Former Pentagon UAP Chief Publishes Book Claiming Contact With 'Non-Human' Matters

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Jay Stratton, who directed the Pentagon's Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force until his retirement from the post in 2022, has set out a series of startling assertions in a new book, according to a report by T.K. Randall of Unexplained Mysteries, which cites Hoodline.com.

The volume, titled Out of the Shadows: Revealing the Truth About Non-Human Intelligent Life, draws on the author's 33 years in the American military and intelligence community, including 16 years spent investigating unidentified flying objects. The report states that the manuscript allegedly had to be vetted by 21 departments and agencies before publication.

Among the claims attributed to Mr. Stratton is that military contractors maintain control of at least a dozen UFOs. He also maintains, according to the report, that missions have been carried out to retrieve what are described as non-human vehicles and bodies, and that alien entities were recovered from the 1947 crash at Roswell, New Mexico. He further claims to have witnessed a UAP himself during a nuclear submarine operation.

Not everyone is persuaded. Avi Loeb of Harvard, now chair of the UAP Science Advisory Council, remains unconvinced. His team, which has examined numerous incidents, has yet to find evidence linking such phenomena to non-human visitors and has concluded that a significant number of cases have conventional explanations. "The claims Jay makes are not corroborated by publicly verifiable data," Professor Loeb wrote.

Whether Mr. Stratton is telling the truth remains, for the moment at least, unclear, the report concludes.