the Air Force

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.

the standard for marksmanship in the Air Force is pretty low. But I did qualify as expert marksman

that you acquired in the Air Force. Yes. You've essentially had the training of a top tier one

And I left the Air Force and basically made a left turn at Albuquerque, never part of the global war

that night when you were recovering that craft? Yeah, and I don't know that the Air Force realized

the Air Force and as a contractor afterwards, I've been very well taken care of. I was given time off

people in the Air Force at that time working on a nuclear facility, OSI shows up immediately.

speculative hat for a minute? Sure. Okay so if if the Air Force let's say knew that what we were

the report on to officials involved in Project Blue Book, the Air Force's study of UFOs.

McDonald of the Air Force, sat down at their home for an extraordinarily thorough interview,

Well, let me take a look. Let me read to you first day what the Air Force says about the about the bodies.

This is chapter 13, unidentified flying objects. Now, this is what the Air Force has the students at the Air Force Academy read.

Now the picture that we have of the of the big head that the Air Force describes.

He said the government goes to great lengths, the Air Force in particular to discredit this kind of stuff. Where did this come from?

That came from the private collection of Leonard Stringfield, who was one of the premier researchers. He worked for the Air Force in the early 50s in a secret project reporting UFOs.

You think maybe it's a top secret area if the Air Force actually does have them. Maybe they got him here.

It may not be a coincidence that the air force's only unmanned aerial vehicle squadron is based at Nellis.

and I knew nothing about my uncle's work in the Air Force.

No, no, but it went all over the Air Force.

Went all over the Air Force because my uncle mentioned it. He said that that was the story that was told in the Air Force.

you've got the CIA, you've got the Department of Defense, you've got the Air Force. I don't know

and the Air Force Office of Special Investigations continuously shows up and kind of makes their life

about it uh... with the air force and and stuff it with nightcap uh... the time uh... and so that when

And the Air Force and team were there to investigate.

Trying to avoid to discuss about this because that mission, the Air Force mission, was secret.

much more cases than the, the, the, the Air Force team because he was working there.

links in. I had one other question for let you go, Thiago, your father was in the Air Force. Did