Yesterday a senior national journalist friend reached out to say, “You must read the Jay Stratton book.” What that? Who he? I went to Amazon and found * Out Of The Shadows: Revealing The Truth About Non-Human Intelligent Life,* by the aforementioned Stratton. Stratton, a career intelligence officer, was the most senior US official to investigate UAPs, NHI, and related phenomenon. His book published on Monday. My friend is a really intelligent person, and somewhat skeptical of the UAP narrative, so if he recommended it, it must be worth reading. I downloaded it, and read it in a single sitting.
Yeah, it’s worth it. Until the president comes out and tells us, “We are not alone,” this is as close to government disclosure as we’re going to get. Given who Stratton is, and the level of detail he provides in this account, it is very, very hard to maintain belief that there’s nothing much to the UAP thing.
Though Stratton, who seems to be a non-religious Jew, would not accept this, it is also very, very hard, from reading his story, to deny that this phenomenon, whatever it is precisely, is demonic in its orientation. Let’s dive in.
Shadows begins with a spooky encounter at the Stratton family home in Maryland. Jay’s son Jonny was sleeping on the couch because too many terrifying “anomalous incidents” had been happening to him in his bedroom. Jay went down to check on him:
Sensing something, I look to the window, where I see what is unmistakably a non-human being staring at my son. It’s gray and has a large head with small black eyes, no noticeable nose, and a small mouth. Startled, it turns to face me. We have a few seconds of a standoff, then the light goes dark, and it’s gone.
I run out the front door into the cold, predawn silence. Nothing’s there. I check the living room window, almost 9 feet off the ground. How could anyone or anything look at me from that window and disappear in seconds?
As shocking as this may sound, at this point in my life, I was not surprised that my family and I were being observed by non-human intelligent life. I had been investigating unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP), also known as unidentified flying objects (UFOs), and non-human intelligence (NHI) for about nine years as a Senior Defense Intelligence Officer (DIO) on behalf of the U.S. Government. My family and I had never had any personal experience with UAP or NHI prior to my investigations, but we have had plenty of experiences since then.
Were they paying attention to me because I was paying attention to them? It certainly seemed that way.
Well, that’s a lede, as they say in the newspaper biz!
Let me say at the outset that I read the book so fast not only because I’m a fast reader, but also because it was easy after a while to skim over a lot of the details of bureaucratic struggles to get to the truth about all this. But it’s important stuff, because Stratton documents how hard certain agencies and figures in the government have been working to keep this information from coming out. He identifies the internal enemy as the “Legacy Program,” an off-the-books, shadowy authority that has for decades kept information under wraps, and generated propaganda both to lie about what the government knows, and to discredit anyone who raises these issues.
It’s generally known, even to people who casually follow this topic, that the government has been busily thwarting anyone looking into the UAP phenomenon for some time. But man, it’s really something to read at a granular level how deep and persistent this is — even within the state itself. Stratton is a career intelligence officer working at a senior level, and even he couldn’t get what he sought, despite having the open backing of some top officials. Look:
Hal and Eric exchanged a look, and Hal finally said, “We know more than we’ve told you.”
I leaned in. “Okay. How much more?”
“A lot,” Eric replied. “This isn’t some small cell or hobby shop operation. The Legacy Program is massive, sprawling, heavily funded, deeply compartmentalized.”
“It’s a UAP crash retrieval and reverse engineering program,” Hal said.
“Since when?” I asked.
“Since the 1940s,” Hal said. “It’s been running continuously, buried layer after layer.”
I started to get a bit angry at the thought of all of this and asked, “Who’ s involved?”
Hal didn’t hesitate. “Elements of the CIA. The Air Force. Department of Energy.” Eric added, “And some of the biggest defense contractors. Lockheed Martin plays a central role, but they’re not the only ones. There are others, major firms with the right capabilities for the kind of work this program handles.”
The combination of CIA direction, DOE classification authority, Air Force transport, contracting, and Special Operations formed a web of compartmentalization so effective that even senior government officials and the President were kept out of the loop. They wouldn’t even know where to look for answers or what questions to ask.
