"I fell in love with science, because where there’s science, where there’s mathematics, there’s truth."
From his post as a senior intelligence officer for the Secretary of Defense, Luis Elizondo knew by 2017 he had two choices: 1) make peace with silence and continue sitting on the Cold War’s deepest secret, or 2) resign from a career he loved in order to fulfill his duty to serve the United States.
The dilemma: How to bypass obstructionists in the Pentagon in order to deliver the most accurate information available to top military leadership regarding a potential national security threat. The problem: That potential threat involved unidentified flying objects (UFOs), perhaps the most ridiculed and marginalized issue of our time.
The path that brought Elizondo to this history-making crossroads began in Sarasota, haunted with painful childhood memories of a broken family and financial devastation. But one of the saving graces was his decision to join the Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps at Riverview.
Read more at the Sarasota Herald-Tribune