Before Jay Stratton became a public face of the UFO disclosure movement, before his book Out of the Shadows, and before his revelations about non-human craft and beings made national headlines, George Knapp and Jeremy Corbell traveled to Huntsville, Alabama, in 2022 to record his very first on-camera interview.
Now, Weaponized revisits that historic conversation with the former director of the Pentagon's UAP Task Force - the man who helped shape AAWSAP, AATIP, and the government's modern UFO investigations.
In never before seen footage, Stratton reveals how the Pentagon investigated the TIC TAC, GIMBAL, and GOFAST encounters, why he consulted engineers at Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works and Boeing's Phantom Works, and what happened when military UFO evidence reached his desk. He also confirms that the massive AAWSAP database became a foundation for subsequent government investigations.
Knapp and Corbell examine Stratton's newly public claims about recovered non-human technology, his identification as the mysterious "Axelrod" from Skinwalkers at the Pentagon, and the alleged CIA intervention that prevented a transfer of UFO-related materials from Lockheed Martin to Robert Bigelow's research program.
Melania secured the ceasefire in Oleshky that diplomats have chased for months, but The Atlantic reveals CIA Director Ratcliffe has been quietly escalating the fight against Russia with Trump's full knowledge. Alex unpacks Musk's laundry machine post on Ukraine aid, the first Russian diesel tankers bound for the United States, the Storm Shadow strike on Orel, Trump's Iran midterm messaging, Rubio's CIA appeal to Cuba, and Ireland scrapping its triple lock as Europe prepares troops for Ukraine.
Timeline:
00:00:00 Introduction from Athens
00:00:18 Melania Trump secures Aleshki ceasefire
00:03:35 First Russian diesel tankers head to the US
00:05:19 Elon Musk's laundry machine post on Ukraine
00:08:43 Starlink speeds restored and the terms of service story
00:10:20 The Atlantic on Ratcliffe
00:16:57 Rubio, Hegseth and the hawks
00:19:27 Ratcliffe's Moscow trip and Putin's snub
00:20:44 Biden's plan versus Trump's plan for Russia
00:25:46 Storm Shadow missiles strike Orel
00:27:24 Oil prices, Iran and operation epic fury
00:29:16 Rubio's CIA message to Cuba
00:30:24 Clown world: Black Sea ships and Romania
00:32:34 Sikorski's Nobel Prize offer and Ireland's triple lock
00:36:37 UK arrests teen over rabbit meme; France protests
Daniel Liszt presents Dark Journalist X-Series episode 242 on Ahriman, AI, the doppelganger, reincarnation, Atlantis, and the eighth sphere mystery school.
The episode also takes up secret America, the etheric double, missing scientists, the UFO file, and space wars. An editor's note says the series broke the story of the missing scientists after the deaths of MIT scientist Nuno Loureiro in December 2025 and General William McCasland in February 2026.
