https://x.com/LueElizondo/status/1918309243041522153
Essentially, he makes the point that the photo was not vetted intentionally to prove that pilot sightings need more official attention.
I have said this before, and it seems like it needs to be repeated. Lue Elizondo is absolutely not a UFO expert, nor is he a solid researcher. He is not interested in critical analysis in the slightest, and accepts what he is handed at face value and expects you all to do the same. Whether or not this is intentional is beside the point. We can only speculate about his motives, but we can certainly judge him on his actions. He is absolutely horrible at his job, and he needs to be removed.
Please be better thinkers and researchers than Lue Elizondo.
by timmy242
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How can you even give him the benefit of the doubt when he is so eager to just hand it right back?
I personally don’t think there even was a pilot at all in the first place. The Google Map satellite imagery matches his photo exactly. They line up perfectly.
[<Google Earth imagery>](https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2Ft5comgk4p9ye1.png%3Fwidth%3D645%26format%3Dpng%26auto%3Dwebp%26s%3D2d5c67c93b131755ab2d3cc026dd6412456b1a6a)
The man just held up a doctored photo of an ordinary field, said the normal irrigation circles ***are*** “a lenticular craft casting a large shadow”, and told Congress that they need to give him millions of dollars to “investigate” the claim.
What he did was fraud and it was 1,000% intentional.
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Yikes! His legs must be sore from all the backpedaling
The facial hair should have been clue he had gullible idiot tendencies.
If it’s easy for a random redditor to get to the bottom of a claim… we don’t need bullshit grifter swindling content… I’ll take first hand content from anyone before I give this nonsense another second of attention.
His full comment for those without access to X:
As you know, I am always first to admit mistakes, but this is not one of those times. The facts regarding the photo I shared from a private pilot (as I emphasized several times yesterday during the forum) are as follows:
1. The specific photo had only just been provided to me (by a private pilot) that morning, prior to the forum.
2. The photo had NOT YET been vetted.
3. The dimensions I quoted, were per the pilot’s own assessment of what he saw, based on altitude and experience.
The purpose of me showing the photo was to illustrate the need for civilian and commercial pilots to have a central reporting mechanism to report potential anomalous sightings. In this case, the pilot who took the photo, using his own camera, did not have a way to report what he believed was anomalous.
Once again, as I stated during the forum, I only received permission to release it that morning and only was made aware of it shortly before.
Not sure how many times I need to say it, so I will say it again. The photo was not yet vetted, and I made that perfectly clear.
This illustrates a bigger point here. When pilots, or anyone else for that matter, come out to share what they feel may be anomalous, are faced with fierce ridicule (instead of productive dialogue) from some in the UFO community, they learn quickly not to ever share again.
As I communicated during the forum, my purpose of sharing the photo was to simply illustrate there is no central reporting mechanism in place for private and commercial pilots to report what they believe might be anomalous and for these photos or videos to be vetted. This remains a serious issue. Pilots see things on a daily basis they can’t explain (some identified, some mis-identified, and some truly anomalous) that require additional analysis.
In the end, whether a private pilot sees what turns out to be a cloud, a balloon, a tennis shoe, or a UAP, we need a reporting mechanism to ensure it can be analyzed and resolved. This was the reason I shared the photo, and I emphasized that several times during the forum.
I could have used a photo of an innertube to prove my point, but I used instead a real photo, taken by a real pilot, of something he thought was anomalous (which I emphasized had not been analyzed yet).
The ones who are screaming about it (instead of discussing respectfully it as I hoped) missed the entire point of the photo and are not helping other pilots in the future from coming forward.
Write Rep. Tim Burchett and let’s have LUE given his comeuppance in the public forum. Would serve him Elizondo right. If just 10 people from Reddit let Burchett know he’s being played for a chump, that will be the end of Lue.
[https://burchett.house.gov/contact](https://burchett.house.gov/contact)
Don’t trust him
The only way to redeem himself is to provide the identity of the “pilot” who provided the picture, because that man is obviously a liar too.
It was sloppy and he was presenting to congress. I mean he should have rehearsed and had vetted every aspect of the presentation. This really hi lights how little actual information they have.
Where is the pilot and the RAW file of the pilot’s photo?
Lue Elidonzo
I am sorry.. if that was his intention, then optics matter: he could have posted the photo on Twitter first and called for an open investigation and tried to get in touch with the source. This was an intentional move to contaminate the public forum he was at.
Even giving him the benefit of the doubt on this one, it was a questionable decision to show this “unvetted” image at a hearing with congresspeople
I wouldn’t even post such a picture to Reddit without at least trying to debunk it myself
If he owned the mistake completely that would help, but it doesn’t even seem like he understands how bad he screwed up.
Although a couple years ago when he got caught giving Sean Cahil that fake uap video that reddit quickly figured out lue shot from his own back yard he released a statement very similar to this which worked, days later everyone was back to eating up everything he had to say. I guess we’ll see if it works again this time.
In this topic where fakes are the norm and you’re supposed to be the expert, you don’t get to make these kinds of mistakes
One of my adult nephews was struggling with addiction. One day, he just disappeared. One of his friends said he was living on streets. When I called the police, they told me he was in jail. He had been arrested stealing laptops from a student dorm at his former college. I ran to the courthouse and bailed him out. When I asked him what happened he said, “I did it on purpose because I’m doing research on how the Sheriff’s department treats homeless in jail”.