James Lacatski - Skinwalkers at the Pentagon: An Insiders Account of the Secret Government UFO Program

Department of Defense

Defense Office of Prepublication and Security Review

Case 20-SB-0058

CLEARED for Public Release

May 11, 2021

The views expressed in this publication are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the Department of Defense or the U.S. Government.

The public release clearance of this publication by the Department of Defense does not imply Department of Defense endorsement or factual accuracy of the material.

Where appropriate, in order to protect personally identifiable information (PII) and protected health information (PHI), names and personal details have been changed.

Skinwalkers

at the Pentagon

An Insiders Account of the Governments Secret UFO Program

By James T. Lacatski, D.Eng.

Colm A. Kelleher, Ph.D.

George Knapp

RTMA, LLC

Henderson, Nevada

Skinwalkers at the Pentagon: An Insiders Account of the Governments Secret UFO Program

Copyright 2021 by James Lacatski, Colm Kelleher, and George Knapp

All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form whatsoever.

Cover: Pentagon: icholakov/iStock. Wolf eyes: sbelov/iStock

Book design by Laura Smyth

For information, contact: PO Box 50790, Henderson, NV 89016

This book is dedicated to

Robert T. Bigelow and Senator Harry Reid,

without whom none of this would have happened

Key to Abbreviations

AATIPAdvanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program

AAPAbnormal Aerospace Phenomena

AAVAdvanced Aerospace Vehicle or Anomalous Aerial Vehicle

AAWSAPAdvanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program

AFBAir Force Base

AFOSIAir Force Office of Special Investigations

ATFLIRAdvanced Targeting Forward Looking Infra-Red

BAASSBigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies

BEAMBigelow Expandable Activity Module

BICSBigelow Institute for Consciousness Studies

CIACentral Intelligence Agency

CORContracting Officer Representative

DCISDuctal Carcinoma In Situ

DHSDepartment of Homeland Security

DIADefense Intelligence Agency

DIRDDefense Intelligence Reference Document

DoDDepartment of Defense

DSSDefense Security Service

DWODefense Warning Office

FBOFed Biz Opps or Federal Business Opportunities

HIPAAHealth Insurance Portability and Accountability Act

ISSInternational Space Station

JWICSJoint Worldwide Intelligence Communications System

LEOLow Earth Orbit

LLNLLawrence Livermore National Laboratory

MDAMissile Defense Agency

MUFONMutual UFO Network

NIDSNational Institute for Discovery Science

NVGNight Vision Goggles

ODNIOffice of the Director of National Intelligence

OpSecOperational Security

PEProgram Element

PMRProject Management Report

RAFRoyal Air Force

RFRadio Frequency

RFPRequest for Proposals

RVRemote Viewing or Remote Viewer

S&TScience and Technology

SABScience Advisory Board

SAPSpecial Access Program

SCISensitive Compartmented Information

SCIFSensitive Compartmented Information Facility

SMESubject Matter Expert

SVPSource Visit Probability-A numerical index of credibility for UAP cases designed by Dr. Jacques Vallee

TSTop Secret

TS-SCITop Secret - Sensitive Compartmented Information

TTSATo the Stars Academy

UAPUnidentified Aerial Phenomenon

UAPTFUnidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force

UFOUnidentified Flying Object

USAFUnited States Air Force

USDIUnder Secretary of Defense for Intelligence

USOUnidentified Submerged Object

Foreword

by Senator Harry Reid

People often ask me how I got interested in what the U.S. government now generally refers to as Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAPs), but what most people simply called UFOs or flying saucers. I dont know why, frankly, but I think that perhaps there is something about Nevada that led me on this venture. I am not from the part of Nevada most people think ofLas Vegas. I am from a tiny town in the high desert called Searchlight, with a population of about three hundred. I grew up in a house made of railroad ties and learned to swim in the only pool, which was at a brothel. With mining gone, prostitution was the only industry in town.

When you live in rural America, far away from the bright lights of Boston, Denver, Dallas, Salt Lake City, and Las Vegas, you have the opportunity to look up at a clear nights sky and see the Milky Way. Theres too much light pollution in the big cities for anyone to catch a glimpse of this nighttime marvel.

For as long as I remember, my family had a mattress that we kept in the backyard. I spent countless nights outside with my mom, dad, and brothers, gazing up at the endless, starry heavens. It was a rare night that I didnt see shooting stars. The expanse of stars filled my eyes and sparked my imagination.

One evening, when I was looking up at the miraculous sky, I asked my dad how many stars there are. He told me there were hundreds of thousands of stars. I laid there in awe and amazement. As an adult, I learned there are an estimated one hundred billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy. The numbers were vast, but my intrigue was the same.

As an adult, Ive always been troubled by the fact that I have no background in science. In my elementary school, we didnt have a science teacher; there was only one teacher who taught all eight grades. In high school, the only course that was remotely close to science was geometry. In college, I double-majored in political science and history, and then, I earned a law degree.

Despite my lack of scientific knowledge, or perhaps because of it, I have always been fascinated by things I dont understandby the mysterious and the unexplained. Why does the Sun stay hot? I wondered as a boy. Why doesnt it cool down at the end of the day? Albert Einstein once said: The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.

As a young man I may not have found the answers (or at least the right answers), but I never stopped asking questions. From the quiet nights I spent in rural Nevada staring up at the sky and the wonders it contained to exploring the enigmas of the present day, Ive never lost a holy curiosity.

Thats why my curiosity was piqued when my friend George Knapp, an investigative reporter and news anchor at KLAS-TV in Las Vegas, reached out to me in 1989 about a story he was working on linking Area 51 to UFOs. Long before George approached me about his investigation, the highly classified U.S. Air Force facility called Area 51 had gained a reputation for the mystique.

When I was a boy, stories swirled about the government effectively seizing a mining property in Lincoln County, 120 miles north of Las Vegas that the Sheahan family had called home since 1889. Groom Mine is nestled on a mountainside overlooking a desolate, long-dry lake bed known as Groom Lake. The family was left alone to mine silver, lead, zinc, and copper until the 1940s when the government established a military base six miles away from their homestead. This base would become known as Area 51.

The Sheahans endured years of military training flights for aerial gunnery and bombing practice. Stray bullets narrowly missed children playing outside their home. An aerial bombardment caused an inferno that devastated their mill. When the Atomic Energy Commission began nuclear testing twenty miles southwest of their home, the family was blasted with hot metal pellets and other debris raining down from nuclear fallout.