Bryce Zabel & Richard Dolan | Jay Stratton - Steps Out of the Shadows - Need to Know | Oct. 18, 2026

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Bryce Zabel and Richard Dolan on Jay Stratton’s book Out of the Shadows and his account of U.S. intelligence work on UFOs and UAP.

In this episode of Need to Know they look at Stratton’s revelations, his personal experiences, and what his decision to come forward could mean for disclosure. The conversation covers his influence on modern UAP investigations, his connections in the intelligence community, and the role he played in bringing the subject into public and congressional view, including claims about non-human intelligence, advanced technology, and alleged secret government programs.

Jay Stratton Breaks His Silence: I've Seen UFOs AND Aliens on Fox News | Oct. 12, 2026

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Jay Stratton discusses his memoir Out of the Shadows with Bret Baier on Fox News.

Jay Stratton spent more than 32 years in U.S. intelligence, including the Army, the Air Force, Naval Intelligence, and the Defense Intelligence Agency, where he was Chief of Air and Space Warfare. 

He co-founded the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program (AAWSAP), helped create the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP), and was the first director of the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force. His memoir, Out of the Shadows: Revealing the Truth About Non-Human Intelligent Life, is published by William Morrow.

WEAPONIZED : EPISODE #3 with Jeremy Corbell & George Knapp + The Pentagon's Top UFO Hunter | Feb. 6, 2023

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Between 2007 and 2021, the U.S. government authorized three distinct efforts to investigate and evaluate UFO/UAP incidents, cases, and effects - the acronyms were AAWSAP, AATIP, and the UAPTF. Only one person in the entire Defense Department had a key role in all three programs.

Jay Stratton was a career intelligence officer who worked for the Office of Naval Intelligence, the Defense Warning Office of the DIA, and in other sensitive national security programs. He specialized in the reverse engineering of technologies, threats, and future scenarios. 

 
In 2007, he was recruited to consult with the DIA-funded investigation known as AAWSAP, the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program, a contract awarded to a private company affiliated with Bigelow Aerospace. The first case he investigated was the now-famous "Tic Tac" UFO incident. After AAWSAP ended, Stratton worked closely with Lue Elizondo on a successor effort known as AATIP, which focused exclusively on military encounters with UFOs.

After Elizondo left government, Stratton was asked to form a new program that eventually was formalized by Congress as the UAP Task Force. During those years, he created a massive, classified briefing presentation that was delivered to Pentagon officials, intelligence agencies, defense contractors, and members of Congress. Stratton left government in 2021 and is currently employed by Radiance Technologies. The interview with WEAPONIZED is the first public statement he has ever made about his work as the government's top UFO hunter.