ALIENS are real and "non-human" bodies have been found on earth, a former Pentagon UFO chief has claimed.
Luis "Lue" Elizondo, a long-time US Defence Department researcher, also claims to have handled "alien" technology.
The former head of the Pentagon program responsible for the investigation of UFOs has made the bombshell claims in his new book "Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs".
He claims to have been told categorically the infamous Roswell incident in New Mexico in 1947 involved two flying saucers – and “four deceased non-human bodies” were recovered from the wreckage and examined.
Speaking to, Elizondo said: "We know where they were. We don’t know where they are.
"I’ve got to be careful what I say here, to not get in trouble – I still have my security clearance."
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He claims other bodies have also been retrieved from subsequent sites, including Mexico in the 1950s and Kazakhstan in 1989.
Elizondo alleges he has also handled "alien" technology, including "alleged alien implants found in humans."
He said: "I have held in my hand material that scientists for the US government have conducted research on, and they’ve said: 'This is very special material, it’s highly unlikely that it’s made by human beings – and it’s engineered.'
"I’ve also held in my hand biological samples, tissue samples, that have been removed from human beings – that when analysed, do not behave like anything that we are normally used to associating with being a natural part of the human body, and certainly looks to be some sort of technical device."
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As for his own personal experience, Elizondo claims green orbs have followed him and other alien researchers home in an attempt to spy on him.
He added: "We're not sure if they are actually UAP-related.
"What we do know is that a lot of people that were in the program that I was in also had very similar encounters while they were in the program.
"So not before or not after, but during the time that we were researching these UAP and from our experience, when I say ours, I mean my families and even our neighbors, witnessed some of these – are these luminous green balls of light.
"Very diffuse in nature. No hard edges. That would just seem to kind of peruse the house and go down the hall and go through a wall.
"They were between the size of a volleyball and a softball, and they would float right through the house…
"We didn’t fear them. They didn’t damage anything. It was just really bizarre."
Speaking about his new book on , Elizondo said he had wanted to tell the truth about UFOs, now called unidentified anomalous phenomena, to the American public for a long time.
He said: "They're real and they are a national security issue for this country.
"I wanted to be able to tell the American public my experiences and what the government has been doing for a very long time, not just when I was in the program, but for decades about the government's interest in UFOs.
"When we started really looking at this, was at the height of the Cold War.
"We didn't want to do was necessarily tip our hand to any information, perhaps, that we've gleaned from UAP or UFOs and, certainly, perhaps any information gaps or maybe information that we don't know about the UFOs."
While Elizondo's claims seem far fetched, he's not the only one that believes that the truth is out there.
He said: "We've had already a former director of national intelligence, a former director of the CIA, and even a former president of the United States all come out on the record and say 'Yeah, looks like these things are real.'
"Our very best, most sophisticated technology is picking these things up.
"We also have eyewitness testimony from our trained observers, our combat pilots.
"And then you've also got the radar data all basically substantiating the same event at the same time, at the same place, under the same circumstances."
Elizondo now add Donald Trump to the list of extraterrestrial believers, after the Republic candidate vowed to reveal UFO footage if he was re-elected.
Trump, who is hoping to beat Democratic rival Kamla Harris in the upcoming presidential elections, is known to have a decade-long fascination with aliens and unexplainable sightings.
He told popular American podcaster Lex Fridman that he would "surely" make secret footage of alleged UFO sightings public.
During the chat, Fridman asked Trump: "Will you help push the Pentagon to release more footage, which a lot of people claim is available?"
To which Trump readily agreed and said: "Oh yeah, sure, I'll do that. I would do that. I'd love to do that. I have to do that."
The Republican candidate also claimed he had faced pressure to declassify previous records of alien encounters as he admitted "there could be life on other planets".
He added: "People begged me not to do it but I'll be doing that very early on," he added."
It comes just a year after the Pentagon began investigating secret UFO sightings after senators across the States moved to take sightings more seriously.
The investigations were supervised by the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) which was founded in 2022 to allow servicemen to report unidentified aerial phenomena without fear of retaliation.
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In 2021, Trump signed a bill calling on intelligence agencies to find out the truth behind UFO military base sightings.
It came two years after UFOs were spotted hovering over top-secret military bases and flying near aircraft, according to the US Navy.
Who is Lue Elizondo?
Luis Elizondo is a former United States Army Counterintelligence special agent and former employee of the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence.
He joined the US army at 23 and began working in military intelligence. He then worked with several government agencies countering everything from insurgencies and terrorism to drugs and foreign spying.
In 2009 he was invited to join a “highly classified programme” at the US Defence Intelligence Agency investigating UFOS.
At first, he was sceptical about “chasing flying saucers”. But a few days later, he agreed – a decision that changed his life.
He has released a memoir, "Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs" on his discoveries.