Luis Elizondo, an ex-Pentagon intelligence officer, was named in 2017 as the head of AATIP. He had resigned in October that year, citing excessive secrecy and internal opposition. The Post reported that he quietly arranged the release of three Navy videos, FLIR1, GIMBAL and GOFAST, just before he left the Defense Department. He and program contractors said materials stored in Las Vegas had been recovered from unidentified aerial phenomena. His role became a fight of its own. In 2019 a Pentagon spokesman said he had no AATIP responsibilities. In 2021 Reid affirmed his leadership role.
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