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He Ran The Pentagon’s Secret UFO Program - And Says We’ve Been Played : Dr. James Lacatski (PART 1)

63 min
Nov 5, 20257 months ago
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Summary

Dr. James Lacatski, former head of the Pentagon's ASAP UFO program, reveals that the U.S. government possesses a UFO and has successfully breached its hull. He alleges a coordinated counterintelligence operation is obscuring the truth, claims AARO is conducting disinformation, and warns the public is being manipulated regarding classified aerospace programs.

Insights
  • Government UFO programs continue operating under different compartments and funding mechanisms despite public claims of termination, suggesting ongoing classified research beyond acknowledged programs
  • Intelligence agencies employ counterintelligence tactics against domestic researchers and the public to control narrative around UFO technology, not just foreign adversaries
  • Congressional oversight of classified UFO programs is deliberately circumvented through clearance restrictions and compartmentalization that prevent even elected officials from accessing full information
  • The Pentagon's official denials about UFO possession contradict authorized disclosures made by program insiders, indicating internal policy conflicts over transparency
  • Private funding mechanisms and compartmented structures allow UFO research to continue without traditional budget oversight or congressional appropriations
Trends
Shift from denial to controlled disclosure: Government moving from complete denial to selective authorized admissions through approved books and media appearancesCounterintelligence as narrative control: Intelligence agencies using CI operations domestically to manage UFO information rather than pursuing foreign intelligenceCompartmentalization as oversight evasion: Classified programs structured to prevent congressional and executive branch oversight through clearance restrictionsPrivate-public research partnerships: UFO research continuing through private contractors and funding sources to circumvent traditional government budget scrutinyWhistleblower suppression through clearance leverage: Intelligence agencies using security clearance authority to prevent testimony and public disclosure by program insidersCongressional intelligence gap: Elected officials unable to exercise oversight due to lack of proper clearances and compartmented information accessDisinformation as official policy: Government agencies conducting public disinformation campaigns about programs they simultaneously acknowledge in classified settingsMedia gatekeeping: Major news outlets avoiding coverage of UFO program details despite having contact information for primary sourcesDocument destruction and denial: Government claiming non-existence of documents while simultaneously reviewing and approving their releaseSelective authorization strategy: Intelligence community approving specific disclosures in books while preventing congressional testimony on identical topics
Topics
ASAP (Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program)Kona Blue ProgramUFO Reverse Engineering ProgramsPentagon UFO PossessionAARO (All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office) Counterintelligence OperationsCongressional Oversight of Classified ProgramsSecurity Clearance Restrictions on TestimonyDIA (Defense Intelligence Agency) UFO ResearchSkinwalker Ranch ResearchUFO Propulsion System AnalysisCompartmented Program StructuresIntelligence Community DisinformationPrivate Contractor UFO ResearchClassified Document Release and RedactionWhistleblower Suppression Mechanisms
Companies
Bigelow Aerospace Space Studies (BASS)
Primary contractor managing ASAP research at Skinwalker Ranch; handled 30,000 pages of UFO program documentation and ...
Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)
U.S. government agency that created and managed ASAP and Kona Blue UFO programs; controls classified documentation an...
Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
Received Kona Blue program transfer from Pentagon; conducted review and assessment of UFO research continuation and f...
All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO)
Current Pentagon UFO office conducting counterintelligence operations against researchers and witnesses; publicly dis...
New York Times
Published 2017 story on ASAP without contacting program manager despite knowing his identity and position
Washington Post
Contacted Lacatski after publishing UFO articles, demonstrating selective media engagement with program insiders
Politico
Contacted Lacatski after publishing UFO coverage, showing post-publication outreach pattern by major news outlets
People
Dr. James Lacatski
Creator and DIA program manager of ASAP and Kona Blue UFO programs; primary source alleging government UFO possession...
George Knapp
Co-host of Weaponized podcast; journalist who testified before Congress about UFO programs and nominated witnesses
Jeremy Corbell
Co-host of Weaponized podcast; documentary filmmaker conducting authorized interviews with classified program insiders
Senator Harry Reid
Deceased U.S. Senator who scheduled secure calls with Lacatski about ASAP funding and expressed concerns about intell...
Colm Kelleher
BASS program manager who reduced 30,000 pages of ASAP documentation to 7,500 pages; co-author of Skinwalkers at the P...
Dr. Eric Davis
Publicly stated that Lacatski entered a UFO craft and found no energy source or propulsion system during examination
Dr. Taro Toole
DHS official who reviewed Kona Blue program and approved its continuation; has made no public statements about the as...
Sharon Angle
Defeated Senator Harry Reid in 2010 election, contributing to loss of ASAP funding and program restructuring
Quotes
"We've already admitted, because you're allowed to, that we have an exploitation or a UFO program to study at least one craft, that has been the core question people have been arguing about, and you're answering that publicly."
Jeremy CorbellOpening segment
"In my opinion, you all are in the middle of a, what I can only describe is a major and repetitive counterintelligence operation by unknown multiple operators or organizations and for unknown reasons."
Dr. James LacatskiMid-episode
"We're all being played like a fiddle, mainly me because I was slow to recognize it, but there's just too much that seems to be too focused."
