the Air Force

I've known Dave for about two years when we were introduced by a mutual friend who had served on the Air Force with him.

The UAP task force director funneled a request through the Ops Center like, hey, is there any intel officer for your agency would be willing to be representative on the task force to kind of fill that void with expertise from NRO and the Air Force?

Twining, the head of all aircraft development for the Air Force, wrote a famous letter.

That top brass at the Air Force is conceding the reality of UFOs.

Blue Book was the Air Force's official program tasked with investigating UFOs in the 50s and

But it was basically a propaganda mouthpiece for the Air Force, explaining away and downplaying

It also was the site for Blue Book, the anti-UFO's Sci-op that the Air Force ran in the

fail, the Air Force Office of Special Investigations would show up men in black style, confiscate

This 1966 investigation into UFOs was paid for but supposed to be uninfluenced by the Air Force.

and was he used by the original atomic UFO programs and by the Air Force to downplay it?

of that narrative and at times use it for its own purposes we know the Air Force tried to marginalize

UFOs with blue book but later in 1979 the Air Force drove a man crazy by playing up his belief in

ago when they were discovered and it went public but he he was a part of the Air Force a part of NASA

to to maneuver around to get the air force to ever open up about anything this is on entity

You go in the Navy or you go in the Air Force.

So you went into the air force, not the army.

And I went in the air force and came to part of the chair force.

be in the air force, you have to be able to obviously be a high functioning

I'm sorry if it is but do you think part of like joining like literally the military like going into the Air Force or something like that is also.

when I was in the Air Force.

But once you do get out of your childhood and you do join the Air Force, what was what was the beginning like?

I'm going to make a commitment to the Air Force.

I was in the Air Force going through basic.

What was the thought process on choosing the Air Force specifically?

I got my bachelor degree through the Air Force and all the other stuff.

All my kids were taking care very well by the Air Force.

And I was away from a lot in several parts of my tenure in the Air Force.

You wanted to do within the Air Force.

Red means enemy when you talk about the Air Force because it blue forces friendly forces red team.

We already laid that out earlier you were in the Air Force till 2007 you were then a private contractor from 2007

But Jake was no ordinary mechanic, being recruited into the Air Force's elite combat control unit, meant he had a resume that reads like something out of an action thriller.

And I left the Air Force and was sent out to California at that time to begin establishing my cover basis for an independent, as an independent contractor,

This is the kind of work Barbour says he did after he left the Air Force

If the Air Force, let's say, knew that what we were working with that night had any type of radiological signature.