AATIP AND 2017
Elizondo resigned from the Department of Defense in 2017 and was a central figure in the December 2017 New York Times story that revealed AATIP — a Pentagon effort to study unexplained aerial encounters — and brought the first Navy sensor videos into public view. He went on to help found To The Stars Academy and became one of the most prominent public advocates for disclosure. The Pentagon has at times disputed that he had assigned responsibilities leading AATIP; that disagreement has never been fully resolved, and Umbra takes no side on it.
ADVOCACY AND THE FILM
In the years since, Elizondo has pressed for transparency through testimony, interviews, and a 2024 memoir, Imminent. In 2025 he narrated The Age of Disclosure, the documentary that assembled dozens of government insiders and broke streaming records. Across all of it his message is consistent: the government holds far more than it has released, and the public is entitled to see it.
READ THE RECORD
Elizondo's account is one voice; the footage and files are the record. The Navy videos he helped surface and the agency case files he points to are exactly what the PURSUE release publishes — and Umbra indexes and renders that record natively, on your iPhone.
> Read the files behind the testimony, on your iPhone.