Dr. James LacatskiMid-episode
"The Pentagon states that ATIP really ASAP was not a UFO program. They've changed their tune, but the Pentagon has never asked me about anything."
Dr. James LacatskiEarly segment
"If you have a certain clearance level, you know others have it. You talk about things you shouldn't be talking about."
Dr. James LacatskiMid-episode
Full Transcript
ASAP was the U.S. government's largest acknowledged UFO study program in history. And Dr. James Lekatsky was the head of that program. I was the creator and DIA program manager of ASAP, the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program, and of the follow-on Cone of Blue Program KBP. We've already admitted, because you're allowed to, that we have an exploitation or a UFO program to study at least one craft, that has been the core question people have been arguing about, and you're answering that publicly. One more thing I want to see if we can take you a step further. This is Weaponized. The following is part one of two of our interview with Dr. James Lekatsky. So, Jim, it's been a couple years since you've been unwethenized almost to the day, and you really shocked everybody with your allowed ability to say certain things. And we'll get into that. But I wanted to first say, you were asked to speak in front of Congress. It was a time when you couldn't, but I did officially call you on behalf of Congress and ask, would you be willing to testify? Even if it's just in a skiff and it's behind closed doors compared to public. But, you know, Congress is really interested to hear what you had to say. Now, you saw George give a full statement in front of Congress about his history with the UFO topic, and I get a sense today, you want to give us a statement right now. Something that maybe you would say to Congress, if you were doing a public hearing, is that correct? I would be able to say this. I'm saying it now, or will be in a few moments. Please be kind, Jim. Okay. Take it away. Okay. Well, I'm going to do the whole thing and excuse my looking down and reading. So, as way of background, I was the creator and DIA program manager of ASAP, the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program, and of the follow-on Kona Blue Program, KBP, both classified programs, regardless of what the internet has said in the past, both classified. Now, other than your invitation, you said it had been two months ago now, no one from the House Overside UAP Investigation Committee of Congress has ever after multiple hearings contacted me. Right at the beginning, I had a phone call where a young lady and her partner, a male, who never said another word, another than introducing himself, went through a checklist and said, what did I think of these people? Well, you know, it's a professional, what am I supposed to say? They're great, or they're rotten. I just gave a generic answer. So, now, here's the thing that's very important, hour, and I want to use that as the proper term. The public's yours, George's, and my testimony is contained in the books. They are complete. I'll tell you in a moment how difficult that was to do, but they are complete. That's everything that I have been approved to say condensed into what will be 1200 pages. So, those books are Skinwalkers at the Pentagon. Inside the U.S. Government covert UFO program, initial revelations, the new book, new insights, and the also approved future book, let's say, four months, six months, future visions. Now, that is a complete package that's all I could ever say to the Congress, and they can read it and know a hundred times more than they're ever going to get from hearings. Okay, now, George had a good point on the next statement. These books are not written in the traditional sense, they're assembled. They are not about questionable, I added that word, questionable flying saucer, stories, paranormal tales, or fanciful descriptions of strange visitors from other worlds. They are not my beliefs, conjecture, or opinion. Nor are they the attention seeking babble from the internet, podcasts, or written articles, or books by individuals who are not affiliated with OSCEP. You're surprising who is coming out of the woodwork, and I don't even know those people. Claiming association and lack of knowledge of the program's true nature, instead the book's factually detailed the results of OSCEP's day-to-day activities assembled only from official government files at DIA and approved for release by the Department of Defense or War. Now, column-caller her as program manager at BAS, the contractor, was dealing with 30,000 pages of information. To submit to me at DIA, he reduced that, as you know, to 7,500 pages, the 115 documents. I have further reduced that to what will be a total of 1,200 pages so far. And now, here's something most people don't seem to realize. If you have the free version of Kindle, I make about 50 cents of book. If you buy a full printed copy, I make a dollar 50. And believe me, in this niche market, I am not laughing all the way to the bank. It was a lot of work to basically earn what in the Washington area is a minimum wage. I, by the way, would have to be selling 80 books a day to keep up with minimum wage if I had a full-time job at a fast food restaurant. Now, let's speak about DIA. DIA 4,000 states that the 7,500 pages cannot be found so that the public can directly read them. There'll be a difficult read there, written for me, but surprise, surprise, no one has contacted me to obtain copies for redaction. They could, I and 12 other people have them. Just not bothering or is there something more to this? These books are our, me, you and George, effort to further disclosure and are much more revealing that any congressional hearings have been so far. Now, this is my way of cataloging this or segmenting this. At the hearings and on the internet, there are four classes of individuals that I've observed. Truthful descriptions of observations, but sometimes they are fooled by classified weapons testing or counterintelligence activities. That's fine. There are delusions either from within their own minds or from an I can't go into this external influences. Unfortunately, in category three, there are outright liars. They're unfortunately the minority. To some, I can tell you directly and by observing raising the right hand is meaningless. The most dangerous, however, and prolific are individuals have no idea what they are talking about, but speak with authority. Those are the ones you, George, and the public, have to watch out for. Very hard to discriminate versus, are they liars? Are they delusional? Or do they have purpose? And remember, I alone have five to ten emails. It is so easy to appear as