BenFiasco14 said:
So I just finished Imminent on audiobook.
What's everyone's read on Elizondo? None of what's in the book is anything new, especially for this thread, but I did find it really interesting to get a peek behind the curtain about how he wound up "working on UAP".
But the conclusion is of course unsatisfying. Elizondo takes the Grusch hearing and recent UAP legislation which compels disclosure to be major victories which, they are, but it's not like we've been shown the aliens.
It seems crazy to me the DOD consented to the release of the book. Only very few parts are redacted.
I think it's important to view efforts like
Imminent, the Grusch hearing, etc not through the lens of whether they've provided proof yet, or whether super-informed message board dwellers like ourselves have learned anything new with each book or interview.
Rather, so much of these efforts are first and foremost about
acclimating the general public.
I go back to things like that Ronny Chieng interview with Elizondo on
The Daily Show a few weeks back, where we saw Chieng's mind being blown in real time. Or, for instance, I was on a family trip in Nantucket in the days immediately following the Grusch hearing (which I watched live on the plane there), and while on the island, an hour off the east coast, standing in food lines, walking around, etc, I overheard
three different conversations of regular-seeming folks talking about the hearing.
That's who this is for.
Granted, it's not like Elizondo, Grusch, etc, are purposely holding back proof, with plans to release it after X amount of people have been acclimated. Their hands are obviously tied in that regard. But until that proof is made public somehow, the "victories" for them, I imagine, are in spreading the word far and wide, de-stigmatizing the subject as much as possible, and in that sense they're doing an incredible job so far.