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Luis Elizondo

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SmartLess
"Luis Elizondo"

Unfortunately, no. With all due respect, when we actually started calibrating our radar systems to look for UAP, something very interesting happened about a year and a half ago. We started tracking Chinese balloons that were wafting over the northern hemisphere and continental United States. If you remember the stories about these surveillance balloons, they've been there a long time.

SmartLess
"Luis Elizondo"

The bottom line is we really don't have a very good handle on what we call U.S. air domain awareness. We're supposed to, but the sad truth is we don't. There's a lot of things in our skies that we do not have any visibility into. And that's part of the problem with UAP because UAPs, you know, potentially you could have a near air collision.

SmartLess
"Luis Elizondo"

The bottom line is we really don't have a very good handle on what we call U.S. air domain awareness. We're supposed to, but the sad truth is we don't. There's a lot of things in our skies that we do not have any visibility into. And that's part of the problem with UAP because UAPs, you know, potentially you could have a near air collision.

SmartLess
"Luis Elizondo"

The bottom line is we really don't have a very good handle on what we call U.S. air domain awareness. We're supposed to, but the sad truth is we don't. There's a lot of things in our skies that we do not have any visibility into. And that's part of the problem with UAP because UAPs, you know, potentially you could have a near air collision.

SmartLess
"Luis Elizondo"

And we've had this before with both private pilots and also in some of our military pilots. Right.

SmartLess
"Luis Elizondo"

And we've had this before with both private pilots and also in some of our military pilots. Right.

SmartLess
"Luis Elizondo"

And we've had this before with both private pilots and also in some of our military pilots. Right.

SmartLess
"Luis Elizondo"

It's a little more complicated than that. Let me see if I can break this down for you just from some of the performance parameters. There's five fundamental observables that we have noticed from an intelligence perspective that puts this technology leaps and bounds beyond anything we have. So the first observable is instantaneous acceleration.

SmartLess
"Luis Elizondo"

It's a little more complicated than that. Let me see if I can break this down for you just from some of the performance parameters. There's five fundamental observables that we have noticed from an intelligence perspective that puts this technology leaps and bounds beyond anything we have. So the first observable is instantaneous acceleration.

SmartLess
"Luis Elizondo"

It's a little more complicated than that. Let me see if I can break this down for you just from some of the performance parameters. There's five fundamental observables that we have noticed from an intelligence perspective that puts this technology leaps and bounds beyond anything we have. So the first observable is instantaneous acceleration.

SmartLess
"Luis Elizondo"

That's the ability to move from point A to point B very rapidly. Now, a human being like me We can withstand about nine G-forces wearing a G-suit for a short period of time before you start suffering medical consequences like blackouts, redouts, and ultimately death. So if you compare that to, let's say, the General Dynamics F-16, right?

SmartLess
"Luis Elizondo"

That's the ability to move from point A to point B very rapidly. Now, a human being like me We can withstand about nine G-forces wearing a G-suit for a short period of time before you start suffering medical consequences like blackouts, redouts, and ultimately death. So if you compare that to, let's say, the General Dynamics F-16, right?

SmartLess
"Luis Elizondo"

That's the ability to move from point A to point B very rapidly. Now, a human being like me We can withstand about nine G-forces wearing a G-suit for a short period of time before you start suffering medical consequences like blackouts, redouts, and ultimately death. So if you compare that to, let's say, the General Dynamics F-16, right?

SmartLess
"Luis Elizondo"

The F-16 can pull about 16 to 17 Gs before you start having structural failure, meaning the airframe starts to disintegrate around you. What we are seeing are things that are doing 1,000, 2,000, 3,000 G-forces. Well beyond anything that we have. And then you have the other observable, which is hypersonic velocity.

SmartLess
"Luis Elizondo"

The F-16 can pull about 16 to 17 Gs before you start having structural failure, meaning the airframe starts to disintegrate around you. What we are seeing are things that are doing 1,000, 2,000, 3,000 G-forces. Well beyond anything that we have. And then you have the other observable, which is hypersonic velocity.

SmartLess
"Luis Elizondo"

The F-16 can pull about 16 to 17 Gs before you start having structural failure, meaning the airframe starts to disintegrate around you. What we are seeing are things that are doing 1,000, 2,000, 3,000 G-forces. Well beyond anything that we have. And then you have the other observable, which is hypersonic velocity.

SmartLess
"Luis Elizondo"

That's five times the speed of sound, or roughly five times 763 miles an hour at sea level, roughly. So you're looking at about 3,200 miles an hour. Now, do we have technology that can go that fast? Yes, we do. The Lockheed YF-12A SR-71, the Blackbird, for example, can do about 3,200 miles an hour at the unclassified level.

SmartLess
"Luis Elizondo"

That's five times the speed of sound, or roughly five times 763 miles an hour at sea level, roughly. So you're looking at about 3,200 miles an hour. Now, do we have technology that can go that fast? Yes, we do. The Lockheed YF-12A SR-71, the Blackbird, for example, can do about 3,200 miles an hour at the unclassified level.

SmartLess
"Luis Elizondo"

That's five times the speed of sound, or roughly five times 763 miles an hour at sea level, roughly. So you're looking at about 3,200 miles an hour. Now, do we have technology that can go that fast? Yes, we do. The Lockheed YF-12A SR-71, the Blackbird, for example, can do about 3,200 miles an hour at the unclassified level.

SmartLess
"Luis Elizondo"

But when it wants to take a right-hand turn, it takes roughly half the state of Ohio to do it. And yet what we are seeing... are things that are not doing 3,000 miles an hour. They're doing 10,000, 13,000 miles an hour, and they can execute immediate right-angle turns in 180s, right? So these are some of the things that when you see them, you realize, okay, this is not our technology.