a different person in the counter-entail world. Okay, now, here's a tough statement. I don't suspect, wonder or harbor any suspicion that false statements have been made to Congress, to the Pentagon, to you the press and on the internet. I know they have been. I know it. Deliberately false, not just incorrect documents have been created about OSAP and Kona Blue and are in currently in government files. This is a surprise. At a first statement, I have reported some, there's a lot of it, some of the false information to the DOD, DOW, Inspector General's Office, providing the evidence. I requested that I g take no action against the individuals. A action because the false statements against, this is another strange one, against OSAP and Kona Blue, to my mind, have been ineffective. The initial reporting, let's go back to the day one, by the New York Times story in 2017, was totally inaccurate. Contrary to what some people claim, the authors knew my name and position at OSAP. He had never attempted to contact me. Likewise, the Washington Post, Politico contacted me within hours after the articles were published in the free publications, asking for my opinion. They knew my name, they had my phone number. Why didn't they contact me? Now, the Pentagon states that A-TIP really OSAP was not a UFO program. They've changed their tune, but the Pentagon has never asked me about anything. They circumvented me and went to my colleagues, but not me. News reporters call me literally within the last week to this day, but only after the fact. There's no CNN, no Fox, CBS requests nothing. Now, I don't like to be out there in the public view, but let's face it, you're not talking to the program managers, myself or column, on the two major UFO programs in the relatively recent past. Well, we are. Well, you are. And right now, I'm basically limiting it to you, because after my name and position in OSAP was prominently mentioned by George twice in the recent September congressional hearings, no contact has come from anyone except a known anti-disclosure reporter. In the second mentioning at the hearing, my integrity was questioned and George had to defend it. I had been requested to meet with Arrow twice and have refused. The second time I was told, and I made the grammar a little better so I could read it to you. Holding a meeting with you in a secure space is very easy. Under our authorities, you do not need a current clearance. The law also grants us additional security authorities. Under a special program, we can hold discussions at any level, including human, uh, very interested in speaking with you. This is what the email says, and learning your insights into what we are currently working on. What does that mean? And there are no legal impediments regarding your issues of interest regarding their issues of interest. Well, what are they? Any investigative information held by the IG would not be an angle of information we are interested in. You have been lied to and you're not interested in it, then what exactly are you interested in? The interview and information discuss would also be held in confidence. As we have demonstrated with all persons, we have interviewed since 2022 when this began. Oh, by the way, you should have received notice last Friday that your adopster requests completed staffing. That's on the two books. So that's good news. Now Arrow is reviewing books. Wow. What is the purpose of that? Now, not correct. Assuming authority is not necessarily having it. Three months later, I found out that the former deputy director of Arrow was disparaging UAP at paranormal connection, a clear violation of not disclosing activities confident, uh, confidentially discussed. Now, the interviewer at the time said, this is a leading question, DIA's unofficial paranormal ghost hunt program at Skidwalker Ranch where they went road. Well, now what if that's not a preconception, I don't know what is. The response from the deputy director, they were looking for weird wolves. The second response was, Conan Blue was established as the home for all these paranormal UFO crap. Now, that's from the deputy director of Arrow. Now, that is a very objective view at UFOs. Now, this may come as a surprise to some people, but fundamental Christian or opposition to Asa either did not exist. I know that it did, but it was ineffective, and I know that for a fact. In the eyes of DIA, Asa was completely successful in achieving its objectives. Now, remember, this is important and it's near the conclusion right here. Only believe Asa and Conan Blue information directly read by you in the four books. This is to the public, or if you hear directly statements from myself or calm Caller, something serious is going on. In my opinion, you all are in the middle of a, what I can only describe is a major and repetitive counterintelligence operation by unknown multiple operators or organizations and for unknown reasons. Big question, what is so important about Asa or Conan Blue? Now, I use the past tense for Conan Blue, I shouldn't be using the past tense. What is so important? I don't know, I really, the public means to answer that. In my opinion, we're all being played like a fiddle, mainly me because I was slow to recognize it, but there's just too much that seems to be too focused. That is just unbelievable. That's being directed toward me. And I told George, I have even been criticized on my appearance and demeanor. It is, it is what? You're a vampire, right? Aren't you a vampire? That's one of the comments. Hey, welcome to Fight Club, man. I'm a veteran. It's a thing to be, yeah, I told Jim, Jeremy, I told Jim, good gosh, you got to run with that. Imagine DIA had a vampire in charge of its UFO program. That was the hell of a headline. You've said it was so a lot of books. So might as well have a vampire too. But the next thing on my sheets are something George asked about the major cases that I think are in the book and the strange things that I looked at in the book, but you probably, Jeremy, already have those. So ask away, remember again, I'm limited to what's been approved. But each time you're going to get more and more, because I'm for disclosure, but I am not uncontrolled. I want the public to be steered properly. Not in for any bad reasons, but people are not learning what they need to know because they're getting bogged down. And by the way, when people agree with negative observations about either of those programs, on the internet, who are you dealing with? Who are you really dealing with there? So in any case, ask away. 