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The original was posted on /r/ufos by /u/SharpSuitedMan on 2024-08-28 16:17:49+00:00.

NHI/UAP-related Reddit subs have had a number of debates about Lue Elizondo’s statements in his new book Imminent referring to “NHI/UAP recon for thousands of years” and recently reported activity indicating the “Intelligence Preparation of the Battlefield”. Commenters here have questioned why advanced NHIs would need to undertake recon of Earth and mankind for that length of time, especially if the NHIs are hostile and “preparing an invasion”. Some commenters have also claimed that the NHIs would have already wiped us out if they were hostile; this claim is obviously based on the assumption that “hostile” automatically means “genocidal” (rather than primarily territorial annexation and dominance over local populations, for example).

However, it’s important to understand the wider context of Elizondo’s remarks. He actually explains it in his book. It’s a detailed section and worth reading directly, but here’s a summary of the main point that Elizondo is making:

• Elizondo uses the analogy of a gorilla in an enclosure.
• The gorilla is intelligent and adaptable.
• The gorilla also has a long history of extreme violence.
• Biologists have been monitoring the enclosure for many years.
• The biologists place the interests and survival of their own species first. They’re capable of dealing with threats. However, so far they’ve had no need to inflict lethal harm on the gorilla because it hasn’t posed any threat to them.
• The gorilla’s capabilities begin noticeably increasing and accelerating.
• The gorilla also starts to occasionally break out of its enclosure, explore the immediate surroundings and return home.
• The gorilla is clearly curious about its wider environment; there are signs that it intends to visit an increasingly large area of territory outside its enclosure once it figures out how to do this.
• The gorilla somehow obtains a loaded shotgun.
• The gorilla figures out how to use the shotgun.
• The biologists are now faced with the potential threat of an intelligent and violent gorilla armed with a shotgun turning up on their front porch.
• Elizondo directly states that the main issue is mankind’s propensity for violence and the threat we therefore pose to our neighbours in the galaxy.

This broadly correlates with the conclusions of my “deep dive” article last year summarising Lue Elizondo and David Grusch’s main claims at the time and attempting to extrapolate the implications. It remains to be seen if this is actually a worst-case scenario. However, as stated in his book, Elizondo believes that the bullet-points above explain everything that has reportedly been happening, including the NHI/UAP interest in mankind’s nuclear weapons and overall military capabilities, the alleged abductions, and so on.

Elizondo’s suggestion that the pattern of NHI/UAP behaviour indicates “recon for a potential invasion” is based his own specific professional background. In the interests of taking a broader perspective, it’s also worth considering that Earth may not actually be independent in the first place; the NHIs may be monitoring threats to the stability of galactic territory that they already dominate, so our entire solar system may have already been annexed a very long time ago.