Jay Stratton discusses his bombshell memoir with Bret Baier on Fox News

Stratton spent almost 33 years in US military and national intelligence service (joining the Army in 1989), reached the Senior Executive Service, and spent over 16 of those years investigating UAP and non-human intelligent life for the US government.

I moved up from uh the regular GS ranks to the senior executive service, which is the highest a civilian can get non-appointed.

The Pentagon has begun declassifying and releasing UAP records on a rolling basis, following recent directives from President Trump.

the Pentagon has begun declassifying and releasing records about UAPs on a rolling basis. Now, this follows recent directives from President Trump.

Humanity is not the only intelligent life in the universe, and the intent of the non-human intelligent life that is here is unknown and concerning.

No, Brett, we're not. Humanity is not the only intelligent life in the universe. Nor do we know the intent of the non-human intelligent life that's here.

While chief of air and space warfare at the Defense Intelligence Agency (responsible for emerging and disruptive threats, with access to the most classified programs), a colleague brought Stratton a video of a triangular UAP flying over nuclear missile silos.

a colleague brought to me a video of a triangular UAP flying over nuclear missile silos, some of our most secure airspace.

The triangular object in that video demonstrated capabilities that exceeded US capabilities and that Stratton could not comprehend as an aerospace engineer.

it was flying in ways demonstrated capabilities that exceeded ours.

The unexplained object is a threat because it exceeds US capabilities and its origin and intent are unknown.

This is a threat because it exceeds our capabilities and we don't understand it. We don't know the intent and we don't know where it's from.

The US government has non-human craft in its possession.

Does the United States government have nonhuman craft in its possession? Yes, it does.

Stratton says he has personally seen non-human beings and non-human craft.

I I have seen non-human beings and non-human craft with my own eyes.

Both the defense contractor community and the government hold craft of non-human origin, and an ongoing program to capture and reverse engineer them is a secret cold war race.

Both the defense contractor community and the government have craft of non-human origin. There is an ongoing program to capture and reverse engineer this technology and really we're in a

The people who have had an 80-year monopoly on the topic believe the secret is too intense for the public; Stratton thinks some aspects may not be shareable but the basic fact that we are not alone can be.

the people who have had this 80-year monopoly on the topic believe that the secret is so intense that the American people cannot handle it.

Stratton worked on several efforts to draw in and capture data on a UAP, and a nuclear submarine positioned off the east coast, with a P-3 (maritime patrol aircraft, transcribed as 'P3 a Navy submarine hunting') carrying equipment, was used as bait.

I had access to a nuclear submarine that I could put out uh off the east coast and I had a a P3 a Navy submarine hunting with with a lot of different equipment on it

On the first mission of that effort a UAP appeared and the P-3 collected data on it.

And it worked. Uh on their very first mission a UAP appeared and the P3 worked to collect on the and data was collected on that on that mission.

Two flag officers (admirals) and their senior intelligence officer, a commander, phoned Stratton to say they had seen a UAP phase in over a training building on their compound and vanish just as quickly.

they saw a UAP phase in was their own words over the training building on on the compound and it just disappeared as fast as it was there.

A senior officer whom Stratton believes is involved in the legacy program intercepted those officers at the Pentagon and convinced them that their reputations were on the line, so they did not make the report.

someone who I believe is involved in this legacy program, this historic cover up, the the hidden hand as I call it in the book, intercepted them and convinced them that their reputations are on the line if they make this report.

A friend warned Stratton that the people guarding these secrets have done worse than threaten people, and Stratton says that secrets have at times been protected by steps taken to remove the problem, and the people.

the secrets sometimes are so impactful to our national security that steps have been taken to remove the problem

A clip from the documentary The Age of Disclosure says there have been repeated instances of something operating in the airspace over restricted nuclear facilities that is not US-owned.

We've had repeated instances of something operating in the airspace over restricted nuclear facilities and it's not ours.

The same clip says UAP have both deactivated and activated nuclear weapons, with both the United States and Russia, and that the activity near nuclear weapons is ongoing, not a historic issue.

They have both deactivated and activated nuclear weapons with both the United States and Russia.

President Trump has not seen the real evidence, in Stratton's view, and is still being shielded from the truth.

No, Brad, I don't think he's seen it. I think he's still being shielded from the the truth

China and Russia are both working on reverse engineering craft of non-human origin.

I think China and Russia uh are are both working on reverse engineering craft non-human origin.

The Pentagon's UFO office (AARO) has found no evidence of extraterrestrials.

The Pentagon's own UFO office says it found no evidence of extraterrestrials.

Stratton was one of the first to brief Congress on UAP in the modern era, in 2007 when he briefed Senator Harry Reid, and he continued briefing Congress through the next 16 years until he retired.

I was one of the first to brief Congress on this topic in the modern era in 2007 when I briefed Senator Harry Reid and I continued that through the rest of the next 16 years till I left the government, retired.

His book Out of the Shadows covers UAP cases over US military bases that have not been discussed yet and gives descriptions and details of recovered craft.

It covers UAP cases over US military bases that haven't been discussed yet. It gives you descriptions and details of recovered craft.

After more than 16 years in government and over 20 years looking at the topic, Stratton says the intent of the non-human intelligence is not known.

We don't know the intent. Sad for me to say after 16 plus years of looking at this for the government and you know 20 plus years of looking at it, we do not know the intent.