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I think if I were to summarize in my language, what you're saying is that you are realizing there is a sort of human intelligence campaign that is going on that it's insidious, that it's prolific, and that it's doing a good job of trying to dissuade and move the public from understanding any core reality about UFOs is that exactly. Okay, so I'm glad you caught up because George and I know for a fact that this has been going on. We know that arrow is a big part of it. And from what you just said, without you naming names or or or identify specific organizations, it's very clear to me and tell me if I'm wrong, that you believe arrow to be more of a counter intelligence program than anything else. Right. They're participating. Now, the individual who's email I read is very experienced in that area, but may honestly believe they have authorities they're claiming. Well, I tell you the there's some organizations in the intelligence community who claim all kind of authorities that they do not have. And so you have to be cautious when people's managers tell them that and what are they going to do say, oh, no, we don't know. They're going to as best they can not circumvent their managers, but play it down because they don't have the humid can be openly discussed because by who we have that authority. No way. Oh, let's clarify for our audience. The judge, I got about five quick things based on what he said. I just want to get to him. So let's try to make this like really clear question and answer because there was so much you just said, but so first and foremost, arrow was aware of the security review status of your books. So somehow they're inherently and directly stated it. They were the first two were not sent there. I was asked for them and they bought copies. Now, why is docks are communicating that to them? That's a big question. I don't know the answer. Are they just interested in getting it quickly? Well, I don't know. It feels it feels kind of meddling and so I want to put on top of that something I noticed, which is in the last hearing when George and I were nominating people and going through reviews with them and security reviews with them and introducing them to people and going through all these meetings. One thing I said and they promised me is that arrow would not be involved in any way. No communication to arrow. This is just free going to Congress. People could know that their information would not be shared with arrow. That turned out not to be true. There was a leak in Congress where they were directly sharing information of people that George and I were nominating. And in some cases, people were contacted, you know, for kind of pre-reviews with arrows. So arrow was meddling and I actually put in a request for this to be followed down by Congress. So now we're seeing another infiltration of arrow from the human intelligence perspective. But I might not fully understand that. I want to you said something. You said in arrows letter to you, they said we can even discuss human and you go, huh? Can you explain what is concerning about that to our audience? Human is controlled by the organization that gathers the human. They cannot cross the lines and discussing it without a ton of paperwork. I went in and out of human constantly because I couldn't use it in my documents. I mean, yeah, I was reading it and it was like, well, what's good this? I can't share it in my documents. Same here. I can't just go to Congress. Mr. Borland summarized it very well when he was directly asked, can you talk to us in a skiff? And he said, well, if you have the clearances, the proper clearances and your subcategories and whatever that you need that I have that he has, uh, yeah, I can talk to you. Well, good luck in getting those. Right. His point was I don't even know if you can get clearance to hear everything I have to say. So even if I want to tell you, I'm restricted by your ability to hear it. Next question. Why did you say we cannot talk about Kona Blue in past tense? I need you to elaborate on that. Kona Blue is much more than Kona Blue. I can answer that directly but I can't go into details. Kona Blue was a compartment. It was also a program. If people knew what they were reading that was released, knew the what is between the lines on what DHS Department of Homeland Security released, which by the way was a very good write-up. There's a key sentence in there. Let people find a very good write-up. But the thing is, is what's to do with a compartment? Now, am I agreeing with what has been said in DHS and what has been said by Arrow about Kona Blue? All I can say is, hmm. Okay. So I'm going to read between the lines and assume that there is some active element or component to what we are calling Kona Blue. Let it be an operation, a compartment, whatever. Did it you're talking to you can't talk about it? Not a compartment. That's secure. Okay. So it's not a program continues. It can be unfunded. It can be funded. It can be temporarily funded. Money can go in and out. So a UFO study program could continue under that. Remember what we asked in the rear? It was with a lot of thought. Column wrote it in the rear portions of skin walkers at the Pentagon. We, he suggested private money, private money going in from multiple sources. And I can tell you now that caught people's eye. Okay. So I mean, George, that's a, that's new to me in that great. It is. Dr. Katsky, the picture that's been painted to the public by have sorted people and debunkers and counterintelligence operatives is that Kona Blue was a crackpot idea. It went to Department of Homeland Security. There were some discussions, but they eventually decided there's no value in this. That's what we've been told. There's no value. It's a bunch of crazy stuff going on. And it is completely contrary to the process that you described in the earlier books. Absolutely. Dr. Katsky. And others recognize the value of it. They wanted it to go forward somewhere, somewhere up above intervening. And the public has told it was killed right there. Yes. Yes. And that, the program was not killed. You can't kill Kona Blue. At one point in the near future, you'll start seeing it because I suggest to Dr. Keller her that there will be a book after these four. And I want the public to participate because it will be my interpretation and my statements that were made in DHS. I was not in favor of some things because I knew that I could never ask Congress for that amount of money. There was no way. So yes, George, go ahead. I got a bunch more. Dr. O'Toole. Dr. Taro Toole, you met with her. She's a brilliant person has made no public comment to my knowledge about the Kona Blue process, the discussions that were had. She's staying away from it and I don't blame her. But can you share with us some of what