Are They Out There? A New Book Says They're Already Here...

Even before the supposed crash-landing of a flying saucer at Roswell, New Mexico in 1947, a segment of mankind has wondered if we are the only intelligent life “out there.” From “War of the Worlds” and “Star Trek” to “E.T.” and “The X-Files,” our science fiction has kicked the door wide open to wonder if beings from other planets have traversed the galaxies to study us, much as we sent up the Voyager probe to study them. One new book now claims that the Defense Department has more than enough proof that the phenomena are for real. Defense Department researcher Luis Elizondo is the author of “Imminent: Inside the Pentagon’s Hunt for UFO’s.” He appeared on 710 WOR’s Len Berman and Michael Riedel in the Morning to lay out the claim that we might not be alone.

Elizondo told Riedel and Larry Mendte, sitting in for Berman, that there are enough government officials who not only are on the record saying they’re for real, but they also have evidence to back them up. “Our combat aircraft are encountering these on a regular basis, in some cases avoiding a mid-air collision. Their observations are also being backed up by gun camera footage and some of the most sophisticated radar systems we have on the planet. So yeah, they’re real.”

Elizondo himself says he finds it tough to swallow but is open to the possibility that “they” might really exist. “Are these things possibly from Earth? Could they be just as natural to us, to this planet, as we are? Sure; maybe we’re at the point now where, technologically, we can now begin to interact a little bit more with them.”

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