Special Forces Whistleblower Reveals UAP Retrieval Program; Object Caught On Video (NewsNation)

Whistleblower Reveals UAP Retrieval Program; Object Caught On Video
By Ross Coulthart
NewsNation
January 18, 2025

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• Jacob Barber had a storied career in U.S. Air Force

• He and his team are now working to show UAPs to the world

• He hopes the stunning footage is just the beginning

https://www.newsnationnow.com/space/ufo/hfr-uap-recovery-video-egg-shaped-object-exclusive/

In October 2024, an unknown man stepped out of the shadows, arriving in our nation's capital to deliver an important message about what the public calls "UFOs" and what the government calls "UAPs," or unidentified aerial phenomena.

His name is Jacob Barber, and he says for the past 30 years, he's worked in both an official and unofficial capacity for the United States government and its partners in the intelligence community.

What he knows, and what he's here to tell Congress, could change the world.

"We're in this rare opportunity in human history where it's very clear that we know that there are things flying in the sky that are unexplained and un-understood, and that's another one of the things that I'm uniquely providing information on," Barber said.

Others have alleged there's a secret government UAP retrieval program that's been going on for decades. People like David Grusch and Lue Elizondo. They say they've been told about it, they believe it exists, but they weren't a part of it themselves.

Barber, however, is different. He says he was part of that covert program that worked with alien spacecraft for years.

NewsNation checked Barber's records and confirmed that he was an airman in the U.S. Air Force who worked as an aerospace mechanic in the late 1990s. He was also recruited into Air Force Special Operations, known as "combat control." He would eventually go on to work in a nonofficial capacity for the Defense Department and the intelligence community.

Barber was a highly talented airplane mechanic who was deployed on a number of presidential support missions.

But Barber was no ordinary mechanic. Being recruited into the Air Force's Elite Combat Control unit meant he had a résumé that reads like something out of an action thriller: helicopter pilot, freefall parachutist, expert marksman and the recipient of a NATO top-secret security clearance — a legacy of his service in Bosnia, for which he won an award for heroism.

In addition to reviewing his official documentation, NewsNation spoke with three former special operations soldiers who corroborated Barber's credentials.

One of his most fervent supporters is Col. John Blitch, a Renaissance warrior who also holds a doctorate in psychology, was a Delta Force sniper and is one of the few men to hold doomsday in his hands while commanding a nuclear weapons battalion.

Blitch says he believes Barber's claim wholeheartedly and that the U.S. has "absolutely" recovered UAPs.

For Barber, he says "everything changed" for him around Sept. 11, 2001.

"I left the Air Force and was sent out to California at that time to begin establishing my cover basis as an independent contractor so that I can serve. What was coming down the line next for me was the path which led to the UAP subject," said Barber.

He says he was contracted as a helicopter pilot and was part of a team assigned to retrieve crashed aircraft at an undisclosed testing facility in the desert.

"A lot of the work we did was on what I call 'the range,' where the U.S. government and its private partners used to test all kinds of things — weapon systems and resilience to weapon systems of certain craft — and so you see a lot of exciting things," said Barber.

That's where Barber said he began to see strange things.

"It's always interesting out there," he said. "Things come in and out of sight. Things disappear for a moment and reappear. Things seem to move very quickly. Things change color. They change shape."

Barber said his team recovered "things that were exotic in nature."

"We know they were classified craft," he said. "And we recovered them and took them back to where they go."

Barber’s first encounter with nonhuman intelligence

"Just visually looking at the object on the ground, you could tell that it was extraordinary and anomalous. It was not human," he said.

Barber said he got his first glimpse of "not human" pretty quickly.

"I was a helicopter pilot, and I operate with a 150-to-200-foot-long line. So, I got within 150 feet of this object," he said.

That's when he saw it.

"I saw an egg, a white egg," he said. "There was no engine. There was no thermal signature. I was operating at night when I finally came in to pick it up. So, I'm working under night vision goggles at the time, and it was quite clear. I flipped them up, flipped them down and looked at it a couple of different ways."

Barber said the "metallic, pearly white" object was about the size of an SUV.

"I can tell you that the reaction by my team … we all knew we were dealing with something extraordinary," he said.

While Barber said he was never told the craft wasn't human, he's certain.

"I'll tell you that because of the reaction of my leadership structure and because of my experience working in that capacity, everyone involved was convinced that what we were seeing and dealing with was, in fact, exotic in its origin," said Barber. "I will also tell you that during this process, over the last couple of 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 he still doesn't know what exactly the object was or where it may be housed now.

"It would be taken to a secure facility. But my role stops once I deliver it," he said.