They have even kept presidents in the dark, he claims. Why? Stratton was told that some of the technology the US and defense contractors have reverse-engineered from recovered spacecraft is too advanced to let America’s adversaries know we have it. Also, the Legacy people think that a revelation like this would be too socially destabilizing. Stratton vigorously disagrees, but when you read things like this, you can understand at least some of the case for preventing ontological shock:
According to him, Lockheed had twelve recovered craft of non-human origin in total at that time. Some came with biological occupants. Some were dead on arrival. Others, allegedly, were alive but later perished, refusing food or contact. Communication was limited and often futile. Some of what had been discovered, Ryder told me, was so disturbing that it led individuals involved to resign, suffer mental breakdowns, and in some cases, take their own lives. The truth was just too difficult for them to process.
Keep in mind that this information is not coming from a writer or journalist, but from the US Government’s former top man on the topic. His book had to be cleared by a number of federal agencies before it could be published, and some of it is censored.
In the book, there are lots of fascinating details about what US scientists and technologists examining recovered “spacecraft” have found. He bases this on interviews he did with insiders as part of his investigation. For example:
After much research and analysis, though, Hal and Eric realized one breakthrough technology was responsible for everything. With enough energy you could create a warp bubble around a craft that would have a different property of space-time inside the bubble than outside of it. This energy field would completely separate the craft from the environment. By manipulating the bubble’s properties, you could change the craft’ s direction of motion, such that you have a pulling force in front and a pushing force behind.
This technology also explains why UAP can go seamlessly from space to air to water, which we have seen on both video and in reporting. Simply put, the environment the bubble is going through doesn’t matter to the craft in the bubble. Earth’s gravitational field no longer has any effect on the UAP, so it doesn’t need things like wings and engines to fly. The immense amount of energy that comes from this bubble would also cause biological effects to anyone that got too close, while protecting the occupants inside.
To me, the most fascinating part of the narrative were the crazy demonic things that began happening in his house, to his family, after Stratton and his team visited the legendary Skinwalker Ranch in Nevada, which is a hotspot for UAP, NHI, and sundry weirdness. He saw bizarre, inexplicable phenomena at the ranch. Then:
I thought what happened at the ranch would stay at the ranch. Unfortunately, I was wrong. It began subtly once I was home: odd noises, doors found open when no one had opened them, even the locked front door occasionally standing wide open. Footsteps moved through empty rooms and up and down the wooden stairs. Knocks echoed through the halls in the middle of the night. Objects rattled without cause. It was all in-line with the kind of activity documented at the ranch, but no one, including Jim, had mentioned anything following them home.
I would later learn that my family was far from the first to experience this, and sadly we won’t be the last. Others who spent time on the ranch went on to have issues as well. BAASS security guards had gone home to find their lives upended by strange phenomena; some refused to ever return to the property. Others who visited the ranch reported similar events: objects moving on their own, bizarre animal behavior, disembodied voices, orbs, and unexplained electrical failures. Colm kept a ledger of these cases for anyone willing to report them, looking for common threads and patterns.
It gets very scary indeed for the Stratton family. Once, Jay went into his backyard:
There, standing in the tree line, was a figure, tall, easily 7 to 8 feet, its outline shimmering in the sunlight like heat rising off asphalt. The closest comparison I can give is the cloaking effect from the original Predator 8 movie from the 1980s, but this wasn’t a Hollywood movie. This was real, and this thing had mass, presence. Across its chest was an orange shimmer, not a glow exactly, more like the faint, shifting reflection of something mechanical, but fractured and fluid. It stood there for a moment, just watching. Then it turned, and its body seemed to distort, bending light around itself as it melted back into the trees. I pushed forward, trying to follow, but the vegetation was too thick. There were no footprints, no broken branches, nothing to suggest anything had been there at all.
And:
One night at 3:00 a.m., my youngest son, Jonny, who was thirteen at the time, was awakened by “balls of light” swarming his room. He said he heard them “screaming,” which was a shock because at this point in his life he was legally deaf, requiring hearing devices that he removed at nighttime. These “balls of light” were in a variety of sizes from softballs to golf balls, some blue, some red, and the smallest ones white, and they swirled around him in the darkness. He said he got incredibly angry, and as his anger built, some of the blue lights started “vibrating,” turning from blue to red and darting toward him, hitting him in the face, chest, and abdomen.
Words can’t express the fear and helplessness I felt standing there, staring down at my shocked and damaged thirteen-year-old son who had come perilously close to the orbs.
