Jay Stratton
Jay Stratton is a U.S. defense intelligence official best known publicly as the first director of the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force (UAPTF), a Department of Defense office established in 2020 to standardize collection and reporting on UAP incursions into military-controlled airspace, which he directed from 2019 to 2022. He also served as Chief of Air and Space Warfare within the Defense Intelligence Agency's Defense Warning Office. Stratton was an early participant in the DIA's AAWSAP effort beginning around 2008, and appeared as a featured participant in the 2025 documentary Age of Disclosure alongside Luis Elizondo.
| Role | First Director of the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force (UAPTF), 2019–2022; DIA Chief of Air & Space Warfare, Defense Warning Office |
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Role in UAP Programs
UAP Gerb's Special Access Required Vol.2 plays a clip of Elizondo describing the years-long UAP investigation effort — funded, per Elizondo, by then-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid — as conducted "together" by himself, Stratton, and a wider team. The presenter treats Stratton's name recurring across both the AAWSAP/ATIP era and, later, the official UAPTF directorship and Age of Disclosure, as evidence of long-running proximity to official and semi-official UAP program structures across more than a decade. The video is critical of Age of Disclosure's presentation of the legacy program organizational structure, in which Stratton and Elizondo jointly appear, characterizing the documentary's chart of program authority as self-serving.