Jay Stratton’s FIRST-EVER Interview - Before The World Knew His Name

Summary

George Knapp and Jeremy Corbell revisit Jay Stratton's first-ever on-camera interview from 2022, recorded years before he became the public face of UAP disclosure. Stratton, the only official known to have worked on AAWSAP, AATIP and the UAP Task Force, describes receiving the Gimbal and GoFast videos, sharing UAP data with defense contractors, and having three PhDs assess the USS Russell footage as a self-illuminating pyramid. The hosts also discuss Stratton's new book Out of the Shadows, his admission that he is 'Axelrod' from Skinwalkers at the Pentagon, the newly found AAWSAP files, and an alleged CIA block on Lockheed handing over crash materials.

Key takeaways

• 1The DIA sent Robert Bigelow a letter saying it had located the long-lost AAWSAP files and would begin redacting them.
• 2Jay Stratton confirms in his book 'Out of the Shadows' that he is 'Axelrod' from 'Skinwalkers at the Pentagon' and coined the term 'Hitchhiker' for phenomena that follow visitors home from Skinwalker Ranch, including a werewolf-like figure his sons saw.
• 3Stratton says he was the first in the Pentagon to receive the Gimbal and GoFast videos, and that three PhDs concluded the USS Russell green footage shows a real, self-illuminating pyramid rather than a camera artifact.
• 4Former Lockheed VP Jim Ryder allegedly told Stratton the Roswell craft broke into two pieces with non-human bodies recovered, and that 12 craft exist.
• 5Knapp testified to Congress that CIA official Glenn Gaffney blocked Lockheed from transferring leftover UFO materials, stored near Rye Road outside Palmdale, to Bigelow's BAASS.
• 6Stratton's UAP Task Force reportedly reviewed 144 cases, of which 143 were unexplained; he also used Jacques Vallee's AATIP data warehouse.

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Transcript excerpt

Jay was at uh at the uh DIA at the same time Lacatski was there. He was sort of on loan from the Office of Naval Intelligence and worked with uh Lacatski, came up with the idea for ASAP. He was one of the formative uh figures in putting that program together. This was the first on-camera interview he ever did and it took a long time for us to talk him into it. Jay, have you done an on-camera interview before? Have you done interviews before? So, this is the first. The the sphere with a cube in it, the the the Lieutenant Graves uh and you know, and the gimbal, right? And and the GoFast. Uh those you know, those things came across my desk. Uh I was the first one to get them in the Pentagon because it was my job. This is Weaponized. I'm George Knapp here in Las Vegas joined by my friend and colleague Jeremy Corbell, who's lounging. What are you doing? Just goofing off? Deep research, man. Deep research. There's so much going on in the UFO field and it's it's pretty interesting to see everybody talking about it, so. Yeah, so uh you know, last week we touched on it uh just a little bit. Uh Robert Bigelow had received a letter from the DIA saying, "Hey, we found the long-lost ASAP files." Um and you know, I don't have a copy of the letter, so I can't release it. It's not to me, but I did read it. There was some confusion in the beginning. Bigelow thought they were telling him to go ahead and release the files, which I don't believe he's even seen in in years. ...

Excerpt from Weaponized, Oct 21, 2026. Rights remain with the original creators. Hear the full episode at the source.