A former Pentagon UFO investigator has claimed humans captured aliens alive 80 years ago, but they died because they refused to eat American food. Jay Stratton said extraterrestrial beings were recovered from the infamous Roswell, New Mexico, crash in 1947, but perished after refusing human contact and local food.
Roswell crash claims
Stratton, who was chief of air and space warfare for the Defense Intelligence Agency and the first director of the Pentagon’s Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force, wrote in his memoir Out of the Shadows that an unnamed source told him a spaceship broke in two near Roswell. The wreckage and non-human bodies were retrieved by the military.
The informant said several occupants were still alive. “Some were dead on arrival. Others, allegedly, were alive but later perished, refusing food or contact. Communication was limited and often futile,” Stratton wrote.
Official explanations
Official Government reports said debris found at the Roswell site was from a military balloon. The US Air Force backed up the claim in 1994, saying the wreckage was linked to Project Mogul, a classified balloon program intended to identify Soviet nuclear tests. Alien bodies reportedly found in the area were crash test dummies, officials said.
In 1978, retired Air Force officer Jesse Marcel claimed the weather balloon story was a cover-up and that recovered crash debris was extraterrestrial. In 2022, the Pentagon’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, also known as AARO, sent a sample of the wreckage to Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
The official report said: “Considering all available evidence AARO assesses that this specimen is likely a test object, a manufacturing product or byproduct, or a material component of aerospace performance studies to evaluate the properties of alloys.”
Stratton’s counter-claims
But Stratton has disputed those claims. He said military contractors possessed at least a dozen crashed spacecraft and have recovered non-human remains. In his book, he said encounters with non-human intelligence and their technology caused some of those involved “to resign, suffer mental breakdowns, and in some cases take their own lives”.
“The truth was just too difficult for them to process,” he said. Stratton told People magazine: “We’re not the only intelligent life in the universe. We don’t know the intentions of the non-human intelligent life that’s here.”
He said the Earth was experiencing “ongoing” UFO activity “over sensitive military and nuclear sites”. “We have flight safety concerns for military and civilian aviation. The world has the right to know about this.”
Other officials’ claims
He is not the first military chief to claim humans and aliens have had first contact. In his book, Luis Elizondo, director of the Pentagon’s Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, claimed government officials retrieved “technology and biological objects” from Roswell. “Four deceased nonhuman bodies were in fact recovered from the 1947 Roswell crash,” he wrote.
David Grusch, a US Air Force veteran and former official with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and National Reconnaissance Office, said in 2023 the US Government had alien bodies retrieved from UFO landings or crashes in its possession.
Earlier this year, Dr Eric Davis, an astrophysicist who worked with the Pentagon’s UFO program for years, said he had seen classified images and documents from the US Government purportedly proving alien life had been discovered in crashed UFOs. He said he had examined “off-world vehicles” and material that “we couldn’t make ourselves”.
Dr Hal Puthoff, a former CIA-funded researcher and advisor to the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program, has claimed the US has recovered “four separate types” of alien species from crashed UFOs.
