EDIT2: Someone in the comments pointed me to Lue's letter from DOPSR that explicitly says he must acknowledge that nothing in his book reflects the views or policies of the government: https://x.com/blackvaultcom/status/1825567601252307019. So it seems that, while the book is very intriguing, it must be read with a truckload of salt. Hopefully, Lue is genuine like he seems to be on podcasts. But he could also be a great actor. Time will tell.
EDIT: Am I a dummy? Every comment so far has said that DOPSR is 100% clear about whether or not their approval means that there is any truth to Lue's book. But from everything I'm reading, I can't find an answer to that question. I just have people telling me that my reading comprehension sucks. END EDIT
Maybe someone in the military who's had to submit to DOPSR can help. I've read thread after thread here about Lue Elizondo's book; and it has never been clear to me what implications that the book is cleared by DOPSR has. I looked on the website: https://www.esd.whs.mil/Security-Review/PrePublication-and-Manuscripts/. Here are some pull quotes and what I take from them:
"A prepublication security and policy review is the process by which information proposed for public release is reviewed to ensure compliance with established national and DoD policies, and to determine that it contains no classified, controlled unclassified, export-controlled, or operational security related information."
It seems that Lue would have to go through this process with his book whether it is true, part of a disinformation program, or just him trying to make money off the UFO community. This statement does not seem to imply that the information in the submission must be deemed truthful. However, I suppose you could infer that it would endanger national security if you had a former DOD employee releasing a book to dupe the world. I guess we would have to know what the statement means by "established national and DOD policies." Those policies could include the requirement that, if the book is classified as biographical, that information must be accurate.
"“DoD information” includes any work that relates to military matters, national security issues, or subjects of significant concern to the Department of Defense in general, to include fictional novels, stories and biographical accounts of operational deployments and wartime experiences."
Is it possible that DOPSR classified this as fiction and approved it as such? Do they treat different types of manuscripts with different standards? Did Lue have to say, "This is a biography."? Let's say you were former military and you wrote about the near future and referenced a moon base with aliens. Well, I feel like you would be allowed to say that without the government confirming the existence of an alien base, because it's fiction. So Lue is saying things in his books about Roswell being real and glowing orbs and such. If DOPSR read everything as a fictional account, he could get away with saying this without jeopardizing national security. But if Lue presented it as a real to them, I feel like he would not get away with it. So I do wonder what went on in the background and what the process really is.