Timeline:
00:00:00 Opening: Ahriman, the doppelganger, reincarnation, Atlantis, and AI
00:00:48 The Bigfoot takedown and marketing in the podcast space
00:03:48 Shawn Ryan, Wall Street Journal money, and astroturfed independent media
00:06:40 Peter Thiel and guests told what they cannot say
00:08:08 Anduril and hosts invested in their own guests
00:10:04 Two minutes hate, and why the UFO file needs a deep treatment
00:10:48 Steiner's warning: Ahriman coming through technology
00:12:59 Jay Stratton, the UAP task force, and the 2017 disclosure group
00:16:31 CIA and DIA whistleblowers as the red flag
00:18:52 Continuity of government, 9/11, and the missing scientists
00:20:13 The UFO threat as a false-flag card beyond Russia and China
00:21:45 Trump, the executive branch, and the UFO file
00:22:29 Mystery schools from 1841 to 1879 and the brothers of the left
00:26:14 The etheric double and AI as mirror intelligence
00:28:40 Macy conferences, Anthropic, and holding CEOs accountable
00:33:12 Why reincarnation sits inside the AI question
00:33:53 Edgar Cayce, Atlantis, and the Tuaoi stone
00:38:21 Reincarnation returns in the 1850s
00:39:33 Mesmer, Puységur, and Allan Kardec
00:43:55 Blavatsky, Emma Hardinge Britten, and occult imprisonment
00:47:41 The eighth sphere and Ahriman in the 21st century
00:49:43 Ahriman in North America and the doppelganger in America
00:56:10 The eighth sphere as a false reality
00:57:31 John the Baptist as Raphael
00:58:33 Thomas Jefferson, Alexander, and the TJ reading
01:03:56 Cayce as Ra Ta and the building of the Giza plateau
01:06:19 Pyramid X: reincarnation and rediscovered Atlantean technology
01:10:00 CIA past-life regression and Neuralink
01:13:19 The Akashic records and a machine to read them
01:18:16 The Piri Reis map, Nazca lines, and antigravity
01:21:55 Woodrow Wilson: Steiner and Cayce disagree
01:23:25 Henry Wallace and Cayce's death in 1945
01:24:43 Nero, Elisha, and Thomas Campbell
01:28:07 Altman, Musk, AI rights, and the Atlantean trap
01:30:33 Close: Camelot, and next week's show
Ray McGovern, former CIA analyst, with Danny Jones on Russia, Ukraine, and NATO, and on his claim that the public story about Russia is wrong.
He is the former CIA analyst who personally briefed Reagan's inner circle every morning, then spent the next three decades accusing the agency of lying the United States into wars.
Timeline:
00:00:00 Joining the CIA in 1963
00:04:21 Ukraine peace talks and the Minsk agreements
00:06:43 NATO expansion after the Berlin Wall
00:11:29 Bill Burns' warning about Ukraine joining NATO
00:13:00 Victoria Nuland's $5 billion and the Maidan uprising
00:19:51 Putin's missile warning and Biden's pledge
00:26:54 China's backing for Russia before the invasion
00:29:32 The Istanbul peace talks and Boris Johnson
00:35:03 The balance of power: Russia, China and the US
00:39:06 Ray's view of NATO without US support
00:42:51 Russiagate and the DNC email leak
00:49:53 Bill Binney and the challenge to the DNC hack account
00:56:49 Shawn Henry's testimony on DNC data exfiltration
01:00:58 Seth Rich's death and Ray's leak theory
01:07:37 The Columbia Journalism Review's Russiagate investigation
01:10:23 Ray's subpoena from Seth Rich's brother
01:13:03 Comey, Brennan and Trump's prosecutions
01:15:30 Oliver Stone's Putin interview and nuclear restraint
01:18:30 Ray's Moscow trip with Oliver Stone
01:25:45 Germany, Russophobia and Russia's threat perceptions
01:29:06 JFK's peace speech and assassination theories
01:35:40 Jane Roman, Oswald's file and JFK records
01:38:00 Fred Janney and Mary's Mosaic
01:40:29 Trump's orders and the federal bureaucracy
01:47:35 France's unrest and Europe's Ukraine spending
01:49:58 Iran, Israel and US national security
01:53:46 Ray's proposed Iran peace deal
01:55:53 Iraq's WMD claims and politicized intelligence
01:59:13 Tom Fingar and the 2007 Iran nuclear estimate
02:02:34 Nuclear weapons vs. uranium enrichment
02:06:58 Netanyahu's election and nuclear escalation fears
02:12:11 Arms sales, contractors and political influence
02:18:03 James Angleton and CIA reporting on Israel
02:19:34 Can analysts challenge the intelligence bureaucracy?
02:24:46 Intelligence failures and Iran war planning
02:28:04 The Houthis and Saudi Arabia
02:30:02 The USS Liberty attack and its survivors
02:33:57 Meeting USS Liberty survivor Bryce Lockwood
02:36:05 The USS Liberty SOS and recalled rescue planes
02:41:36 Ray's theories on why Israel attacked the Liberty
02:44:48 The 1967 war and occupied territories
02:49:16 Ray's account of intercepted Israeli communications
02:54:50 Ray's work and Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity
Our American Alchemist this week is John S. Herrington, Ronald Reagan's Secretary of Energy, who ran America's nuclear weapons complex at the height of the Cold War.
