Photo showing ‘1,000ft silver UFO flying over US snapped by airline pilot' released by infamous Pentagon whistleblower
The picture was allegedly snapped by an airline pilot in 2021 while flying 21,000ft above the Four Corners Monument - spanning New Mexico, Arizona, Utah and Colorado.
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The photo allegedly shows a 1,000ft-wide silver UFO
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Sceptics have shot back and claimed it is a crop circle
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Luis Elizondo is a Pentagon whistleblower who is best known for his work on the Pentagon's UFO program
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Luis Elizondo revealed the photo during a UAP Disclosure Fund event.
The spooky picture shows what looks like a circular object floating above the Earth.
The UAP Disclosure Fund shared the image on X, and wrote: 'Captured near Four Corners at FL20 — estimated 600 – 1,000 ft in diameter, silver-hued, disc-shaped.'
'Several speakers confirmed Department of Defense and Intelligence Community hold hundreds of similar UAP images + sensor files still classified.
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'It's time for full declassification and open scientific analysis.'
But sceptics were quick to challenge the discovery - claiming the photo
merely showed irrigation circles
that are common in desert climates.
And the famed UAP debunker, Mick West, added that shadow patterns in the hills are counterfactual to the claim that the object is creating its own shadow,
according to a blog post
.
This comes after Elizondo revealed a freaky photo of an alleged massive alien mothership back in October.
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He described the supposed spacecraft as a "huge
mini
city floating in the
sky
."
The picture appeared to show a distinctive disc shape, with a beaming light emanating from it's bottom.
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The shape is universally recognised as what we understand an alien UFO would look like, as it hovers menacingly in the air over a road.
The mysterious "mothership" was debuted at a private event in Philadelphia on October 28, by the former official at the Pentagon.
He said: "Guess what we caught in Romania in 2022? By the way, the U.S Embassy,' as Elizondo told attendees at the paid event, gesturing to the photo: 'That.'
"'There's a whole lot more here folks.
"We're having pilots, military pilots and civilian pilots in Eastern Europe and in the Middle East, report what unimaginably seems impossible.
"I just want to give you kind of a small taste of what's going on "behind the scenes."
The startling claim directly links the US government to a deliberate alien cover-up, that he was exposing at the bizarre presentation.
Elizondo is a former Pentagon official best known for his work on its UFO program - now known as Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena.
Who is Lue Elizondo?
By Lydia Doye
LUIS "Lue" Elizondo is a former U.S. Army veteran and intelligence officer.
Elizondo served in various roles for the Department of Defense, including as the director of the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program
But he is best known for his work on the Pentagon's UFO program - now known as Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP).
Elizondo is a strong advocate for further research and disclosure of government information about UFOs.
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Luis Elizondo is a former U.S. Army veteran and intelligence officer
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