On July 11, 2026, Luis Elizondo, the former Pentagon official who says he ran the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, told Thomas Fessler’s Disclosure Tonight podcast that the U.S. government holds unreleased photographs of what appear to be “large monolithic structures” on the Moon, with right-angle cuts. He suggested they could be made public soon.

He didn’t show any images, say which spacecraft took them or give a timeline. The claim spread quickly; Ross Coulthart played the clip on his Reality Check show the next day.

It built on something Elizondo had said a month earlier. In a June interview with Liberation Times, asked whether he knew of non-human intelligence on the Moon, he answered “Yes,” and said classified sources indicated the Moon “is or was” of particular interest to someone other than us. He pointed to Apollo-era photos in the Pentagon’s UFO releases as evidence NASA had held back.

The scientific case against hidden monoliths is strong. NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has photographed the entire Moon, much of it at about half a meter per pixel, sharp enough to see the Apollo landers and astronauts’ tracks. Thousands of researchers worldwide use that public imagery, and no peer-reviewed study has identified an artificial structure.

Elizondo became the public face of UFO disclosure in 2017. The Pentagon has at times disputed the scope of his role in AATIP. He has made several predictions of imminent revelations over the years.