John joined Reagan as a volunteer advance man in the 1960s. He later served as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, head of White House personnel, and Secretary of Energy from 1985 to 1989. In this episode, John takes us inside Reagan's cabinet: the stealth fighter he found hidden in his own budget, the Strategic Defense Initiative and Edward Teller's nuclear-powered space laser, Reagan's "throw deep" approval of the Superconducting Super Collider, and the secret Taiwanese nuclear weapons program the U.S. shut down. He also takes on the UFO question. He says the Navy's UAP videos are real, but calls a Reagan-era alien story "total B.S." and challenges David Grusch and others to show hard evidence.
Timeline:
00:00:00 Introduction
00:01:28 Brent Friedman's Story
00:04:26 Interview Preview
00:08:14 Meeting Ronald Reagan
00:10:11 Reagan and SDI Opposition
00:11:21 Reagan's Diaries and Speeches
00:13:02 Strategic Defense Initiative Explained
00:15:48 Edward Teller and Excalibur
00:17:33 Green Fireballs Document
00:18:47 UFOs, Navy Videos and Faith
00:21:28 Herrington Denies Brent's Story
00:24:49 The Greenbrier Bunker
00:27:26 Brent Friedman Responds
00:29:43 The 1981 Veranda Conversation
00:33:04 Underground Facilities in West Virginia
00:35:13 Polygraph and Money Questions
00:36:12 Why Brent Went Public
00:39:01 David Grusch
00:41:36 The Politico Journalist
00:44:32 UFOs at Nuclear Sites
00:46:09 Harald Malmgren's UFO Debris
00:49:06 A Secret Budget Item
00:50:59 F-117 and Skunk Works
00:52:30 UFOs as Spy Plane Cover
00:53:15 Oak Ridge Document
00:53:53 Garry Nolan's Ubatuba Sample
00:56:57 Reagan's 1974 UFO Sighting
00:58:26 Otherworldly or Man-Made
01:00:34 AI and Deepfakes
01:01:26 Stratton, Lacatski and Lazar
01:03:31 UFOs at Pantex and Fukushima
01:05:07 Bobby Ray Inman
01:06:06 UFOs and the Ocean Floor
01:07:26 CIA's Hollywood Liaison
01:09:00 Limits on Elected Leaders
01:10:32 Exotic Propulsion and Submarines
01:11:28 Nuclear Airplanes and Project Orion
01:12:43 Nuclear Tests and Roswell
01:13:37 The Question of Evidence
01:15:37 Palomar Observatory Transients
01:17:13 Parapsychology and Precognition
01:18:30 Trump and Disclosure
01:20:25 Cold Fusion
01:21:26 Spies at the Energy Department
01:22:38 PROMIS Software and Bill Richardson
01:24:09 Genesis Mission and Underfunded Programs
01:25:57 Public Fear of Nuclear Power
01:27:10 SAIC and Bobby Ray Inman
01:29:01 High-Energy Physics and UFOs
01:31:01 Marco Rubio on UAP
01:32:54 Atomic Energy Act and Rickover
01:35:13 Seafloor Recovery and Puthoff's Hypothesis
01:37:55 The CIA, Gaffney and Casey
01:40:17 Closing and Reagan Keepsakes
01:42:45 Brent on the Hazing Theory
01:44:18 DOE Roswell UFOs as an Initiation
01:47:43 Consciousness and Initiation
Danny Haiphong on Israel at the edge of civil war and Iran striking US Navy escorts in Hormuz. He says the CIA calls Israel on the brink of collapse, and that the picture is worse, as Iran confronts the US Navy and claims of a strong US position in the war are challenged.
Larry Johnson and Col. Lawrence Wilkerson with Danny Haiphong on a report they treat as a CIA leak: how much trouble Israel is in, and why it is pressing, with US help, to restart the Iran war despite that warning.
Johnson is a former CIA analyst. Wilkerson is a retired US Army colonel and former chief of staff.
