Mysterious Green Orbs: A Tale of 'Extraterrestrial Threats' in the Memoirs of a Retired Pentagon Officer

A senior retired Pentagon official, who was responsible for uncovering the truth about unidentified flying objects, has written in his memoir that "mysterious and luminous green orbs" attacked his home. Luis Elizondo, who led a secret program at the Pentagon aimed at understanding unidentified aerial phenomena, details his experiences as a senior intelligence officer in this program run by the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency in his book titled "Briefing: Inside the Pentagon's Search for UFOs." He notes that the process of passing the content of this book through the censorship of the U.S. Department of Defense took a year. Many of Elizondo's activities remain classified and unpublished, but he claims in this book, which has been reviewed by the New York Times, that his home in Washington, D.C. was "attacked" by luminous green orbs the size of basketballs. Elizondo states that his wife, their two daughters, and their neighbors witnessed these green orbs. Having previously testified before the U.S. Congress about the Pentagon's knowledge of unidentified aerial phenomena, he asserts in this book: "We can no longer bury our heads in the sand. We know we are not alone." The program Elizondo managed at the Pentagon was responsible for collecting and analyzing encounters reported by U.S. Navy pilots with unidentified phenomena in the sky and seemingly impossible movements by strange objects. The three videos they collected were first revealed by the New York Times in 2017. Three years later, the U.S. Department of Defense confirmed the authenticity of the videos but stated it could not confirm whether these objects were controlled by extraterrestrial intelligence. Elizondo writes in his memoir that his job has convinced him of the existence and superiority of extraterrestrial intelligence. He describes spacecraft that are "controlled by non-human intelligence, which at best is a very serious national security issue and at worst is a vital threat to humanity." Official agencies in the U.S. have previously indicated the existence of programs to investigate unidentified flying phenomena. The CIA has also released hundreds of documents from its investigations into UFOs, which, while containing interesting details, mostly yield incomplete results. The U.S. Air Force investigated 12,618 sightings of unidentified flying objects between 1947 and 1969 in a program known as "Project Blue Book." However, it ultimately concluded that there was no evidence that these unidentified phenomena had extraterrestrial origins. Nevertheless, Luis Elizondo states in his book that he has not been allowed to speak about other secret programs at the Pentagon that "indicate the existence of extraterrestrial beings that have never been fully disclosed."