Elizondo's Romanian Mothership: Your Monday morning guffaw

Is it a dude's curly hair, or a gargantuan alien spacecraft arriving to greet the Earthlings?

I don’t know how I managed to miss this one — probably because I had intelligent things to do — but miss it I did. So, belatedly, I am bringing it to your attention a month late because it really emphasizes just how gullible and credulous the True Believers in alien visitation really are, in this case, leading prophet of the UFO cult Lue Elizondo.

Last month on October 28, Elizondo gave this live event in Philadephia titled “Universal Truth, The Evidence is Clear: We Are Not Alone”. Ticket prices ranged $30-50. It was promised he would reveal “long-hidden secrets with profound implications for not only national security but our understanding of the universe.”

Wow! It would be cheap at double the price.

The “long-hidden secret” he was revealing was a photograph. He later tweeted it was “provided to me by a friend in Government a couple of years ago” (so, sometime in 2022-ish). Here it is in its full glory:

He also said he interviewed pilots who saw it:

We were having pilots, military pilots and civilian pilots in Eastern Europe and in the Middle East, report what unimaginably seemed impossible. They described it as literally the mothership, looking like the mothership from Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

Within hours, laughter erupted worldwide, because the photo had been public for some time and familiar to many UFOlogists and debunkers; as it had been posted to a Facebook group called Mysterious Ancient Discoveries back on May 17, 2023 - here’s that post. All you need to know was in the very first comment:

Now go back up and look at the photo. Notice the following about the “mothership” which we now know was a ceiling light inside the room from where the photo was taken, being reflected on the window glass:

• The light fixture has some kind of dark base where it’s affixed to the ceiling.

• There are things like strings of glass beads hanging down from it, giving it a chandelier-like appearance.

• The glow from the light can be seen spreading out on the ceiling (appearing bluish in the photo)

• Most importantly, the curly hair of the person who took the photo is obscuring much of the light fixture.

• Another reason we know it’s a reflection is there’s another reflection from inside the room, about 60% of the way down on the right next to a tree, and it might even be a flash on the camera phone, or who knows what else inside the room.

• There is not a single other photo of the alleged “giant alien mothership” descending over a major European city, from anywhere, from any angle, by anyone else, nor a single news report about such a momentous event.

Knowing this, let’s go back and review Lue’s claimed timeline:

• Sometime in 2022-ish, “a friend in Government” (I don’t know why Lue randomly capitalizes words that shouldn’t be, like Trump does) gave him the photo. From the context of the rest of Lue’s presentation, we infer that this was some sort of top secret, classified thing.

• In May 2023, randos on the Internet upload it to Facebook and mock how obvious it is that it’s curly hair in front of a ceiling light.

This means that either (1) the very cautious “friend in Government” gave it to “Mysterious Ancient Discoveries” in addition to Lue, despite its highly classified nature; or (2) the “friend in Government” was a moron who found random photos online and decided they were secret photos of giant alien motherships, and that Lue believed it wholeheartedly without question, and did no research at all, not even a simple Google reverse image search which an 8-year-old can do; or (3) Lue is full of shit and made all this up to promote a photo he came across that he was too dumb to know everyone else would do a Google reverse image search on. But let us continue with the timeline:

• Sometime before October 2024, Lue interviewed all these pilots who saw the thing flying around Eastern Europe (again without anyone else seeing it and no news reports).

• October 2024, Lue collects cash from ticket sales of an event where he reveals the “long-hidden secret” given to him by a “friend in Government.” For his sake, we can only hope that it’s not actually a classified photo, or he would be in for some very serious Fort Leavenworth shit for violating the Uniform Code of Military Justice.

After everyone had laughed themselves silly at Lue until they were out of breath, he sheepishly posted this:

I’m so gratified to learn that the Pentagon’s top UFO expert has finally learned the lesson — albeit the hard way — that “due diligence and scrutiny is always a good idea.” Maybe you should also scrutinize all those brilliant pilots you interviewed who told you they saw the mothership, probably while you were under a psychedelic haze.

Folks, Lue Elizondo is full of shit, and always has been. Why his devoted, faithful followers still worship at his feet after years of crap like this boggles the imagination.