Daniel Liszt presents an X-series part 2 with Giza Death Star author Joseph Farrell on White House statements that 'we own the Moon,' rising space-war rhetoric, new Space Force uniforms, and a false CIA UFO threat that blocked UFO-file disclosure.
They also continue their discussion of 9/11 as a deep event after the 25th anniversary, including hidden energy weapons at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon 'disappearing missile.'
Description:
David Grusch is a former United States Air Force intelligence officer, former representative of the National Reconnaissance Office to the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force, and former co-lead for Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena analysis at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.
0:00:00 Grusch calls the years since his last visit a nightmare. 0:00:48 Disclosure bill failed. Burlison hires him as congressional staff. 0:01:30 He leaves that Hill job after the August recess. 0:02:40 UAP support in Congress, and a June presser with Scott Perry. 0:03:51 CIA officer David Rush: fake program, gold bars, and Rolexes. 0:06:00 Hidden funding through crime. He says officers ran child trafficking. 0:07:16 Iran-Contra, and a man who moved cocaine without knowing it. 0:10:28 Legacy program lost oversight. He never wanted to be a whistleblower. 0:12:04 October 2020. His NRO boss is walked out in Chantilly. 0:14:36 Early 2021. People helping him get Havana syndrome symptoms. 0:16:15 Early 2022. A same-day message to him and others. He reports it. 0:18:05 Rubio's staff say named people wanted to kill him. 0:20:08 How much is UAP, and how much is crime under weak oversight. 0:24:09 Recovered craft and beings. He rejects a public warehouse tour. 0:26:01 The Vatican's long study. He does not share the fear of a response. 0:28:12 Trump, at the White House UFC event, says it is going to come out. 0:30:15 A classified 1952 Blue Book tape: objects near nuclear sites. 0:32:00 If Trump drops his order, Grusch thinks no later president will finish it. 0:34:06 China and Russia could use a messy American disclosure. 0:36:00 Retrieval counts. The U.S. has many. He will not rank other countries. 0:38:00 Missile warning, and an Indian case from his NRO shift. 0:40:15 A craft in Korea, building built around it. He calls it a legend. 0:42:12 Early DIA papers on magnetohydrodynamic drive and cloaking. 0:44:05 A chief asks what he knows about UFOs. He says nothing. 0:46:04 Outside review scores disclosure more negative than positive. 0:48:11 A release could open the work to more firms and universities. 0:50:16 He wants amnesty, on a truth-and-reconciliation model. 0:52:11 Orbs may be craft inside plasma. Magnetohydrodynamic drive. 0:53:19 Sentient plasma. Hameroff and Penrose on consciousness. 0:56:00 He never got a file on where they are from.
0:58:00 Bodies may be engineered or another line. He never saw the result.
1:00:17 One being, very human, pale bluish-white skin.
1:03:31 Matthew Sullivan, call sign Quake, a source who died two years ago.
1:04:22 Video is not enough. Craft and biological samples have to be shown.
1:08:19 Pyramids, Hancock, Carlson. Archaeological retrieval is real.
1:10:25 Retrieval colleagues saw bodies. Some saw beings alive.
1:14:05 Groups fighting, including sky wars in the Vedic texts.
1:16:07 Reptilian-type craft are often tic-tac shaped.
1:20:00 Friend Matt's unexplained death, and a crashed tic-tac.
1:22:11 Villarroel's VASCO sky plates. Not Sputnik, not proven UAP.
1:24:34 Hawara, and a long metal object in a temple. New to him.
1:28:00 Biondi's radar under Giza, and whether Egypt will allow a look.
1:32:13 A "demon" may be one class of being, not the whole picture.
1:34:04 Ezekiel: cloud, fire, gleaming metal, four living creatures.
1:36:00 McCasland, DeLonge, and beings described like the Greek gods.
1:37:37 Bigelow pushed a president. Grusch will not name every room.
1:40:00 Calm on retrievals. He guesses telepathy is a countermeasure.
1:42:31 Grays in several sizes. He does not say the small ones are machines.
1:46:09 Peruvian remains, Nazca lines, and elongated skulls.
