Luis Elizondo

Former U.S. Army Counterintelligence Officer

Luis Elizondo is a former U.

S. Army counterintelligence officer and Department of Defense official best known for his association with the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) and for helping bring military UAP incidents into the public spotlight. After leaving the Department of Defense in 2017, he became one of the most recognizable public figures advocating for greater transparency regarding unidentified anomalous phenomena.