his own. Losing his secure income, risking lawsuits and public ridicule, he left the Pentagon. He and his counterparts crafted a detailed plan to put the threat of an “outrageous extinction event” under the spotlight.

First, it was The New York Times, Politico, and The Washington Post articles that started the snowball effect. Elizondo didn’t like the spin of them very much. They focused on the fact that the Pentagon was hiding decades of research from the public.

What Elizondo wanted them to do was scream that aliens are real and they are a threat to national security. Hence the headline of my review – a modest thank you for writing a book not for the chosen ones but for us all to understand.

“Most of us only want to hear truths that fit comfortably into our timeworn, pre-existing narratives. When we are forced to confront the truth, we routinely suppress it in favor of making ourselves feel better,” he writes.

Are you ready to listen yet?