you've already reported and might report in the future about the value that she did see in approving that to go forward? I can't talk about that because we have to also talk about DHS interests. And I need approval as we move forward past what the Pentagon has already released. You got enough clues in there, by the way. People just haven't looked at it because they just took Arrow's assessment. Let me repeat words from the deputy director here if I can find them. They were looking for weirwolves. Kona was established as the home for all this paranormal UFO crap. Now, isn't that great? What did you expect to come out in their review? Any reasonable person would say or intel analyst or civilian intel analyst would say, I'm being having the wool pull over my eyes. Well, guess what? Arrow's a disinformation campaign you're coming to realize by their public statements and how they're talking about a program that you have knowledge of that they're completely lying to the American public. That is well, I wouldn't use the word completely lying. That's not how counterintelligence work. There's some truth. There's some false. But you said it very clearly steering the direction of the conversation. Because let me tell you, you've been misdirected on the internet time and time again. And well, or claiming knowledge of these programs that have no knowledge, but the way they speak is that they do. I mean, they're they don't identify themselves. Of course not, they wouldn't. But and also, George, you're having problems as I understand it with your computer because of the Russians. You know, no, it's the Russians. Right. Right. That's a really good point. Yeah, that's the yeah, that was the really good point. I've had that thought as well. Staying on the arrow issue. You know, OSAP is this amazing program. And you follow the internet's where it leads. You collect a huge amount of data. You write these excellent reports. And all that work, you know, it it sort of gets categorized as crazy. Where will Poltergeist stuff and dismissed. Then J Straton is in head ahead of UAP task force also does great work trying to find answers to these mysteries that the public is interested in. And then it goes away. And then they create some other interim program. And now we get arrow. And it seems to be completely contrary, directly opposite of all the work that was before it. That's a strategy. It's a pushback strategy. It seems they invite whistle blowers. Come on in. Tell us your stories. Witnesses come on in. Bring your evidence. Seems designed to identify who knows what. And then dismisses all of it. They dismiss everything. The only those whistle blowers and witnesses that came forward. But everything that was done before by you by by J Straton UAP task force. It is is is clear as a big bloody handwriting on the wall. Is it not? I mean the four books are not or are the public record the public paid for that information. All the little's pitons that I'm earning is transferring and condensing the information. And I told you the other day, basically on the television interview, that it's complete. I didn't admit anything. It's just a shrunken size. So it's digestible. Believe me, the seventy five hundred pages, the monthly reports are not digestible. You really don't want them. Now I'm going to announce and summarize in the next book two whole new cladic categories of documents, big documents that were done that have never been mentioned. Yes, the pitons a little bit of it is in monthly reports. But the problem with the monthly reports, they were to me and I was easily able to electronically and physically because I know the documents because I had the seventy five hundred pages. Flip back and forth in time and in investigation, they were overlapping during a month. There was so much going on. Bass was up to speed so fast, which reminds me of two things. One is that the ten month report that has been, the word is stolen. It was stolen. We tried to recover them because of what some people believed was what it's called compiled, classified information was in them. I disagreed, but that's nevertheless we recall them. Unfortunately, we never numbered them, which we should have done. We didn't get them all back. There may be two complete bound copies out there. They were supposed to be returned. Anyhow, the cat side of the bag, but they weren't. They were demonstrating how quickly bass was up to speed. There were new projects listed in there that I can tell you went nowhere. They couldn't go anywhere because we were not getting the cooperation that we needed. And in one of them, where we were interviewing people who were involved in UFO signings, primarily what we call the Northern Tier, the Missile Sile ones, I'm afraid most of them are gone. They've passed away. We tried to catch the train there, but we couldn't do it. No, you'd passed away. That part of the program failed, but it was in the 10 month report. It's in the book says we attempted to do it. We were unsuccessful. There are just too many people who died. The other one was, oh, I forgot to write this on the list. This is a real doozy. The Pentagon claimed that more important things were executed with the funding that was being spent on ASAP. It was new congressional money. There was no funds to divert. They either got it for this program, which they monitored, Congress monitored that money, literally dollar by dollar. They monitored it very closely, though, as being spent on the right thing. They knew what they were doing at Skinwalker Ranch. The reason it stopped at the end of the second year was Bob Bigelow's Bass was too successful. They completed two months. They needed a three month extension to complete the job, or they would have gotten a third year based on momentum. Since Senator Reed has passed away, I can tell you, he scheduled the phone call with me on a bakedly a secure line and said, I'm sorry, Jim. There's a good chance I will be defeated based on the way things are going. In the 2010 Senate election, my Sharon Angle, he wasn't, but he became the minority leader, not the majority leader, because a lot of his democratic partners were defeated. He said to me, I'm sorry, we can't give you the money this year. I will immediately execute it once I win the election if and when. He was true to his word. The next day after the election, he called DIA. The boated sale there. Because they wanted to pass the technical aspects off to another Pentagon unit. As you know, I went off to Department of Homeland Security. The thing is, and I guess since he's passed away, I can mention, he told me that he only trusted one individual with the knowledge of this program. Whether that was really one individual