'There must be a reckoning' if US bureaucrats ignored evidence of UFOs, ex-UK official tells 'Tucker'

A forthcoming report from the Pentagon and U.S. intelligence agencies about the presence of UFOs could shed light on "a potential catastrophic failure of intelligence," a former British defense official told "Tucker Carlson Tonight" Friday.

Pope was responding to comments made to the New York Post by Luis Elizondo, the former head of the Pentagon's Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program. In his comments, Elizondo raised the possibility that so-called UFOs are actually "adversarial foreign technology that for several decades now has managed to leapfrog us and evade all 18 members of the intelligence community, despite our best human intelligence, signals intelligence, imagery intelligence, yada, yada, yada. "That would be," Elizondo told the Post, "an intelligence failure that would eclipse just about anything else this country's ever faced, especially if this has occurred for decades. If there's a foreign adversary that could put a nuclear warhead within moments over Washington D.C., that's a problem."