PREVIEW: Later this week on Substack's John Batchelor page, the complete video interview with Luis Elizondo, author of the new book, "IMMINENT: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs." This exchange covers the first instance when Luis Elizondo was read into
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🗓️ 5 October 2024
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| 0:00.0 | This is John Bachelor coming up this week my conversation with Lou Elizando |
| 0:07.2 | Louis Elzondo. This is on a |
| 0:15.0 | a conversation with Louis Elizondo this time the full interview on Substack. I believe it'll be up |
| 0:25.9 | Wednesday of this week and the conversation is about what used to be called |
| 0:31.2 | UFOs now known as UAPs at the Pentagon. It's a |
| 0:36.1 | challenging conversation and here Louis describes the moment that he was read into the program earlier in the 21st century. |
| 0:47.0 | He's no longer at the Pentagon. He's written this book with the approval of the Pentagon they vetted it very carefully and there's |
| 0:58.0 | very little in this it's blacked out some is but this is the moment when he first learned of the program, long-standing |
| 1:08.2 | program classified about what it is that's been collected over 80 years about UAP's, |
| 1:16.5 | UFOs, old UFOs is Louis. Later in the week on |
| 1:21.3 | sub-stack the whole interview. |
| 1:23.0 | At the time, they needed somebody to run counterintelligence and security for this new, quote-unquote, |
| 1:30.0 | they wouldn't tell me what it was, They didn't tell me anything about it. |
| 1:33.0 | And it was, you know, honestly, it was a little mysterious, but not really that uncommon, |
| 1:38.0 | because until you get, as you say, read onto a program, there's very little you can talk about. |
| 1:43.1 | So the very first few meetings is more of an assessment, |
| 1:46.0 | getting to know one another, |
| 1:47.0 | are you going to be a good fit? |
| 1:48.9 | And then ultimately, they asked me to meet their boss. |
| 1:51.0 | And that's really when I I learned firsthand what they were focusing on and so |
| 1:58.0 | several weeks went by and I went to an undisclosed location in the DC area. It was a |
| 2:02.8 | covered U.S. facility, meaning it was a secret U.S. |
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