Stratton, John F.

Stratton, John F. – Jay Stratton

“A highly decorated intelligence officer, John (Jay) F. Stratton Jr retired in early 2022 as a defense intelligence senior executive with over 32 years of combined military and federal service. He worked the topic of Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon or UAP on behalf of the U.S. Government, both as a subset to his daily duties and as a full-time position, for over 16 years. This experience culminated in his selection as the first Director of the UAP Task Force, an Interagency “whole of government” team tasked with standardizing collection and reporting of UAP sighting.

Stratton’s career spanned across multiple agencies within the National Intelligence Community (IC), including the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Joint Staff, USSTRATCOM, Naval Air Systems Command, diplomatic experience in two U.S. embassies, and multiple military units both stateside and deployed. He was a senior representative for the IC with key Congressional committees, and a Senior Advisor for the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy. Additionally, he spent 28 years in uniform both enlisted and as a commissioned officer in a variety of active duty and reserve positions in both the U.S. Army and U.S. Air Force Reserve.”

 – FanCons

 

“Stratton is the most senior former U.S Government official to go public about their direct involvement in the investigation of UAP and non-human intelligence. He’s dedicated more time to UAP-related issues than any other government official, actively shaping and directing U.S. policy and investigation in this complex field. At the time of his retirement, he was the civilian equivalent rank of a 2 star General or Admiral, a level reached by less than 1% of all federal employees. He served the U.S. for over 32 years, both on the battlefield and as a senior member of the National Intelligence Community, actively contributing to the U.S President’s Daily Briefing on national security.”

“From 2008 until 2021, nearly everything related to UFO activity came across Jay Stratton’s desk. He was the individual who decided to abandon the acronym UFO in favor of UAP or unidentified aerial phenomena.

Stratton worked at the highest levels of Naval Intelligence, which loaned him to the Defense Intelligence Agency, where he excelled at reverse engineering. He and his colleague Dr. James Lacatski, a rocket scientist, saw reports of the unknown craft. Stratton assumed that a central location was analyzing those reports.

“As we tried to find that office, we found nothing,” said Stratton.


ABOVE: Jay Stratton is one of the United States government’s highest-ranking and most experienced UFO hunters. (KLAS)

They set out to create an office that would fit that bill. Dr. Lacatski was reading about a UFO hotspot named “Skinwalker Ranch.” After a visit to the property, Dr. Lacatski pitched the creation of a formal investigation into the location. Reid agreed to fund it, and Bigelow landed the contract. Stratton consulted with the AAWSAP program and later its successor, AATIP, or the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program.”

 

 

 

“… But Daniel Fienberg of The Hollywood Reporter asserts in his ‘The Age of Disclosure’ Review: Dan Farah’s Polished Doc Legitimizes Unverifiable Theories About UFOs. Fienberg thinks the documentary puts style over substance, and also seizes on what Hailu noted about Jay Stratton and Luis Elizondo’s prominence among the figures in the film, whom Fienberg calls “talking heads.”

 

 

 

  • The Military-UFO Complex – How a motley crew of saucer hunters got a place at the public trough. By Mick West – From the December 2022 issue – Reason.com

The UAP Task Force itself took a cycle through the revolving door. In 2022, government contractor Radiance Technologies hired both the task force’s director, John F. Stratton Jr., and its informal chief scientist, Travis S. Taylor, presumably for something at least speculatively government- and UAP-related. Taylor is already very well known in the UFO entertainment industry, playing an excitable scientist on shows like Ancient Aliens and, of course, The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch.