UFO whistleblowers are being threatened, and the protections currently in place "are a joke," a congressman told Fox News Digital.
Lue Elizondo, the former head of a secretive Pentagon unit that studied UFOs, reported receiving threats alongside "several other whistleblowers formerly associated with the UAP [unidentified anomalous phenomena] effort for the U.S. Government."
"I want to make this perfectly clear to the American people. I am not prone to accidents. I am not suicidal. I am not abusing drugs. I am not engaged in any illicit activities," Elizondo stated to "The Good Trouble Show" on May 15. "If something happens to me or my family members in the future, you will know what happened."
Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., a key advocate for full UFO disclosure and a personal friend of Elizondo, expressed his concern over the threats. "There is whistleblower protection, but it's a joke, and we know it's a joke," Burchett told Fox News Digital.
Elizondo did not detail the nature of the threats or their source, but Burchett, who dined with Elizondo around the time the threats were revealed, is taking the situation seriously. "Lou is a dear friend of mine, and I take any threat against anybody seriously, especially against friends and somebody that has given so much to this country and to this issue [UFOs]," Burchett said. "I'm pursuing every avenue I can to get to the bottom of it."
The threats against Elizondo and other UFO whistleblowers are part of a troubling pattern. Last July, David Grusch testified before Congress that his life was threatened to keep quiet about a secret government-run UFO retrieval program. "I can't get into the specifics in an open forum but… what I personally witnessed myself and my wife was very disturbing," Grusch said, describing "administrative terrorism" tactics used against him.
Elizondo, formerly a senior leader of the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP), was part of a government effort to investigate next-generation aerospace technologies and potential UFO/UAP encounters. This initiative was started by then-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in 2009 and continued under the Pentagon's All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO).
The AATIP focused on advanced lift, propulsion, the use of unconventional materials, controls, and signature reduction. "Although investigating UFO/UAP was not specifically outlined in the contract’s statement of work, the selected private sector organization conducted UFO research," AARO's report says. This included reviewing cases, operating debriefing and investigatory teams, and proposing laboratories to examine any recovered UFO materials.
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