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The title is Imminent: Inside the Pentagon’s Hunt for UFOs. This is a difficult book to review. For instance, it has passages like the following:
In one particular instance, a senior CIA official and his wife had a terrifying UAP experience in the backyard of their own home. When they awoke lying on the ground in the yard, the CIA officer had a small hole punched in the back of his neck and his wife had a small metallic object recovered from her nose when she sneezed [TC: what percentage of younger American women have this?]. Making things even more interesting, CIA doctors were notified of the circumstances and examined the patients.
I would bet very heavily against what seems to be Elizondo’s interpretation of those events. So if you read this book, do not trust any section that puts forward propositions about aliens. And that is much of the book.
That said, no matter what your view on aliens, the bureaucratic history surrounding debates on aliens is a fascinating one, and one very much underexplored by serious scholars. For instance, the more skeptical you are about aliens, the more you have to think our military and intelligence bureaucracies are just entirely, out of control insane. Here you will get a first person account of how incidents such as Tic Toc and GIMBAL evolved. I am not talking about interpretations concerning the aliens, I mean just the history of how these events were processed, recorded, and discussed. Along that exceedingly scarce dimension, this is indeed a valuable memoir.
Can you trust Elizondo on such “ordinary” matters when you cannot trust him on the accounts of the aliens? I am not sure, but my intuition says yes? So in probabilistic terms, this is a historical document of import. If used with care.
I cannot recommend a book which to me has so many apparent blatant falsehoods, but I would not try to talk you out of reading it either. There is something here, and time will tell what exactly that is.
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