@uforadio linked to this video on his twitter (full footage from Brazil UFO conference):
Seems like the opening had some details that weren't in the facebook post from earlier. I still can't tell if the video was recorded specifically for Brazil, but Elizondo thanks the organizer by name and mentions something about physically being at the conference (while sitting in front of a totally non-descript white wall, not holding a copy of today's Sao Paulo Times). Hard to tell if he really got on a plane, but he sure wants us to believe it.
What do you make of that opening about what it means to be human? "What if there were human kind
s?" Is this an analogy or an outright disclosure of something? How many human kinds could we be talking about?
Either way, it sound like the beginning of a new scripted line that we may hear in future US interviews, preparing us for the idea that we'll be interacting with something non-human that we have to accept as human-but-different. Not a god or space monster race, but a civilization that is not "higher" or "lower" than us morally, just at a different level of technological advancement. We definitely need to groom our racists, bigots and republicans before we can meet these beings.
There was a more definitive description of "transmedium travel." It includes travel in "low earth orbit, the atmosphere, even underwater." I'm not sure how many explicit mentions of this we've had, and there's still no confirmation that the objects have been spotted coming from a far away location in space, but Atlantis is still not ruled out.
He confirmed that the propulsion physics had been reproduced in a laboratory. He mentioned again that there were considerable advances over the past 2 years, that we know more now than we did 2.5 years ago. Do we know what happened in 2015-2016?
He also mentions that he's talking about the government's understanding of the science and "can't speak for the private sector." I find that suspicious because he's not speaking for the government anymore. Is he revealing that the private sector is or was farther along than the government at one point, but knowledge was transferred during AATIP?
Funny when so many conspiracy theorists are talking about a secret space program and implying that the government is hiding ultra-advanced technology. Maybe they're right, and they're trying to have us believe that the technology comes from Bigelow. Due to the highly sensitive/classified nature of the information, we may never know where Bigelow got his stuff.
Overall, I'm not sure who to believe, but it does seem like they want us to focus on the aliens and the technology, and not so much on who got contracts, who owns what, whether or not we'll get to see the stored UFO bits and pieces, whether or not material will be declassified... It's all remaining completely opaque in the name of national security, and I don't like it.