1:53:00 Tall reptilian types he has not seen. Fossils are outside his knowledge.
1:56:11 1952 tape: Holloman, White Sands, about 3,500 mph, nuclear sites.
1:58:00 A living being is harder for the public than a machine.
2:00:12 Robertson Panel, 1953, and a plan of ridicule.
2:01:21 Keyhoe and James McDonald. Nixon and Gleason: he does not know.
2:02:17 A flying-saucer house in upstate New York.
2:04:00 Wikileaks: McCasland and Lockheed's Weiss write to Tom DeLonge.
2:06:18 Insect-like beings. Talk he does not trust.
2:08:27 A reptilian crew, in what he was told, was killed, not contacted.
2:12:00 More people have seen something than will admit it.
2:13:28 MKUltra went public because a 1964 CIA report reached Congress.
2:16:02 Cloaking. Vallée: some sightings are a display.
2:18:14 Old paintings of a figure in a craft with fire behind it.
2:20:00 Something large in the ocean. The Abyss is a picture, not proof.
2:21:11 Matthew Brown's 2018 briefing. Grusch says he never saw it.
2:24:21 A hidden hand, and a warning against invented patterns.
2:25:26 Uncrewed egg-shaped craft. Jake Barber has described recovering them.
2:26:28 A plain "not alone, and we have craft" before Trump leaves office.
2:28:17 They have lived alongside people, he thinks, helpful and harmful.
2:30:00 Close.
Daniel Liszt presents Dark Journalist X-Series episode 239 on the Tall Whites UFO file, an Iran sky event, and lunar wars. The episode covers an Iran UFO file, space wars, a moon buster, missing scientists, special access, a claimed false CIA UFO threat, SpaceX, and continuity of government.
The host notes earlier reports on missing scientists after the death of MIT neutron-star merger scientist Nuno Laureiro in December 2025 and General William McCasland in February 2026.
Alexander reports that Russia has tightly encircled Dobropillia, and explains why its fall could open the road to Sloviansk and the rest of western Donbass. At the same time Ukraine's economy is imploding, with steel production halted for the first time in a century, Russian strikes knocking out Kiev's data centers and internet, and the EU scrambling to fast track €45 billion from its €90 billion loan while Zelensky chases a ceasefire after a meeting with CIA director John Ratcliffe that Alex Christoforou flags as the one that really mattered. With Europe's own budgets under strain and elections looming, how much longer can Brussels keep kicking the Ukrainian can down the road?
Timeline:
00:00:00 Intro and Western urgency to halt the Russian offensive
00:00:46 Black Sea blockade and failed land routes
00:02:06 Ukraine steel production stops for the first time in a century
00:04:05 Russian strikes on Kiev data centers and internet blackouts
00:07:28 Agriculture crisis and a spiraling Ukrainian economy
00:09:57 Making Kiev unworkable: could ministries relocate west?
00:16:36 Zelensky pushes for a Putin Trump meeting at the G20
00:18:34 Dmitriev in New York and the fake tripartite meeting
00:20:33 Zelensky asks Trump to lean on Xi Jinping
00:26:22 Germany's token Patriot interceptor pledge
00:30:35 Europe's budget stress and rising bond yields
00:35:34 Euroclear plan dropped and the €90 billion loan scramble
00:41:57 Zelensky's real meeting with CIA director Ratcliffe
00:43:51 Ukrainian drone strikes and hardened Russian refineries
00:46:06 CIA shadow fleet drone claims in the Mediterranean
00:52:29 Dobropillia surrounded: the Russian MoD map and siege
00:59:14 Russian MoD signals goals beyond Donbass
01:04:02 Sloviansk outflanking, Orikhiv and Dnieper crossings
01:10:48 Biletsky's Lyman offensive and the Readovka account
01:16:47 Kharkiv cauldron and closing remarks
Description:
Donald Trump welcomed Xi Jinping to the White House for a full day of talks on trade, Taiwan, Iran and Ukraine, while Benjamin Netanyahu addressed a nearly empty UN General Assembly with pagers and a Starlink in hand. Alex breaks down Iran's new deal offer to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, Europe's alarm over a possible US diesel export ban, Macron's move to guard a Saudi pipeline, and the Witkoff and Kushner push for a trilateral meeting with Putin and Zelensky. Is Europe about to learn what diversification really means?