or a couple, but he said there is an intelligence gathering operation within my Washington office. Information as to the election is being leaked out and I can't risk it. And he just said, sorry, Jim, express sorrow to the people we're going to have to lay off. Because you know, Bob Bigelow couldn't fund them for an extra year on his own money. He did for a while. That was more than a rumor. He did after the three month extension. It was at no funding the three month. And then after that, he had some principles still on his payroll. He didn't just drop the program. He was more interested in the results than that. So it wasn't the Collins elite. It wasn't religious fundamentalists in the Pentagon. Said it a read, pause the funding because he felt he had a spy in his office that that information about OSAP could be leaked and be damaging to him and what turned out to be a very close election. And and and paused it and wanted to restart it. But he was no longer a majority leader after the election. He didn't have the same amount of cloud. Well, he had cloud, but I think the the information was had been leaked out inadvertently. People were passing it around. No one will ever find this so I can mention the how I know it's being passed around and by not necessarily who, but it was somebody partially the first documents that were leaked. There was a secret page document, not of our writing. It was something about the Iraq war that was stuffed in to the copier machine or caught in it. And this person was illicitly copying a document and distributing it on the internet. So as you both know, it's like the wild not just with us but with everything. And I always thought by the way that I thought the arrow and the military investigations primarily worked toward unidentified UAPs. Their performance was exceptional. I had pointed out one one battery is good for hours on a UAV, a substantially sized one. But you know, that's the way it is. Did their efforts seem to be more in human intelligence and against the American public? I don't know. They had created not not against the American people. I was surprised by the response when I named their compartmented program to them. It was like, how do Lakatsky know about that? Well, that's one of the problems with security. And I had to ask that everybody have a clearance in bass. There's too much talking. So if you have a certain clearance level, you know others have it. You talk about things you shouldn't be talking about. And it was mentioned to me and I was thinking, why shouldn't I be hearing this? I shouldn't be informed about this because I had retired. Who knows? Let's tackle a couple big issue things that people, a lot of people have written in and texted me about having you back on. George and I always hear, I want to tackle a few specific things that I wrote down. I want to go over with you. We can come back to this. But oh, sure, no, you move ahead. One of the things that people have talked about is the big question with all the hearings and everything is, do we have? Does the United States have a physical UFO reverse engineering program? You know, is that a matter of factual information? Now, you're kind of seen as this doctor evil UFO gatekeeper because you don't speak outside of the bounds. You're a vampire if you haven't heard. But you just said you are for controlled disclosure. So I'm going to remind you and everybody what we learned on the last weaponized almost exactly two years ago, you had an authorized admission to make and you admitted and told us it was in the book, but you said it verbally, you know, that we have a UFO and government possession that we have an exploitation effort on that vehicle that we've had that we've been successful in at least penetrating the whole. So you've gone on record and you told us that last time, now without going outside of those bounds, do you stand behind this that we have? Stabbing? Oh, absolutely. But let's get more specific than the statement. Do you stand behind that we have a UFO in our possession? And that would mean we have a reverse engineering program on that UFO if you breach the whole that would answer what everybody wants to know. I can't answer that. It goes beyond what I've been approved to say. And by the way, if you're looking at such a craft, what are you primarily interested in? The craft, the fact that it's empty or what in the world is the power supply and the mode of force? What in the world is that? That's your that kind of answers your question. What would you really be interested in? Yeah, well, so you because you, you know, have studied all of these types of propulsion systems and, you know, all these energy components, you would be interested in what drives this UFO. I might be interested in where does it come from if no terrestrial human nation has made it? So I would have a different interest than you would have. Just discussed why I didn't want to go any further in Kona Blue. It is that difference and it is important because unless you have an infinite amount of funding, you've got to choose what you're looking at. You, as you know, and in George knows, a fair amount of money went into the medical aspect of UFOs in an awesome much more so than was described. I mean, much more so. Someone like me might not, well, you know, it's not that I would wouldn't care, but I'd be interested in how in the world they got here. I mean, what we currently understand in advanced physics is it isn't as advanced as we'd like to believe. I'd be wanting to know where the pilots, who were they, where did they go? If there were pilots, you said there was no wings, there's no fuel, there's no fuel tanks. You couldn't, it's not immediate obviously. It's not immediate. The obvious how this thing flew, if it flew, and if it flew under the control of pilots, what happened to them? That's what I'd want to know. Yeah. And other people, the other in the public would want to know too. The asset wasn't the end all at all. It was a, was it then they say on the old twilight zone? There's a sign post up ahead. It's nothing more than a sign post. And but Kona Blue is taking the sign post and saying, should I go that way? Should I not go that way? What are the ramifications? Now then of course through the compartment. If you chose to go pure technology, you would need the security. Otherwise, what's the secure? Because it's an open discussion, open. And so the public can participate. So, okay, I mean, just at the core of it though, this is one of the largest admissions, because you are for controlled disclosure and you're getting things authorized. It is one of the largest admissions in UFO history that you're admitting and announcing to an