Drones may very well be stopping us discovering alien life as a part of UFO ‘umbrella’

Drones are getting in the way of mankind’s hunt for ET, according to an intelligence expert.

Luis Elizondo, a former head of the US Defence Department’s Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program to probe close encounters, has warned human-controlled unmanned craft are now so sophisticated they can be mistaken for UFOs.

The confusion could hamper the quest to find extraterrestrial life. At the same time, enemy attack drones could be dismissed by the military as relatively harmless UFOs – aka UAPs or unidentified anomalous phenomena.

Luis, a former US Army counter-intelligence special agent who has claimed the US government is responsible for a ‘disinformation campaign’ on alien life, has had a private meeting with Congress on drone capability in a bid to distinguish remote-controlled craft from other mystery phenomena reported by military personnel.

He said it was “becoming increasingly more difficult to differentiate between the typical or classic UAP-type incursions and signatures and those of drones”.

The problem was mounting “especially now with the proliferation and the fact that the technology is continuing to get better and better”.

He said drones are “now being used like never before’ and can “do now what in 2017 we could only dream of”. Cutting-edge battery technology allows them to deploy on longer flights. New lighter materials – such as carbon fiber – are accessible and affordable while motor innovations reduce wear and tear on systems.

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“In Ukraine the lethality of these drones is to the point now where there are more casualties caused by drones than there are by artillery,’’ he said.

“This is changing warfare. If there’s one thing we haven’t learned since 9/11 it’s that we don’t seem to be taking these emerging technologies very seriously.’’

Luis said it was a matter of time before an “adversary, whether it’s a state or a non-state actor, decides to deploy these capabilities in a hostile manner” on the West.

He said the difference between UFOs and drones was down to the operator.

“Our hope is that drones are attributable – to country X, country Y, company XYZ, right? This rebel group, that rebel group, that non-state actor, this non-state actor,’ he said.

“UAP is a little bit different. Both have very unique signatures. In some cases no signature at all.

“So ultimately you don’t know what you don’t know. It may turn out that some of these UAP are indeed new drones or some sort of adversarial technology that is flying completely unchallenged.’’

But he questioned why – if recent mystery craft sightings near US defence bases were drones as the Government had suggested – none had been recovered.

He said: “Why is it we haven’t found a single source, a single person, that is actually flying one of these things? Everything is unidentified until it becomes identified.

“You can’t have a conversation about drones of unknown origin without having a conversation about UAP. You have to think of it as a large umbrella of the UAP issue and then drones is a smaller umbrella underneath that bigger umbrella.

“Drones are a subset of a bigger problem.’’