While Luis Elizondo has championed the search for answers regarding alien contact, he has admitted that not all of his public debriefings have worked out in his favor. The former Pentagon official has expressed regret at some of the sensationalized headlines to come from his intelligence briefs, which he believes detracts from the national conversation about alien activity we should be having. According to Elizondo, these alien lifeforms could very well pose an existential threat to our world, as they have advanced technology beyond the scope of human understanding.

While he doesn’t personally feel that the alleged aliens have hurt anybody, it puts Elizondo on high alert that the creatures are capable of entering controlled airspace with little to no detection. While likening the existence of foreign crafts to signs of a home invasion, the Pentagon official said that aliens could easily hurt us if they choose to, and that even a “one percent chance” of interplanetary violence deserves to be examined carefully.