authorized disclosure that you had to get authorized. It's amazing. They authorized it that we have a UFO in our possession and that we breached the whole and that there was none of these typical things you'd see for common flight. So again, I'm just asking, I know you've already affirmed it, but that is a factual statement under sworn testimony. You would tell that right to Congress, right? That's what's in the book. They can read it themselves. If they want my hand up, I could do that, but I can't go beyond what is in the text. The next book, I'm not talking about the next one in six months. I'm talking about the one that looks at Kona Blue from my perspective. I mean, a big decision point on four books of OSAT, even though only 1200 pages is what's important in there and what isn't. You can't get in trouble though. This is where you, Dr. Kulkatsky, get in trouble. People say, well, why are you parsing this out in public books rather than testifying to Congress? They're supposed to have oversight of our government. Congress is supposed to have financial and substantial oversight over these things. So if you did testify that we have a reverse engineering program, we have a UFO and you raise your hand and you say, that is factual information. They're going to ask you, where is it being held? How is our money being spent for the taxpayers? Why is there going in your books instead of telling us Congress so we can have oversight? I mean, I can only release what I'm approved to release. And I, to am surprised that they, they approve that. I put it in there deliberately. I put in the 115 books. I was told by intelligence people, they'll never authorize those 115 not books documents from DIA. Now what they're doing now in retrospect is they're denying they're not their existence. They obviously exist, but that we have them. Well, I, I electron, unless people are deleting electrons now, I had them all all reduced to the size of a thumb drive. When I said there were 12 copies, they're on thumb drives. The fact is they haven't just disappeared. What would be a real bear is for the government, a real bear would be to go through there and clean it. Oh, I mean, they have electronic systems that can go through there and spot certain things. If you know what to ask it to spot, but the thing is is, I, I, I just, on my own, I stated to dopser. Don't come looking for me for, for cleaning those books up. They're, you know, they can give advice of getting rid of names, changing names, getting rid of sex, changing sex, addresses, cities. And I can do all that. And we did do all that. But to do that on 7,500 pages, and look at how the rules change. The thing is, is this last book, you notice the authors of the, of the references that were in the 115 documents, their names have been removed, their institutions have been removed. That's been released to Congress already. It's been in the other books. But the rules change. I just don't want to get involved in that in, in having to be responsible. It would be very time consuming. But doing the books is a different story. I can say, I am controlling what is disclosed. I'm getting official approval. This is it. Just believe this. And anything else you'd go on your own risk. Well, I understand where you do the books. But I think Congress should have oversight. I think that they should have you into testify even behind closed doors. And then it's up to them what the rules are for them to have oversight over these programs. You've already admitted, because you're allowed to, that we have an exploitation or a UFO program to study at least one craft. That has been the core question people have been arguing about. And you're answering that publicly. One more thing I want to see if we can take you a step further. Last time I asked you, you know, from your book, you know, I said, did you enter the craft at any time? And you said, I can't answer that. Well, Eric Davis has commented publicly. And this is what he said, we couldn't understand the propulsion. Lakatsky went inside the UAP. And they didn't find any energy source or propulsion system. So now that Dr. Eric Davis has publicly stated that you were inside this UFO. Can you now expand on that? You know, were you in the craft you were describing? Oh, I can't expand on that. And going back to your question just before this, the reason I really have never, first of all, have never been asked to testify other than through indirectly through you. Right. And I had a medical reason not to do it last month. But the thing is, I can tell you a lot of what we're talking about real intelligence gathering from a variety of folks in these four books. It's not as exciting as some of the stories that I've said, even if they're just stories, they're not as exciting. But the senators and congressmen can have their staff read the book, summarize it, bullet points. Okay. But you're not going to answer me if you were in the craft or not yourself. I do. I can't. And I couldn't in front of Congress. I can do no more than what is in the books to them. And they have it in, they have it locked and believe me, it's the absolute truth was what is in the books. I believe you it's the truth, but why couldn't you tell Congress? I mean, they, what they're not authorized for you to tell them. When you're brought into things, you're, I was once told for particular clearance. I was to inform that agency and their legal team if I was ever asked to go to Congress. Wow. In fact, I believe that was a standard question. Again, it's just think about the, the, the program that has been tried to start up where people can be free to talk about things with no repercussions. Remember where your clearances come from. If DIA, if CIA, if the State Department, if NSA doesn't want you to have their clearance, they won't grant it. And it doesn't matter what Congress says. Again, I'm speaking for myself as to that what goes on inside. I mean, there was someone in OSAP that was going to be denied a clearance. That person, male or female, wasn't ever going to be told. They weren't going to get the clearance, but they weren't going to be told. Here's what we hear in UFO world. Come on whistleblowers, come forward and spill your guts. No one would dare prosecute you. You're telling the world about it. Just about your vote. They wouldn't dare prosecute you. So go ahead, put your life on the line, your career, your freedom, and spill the beans, and we'll be behind you. What do you say to those folks? First of all, you don't work for the intelligence of Department of Defense. You don't work for them. It's easy to just, this is nice to say, but shoot off your mouth and say such things. But if everyone who does that or who