In his latest mass media stop during the book tour for his recently-released Imminent, Pentagon ‘UFO whistleblower’ Luis Elizondo made an appearance on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show with guest host Ronny Chieng.
Although these type of interviews are still conducted with the giggle factor in mind—much more so in a comedy show—they are a good way to remind people inside the UFO community about the actual attitudes of the ‘normies’ who live their lives outside this tiny little ideology bubble, where things like ‘the Wilson memo’ or ‘metamaterials’ are reason enough to embark in a days-long online battle with some rando stranger you’ll never meet IRL in your entire life.
Which is why after watching the segment I ended up being quite pleased with Ronny’s hilarious reactions to Elizondo’s spiel, which hasn’t deviated that much from when he first started his public career as “UFO whistleblower” back in 2017: there are things the government is aware of beyond our current technical capabilities, which constitute a potential threat because they penetrate sensitive aerospace with impunity and are drawn to nuclear weapons, so that’s why a bipartisan Congressional effort to protect whistleblowers so more people can come forward is needed — oh, and Roswell was real.
To all this Ronnie replies, “You’re talking about paperwork. I’m talking about aliens! […] You wanna go through bureaucracy and unite Congress before you go to fight the aliens??!”
And therein lies much of the absurdity of Elizondo and his colleagues’ strategy: they keep trying to convince the people that someone within the United States government is sitting on the most important evidence in the history of our species — incontrovertible confirmation that not only we are not alone in the universe, but that some of those NHI’s as they now call them are dangerous — but in the mentality of these career individuals (and Elizondo for that matter) “doing things right” with legislation amendments and going through all the red-tape hoops in order to not rock the boat too hard, must come first. I reckon that if Edward Snowden had followed the same approach, it would have taken at least twenty years before we’d learned about the illegal digital surveillance program he warned us about in 2013.
There’s talk in Congress that Senator Gillibrand is preparing another UFO Congressional hearing. I do not know if Elizondo is planning to testify under oath in this one, but I do know this: if the next hearing is not an absolute bombshell in which actual proof is shown before Congress members and the American people — something tangible instead of wild tales and excuses of why the witnesses can’t go on the record with what they claim to know — then I suspect the public will grow tired of this ongoing spectacle, and politicians will finally realize there is nothing to gain by getting involved in this thorny topic, aside from TV appearances and book deals.
