Pentagon’s UFO Hunter Reveals Himself and What He Learned, Including the Video He Can’t Forget (Exclusive)

people magazine ^ | October 13, 2026 | Johnny Dodd

[eastforker]

“I can literally still see that video in my head,” Stratton recalls in this week’s issue of PEOPLE.

In the clip, he says, was what looked like a black triangular craft with orange, white and yellow lights glowing on each corner. It moved silently before seeming to defy the laws of physics by accelerating faster than the eye could follow — and was gone.

“That,” says Stratton, “was the moment that changed my world.”

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TOPICS: Astronomy; Books/Literature; Science; UFO's
KEYWORDS: bigfoot; danfarah; elizondostooge; fringe; jaystratton; newageconman; newagedisinformation; newagenutjob; satanism; scientology; skinwalkerranch; uap; ufo; ufos; werewolves

[blackdog]

No. I’m a pilot. Planes do not need landing lights. They need runway lighting. As a matter of fact, your night landings are much better without using landing lights. The landing lights help for your plane to be seen by the tower and other traffic in the air and on the ground.

[Sirius Lee]

I really have no idea but there is something doing impossible things in our sky.

I have no idea what these things are, either, but have seen structured craft - discs, not triangles - on two separate occasions performing moves that would crush a pilot. Maybe the black triangles are "our" reversed engineered things. I never saw one, but plenty of credible people have seen, tracked, and photographed them. (Belgian Wave from the 90's for example) Definitive proof? Nope. But absolutely a data point in a large body of testimony and evidence that, by analogy, would convict a person in a criminal court.

It's fun to speculate, but rather pointless to discuss or engage on this topic with skeptics.

[The Louiswu]

6.5–7.5 billion
Estimated camera-equipped cell phones in use, based on global smartphone and mobile-device figures.

And not ONE clear, verifiable image of an, UFO, UAP, whatever you want to call it.

I am a huge fan of aliens visiting our world however I temper that fandom with a gigantic dose of reality.

[cgbg]

“Yes, an advanced civilization wanting to visit Earth? It’s as though I would spend my yearly family vacation in Compton.”

Post of the day—well done.

[ReganFan4ever]

Thomas Aquila’s first mover.

Thanks for your intelligent response.

[Rockingham]

I know. The term “landing lights” is an anachronism from the era before runway lighting became routine.

[DiogenesLamp]

In the clip, he says, was what looked like a black triangular craft with orange, white and yellow lights glowing on each corner. It moved silently before seeming to defy the laws of physics by accelerating faster than the eye could follow — and was gone.

No Sonic boom?

Probably not real. Maybe aliens have figured out a way to move air from in front of a vehicle to behind it without making a sonic boom, but I think that is unlikely.

[DiogenesLamp]

Maybe it is part of their navigation or propulsion system. I really have no idea but there is something doing impossible things in our sky.

Yeah, like going faster than the speed of sound without leaving a sonic boom.

[Fedora]

https://washingtonspectator.org/spaceship-of-fools/

. . .We’ve been here before. Two former Defense Department officials, Luis “Lue” Elizondo and Christopher Mellon, came forward a few years ago to expose what they deemed a government cover-up of UFOs.

Now the Securities and Exchange Commission is apparently poised to initiate a fraud investigation of the company they helped launch in 2017, To the Stars Academy of Arts and Sciences (TTSA), following its multimillion-dollar pleas for investment. The potential for an investigation is also driven by concerns raised in an extensive whistleblower complaint by a skeptic, as well as the substance of a previous SEC lawsuit against the company that was aborted in 2019. (Documents relating to this lawsuit have been obtained by The Washington Spectator.)

TTSA made a host of pseudoscientific claims following its public launch with a news conference in October 2017—while seeking $50 million in investment. Among them: executives promised to build a Star Trek–style spaceship to travel “instantly” through the cosmos. This project was based in part, they claimed in solicitations to investors, on (nonexistent) warp-drive technology—“reverse-engineered” from likely alien materials recovered from crashed UFOs. The company’s CEO, Blink-182 guitarist Tom DeLonge, even declared: “I have alien artifacts.”

Prominent among the proponents of such far-fetched claims were those former influential DOD officials, Elizondo and Mellon, both of whom had joined DeLonge’s company. These same individuals laid the groundwork for the UFO media firestorm that began at the end of 2017, new defense legislation that was passed in December 2021, and Senate hearings held this past April. These developments in turn effectively nurtured the bonanza of publicity and congressional interest that have greeted David Grusch’s purported revelations. . .

Earlier this year, in yet another addition to the dizzying parade of government officials with extraterrestrial tales, Jay Stratton, a former Naval Intelligence officer who led that same UAP task force, went public with his own faith in the likely alien origins of UFOs.

Stratton has been outed by a debunking New York Post video reporter, Steven Greenstreet, as the anonymous Pentagon official in a new book, Skinwalkers at the Pentagon. The Stratton character (whose name in the book is Jonathan Axelrod) claims that he and his family were “infected” and terrorized by a poltergeist-like “hitchhiker” and other creatures, which followed him to his home in Northern Virginia from the Skinwalker Ranch in Utah. (Stratton himself hasn’t disputed the portrayal of him in the book as “Axelrod.”). . .