That wasn't Barber's only brush with the unexplained.

"There was another object. One was the egg, the other is what I called an 'eightgon.' The eightgon was essentially a flying disc with what looked like eight delineated sections when looking down," said Barber. "And I can tell you what it looked like from looking down because that's primarily how I saw it. Because I'm a helicopter pilot. We did recoveries with the eightgons. There was more than one that made its way to the ground on this particular operation."

Barber said what happened next would be one of the most "profound" experiences he's had in his life.

"As I get closer to this site, I start feeling odd, I start feeling extremely emotional, and the closer I get, the more the emotion starts to overwhelm me," he said. "I feel this intense hybrid of sadness and happiness and beauty and song, and it was very disruptive to me because I had a very practical responsibility at the time to operate a helicopter in the mountains at night. And I began wondering, 'What was wrong with me?'"

Barber said it didn't feel like an emotional breakdown but rather something entirely different.

"I felt like something connected with me," he said. "I felt like something had tuned in to me and my soul and was providing me some sense of guidance on what to do and how profound what I was doing was. It was so overwhelming that I began to cry."

Barber said he had never experienced a feeling like that before.

"It was a very feminine energy. I'll tell you that it felt like the spirit of God, but not in any masculine sense. And it wasn't like a soul; it was like a frequency that I was connected with. And whatever that force was since that night, it has stayed with me. And as crazy as this sounds, it's what's guiding me now, and it's what's providing protection for me."

Psionics

Barber said his mission that night came from no accidental crash. He claims the UAP was summoned by a special team with special abilities: the "Psionics."

Psionics, according to Barber, are people with a "predisposition for extratemporal abilities and sensitivities," more commonly referred to as people with alleged psychic powers.

"In the program, there was certainly a desire to explore the idea that perhaps UAP could be summoned, could be communicated with, could be controlled and could be persuaded to land, all by deploying people with psionic abilities to interface and communicate with the UAP," said Barber.

It's something Barber said he has witnessed firsthand — and it looks a lot like meditation. He firmly believes psionics are capable of making a mental and spiritual connection to technology.

It's something another decorated Special Forces operator and colleague of Barber says he has witnessed too.

"I've had the pleasure of meeting multiple psionic assets," said Don Paul Bales. "I've seen them function. I know that they're capable of doing what they're doing."

It's an established fact that the Pentagon has had an interest in psychic abilities — what it calls "remote viewing" — for military purposes. The famed Project Stargate spent years studying the subject and despite the CIA's official position that such studies yielded nothing.

Despite the wonder of it all, Barber claims that he and his team have suffered serious injuries.

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Barber tells NewsNation that these encounters could come with a staggering cost to his health.

"We transported what we called 'mystery boxes' all the time," he said. "I have no idea … it could have been empty. It probably wasn't empty, but we don't know what was inside the boxes."

Barber and his team, however, were authorized to use "lethal force" to protect their shipments should someone attempt to seize them.

"After this particular mission, I and everyone on my team got extremely sick, like physically ill, in the hospital," he said. "Within weeks after this, I lost every hair on my body, which they call alopecia. I also lost the skin on my arms, so the skin's actually falling off your body. I ended up developing a severe heart murmur that I'd never had before."

Last year, NewsNation's Ross Coulthart introduced Barber to Stanford University immunology professor Dr. Garry Nolan. He's been studying anomalous injuries among U.S. military personnel for years at the behest of the CIA. He agreed to review decades of Barber's medical records.

"The acute injuries were obviously severe," said Nolan. "I mean, the report reads like a bit of a horror show, to be quite honest. To me, the first thing that came to mind was (Barber) was exposed to some kind of radiation."

To this day, Barber is nervous that he may have some form of cancer.

Assuming Barber and his team were exposed to radiation emanating from the mysterious box they transported, could it have come from one of the many radioactive materials used regularly by the military?

Barber doesn't believe so.

"Can I put on my speculative hat for a minute? Okay, so if the Air Force, let's say, knew that what we were working with that night had any type of radiological signature, there's a whole set of processes that we're trained in on how to deal with that from a hazmat perspective and a containment perspective," said Barber.

"And the fact that none of that was apparent that night tells me they didn't know what was in the box, and it got turned on or turned off. It leads me to believe, in hindsight all these years, that it may have been something of nonhuman origin or exotic. Let's just say exotic. It may have been something exotic that activated or still had some fallout."

Barber remains under Nolan's care and is receiving proper evaluation and treatment.

Stolen hard drives?

It wasn't just the U.S. government interested in using Barber's expertise in UAPs and psionics; his skills were also needed by private companies involved in the program. His assignments soon took a turn from recovering UAPs to something more sinister.

