Lue Elizondo, a former Pentagon official who made UFO reports public, has claimed that the U.S. military, including a top official, underwent a coordinated campaign to intimidate and defame him. Elizondo is the former head of the U.S. government’s Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP), which was disbanded in 2012. Five years later, he made three UAP (unexplained aerial phenomena) videos public, which were later confirmed to be true by the military and were under investigation. According to Politico, Elizondo filed a 64-page complaint on May 3 with the Defense Department’s Inspector General’s Office (IG), accusing several people of trying to defame him, interfering with his ability to gain employment, and affecting his security clearance. “What he is saying is there are certain individuals in the Defense Department who, in fact, were attacking him and lying about him publicly, using the color of authority of their offices to disparage him …