Person · Registry ID 002
Luis (Lue) Elizondo
Author and UAP transparency advocate (2026)
3 positions on the chart18 evidence records
Positions on the chart (3)
Registry record
- Past roles
- DoD counterintelligence/counterterrorism; Director, National Programs Management Staff; ONCIX and ODNI experience
- Credentials
- US Army veteran; University of Miami, microbiology/immunology studies
- UAP involvement
- Claims leadership of AATIP-related UAP work; precise formal director designation disputed | V85: Elizondo reports July 2008 Lacatski recruitment for AAWSAP counterintelligence/security, with subsequent AATIP involvement; formal role contested.
- Principal disclosures
- Claims UAP technology held by US and other governments; alleged secrecy and intimidation | V99: In Imminent, claims Puthoff told him in a SCIF that Roswell was a real UAP crash; alleges a 1947 non-human crash at two sites, an atomic-surveillance/EMP hypothesis and a seven-point secrecy playbook including Rosenberg-style threats (all attributed, unverified; see E-V99-080 to E-V99-085); compares Socorro object to Nimitz Tic Tac
- Evidence contributed
- 2024 sworn congressional hearing testimony; 2024 memoir Imminent; public advocacy regarding military UAP videos | V99: DoD FOIA 21-F-0938 (9 pp.) reproduces his Aug–Sep 2017 emails with Neill Tipton (OUSD(I)) on a portfolio and its proposed transfer, a 2019-06-05 email asserting unfunded AATIP continuation, and a 2020-06-03 Request for Department Action to Susan Gough; the 2017 emails do not name AATIP and DoD says it cannot validate attachments (CASE-090). Imminent also recounts remote-viewing training by Eugene Lessman and an informal Pentagon group session (unverified; CASE-017).
- Knowledge type
- Mixed: professional involvement and secondhand claims; reported personal anomalous experiences
- Corroboration
- House hearing documents confirm testimony; FOIA DoD records contest formal AATIP duties; no public independent proof of recovered non-human technology
- Assessment
- Documented DoD background and testimony; disputed AATIP title; extraordinary claims unverified
- Last reviewed
- 2026-10-29
Evidence (18)
- AATIP-related participation and claimed leadership DisputedFirsthand
- Alleged US possession of UAP technologies and secrecy Claim unverified
- Publication of Imminent: Inside the Pentagon Hunt for UFOs Claim unverified
- Testified at House hearing on UAP transparency CorroboratedFirsthand
- Elizondo says Army civilian intelligence officer Eugene 'Gene' Lessman recruited him and trained him in remote viewing near Sierra Vista, Arizona, with an older training manual, as the formal program was winding down; he then took an Army civilian intelligence (MICECP) post in Panama UnverifiedSecondhand
- Elizondo says he joined four other trained viewers in an informal group session at a secure Pentagon facility focused on an unidentified terrorism detainee, who he later heard told lawyers five luminous figures disturbed him UnverifiedSecondhand
- Elizondo asserts Lessman tried to keep a small cadre active during funding withdrawal and that informal, off-books remote-viewing practice continued Documented
- Elizondo emails Neill Tipton that he has managed a nuanced portfolio, secured SECDEF front-office support for its proposed transfer to Tipton, and will introduce him to internal, industry and agency partners DocumentedFirsthand
- Elizondo tells a DoD recipient he continued UAP portfolio work with Navy and DIA/CIA, describes unfunded AATIP continuation, and says transfer plans were approved by a senior political appointee reporting to Secretary Mattis DocumentedFirsthand
- In a Request for Department Action to Susan Gough, Elizondo disputes DoD statements that he had no assigned AATIP duties, says he ran the program, arranged pilot briefings in the SECDEF suite and transferred AATIP responsibilities in writing before his Oct 2017 resignation, and names Reid, Tipton, Stratton and Mellon as possible corroborators DisputedFirsthand
- Imminent retells the Wilson–Davis account as a late-1990s discussion with a 13-page summary, labels the alleged enterprise the 'Legacy Program', and says Elizondo attended senior military meetings where Davis presented these allegations UnverifiedSecondhand
- Elizondo writes that Hal Puthoff told him, inside a SCIF, that Roswell was a real UAP crash UnverifiedSecondhand
- Elizondo asserts a non-human craft crashed near a government test facility in New Mexico in 1947 and broke up across two crash sites DisputedSecondhand
- Elizondo says investigators first suspected foreign reconnaissance, then the Army concluded within hours that the craft was not human-made UnverifiedSecondhand
- Elizondo hypothesizes the craft may have been surveilling the US atomic program and that EMP from a nearby test range disrupted it AllegedSecondhand
- Elizondo frames Roswell as the origin of a seven-point secrecy playbook: deny everything; make counteraccusations; retrieve crash material; move it to undisclosed facilities; reverse-engineer under restricted access; intimidate and discredit witnesses; threaten espionage prosecution UnverifiedSecondhand
- Elizondo alleges the 1953 Rosenberg executions were invoked to threaten people against UAP disclosure UnverifiedSecondhand
- Elizondo recounts Socorro, including other motorists, an explosion-like sound and a separate white butane-tank-shaped object, and compares Zamora's oval object to the 2004 Nimitz Tic Tac UnverifiedSecondhand