Fact-Checking Mick West: Breaking Down His Critique of Elizondo’s Imminent

The following is a conversation with Alessandro Bonifacio Rodrigues, Boni to his friends. Boni is an airline pilot who has been in the skies for a lifetime and has racked up over 9,000 hours of flying time. Boni followed in his father’s footsteps in becoming a pilot and right now he’s in the skies piloting an Airbus A350 transporting you and I on our holidays and business trips across the globe. Boni and I connected over our shared interest in UFOs and UAP and in this conversation I will show you the footage that Boni has captured in the skies as well as his experiences, his interest in the subject and some fascinating details on how aviators deal with and talk about UFOs. Boni is open-minded man, deeply fascinated in this subject from a young age and an all-round lovely warm hearted guy who you just want to go for a beer with and talk nostalgia. He’s my kinda dude. A really fun and informative conversation with some awesome footage, too. Timestamps will be in the description and if you stick around to the end, you’ll find out who his favourite alien character is and it’s probably not who you expect…

The following is a conversation with Jeff Nuccetelli. Jeff served just shy of two decades on active duty in the USAF as a military police officer and later joined the United States Marshal Service. Jeff shares with us his firsthand account of the 2003 "Red Square" UFO incident at Vandenberg Air Force Base, along with his personal experiences with UFOs and UAPs. Jeff also recounts a glowing orb sighting in Japan from 1994 and other mysterious incidents at Vandenberg, including a landing.  His candid witness accounts of these extraordinary cases and his credibility as a US Airforce law enforcement officer, adds to his credibility and it’s so valuable to speak to people who were there on the ground at the time. It also helps that Jeff is just a wonderful human being, a great conversationalist and an all round good guy making it our absolute pleasure and honour to talk to him. 

The following is a conversation with Pat Berlinquette. Pat is a fantastic musician, and an incredibly humble guy. For example, whilst initially talking and during our interview, I hadn’t realised that I’ve actually got one of Pat’s songs in my own music playlist and Pat didn’t bring up his music - I wish he had, but you may not have enjoyed all of my fanboy questions. However, that’s not what we were here to discuss in this interview. Pat has created a groundbreaking new website and, soon to be downloadable app tracking for UAP sightings. The website is called UAPSightingTracker.Com He’s a Google ads expert who’s helped with suicide prevention, anti-radicalisation, drugs support re-directing and meddled in experiments in political advertising and an all round Google tech disrupter (in my opinion, in a good way). His experiments with Google Ads has been featured in the New York Times, WIRED, BBC, NPR and Mashable. An all round fascinating guy, great artist, deep thinker and someone in the early stages of some real top-level disruptive innovation. #uapfilespodcast #uapfiles #patberlinquette #uap #ufo #uapsighting #uapsightings #uapsightingtracker #trackuapsightings #howtotrackufos #ufosightings #uapsightingstracker

In today's video, I take a deep dive into the debate surrounding Luis Elizondo's new book, Imminent, and the critique put forward by renowned skeptic Mick West. While Mick's analysis is thorough, there are several inaccuracies and oversights that need to be addressed. From the misunderstood significance of inverted video imagery to the dismissal of credible witness testimony, I break down Mick's arguments and offer a fact-based rebuttal. We also explore the wider context of government programs and expert analysis that Mick seems to overlook. Whether you're a believer, a skeptic, or somewhere in between, this video will provide you with a well-rounded perspective on this ongoing debate.

In this episode I talk to Aran Devereux, a videographer from County Mayo, Ireland. Aran has a deep family connection to aviation, he discusses an awesome UFO/UAP sighting from 13th June 2023, which he captured in Doolough Valley, County Mayo. Using a DJI Mavic Mini drone. Devereux recorded multiple UAPs, including two additional objects that were later noticed in the background of the footage. During the interview, Aran shares his longstanding interest in UFOs and his experience as a seasoned drone operator. He expresses confidence that the objects captured in his video are not due to camera artefacts, such as lens flare, and recounts his process of sending the footage to MUFON (Mutual UFO Network) for analysis. He also discusses the feedback received from MUFON and we talk about recent whistleblower reports and Congressional hearings in the U.S. concerning UFOs. Interestingly, while editing the podcast and reviewing the footage myself, I noticed additional UAPs! Moving at significant speeds previously unseen and we display those in this episode too Devereux discovered at least two more UAPs, adding to the mystery and excitement surrounding the encounter.

