Former Pentagon official says UFOs have repeatedly meddled with U.S. nuclear capabilities

An ex-pentagon official says that UFOs have repeatedly meddled with U.S. nuclear technology, even forcing some facilities to go offline.  

Luis Elizondo, the former head of the Pentagon’s Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, told The Washington Post that UFOs or as they are officially identified UAPs (unidentified aerial phenomenon) have actually interfered with U.S. nuclear technology.

‘Now in this country we’ve had incidents where these UAPs have interfered and actually brought offline our nuclear capabilities,’ Elizondo said in an interview.

Elizondo was asked about several UFO sightings above secret nuclear weapons facilities and the fact that almost every major nuclear power across the globe has reported and declassified these sightings. 

He said that the phenomenon is a national security ‘concern,’ and added that the same observation has been made in other countries, making it a ‘global issue’

‘There does seem to be some sort of congruency or some sort of intersection between these UAP or UFO sightings and our nuclear technology with nuclear propulsion, nuclear power generation, or nuclear weapons systems,’ he said. 

‘Furthermore, those same observations have been seen overseas in other countries. They too have had the same incidents. So that tells us this is a global issue.’

Elizondo said some people have suggested that UFOs bringing U.S. nuclear capabilities offline could be interpreted as a sign that the unidentified objects are ‘peaceful’ but said in other countries the UFOs have actually turned on nuclear technology.  

‘So that is equally, for me, just as concerning,’ he said of their interference either way. ‘I think that there is certainly at this point enough data to demonstrate there is an interest in our nuclear technology, a potential to even interfere with that nuclear technology.’

He added that considering the huge nuclear footprint the U.S. has- including nuclear-powered aircrafts, nuclear-powered submarines and nuclear-powered destroyers, there should be nothing surprising about increased interest by the UFOs.

Elizondo also told the Post that the Pentagon’s upcoming report will definitively state that UAPs are not U.S. technology, despite speculation. 

He said he believed the findings would conclude that they were also not Russian or Chinese technology either, saying that instead he believes it is ‘next generation’ technology, decades ahead of our own. 

‘You know, through observations we are, we are quite convinced that we’re dealing with a technology that is multigenerational, several generations ahead of what we consider next generation technology, so what we would consider beyond next generation technology,’ he said. ‘Something that could be anywhere between 50 to 1,000 years ahead of us.’ 

While UFOs have been sighted by civilians for decades, their existence was brushed off as nothing more than a conspiracy theory. 

But public opinion has shifted in recent years, especially after video footage and pictures taken by U.S. Navy pilots between mid-2014 and March 2015, was leaked to the New York Times, three years ago. 

The images showed a 30 to 40ft object, shaped like a Tic Tac, with no wings or rotors, yet able to hover, turn and accelerate through the sky at hypersonic speeds. The flabbergasted Navy pilots can be heard exclaiming in awe: ‘Oh dude!’

A New York Times also reported on a shadowy organization based at the Pentagon dedicated to reports of UFO sightings, the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program — AATIP.  

The Pentagon’s UAP Task Force is set to deliver its report on UFO sightings to Congress later this month, with some lawmakers pushing for the information to be made public.

The Pentagon’s Director of National Intelligence is required to turn over a report on U.S. military sightings of UFOs to Congress on June 25.

An unclassified version will be made public, while a more detailed classified one will remain secret — and anticipation has been mounting over what might be revealed.

Recently, 60 Minutes interviewed US Navy pilots who said they had seen inexplicable aircraft that flew faster and were more maneuverable that anything seen before.

Retired officials with access to classified intelligence have been cashing in on the fervor and drumming up the mystery.

‘What is true – and I’m actually being serious here- is that there’s footage and records of objects in the skies that we don’t know exactly what they are,’ former president Barack Obama said in a May 17 interview.

‘There are a lot more sightings than have been made public,’ John Ratcliffe, who was director of National Intelligence for the last eight months of Donald Trump’s administration, said in March.

‘There are instances where we don’t have good explanations for some of the things that we’ve seen.’  

Meanwhile, NASA‘s new top administrator is directing the agency’s scientists to investigate unidentified flying objects, just a month after taking charge of the agency.

Bill Nelson, the former Florida senator who flew aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia, says there is no evidence yet that extraterrestrials have visited Earth, telling CNN on Thursday: ‘I think I would know.’

But, as the Pentagon prepares to release a highly anticipated UFO report that does not rule out an extraterrestrial origin for high-profile military sightings, Nelson agrees that the possibility remains open.

‘We don’t know if it’s extraterrestrial. We don’t know if it’s an enemy. We don’t know if it’s an optical phenomenon,’ Nelson told CNN of encounters filmed by Navy pilots.

‘We don’t think [it’s an optical phenomenon] because of the characteristics that those Navy jet pilots described … And so the bottom line is, we want to know,’ he said.