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UAP whistleblower says UFO retrieval program exists: NewsNation exclusive
- Pilot says he worked as contractor for secret organization
- Jake Barber believes he recovered craft of nonhuman origin
- Watch exclusive NewsNation interview Saturday at 8 pm ET
Updated: JAN 16, 2025 / 08:24 AM CST
(NewsNation) — A U.S. Air Force veteran believes he was involved in the recovery of alien technology while working for a long-rumored secret UFO retrieval program.
In an exclusive interview with NewsNation, whistleblower Jake Barber said he has contracted as a helicopter pilot to retrieve all kinds of downed craft, some of which he believes are of nonhuman origin.
“Just visually looking at the object on the ground, you could tell that it was extraordinary and anomalous,” Barber told NewsNation’s Ross Coulthart. “It was not human.”
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When asked to describe the object, Barber said: “I saw an egg, a white egg.”
He added: “It’s inconsistent with anything I’d ever seen before. I can also tell you that the reaction by my team, we all knew we were dealing with something extraordinary.”
Other whistleblowers, including Lue Elizondo and David Grusch, have alleged a secret government UFO program exists but Barber says he knows it’s true because he’s part of it.
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“Over the last couple years, it’s been confirmed to me by ranking members of the UAP task force that what we were working with that night was, in fact, NHI (nonhuman intelligence) and it was not a unique experience,” Barber said.
Three high-level military veterans are backing up Barber’s story, on the record and on-camera to NewsNation.
The All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) told NewsNation it is aware of the claim. Department of Defense spokesperson Sue Gough said in a statement it “…has not discovered any verifiable information to substantiate claims that any programs regarding the possession or reverse-engineering of extraterrestrial materials have existed in the past or exist currently.”
NewsNation has also obtained exclusive, never-before-seen video of one of these alleged UFO crash retrievals. That video and the full interviews will air in Saturday’s special report “Hunting UFOs: The Crash Retrieval Whistleblower” at 8p/7c. Click here to find NewsNation’s channel on your television.
In June 2023, NewsNation was the first television network to present an interview with Grusch. The account has led to multiple Congressional hearings.
NewsNation’s Kellie Meyer contributed to this report.
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