Luis Elizondo

Luis Elizondo is a media personality and former U.S. Army Counterintelligence Special Agent and former employee of the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence. Later, Elizondo was the Director of Global Security and Special Programs for To the Stars, through which he starred in the History Channel television series Unidentified: Inside America's UFO Investigation. Elizondo claims he was a director of the now defunct Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, a program associated with the Pentagon UFO videos, but this claim has been contested by both reporters and Pentagon officials. Elizondo has also claimed to have held "an array of leadership posts" with the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program which has also been similarly contested. Elizondo has subsequently appeared in various media, including 60 Minutes, as a UFO expert, but critics question his credibility and credulity. Early history Elizondo is the son of Luis Elizondo III, a Cuban exile who volunteered for Brigade 2506, a CIA-sponsored group of exiles formed in 1960 to attempt the military overthrow of the Cuban government headed by Fidel Castro, which culminated in the Bay of Pigs invasion. Elizondo was born in Miami and graduated from Riverview High School in Sarasota in 1990, where he was a member of the ROTC program.