Jay Stratton says the US government has nonhuman craft and he has seen nonhuman beings
The former Defense Intelligence Agency official calls the technology a threat and says a secret race to reverse engineer it is underway, but key questions remain unanswered
Jay Stratton is now telling national news audiences that the United States government has craft of nonhuman origin, and that he has seen nonhuman beings and nonhuman craft with his own eyes. He's making the rounds for a book he has coming out, talking about what's in it, including reverse engineering and other programs, and the interview I'm going through here is from Fox News, I believe.
I'm sure I'll be covering a lot of these Stratton stories as the book is released, as he does more interviews and as more people read it. Maybe it's stuff we've heard before. Maybe it's stuff we haven't. Either way, he said a few things that stood out to me, and there are questions I think someone needs to put to him.
Stratton traces it back to a triangular UAP over a nuclear missile silo
Stratton told the interviewer it started at the Defense Intelligence Agency, where he was the chief of air and space warfare. He said that in that role he was responsible for emerging and disruptive threats and had access to the most classified programs. "I understood where our technology is and where our technology is going," he said, adding that he also understood the technology levels of the adversaries.
During that period, he said, a colleague brought him material showing a triangular UAP flying over a nuclear missile silo, which he described as some of our most secure airspace. He said it was flying in ways he could not comprehend at the time, in ways that "demonstrated capabilities that exceeded ours."
The interviewer read a passage from the book: "A black triangle aircraft, no wings, no tail, no exhaust, no visible propulsion of any kind, as if the fundamental laws of physics simply didn't apply." Stratton said that in his position at the agency he was uniquely qualified to identify anything flying in air or space, so seeing something demonstrating capabilities he couldn't understand, as an aerospace engineer, moved him. He said he needed to understand the technology and who had it.
Why Stratton calls the technology a threat
Asked whether he considered it a threat, Stratton said absolutely. "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," he said.
That was the first thing that stood out to me. He's not saying there's an immediate threat, or a threat that's imminent and coming. What he's saying is that we don't understand the technology all the way, and that alone in itself could be a threat. What is it capable of? What could it do to us? I understand all of that.
Stratton says he has seen nonhuman craft and nonhuman beings
When the interviewer asked directly whether the United States government has nonhuman craft in its possession, Stratton answered, "Yes, it does." Asked whether he had seen one, he said he has seen "non-human beings and non-human craft with my own eyes." He confirmed that included beings.
On where these craft are now, Stratton said both the defense contractor community and the government have craft of nonhuman origin. "There is an ongoing program to capture and reverse engineer this technology. And really, we're in a secret cold war race to do that," he said.
So the answer to whether we have these things was a definitive yes. Seen craft with his own eyes, seen beings with his own eyes. I would have liked him to dive a little deeper on the beings. Were they alive or dead? That's the first question I would ask. And beyond that, what else did he see? What else does he know?
Stratton's explanation for why the real evidence hasn't come out
The interviewer pointed out that some of the government's releases are very compelling and others not so much, and asked why the public hasn't seen the real material. Stratton said the people who have had an 80 year monopoly on the topic believe the secret is so intense that the American people cannot handle it. He said he believes there may be aspects so intense they can't share them, but they can share the basic fact that we are not alone. "The people can handle that," he said.
It's funny, because depending on who the person is, you sometimes get such a different conversation about why the information hasn't been released. I thought it was a good question: why are we releasing basically the nonsense, the blurry material, and not the good stuff? And I don't think he really answered it. His answer was that the people holding it don't want the secret told because they don't think we can handle it. But those people aren't really the ones releasing the nonsense material anyway, unless they are and are controlling the narrative, which a lot of people think might be the case as well.
Some people will say the public not being able to handle it is the reason. Other people say it's not, that it's to protect people from going to jail, or to not disrupt the way society is in general.
"We're not alone" would only be the start of the questions
Just taking the information that we're not alone, in theory, okay. We've kind of thought so anyway. But there are a lot of follow up questions, and that's where I would have gone. Do they think society will change? Will the stock market crash? If we're reverse engineering, what are we trying to accomplish? What is it about this craft?
It's not going to be as simple as being told we're not alone and then going back to HBO. If you're saying there's a reverse engineering program, that we have this technology, and that we're trying to beat other countries in a race that's like the new space race, then what do we know? Besides the fact that it defies physics, what does it do? Does it change energy? Will we not need oil anymore? Does it change the idea of religion?
You can see in those conversations why gatekeepers would say it changes things like that once we tell people, and ask whether we want to change the world tomorrow. That is the question. David Grusch said the same thing on Joe Rogan in his last interview, that the world changes overnight if all of this information comes out. It's just a different way we look at things.
A podcast question showed me there needs to be more conversation
The other day I was on a podcast and someone asked me what's more likely, that UFOs are real or ghosts. My reaction was, "Are you guys not paying attention to the news?" I think the host followed up by saying it's kind of all over the place now, with these things being released all over. So the other co host kind of knew.
This is where there just needs to be more conversation about what's happening now. And that's the other side of it. If they're going to be controlling the narrative, and "we're not alone" is the fourth story next to a cat stuck in a tree, then you start to wonder who's running the networks, and whether it's the NHI at this point. But we have a long way to go before we get anywhere close to that.
Why isn't Jay Stratton saying this under oath in front of Congress?
Stratton's going to be out there talking more, and I hope he does a bunch of different shows and a bunch of different podcasts. If anybody who interviews him comes across this, I'd ask them to put the question to him that I'm sure someone will ask: with everything he is saying publicly on national news, why is he not talking to the people in Congress looking into this, and testifying under oath?
I get what the follow up is going to be, the whistleblower stuff and all that. But I still don't understand how he can go on national news, say these things and sell books about it. I know people will say it's not under oath, so it could be fiction, it could be fantasy, and you can get away with it. Is that the legal thing behind it? I don't know the answer.
Grusch clearly seems like he put himself at risk with the amount of information he gave, so much more on the last Rogan show than he ever did in front of Congress. I wish he had said all of that in front of Congress. So will Stratton follow that path? Will he start talking about these things more? I'm very curious.
I think, and I think this is true, that at one point one of the people in Congress working on this had said he wasn't going to talk to Stratton, that they had all the information they needed from him. How do you not talk to Stratton? He should be the first phone call you make. Get him on the record and get him in front of other people.
Stratton's media tour helps, but people need to know where to look
If Stratton has the kind of pull where, similar to Dan Farah, he's getting himself on all these different shows to promote his book, that's great. That's my point about the people who just follow the news shows: they hear him, and I think that's beneficial to getting more people into the topic.
But I don't necessarily just need to hear anymore that we're not alone and that we have ships. I think there needs to be more information coming out that tells people where to go and look. They know where to go. That's what it comes down to.
What do you make of Jay Stratton's claims, and what else do you expect to hear from him as the book comes out?
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Adapted with AI from Down To Earth With Kristian Harloff's video of 14 October 2026 and reviewed by Digital Fox Talent before publication. Editorial standards · Corrections
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