Jay Stratton book excerpt describes four UAP encounters at NAS Fallon

Published 12 October 2026. Words like "tonight" or "next week" refer to that date.

A new excerpt from Jay Stratton's book describes a June 26th, 2020 phone call from NAS Fallon in Nevada reporting four UAP encounters in a single week, all involving Top Gun instructors. The same passage says two flag officers and a commander witnessed a UAP hovering over one of the facilities there.

Stratton put out this passage and a second one as previews of his book, which is coming out this week. Allegedly he also had an interview scheduled to release the next day, a little pregame, with Bret Baier on Fox News. Further down, I get to the second excerpt, in which a trusted friend warns Stratton that the people behind the secrets have "done worse than threaten people."

The Fallon call reported four UAP encounters involving Top Gun instructors

The first excerpt comes from page 55. In it, Stratton writes: "On June 26th, 2020, my phone buzzed with an unexpected call from NAS Fallon in Nevada, the storied home of the Navy Fighter Weapons School, known to the world as Top Gun." He adds that even before the caller got into the details, the tone of their voice hinted at something extraordinary.

According to the excerpt, the caller said, "We've had four UAP encounters in the past week," referring to incidents within the Fallon Range Training Complex. Stratton writes that each encounter involved Top Gun instructors, whom he describes as some of the most skilled and highly trained aviators in the world. He says detailed reports and telemetry were already being processed and would be sent his way shortly.

Two flag officers and a commander reportedly saw a UAP hovering over a facility

Stratton writes that the information alone was significant, but then the caller hesitated and said there was something else. After a pause, the caller told him that two flag officers and a commander had witnessed a UAP hovering over one of their facilities.

In the book, Stratton says he was silent for a moment. To him, a ground level sighting corroborated by senior officers wasn't just another addition to the growing pile of encounters. He calls it "a rare and potentially historic moment in human history," describing it as direct, unfiltered confirmation of a UAP near human observers on the ground, in a highly restricted environment. He writes that he jotted down everything the caller said, asked a few follow-up questions to clarify the details, and felt a mix of excitement and urgency.

The UAP task force fielded reports, but the context on this case is missing

After the passage was read, the case was made that there needs to be somebody in a position within the government to field these reports as they happen inside the military branches, and the UAP task force was that. The open questions are how the task force determined what these things were, and how much work it was then able to do to investigate what they really were.

Stratton was hearing these reports, but how much evidence was he actually getting? That, in this view, is the real problem with the information: we're not getting the context of this exact case. What would be interesting is if this kind of information came out in tranches, the way some cases already have been released, like the green orbs Eric Burlison talks about and other cases that have a little more documentation. We're always looking for context, and the thinking was that we need to look at the larger picture of why some of these cases are being brought forward.

Putting a case in the book suggests Stratton sees it as important

The same view holds that there has to be a reason why Stratton is talking about the specific cases he is and making them into a book. If you're putting a case into a book, there's got to be a lot of importance to that case.

Along those lines, the thought is that Stratton is probably, in a lot of ways, like Grusch: a credible source who received information. He's not necessarily going to tell you what any of this turns out to be. But he was fielding a lot of reports and seeing everything from a larger perspective, and he's going to lay that out in the book. It will be interesting to see how much new information he drops, and to get more context on other cases, such as how the research was done and who was talked to. That got complete agreement: "Well said. Totally agree."

A trusted friend warned Stratton he was poking a hornet's nest

The second preview excerpt picks up not long after Stratton's Nevada trip, when he says something happened that shook him to his core. A friend he had known and trusted for years pulled him into his office. The friend said he had heard whispers about Stratton's meetings in Nevada and about the growing tension surrounding his involvement with the UAP issue. Stratton writes that the man's expression was grave, and this wasn't their usual banter.

In the excerpt, the friend tells him: "You're really poking a hornet's nest here. You don't want to get stung." Stratton writes that this wasn't idle advice, and the friend wasn't talking about him losing his job. He describes the friend as someone who wasn't the type to overstate things, whose position gave him insight into matters few people know exist, and who Stratton knew had relationships with elements of the legacy program.

According to the passage, the friend leaned in closer and lowered his voice, as if the walls might be listening. He said people weren't happy about Stratton or what he was uncovering and trying to do, adding: "These people don't play games, Jay. They've done worse than threaten people to keep their secrets, and they'll do it again." He told Stratton that if he wasn't going to drop it, he should at least tread lightly. The reactions to that ending: "I like how he throws that last part in at the end," and "the most craziest thing."

Which of these two excerpts do you find more significant: the Fallon sightings or the warning Stratton says he received?