Imminent
Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs
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4.3 • 298 Ratings
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Publisher Description
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The former head of the Pentagon program responsible for the investigation of UFOs—now known as unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP)—reveals long-hidden secrets with profound implications for not only national security but our understanding of the universe.
Luis “Lue” Elizondo is a former senior intelligence official and special agent who was recruited into strange and highly sensitive US government program to investigate UAP. To accomplish his mission, Elizondo had to rely on decades of experience gained working some of America’s most classified programs. Even then, he was not prepared for what he would learn, including the truth about the government’s long shadowy involvement in UAP investigations, and the lengths officials would take to keep it a secret.
For years, Elizondo and his colleagues found themselves on the front lines of what may be the greatest mystery and cover-up in history. Unidentified craft that seem to defy our knowledge of physics—within air, water, and space—have been operating with complete impunity since at least World War II. The military, the CIA, and even past presidents have known the truth that humanity is, in fact, not the only intelligent life in the universe. The nonhuman intelligence controlling these UAP are actively conducting surveillance on our most sensitive military installations, and have interfered with ongoing military and nuclear operations. US service members and intelligence officers who have encountered UAP have sustained serious medical injuries. And all of this is happening worldwide.
The stakes could not be higher. Imminent is a first-hand, revelatory account inside the Pentagon’s most closely guarded secret and a call to action to confront humanity’s greatest existential questions.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
From 2008 to 2017, Luis Elizondo led a military intelligence program dedicated to the study of UFOs, or as proponents now refer to them, UAP (unidentified anomalous phenomena). To cut to the chase, Elizondo is a believer, and claims to have personal knowledge, much of it firsthand. This history hits on familiar sightings such as the 1947 Roswell incident but also goes in deep on lesser-known incidents, like a series of encounters in Brazil where dozens of people claimed to have seen or even been abducted by a variety of spaceships. Elizondo also discusses autopsies on alien bodies (they apparently have smooth brains), an incident near the beginning of the Iraq War where U.S. tanks appeared to have been blasted through with laser-like precision, and mysterious filaments that seem to move under their own power under a microscope (shudder). It’s up to the reader whether to believe Elizondo, but if nothing else, the whole thing is fascinatingly unnerving.
Customer Reviews
See AllInsane. Incredible.
Invigorating and educational. Could not put down.
Humble brag
Has a few interesting bits about UFOs which he insists on calling UAPs, but mostly about what a great person he is and what a great career he’s had.
Not much new or unknown.
While I applauded Lue for all he’s done to advance the narrative for UAP and all he gave up to accomplish it, the book tells us near zero about UAP. It truly is just his life experience getting info out. Not the info itself.