Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs

Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs
By Luis Elizondo
Published in August 2024
304 Pages
Thibault’s Score: 4/5

Imminent is a book written by a Pentagon whistleblower which attempts to explain the various US government efforts to track UFOs and UAPs.

Luis Elizondo is the whistleblower who leaked the famous “Gimble” and “Gofast” videos to the New York Times in 2017. He also publicized the government's AATIP program as well as several other government funded anti UAP and UFO initiatives.

Luis Elizondo has a fascinating background. He is the son of a former Cuban communist revolutionary, who eventually was betrayed by the Castro regime. Luis’ father was detained in one of Castro’s concentration camps, but eventually escaped and fought alongside the CIA during the Bay of Pigs Invasion of Cuba.

Luis later served in the US army in Korea and Kuwait. Later, he served as a CIA paramilitary officer doing counter-intelligence operations in a variety of countries around the world ranging from the Middle East to South America. During his time working on black ops, he claims that he was trained to use parapsychology and remote viewing. Due to budget cuts, however, he was never actively deployed as a psionic.

Two kids and one marriage later, he decided to retire from the field in exchange for a calmer bureaucratic career in Washington DC. After a decade working various civilian military intelligence jobs in DC, he was eventually recruited to join the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (or AATIP).

AATIP is a US government program to gather and attempt to explain hundreds of sensor readings, videos, accounts, and other pieces of data that could be UFOs / UAPs. For more than a decade, the US government secretly collected a very large body concerning UFOs during the late 2000s and early 2010s. AATIP’s existence was later confirmed in various declassification hearings.

After reading this book, I am now 100% convinced that, at the very least, people at high levels in the American military are convinced that extraterrestrials exist and are visiting earth. The Pentagon consensus is that these extraterrestrials are hostile and planning an invasion. 

I am personally unsure what to believe. Reading this book has tipped me more to the side that UFOs are both real and currently visiting earth. The conclusions that many in the Pentagon have come to - that the UFOs are hostile - to me seems wrong. If they were truly planning an invasion, then anyone capable of interstellar travel could easily have already wiped us out or enslaved us. I suspect that the aliens, if real, are either simply studying and observing us or actively protecting the human race.

This is a very interesting book that I recommend to anyone interested in learning more about UFOs and UAPs. It might be a good second or third book to read about the topic.

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