knows what the rules are, sits back for a moment and thinks, they can come to the same conclusion. And besides the first time I came on your show, I mentioned you can be sure, and I call them the enemy or listening to your show, you can be absolutely sure they are. Major intelligence gathering, I forget what int it is. It's probably news in, or something like that. One of the best sources of intelligence to direct your resources toward finding out more. Just I wouldn't do it. People can do what they want to do and risk their careers, their paycheck, and their families well-being. I don't see many of them doing it. And those that do do it are putting restrictions on. So the science, you know, let me ask you this about the, okay, so we've got a craft. Why won't Arrow admit to the American public what you're allowed to admit that we have a UFO in our possession and we've reached the whole, Arrow is running around saying all this crazy shit. Why won't they just admit that part to the American public? God to do. It's what they have been told, they've been told by higher ups that this is your job. There was what's their job that you were going to cover? What's Arrow's job? Well, the thing is I don't know. I'm not an assigned to Arrow, but I believe those are temporary positions that they're assigned ease. Wow, if you're a assigned and go off the rails, you're not coming back. So I mean, they could just, they have to respond to your statement. They're talking about you and your programs and other interviews. So maybe Arrow can respond to this statement. Dr. James Katsky says we have a UFO and we've breached the whole. That's a back engineering. We're interested in how it propels because it has no signs of normal propulsion. I'd like to hear Arrow respond to that because they say we have no evidence. No evidence. Dr. Katsky just that's there. That's fine. That's their official answer. I mean, I saw people from the public asking for old classified documents and DIA and I said, well, we're going through the effort of of downgrading this. Why are they going to say you're lying? Like, is there going to say you're lying? Are they going to try to say you lie? I would say that. I wouldn't say they're lying. I would say they're doing their job and that's their jobs. Counterintelligence is a job. It's a position. Okay, so Arrow is counterintelligence. Well, I don't want to say that. You know, I just said it. All right, George, George, I got it. You need to be performing that function, don't they? Listen up. Huh? That means you. Yes, you. We know you're pointing at yourself. When it comes to party power games, we've got a place made for all sorts. From the experts to the drama queens. It's made the JC. The finance bros. Look at those ducks, lads. We'll stick with slots. It's what we're good at. And not forgetting you. Yes, you, the one listening because at party power games, we've got all sorts of games for all sorts of tree coals eligibility rules in terms of conditions apply. Please camera responsibly. A plus camera way. I got to try on just on this topic because it was such important. It was so important to people. So I'm just going to try. I know it's important. Okay, what did the craft with the interior of the craft be similar to the exterior and that there was nothing really clear as far as control? I can't answer any more questions. I figured. Have I know something? You know, something something important and I can't go any further than just saying this. I wouldn't be overly concerned. Whatever the answer is, I wouldn't be overly concerned. This is the most exciting thing on planet earth. What do you mean it wouldn't be overly concerned? I'm I'm I'm proportionately concerned. Is it? This is one of the greats of partial answer the other day. He's going to have to think about it. No, this is one of the greatest mysteries for me. That's why we're doing it. Okay, fine. If we. Oh, I'm not saying that there isn't an answer or multiple answers. And I'm not saying people shouldn't be absolutely interested. I mean, I asked someone on the internet who was so angry about not being told not from the era podcast, but not being told the truth. And I asked him why. And he said, I've got to know. I've got to know. And I said, well, basically have a nice day, but don't be obsessed by this. I'm surprised for the many males that are in your audience. They're girlfriends. Why is don't say, what are you doing? Oh, it's fine. It's fine. We're all getting laid. Let's get back to the UFO. So you won't tell me what it looked like on the inside because you've taken an oath. Okay, but maybe you can tell me how we did not breach the whole. You said we breached the whole. Great. Maybe you can tell me how we did not because my mind says, well, is it mental telepathy to open some port hole on the side of it? Or did we use like laser cutters? Can you just tell me how we did not breach the whole? No. You're really lentiless, aren't you? I am. You're very good. Was the craft landed, crashed, or gifted to us? Come on. You know one. Do you know the answer to that? Next week, in part two of our interview with Dr. James Lekatsky, intelligence agencies and the Pentagon acknowledged there is a deadly serious contest to figure out UFO technology before Russia or China do. Nevada Senator Harry Reid told us before his death that the race is real and that we'd better win it. I mean, you basically ran the expires for the US government. I mean, it was pretty wild. There were wild things that occurred, but you said it best. You said, a study focused solely on UFOs, on various unknown, nuts and bolts type craft. Flittering around in the skies over military bases and facilities would never get to the heart of a much larger and complicated mystery. And I think what you were trying to say to us is if you just think you're going to study UFOs, you're going to be smacked with reality. Reality is, the UFO phenomenon is just shrouded and covered with what you would call, I don't know, the good word, abnormal aspects of reality. Yes, yes, that you've got to look much further than nuts and bolts. Now, can you study nuts and bolts and use it for a levitating craft would be tremendous. It doesn't have to be a fast craft, but a levitating airliner, think about the where it could go everywhere in the world and wouldn't need an airport. But don't you think we've already achieved that? We hear about all these people on military bases see in triangles and you're doing this study, also, to try to figure out the physics of how to do that. Do you think it's already been achieved by the US government? Or it hasn't? And that's why I also have had a lot of value. It hasn't been achieved to its full extent.