Episode 2188
00:00:00 Introduction
00:00:57 Trump hosts Xi Jinping at the White House
00:03:47 Netanyahu addresses a near empty UN hall
00:08:40 Araghchi stays in New York for Iran deal
00:09:50 Europe alarmed over US diesel export ban
00:14:10 Macron sends French forces to Saudi pipeline
00:14:48 Russian strikes knock out Ukraine internet
00:16:56 CNN and Politico return to the White House
00:18:18 Clown World: Kallas angry over Putin G20 invite
00:19:53 Trilateral meeting push and CIA drone claims
Description:
At the UN General Assembly, Sergey Lavrov flatly rejected Europe's push for a Ukraine ceasefire, while Marco Rubio spun his meeting with the Russian foreign minister as a breakthrough. In this episode we explain why the CIA under John Ratcliffe now appears to be running Project Ukraine, from the snubbed Moscow trip to the drone scare fed to Macron and the Europeans. Why does Russia keep blaming Europe and not name the CIA, and can anyone in Washington still restrain it?
The Duran: Episode 2633
00:00:00 UN General Assembly and the ceasefire push
00:01:29 From euphoria to collapse in Ukraine
00:02:56 Rubio spins his Lavrov meeting
00:05:40 Macron, Ratcliffe and the drone scare
00:07:30 The CIA is running Project Ukraine
00:08:51 Why talks need no ceasefire, the Vietnam precedent
00:10:04 Lavrov blames Europe, not the US
00:13:11 America's role from Maidan to Minsk
00:18:28 Can anyone restrain the CIA
00:22:52 Ratcliffe's Moscow trip and the Putin snub
Description:
Lavrov told the UN Security Council there will be no ceasefire trickery this time, reminding the world that Merkel, Hollande and Poroshenko admitted the Minsk agreements were only about buying time to arm Ukraine. Alex breaks down Xi Jinping's rare red carpet welcome from Trump, Zelensky's patient zero speech at the UN, and a CIA claim reported by El Mundo that Russia plans ship launched drone strikes on Spain, Italy and France. Is Ratcliffe's CIA now openly scripting Project Ukraine, and what happens to Europe when the US diesel export ban arrives?
Episode 2187
00:00:00 Zelensky calls Putin patient zero
00:00:36 Xi Jinping gets a rare airport welcome from Trump
00:02:39 WSJ story on Chinese drone parts for Iran
00:05:14 Lavrov blasts Europe over Maidan and Minsk
00:08:52 Lavrov says no ceasefire trickery
00:10:23 Zelensky patient zero speech at the UN
00:11:49 EU ministers stage a We Are the World moment
00:13:56 CIA claims Russia plans drone strikes on Spain, Italy, France
00:15:34 Danish intelligence false flag warning
00:18:27 CIA takes over Project Ukraine
00:20:04 Daytime strikes on Kiev as interceptors run out
00:22:16 US and Japan bond yields surge
00:23:10 US diesel export ban hits Europe
00:25:38 Putin G20 Miami invite and Venezuela elections
00:28:13 Clown world with Zelensky and Albanese
Daniel Liszt presents Dark Journalist X-238 on the Moon Buster UFO file, NASA space wars, Huntsville missing scientists, Paperclip disc programs, and Defense Intelligence Security Command from JFK to Trump.
The episode also covers DISC-Blue, special access, SpaceX, a claimed false CIA UFO threat, and Continuity of Government.
Description:
Former Director of the National Counterterrorism Center Joe Kent joins former CIA analyst Larry Johnson for an insider’s examination of how intelligence is collected, filtered and politicized before it reaches the White House.
Drawing on experience in special operations, the CIA and the NCTC, Kent explores the suppression of dissenting assessments, Washington’s dependence on foreign liaison services and why a system awash in classified data can still profoundly misread Iran, Russia and the wars it helps shape.