I got out from the library the book Imminent Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs by Luis Elizondo, which you can buy using the link here. The dust jacket says Elizondo was once "head of the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP), the Pentagon unit that researched UFOs." The first page of Chapter 6 looks like this:
On the next page (page 68) Elizondo reports that "one evening a green, glowing ball, probably about the size of a basketball, with soft edges that weren't defined, floated slowly from the kitchen to our bedroom door just below ceiling height, then disappeared into a wall." He says he and his wife saw this green orb for "the entire ten seconds it was in our house." He says his children reported seeing something similar: a translucent green orb. On page 70 he reports additional sightings of mysterious orbs, saying the neighbors also saw them.
Around pages 15 to 17 Elizondo reports spectacular-sounding spooky events in Brazil around 1977, weird occurrences in which sightings of baseball-sized orbs sound rather like the least strange thing reported. It makes fascinating reading. although we get no first-hand reports. On page 17 we are told that by one estimate "the body of evidence compiled on Colares includes more than 3,500 case files." But since such claims are second-hand evidence, they may have less value as evidence than Elizondo's first-hand account of what he saw.
On page 33 Elizondo says this about the Stargate program in which the US government trained people called remote viewers, who were basically clairvoyants. He states this:
"As a measure of the program's success that can be talked about, its psychics once located a Russian supersonic jet that had crashed somewhere over Africa. Our best satellite's couldn't locate it, and neither could the Russians. One of our remote viewers 'saw' and pinpointed the exact location of the downed aircraft in the Congo. The US was able to sweep in and salvage this valuable target, based on the remote viewer's visions alone. President Jimmy Carter famously referenced this case to the media. Remote viewers also located Brigadier General James Lee Dozier, who had been kidnapped in Italy by the Red Brigade in 1981."
Elizondo then says he trained to be a remote viewer, and was successful. This seems to have preceded his sighting of mysterious orbs. It is interesting how once a person has had one type of paranormal experience, he may be more likely to have other types of paranormal experiences. Long before I got my first mysterious orb in a photo, I had the most astounding success in a test of ESP with a sister of mine. The test is described in my post here.
