Collins Elite — Religious Faction Opposes UAP Research
Elizondo describes encountering the Collins Elite, a faction within the U.S. intelligence community that opposed UAP research on religious grounds. Members believed UAP phenomena were demonic in nature and that investigating them was spiritually dangerous. This group actively worked to hinder programs like AATIP.
Background
In 2009, Luis Elizondo describes encountering the 'Collins Elite', a loosely organised faction within the US intelligence community that opposed UAP research on religious grounds. Members held that UAP phenomena were demonic in nature and that investigating them was spiritually dangerous. This group actively worked to hinder programmes like AATIP through institutional resistance rather than overt confrontation.
The Faction
According to Elizondo in Imminent (2024), the Collins Elite had roots in earlier Cold War-era religious briefings inside the intelligence community. Members quietly worked in agencies across the US government and treated AAWSAP/AATIP as a spiritual threat that should not be permitted to expand. Elizondo recounts receiving direct warnings from a contact he calls 'Devon Woods' that UAP were 'demonic' and should not be studied.
Significance
The case is significant as one of the few first-person accounts of religious-ideological opposition within US intelligence to official UAP research. Nick Redfern's earlier book Final Events (2010) first surfaced the Collins Elite publicly; Elizondo's Imminent account substantially corroborates Redfern's reporting from within the AATIP vantage point. The faction is frequently cited in discussions of bureaucratic resistance to disclosure.
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