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.
Is Jake put Barber a person who you would trust?
Do you think Jake Barber is a patriot?
So you believe Jake Barber is telling me that?
Jake says he saw for himself close up.
Next, Jake Barbour's first encounter with non-human intelligence.
And later, news nation has acquired video evidence of Jake's claims.
There's no doubt Jake Barbour is an accomplished helicopter pilot.
Jake Barber says that's exactly what happened to him.
Jake Barber says that when he retrieved a so-called eight-gon-shaped UAP, he had an intense emotional reaction,
Jake says his mission that night came from no accidental crash.
But it isn't just Jake saying this.
Don Paul, another decorated special forces operator and colleague of Jake's, says he's also seen what Sionics can do.
but alone, Jake says that through his work, he and his team have suffered serious injuries.
Jake Barber describes his encounters with UAP as transcendent, quasi-religious moments.
Jake says nobody on his team was told what was in that container.
Last year, I introduced Jake to Stanford Immunology Professor Gary Nolan.
Nolan agreed to review decades of Jake's medical records.
Assuming Jake and his team were exposed to radiation emanating from that box,
Jake doesn't think so.
The good news is that now under Dr. Nolan's care Jake is getting proper evaluation and treatment.
The bad news is Jake believes there's another more imminent threat to his health, his former employer.
It wasn't just the United States government interested in using Jake's expertise working with UAPs and Sionics.
Jake and his team suspect those Panasonic Toughbooks contained data from the top secret UAP retrieval operations worth millions to the right buyer.
Jake says the private company contracting him was determined to recover them.
Jake says his team arrived too late. The hard drives containing the data had already been taken and it became clear to Jake that not all was what it seemed as his team set out to recover the missing data.
Hidden but by whom? What began as a straightforward recovery mission proved to be anything but simple. And Jake says things soon took a nefarious turn.
The shots fired. Whatever was on the computers was a secret so important it was worth fighting for. The situation had changed. And soon Jake says he realized his team was caught in the middle and their lives were on the line.
Don Paul, a special forces veteran was working on Jake's team at the time.
Jake was convinced his former employer or someone posing as them was determined to kill him. But who exactly was calling the shots?
Jake was determined to find out.
Jake was on the hunt using his skills and vast network of contacts to determine just who was behind this shadow war fought over these missing hard drives.
And he says the trail led him right to the top. This past spring, Jake and his team were in Washington, D.C., conducting surveillance and eventually confronting one of their prime suspects.
Jake was no closer to finding out who exactly wanted him dead. But he knew that he was no longer doing the mission he signed up for when he first enlisted protecting Americans.
Jake Barba says it's no time. Time for the public to know. That's why he's doing this interview. But he's doing much more than talking.
Jake's Skywatcher team has already deployed on behalf of the US 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, Jake and the Skywatcher team conducted their own operation with a psionic acid to see if they could summon a UAP themselves.
And Jake says a UAP 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.
But until now, it's never been shown to the public, making Jake's mission even more critical. The Sky Watcher team feels it has to push the federal government to act witnesses at the congressional UAP hearings have been saying the same thing.
Jake Barber has been to Capitol Hill, tune. News Nation has confirmed that this fall he met with staffers for Florida Senator Marco Rubio. Now, President elect Trump's pick for Secretary of State.