James Lacatski
PersonJames Lacatski
PersonJames Lacatski is a retired Defense Intelligence Agency official who initiated AAWSAP and later co-authored insider histories of the Pentagon’s anomalous-phenomena work.
James Lacatski is a retired Defense Intelligence Agency official who initiated AAWSAP and later co-authored insider histories of the Pentagon’s anomalous-phenomena work.
James T. Lacatski is an American engineer and retired Defense Intelligence Agency manager. After a visit to Skinwalker Ranch and discussions with Senator Harry Reid’s circle, he developed the proposal that became the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program. The DIA awarded the contract to Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies in 2008.
Lacatski’s government career was rooted in technical intelligence, weapons analysis, and the evaluation of foreign capabilities. He has said a visit to Skinwalker Ranch helped motivate the proposal that became AAWSAP, after which he served as the DIA program manager overseeing the contract. Retirement changed his role from administrator to participant-historian. Through books with Colm Kelleher and George Knapp, he began describing program structure and selected findings that had never appeared in the brief public summaries.
As the government program manager, Lacatski oversaw work that included a large case database, field investigations, and technical studies on advanced aerospace concepts. He later co-authored Skinwalkers at the Pentagon and Inside the U.S. Government Covert UFO Program with Colm Kelleher and George Knapp, presenting a participant’s account of AAWSAP. In interviews, he has also made striking statements about alleged access to a craft of unknown origin; public evidence sufficient to verify that claim has not been released.
Lacatski’s public profile is central to the institutional history of UAP. Unlike commentators reconstructing the program later, he helped create and manage it. His testimony therefore carries direct historical value while still requiring attribution where it moves beyond released contracts and reports. He connects Skinwalker Ranch, defense intelligence, technical studies, and the contested boundary between documented program activity and crash-retrieval allegations.
Probed ingest of: The New Space Race, AI Threats, and National Survival | Bigelow Podcast Ep. 8
Update: I Missed the Point https://t.co/9ekX5qNt2k [Quoted] "All of our references were, specifically, scanned in, electronically, at DIA." ~Lacatski (I REALLY missed the point yesterday with my rare "Breaking" post. Yes, senior WH officials CAN see copies of the DIA's AAWSAP files in Vegas at Mr. Bigelow's place. But, they shouldn't https://t.co/ky34StLh88
New folks, feel free to ask anything that I don't make clear. Like, acronyms. I have to remember that a lot of new people have no idea about a lot of this insid [Quoted] "I believe the AATIP is a dark stain on the history of this topic." I think Gerb is gong to look a bit foolish when Stratton's book comes out. https://t.co/exMVZwuFXg
[Retweeted] "All of our references were, specifically, scanned in, electronically, at DIA." ~Lacatski (I REALLY missed the point yesterday with my rare "Breaking" post. Yes, senior WH officials CAN see copies of the DIA's AAWSAP files in Vegas at Mr. Bigelow's place. But, they shouldn't have to do that.) Lacatski: "When I left, all of our references were specifically scanned in, electronically, at DIA. Now, I can't say what happened in the years since I retired in 2016. It could have been tha...
"All of our references were, specifically, scanned in, electronically, at DIA." ~Lacatski (I REALLY missed the point yesterday with my rare "Breaking" post. Ye [Quoted] Fascinating that access to the UFO files and reports from the DIA's UFO program (largest acknowledged UFO program in government history), is still being withheld from PERSUE and the White House (as @pdoocy just reported). Remember when @G_Knapp and I had the head of that program on WEAPONIZED (Dr. James Lacatski) and he told u...
[Retweeted] White House officials told this Fox News reporter they were unable to get access to the files created during the DIA’s AAWSAP program. This is ridiculous. I personally interviewed James T. Lacatski who was in charge of AAWSAP. Just call him. https://t.co/xtbvGwdB2l
Fox News reports on September 18, 2026, on three newly released UAP videos: 1952: A digitized clip from the National Archives taken by Navy photographer Delbert Newhouse in Utah. The footage shows objects appearing to move in a "drone swarm" formation, long before drone technology existed. 2023: A law enforcement officer's smartphone video from Colorado shows multiple orbs hovering over a military installation for extended periods. 2025: Drone footage from over the Middle East captures six ob...
[Retweeted] The White House told @FoxNews and @pdoocy it has no access to the files of AAWSAP, the Pentagon's secret UFO research program. But there may be other reasons why they're not being released – as AAWSAP director Dr. James T. Lacatski (DIA) told me back in November 2024: the reports were all scanned in by 2015, they're "there" – but full of government names, financial data and proprietary information. If the White House really wanted them released, they'd know whose door to knock on....
Dr James Lacatski has been inside a recovered UFO. Why are we still getting fuzzy videos? 🛸👽 https://t.co/XM7RrsGhR9
[Retweeted] Fascinating that access to the UFO files and reports from the DIA's UFO program (largest acknowledged UFO program in government history), is still being withheld from PERSUE and the White House (as @pdoocy just reported). Remember when @G_Knapp and I had the head of that program on WEAPONIZED (Dr. James Lacatski) and he told us all the files were digitized? Where are the files? Source : https://t.co/Ud5NbYkov5