The kid was hurt so bad they had to take him to the hospital.
Believe me, there’s a lot more of that in the book. Stratton says it’s still going on, and he doesn’t know how to get rid of it. I wanted to scream “CALL AN EXORCIST!”, but from the narrative, it seems that they’re all non-believing Jews. In fact, at one point in his investigation, Stratton runs across a military officer who warns him to stay away from this area of investigation, because it’s demonic. That* really* puts Stratton in a rage.
“Some of the people positioned to help, fund, and protect the work were trapped in their own belief systems, seeing demons where the data showed aerospace vehicles,” he writes, adding, “It was insane. No one who makes national security decisions based on personal religious beliefs should be in a position of power in the U. S.”
Isn’t that fascinating? At home, his family is being near-constantly tormented by strange entities that match precisely accounts from the annals of exorcism of demonization — and again, there’s lots more of that in the book than I’ve shared here; they even killed his dog — yet Stratton thunders against someone in the Pentagon who tells him to stay away, because these things are demons. Sounds like Stratton is trying to protect himself from a certain ontological shock that would shatter the belief system in which he too is “trapped”.
The cognitive dissonance here is notable. Stratton keeps reasserting his anger at military and intelligence officials who thwart disclosure, accusing them of denying humanity the prospect of solving the energy problem via gaining access to alien technology, and all kinds of putative benefits. He really does cling to the belief that all knowledge is good, and that knowing more about these things, and even establishing contact with these entities, can only be for humanity’s technological and economic benefit.
I’d say he hasn’t read enough Jacques Vallée. Vallée, who is not a Christian, and who has spent most of his life studying this intimately, has been crystal-clear that whatever these things are, they are malicious, and do not mean humanity well. For that matter, I’d say he is not drawing the obvious lessons from what has been happening to his long-suffering family. Do these things really seem like they think well of us, and want to help us?
I checked in yesterday with one of my old sources on this stuff, a believing Catholic who has gone deep inside the UAP world. The source, who asked for anonymity, said, “Every single person who works with UAP directly is harassed by the demonic. Except for those who do Catholic devotions. Well, one is Anglican, but does Catholic devotions. Go figure.” This source eventually abandoned work in this area, because the demonic element became too frightening to ignore.
As you will recall from the opening anecdote of * Living In Wonder,* a young Catholic man saw a UAP as an older teenager. Seven years later, these entities began appearing to him, unwanted, and doing poltergeist things in his house. His wife saw them too, so he knew he wasn’t imagining it. When he reached out to me for advice, I asked him what happened when he prayed in their presence. They disappeared, he said.
I advised him to find his diocesan exorcist, tell him all about it, and receive deliverance prayer. He did — and it solved the problem. The things never came back.
As you know, I believe that this phenomenon is ultimately demonic, though I am open-minded about what, exactly, all this is. Might there be other categories of incarnated beings under creation? Yes, I think this could be the case; the Old Testament, for example, speaks of “nephilim,” hybrids made from “gods” coupling with women. I think there very easily could be something to this. But even if so, then these entities are not aligned to God, or to human flourishing, I would say.
Stratton reveals that there was a meeting in the 1960s on an Air Force base between “aliens” who descended from a landed UAP and spoke on the tarmac with military and intelligence officials. He says he was told by military sources that there is film of this encounter, but it has been buried in the stacks at an Air Force base in New Mexico.
When I confided in Hal Puthoff and Eric Davis about this, they informed me that President George H. W. Bush had told them about the Holloman Air Force Base contact event in a private meeting around 2003, during his son, George W. Bush’s, presidency. When H.W. Bush became the Director of the CIA during the Ford administration, he did not get briefed on the Legacy UAP crash retrieval and reverse engineering program, or contact events, but he found out some of the basic facts. When he became President, he pursued more of the truth but was told he did not have a need-to-know.
That’s right, the President of the U.S., who had also served as the Director of the CIA and as Vice President of the U.S. under President Reagan, was not given access to the truth and told he did not have a need to know it.
Stratton also raises serious doubts that we will ever fully know the truth. Even if Trump or some future president were to order total openness, it would appear from Stratton’s account that there would be bureaucratic insiders who resist. As Stratton says in one of the a…
