Project Interloper
Project Interloper is a Pentagon-era concept described by lue-elizondo as a passive intelligence-gathering plan to anticipate where UAP might appear and place collection sensors nearby to gather telemetry, data, and points of origin/egress. Elizondo emphasizes it was explicitly not a kinetic or shoot-down operation.
Elizondo’s description (June 2026)
Per a June 3 2026 Liberation Times interview (src-elizondo-no-going-back-disclosure-2026-06):
“Our plan wasn’t to take any kinetic action. It was just to have a bunch of collection sensors nearby where we could collect information, such as telemetry, data, and points of origin, points of egress, etc.” — Lue Elizondo
He likens it to “putting out food to attract a bear so it can be photographed” — observation, not engagement. Elizondo raises Project Interloper to contrast it with allegations that some elements tried to shoot down and retrieve UAP, which he calls “extremely reckless” absent clear hostile intent, warning such action “could provoke something that we would wind up regretting tenfold.”
Related
- aatip — the program context Elizondo operated within
- lue-elizondo
- crash-retrieval-programs — the shoot-down/retrieval activity Elizondo contrasts against
- non-human-intelligence — the “capabilities versus intent” framing underpinning his caution