Well there is this in the story:
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“”Yes, AATIP (The Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program) existed, and it “did pursue research and investigation into unidentified aerial phenomena,” Pentagon spokesperson Christopher Sherwood told me. However, he added: “Mr. Elizondo had no responsibilities with regard to the AATIP program while he worked in OUSDI [the Office of Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence], up until the time he resigned effective 10/4/2017.””
“I then asked Sherwood how he knew that Elizondo hadn’t worked for AATIP during his time with the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, where he was based from 2008 until his retirement in 2017. Sherwood said he’d spoken with OUSDI leadership, including individuals who are “still there” from the time when Elizondo started working in the office.
“Maybe Elizondo was running AATIP under the purview of another office or agency within the Department of Defense? Sherwood acknowledged that Elizondo “worked for other organizations in DoD.” But that, too, would have contradicted Kari DeLonge’s statement to Greenewald.”
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What’s true/real/fake/false/misleading? Who knows? Everything in the Pentagon is compartmentalized based on need-to-know. If you don’t need to know, you won’t. Do spokespeople for the Pentagon and DoD lie? Sure. Do they know they are lying? Perhaps. What they know may be the lie they were told and are ignorantly repeating.
Do UAP’s exist? In my experience they do. What are they? Who the heck can say for sure.
Smearing Elizondo is a rather pitiful attempt to damage a story that is now coming from the Pentagon itself.