"We were deployed on a particular task to recover what we call HVTs, or 'high-value targets.' Those high-value targets were Panasonic Toughbooks — the sensitive material that is on these Toughbooks has to do with sensor data, video that was illegally captured during some of these operations, some of which may be incriminating or classified now," said Barber.

Those laptops allegedly contained illegally obtained sensor data from the UAP recovery missions — sensor data that was illegally recorded during UAP recovery missions in violation of top-secret protocols. Barber said the company contracting him was determined to cover up the laptops' existence.

"We recovered our first two Toughbooks. We got back to our base location and then went through them and took photographs. Then we discovered that the hard drives were missing," he said.

Barber said the next piece of intelligence that came through led them to a lake where they found the hard drives in a sealed steel container 25 feet underwater.

"Yeah, so someone's going through a lot of effort in order to hide these things," he said.

What began as a straightforward recovery mission proved to be anything but simple, and Barber says things soon took a nefarious turn.

'Things got strange for me'

"The very next time we went out, things got strange for me. My spidey senses, my intuition, was on high alert because our intel contact changed; the rhythm and style of our intel changed. As we got closer to the day in which we were going to deploy, intelligence kept changing. That raised my concern, but we ended up going anyway. When we got there, the HVTs were gone, and it was clear that shots had been fired," said Barber.

Barber was worried he was in significant danger and possibly being set up.

"We were being prepared for the one thing that we've always offered employers, and that is plausible deniability and that we were perhaps going to be the hidden hand that gets severed," he said.

Bales, a Special Forces veteran who was working on Barber's team at the time, said he was concerned about a potential setup.

"Yes, setup is a mild term," Bales said. "The fact that people have lost their lives involved in this type of activity — and the links to which people have gone to suppress politically uncomfortable truths — is such that there is risk involved."

Barber was convinced his former employer, or someone pretending to be them, was determined to kill him.

Barber was then on the hunt, using his skills and vast network of contacts to determine who was behind this shadow war fought over those missing hard drives. He says the trail led him right to the top.

Last spring, Barber and his team were in Washington, D.C., conducting surveillance — and eventually confronting — one of their prime suspects.

"I reached out to the director of security for the particular organization and a sister organization and set up a meeting with them because there were only two truths in my mind: Either they were complicit, or they were compromised," he said.

Barber said he got in contact with the head of security of his former private aerospace company and was basically told to "forget it."

"If he had any knowledge at all, it was clear he was trying to distance himself from it," said Barber. "He didn't want to get involved. But he did provide some advice on where we should go."

Barber was no closer to finding out who wanted him dead, but he knew that he was no longer doing the mission he signed up for when he first enlisted.

To make it stop, he would need more than his handpicked team: He would need Congress, he would need funding, and he would need to go public.

Startling UAP footage

Barber says he has been recruiting individuals from within the program and forming a new team in coordination with government agencies. Barber would not name the various agencies he's recruiting from but hopes to "very soon."

His Skywatcher Team has already deployed on behalf of the U.S. government to investigate last year's drone sightings on the East Coast. But before that, they were on the hunt for something even more elusive.

In August of 2024, Barber and the Skywatcher Team conducted their own operation, with a psionic asset, to see if they could summon a UAP themselves. The team hoped to quietly gather evidence for Skywatcher but instead found themselves in danger once more.

According to the team, Barber says a UAP psychic dogfight erupted in the sky above them. He believes the craft summoned by the team was warring with a rogue UAP piloted by an unknown entity attempting to intercept Skywatcher's operation.

"And then things got a little weird," said Barber. "I'd say, four or five minutes into the operation, (the psionic) goes, 'Something's going on, something's wrong. Get me out of here.' And right about that time, our overwatch, Fred, looked up to the sky and saw a disc, a classic lenticular-shape disk."

What Fred Baker and the rest of the team saw was an oval egg — exactly like the one Barber had a previous encounter with.

NewsNation has independently obtained video recorded during one of those UAP retrieval operations. The extraordinary footage shows a view from the belly of a helicopter retrieving one of those mysterious eggs.

The egg resembles a UAP encountered by U.S. Navy fighters off the East Coast in 2015, suggesting a possible connection between these anomalous objects.

Aside from releasing data and footage like this to the public, the Skywatcher Team feels it also has to push the federal government to disclose what it knows about the UAP program — and any criminal activity that may have been perpetrated over the years to keep it secret.

NewsNation has confirmed that last fall, Barber met with staffers for U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, now Donald Trump's pick for secretary of state.

"I feel I was able to fill in gaps that have been there for a long time that no other whistleblower has been able to do," Barber said of the meeting.

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