The following is a conversation with Melissa Tittl. Melissa is a presenter, producer, writer, and runs her own production company Hathor Studios. She is a genuine inspiration for me with her style, positivity and unique intrigue she builds with her brand and style. I’ve watched her on the History Channel, Ancient Aliens, Unearthing Nazca and countless other shows. She’s been there and she’s done it. She is an absolute OG in the UFO and paranormal world. Melissa released Code 12 shortly before we spoke on the Podcast in season 1 last year and now has a more interactive version of Code 12 which we’ll talk about in this episode. Melissa is just an all round legend and it was my absolute pleasure to welcome her back for another conversation in this season of the UAP Files Podcast.

The following is a conversation with Jack Sarfatti. Jack is a theoretic physicist whose career bridges the worlds of quantum mechanics and the paranormal. Jack has stirred both controversy and fascination with his unconventional theories and his CIA connections. His work explores the role of consciousness in quantum processes and concepts like retrocausality, linking these ideas to the 2004 Tic Tac UFO encounter, suggesting possible time travel technology and Russian involvement. We discuss everything, from David Grusch, Russian Psyops, Advanced technology, a live Grey Alien he saw in 4K footage, and a discussion on how it was recovered and the accents of the special forces soldiers who recovered it. As well as details of a recovered UFO he’s aware of that exhibits consciousness, that only opens if it likes you, as well as these autonomous, conscious, artificial intelligence drones, that sometimes have little Greys inside. We discuss it all, we have over two hours of raw footage overall, with nothing off the table and a man who wears his heart on his sleeve and absolutely no filter. Unapologetically open and blunt.  A fun and informative conversation we are happy to share with you. If you found value in this episode please consider sharing this video and subscribing and leaving us a review - it's really appreciated. 

The following is a conversation with Jesse De Luca who filmed the Grenville-sur-la-rough, Quebec, Canada UAP/UFP drone footage on May 19th 2024. Footage he described as “out of place footage” and footage he “just cannot explain”. Jesse works for a pet company as a reptile specialist, he records wildlife footage on his Diji Mini 3 Pro, trail cams and through his photography. The UFO / UAP footage we discuss in this interview can be found in full at Jesse’s Youtube over at Jesse De Luca Wildlife A super cool guy to talk to and a lot of fun. He genuinely cares about nature, conservation, exploring the unknown and all the weird and wonderful outdoors stuff that resonates with with anyone who loves nature.

The following is a conversation with Jake Wexler. Jake is the mastermind behind Average Designed Wood an Instagram Account that’s caught the attention of thousands around the world, including from people like Joe Rogan. Jake is an industrial engineer who’s had a unique journey in to social media, custom-design and story telling. Jake has a paranormal twist to his story telling, with bite-sized cases from history to entertain you whilst he crafts his designs. A unique and fun social media account for which Tom and I follow regularly and enjoy.    Jake is highly skilled and makes by far the best UFO scenes from crafting wood and other materials to make completely unique pieces of art and has been posting daily since his first campaign to get Rogan to DM him for one and now until SpaceX agrees to launch one in to space. A fun conversation which I think you’ll also enjoy as we did. 

The following is a conversation with Jaime Maussan.  Jaime is a distinguished award winning journalist from Mexico. Before Jaime entered the world of UFOlogy he was a reporter in many outlets covering many different important subject. The previous host of 60 Minutos, a United States Correspondent and in 1990 he was named the United Nations Environment Program’s Annual Global Roll of Honour. Jaime later moved in to the world of UFOs, the paranormal and, more recently, the area of mummified, suspected non-human bodies, mummies, also known as the Nazca mummies. He’s taken some criticism for his previous claims, however more recently has presented credentialed experts in their field to further the compelling cases he presents. I must say that both Tom and I are skeptically curious about these claims, but the data coming out, especially around the new specimens is compelling and warrant more attention from a scientific perspective and for us at the UAP Files Podcast, from a journalistic perspective. We wanted to know all about these claims, and, as exactly important to us, who is the real Jaime, what makes him tick and who is the man behind the media personality. He was a pleasure to talk to and really seems to wear his heart on his sleeve.