The average person on the street is just completely in the dark." (Elizondo and several other film participants, including the former deputy assistant secretary of defense for intelligence Christopher Mellon and the AATIP consulting physicist Harold Puthoff, served as named sources for the article.) "It could be China, it could be Russia, it could be any adversary," said Gillibrand of UAP sightings. Rubio warned against a failure of imagination over the capabilities of any US adversary, human or non-human. The two dismiss the report as a government attempt to discredit Elizondo through disinformation.