Jay Stratton says the United States recovered non-human bodies from the 1947 Roswell crash in his new memoir, Out of the Shadows: Revealing the Truth About Non-Human Intelligent Life. He also said some of the beings were dead when found, while others were alive and later died after refusing food or contact.
Out of the Shadows
Stratton, the former director of the Pentagon's Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force, described the alleged discovery in a book that places his account inside the long-running Roswell dispute. He told Bret Baier that the U.S. government has “craft of non-human origin,” and the account was also shared in a clip posted by UAP James.
In the same reporting, Stratton said there is “an ongoing program to capture and reverse-engineer this technology… The people who've had this 80-year monopoly on the topic believe the secret is so…”. That places his allegation alongside a broader claim that military contractors possess recovered craft and that the government has concealed efforts to understand or reproduce the technology.
Pentagon UFO
The Pentagon has previously said it found no verifiable evidence that the U.S. government or private companies possessed extraterrestrial technology. That statement puts Stratton's new account in direct conflict with the Pentagon's position, even as his memoir adds a former Pentagon UAP investigator to the list of people making similar claims.
David Grusch made similar claims during a 2023 congressional hearing, including that the government possessed non-human biological material. Stratton's book does not settle the dispute; it extends it with a new first-person allegation from inside the Pentagon's UAP apparatus.
Roswell crash
The Roswell case has kept its place in UAP debate because the U.S. military announced in July 1947 that personnel had recovered a flying disc near Roswell, New Mexico, then later U.S. Air Force investigations attributed the debris to balloon-related military research, including Project Mogul. Project Mogul was a classified effort designed to monitor Soviet nuclear tests.
For readers tracking the Roswell claim, the practical takeaway is narrow: Stratton has now gone on the record in a memoir and an interview clip, but the public record still contains no independent evidence in the material provided here to settle the allegation one way or the other. The open question is whether anything beyond Stratton's account will surface to support what he says the government recovered.
