Imminent
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The former head of the Pentagon program responsible for the investigation of UFOs--now known as Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP)--reveals long-hidden truths with profound implications for not only national security but our understanding of the universe. Luis "Lue" Elizondo is a former senior intelligence official and special agent who was recruited into a strange and highly sensitive US Government program to investigate UAP incursions into sensitive military installations and air space. To accomplish his mission, Elizondo had to rely on decades of experience gained working some of America's most sensitive and classified programs. Even then, he was not prepared for what he would learn, and the truth about the government's long shadowy involvement in UAP investigations, and the lengths officials would take to keep them a secret. The stakes could not be higher. Imminent is a first-hand, revelatory account inside the Pentagon's most closely guarded secret and a call to action to confront humanity's greatest existential questions.
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I felt that the book is more comprehensive about the author's political struggle and life journey than about actual UFOs/UAPs. If you're looking to gain a fresh perspective on them, hear about lesser-known cases, or read an expert analysis on why they occur, you will be disappointed.
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Imminent is a glimpse into the government's investigations into UAPs (UFOs once upon a time), authored and narrated by a purported key player, Luis Elizondo. Facts become muddied in the telling in the closing chapters when the expected discrediting occurs, but we recently had disclosures of sorts that support the thesis of this exposè. A tad dry in the telling and some governmental alphabet soup thrown in does not detract from the point, much, but it does require the reader to at least follow the acronyms enough to know when a group/ organization mentioned earlier is the same one being discussed in a later passage. Recommended to enthusiasts, but aside from an assertion that those in the government in the form of a retired department head are lending some bona fides to things the open-minded already suspected, there isn't much new here. It reads like the exploits of an operative left out in the cold capitalizing on disclosing what they can for a needed payday. But hey, we've all got to eat, and the PTBs left the author little choice.
