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Ex-Pentagon UAP Task Force chief Jay Stratton publishes memoir claiming non-human craft
‘Out of the Shadows’ repeats claims of recovered craft and bodies, including a second-hand Roswell story. No documents, photos or hardware back them publicly.
Jay Stratton, who led the Pentagon’s Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force, published his memoir, Out of the Shadows: Revealing the Truth About Non-Human Intelligent Life, on October 13. The Pentagon approved the task force on August 4, 2020, and Stratton served as its first director before retiring from government in 2022.
Stratton first went public in the 2025 documentary The Age of Disclosure, saying: “I have seen with my own eyes, non-human craft and non-human beings.” He has not said publicly when or where that happened, and he has not released photos, documents or physical material to support it.
What the book claims
In interviews around the launch, reported by IBTimes UK, Stratton passes on an account from an unnamed insider about Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947: a craft that broke into two pieces, with military personnel recovering the wreckage and non-human bodies. “Others, allegedly, were alive but later perished, refusing food or contact,” he says. Stratton does not claim to have seen this himself, and the insider has not been identified.
The book also claims that military contractors hold “at least a dozen crashed spacecraft” in secure facilities across the United States. Similar claims were made under oath in 2023 by former intelligence officer David Grusch, also without public evidence.
What the official record says
The government’s position has not changed. In March 2024, the Pentagon’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) reported finding “no verifiable evidence” that government agencies or private companies possessed extraterrestrial technology. The Air Force’s 1994 investigation traced the Roswell debris to Project Mogul, a classified program that flew trains of balloons to listen for Soviet nuclear tests. A 1997 follow-up linked accounts of “alien bodies” to anthropomorphic test dummies dropped from high-altitude balloons and to unrelated accidents.
Stratton’s background makes him harder to dismiss than most authors on the subject: he ran the government’s own UAP effort. But a former official’s account is still testimony, not evidence. A second-hand story from an anonymous source, published 79 years after the event, cannot be checked. Until craft, bodies or records are produced, the claims remain claims.
