When The New York Times exposed the Pentagon’s secret UFO program AATIP, it became known that the US government never stopped investigating UFOs since the Project Bluebook was shut down. The creator of this program, Luis Elizondo, has declassified a number of US defense department secrets, allowing numerous government witnesses to talk about their experiences with the phenomenon. For the first time ever on a public forum, someone is now willing to say that the Pentagon employed him as a "UFO hunter."
In an interview on June 21, 2022, with George Knapp on KLAS-TV in Las Vegas, Dr. Travis Taylor announced that he served as the head of science for the U.S. government’s UAP Task Force, the entity which analyzed UFO incidents and delivered the June 2021 report to Congress which precipitated the current Congressional UFO action, including a 2021 law establishing a permanent UFO office and a 2022 UFO hearing. Dr. Travis Taylor has long been recognized as a leading figure in UFOlogy. One of the most well-known UFO hunters in the world, he has appeared on well-liked TV programs like "Ancient Aliens" and "The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch."
Dr. Taylor appeared on CBS Sunday Morning in 2021 while holding this position to discuss the impending UFO report and analyze UFO films without disclosing to CBS or the public that he was a government UFO researcher being paid to look into that report. Dr. Taylor also performs UFO analysis for a defense contractor on behalf of the federal government. He currently works for the same contractor as his previous UAPTF boss.
Mysterywire writes: “As a scientific prodigy, Dr. Taylor earned advanced degrees at a young age and has spent his entire adult life working on classified projects, first for the U.S. Army, then for defense contractors. He wrote a book about how the U.S. government should prepare for alien contact which caught the attention of Jay Stratton, a high-ranking intelligence official who has been involved with each of the Pentagon’s Secretive UFO investigations including AAWSAP, the largest UFO program of all, managed by the Defense Intelligence Agency, based at Bigelow Aerospace in Las Vegas, funded with $22 million secured by late U.S. Sen. Harry Reid. Stratton worked with AAWSAP, then its successor program AATIP. Later, he took charge of a third effort, the UAP Task Force, long before Congress formally created that team.”
Dr. Taylor was asked by Jay Stratton, the director of the UAP Task Force if he would like to join the task force as the chief scientist. Dr. Taylor unhesitatingly agreed with it. He was involved in writing the final report to Congress summarizing the known evidence about UFOs.
Starting with the 2004 Tic Tac incident, the team put together a classified briefing of the most fascinating military contacts. The task force selected 144 of the top cases from a sizable database. "We selected sources from which we were aware of a chain of custody for the data. And out of those 144 to 143 of them, we were still unable to determine who they were, where they came from, or what they were trying to accomplish, according to Dr. Taylor.
But, he continued, "here's the issue. The results are taken by skeptics and debunkers who start at the beginning and assume that this is what will happen. Therefore, they make a modification and follow the analyses' guidance in doing so.
“The data that we had, in many cases, there was more of it than what the general public has and what was released. And so when we say that we had a thing that was from multiple sensors, and it told us multiple things, and we also had eyewitness accounts, audio information, and so on,” Dr. Taylor said.
Dr. Taylor and the task force members were stunned to know that a Navy official told a Congressional hearing last month that all of these were “drones,” as if the mystery has been solved. It was done to disregard the work of the task force.
Fortunately, Dr. Taylor said that they have a lot of sensory data which fails to provide any conclusive information on them. Dr. Taylor went into much greater detail about why the “drone” scenario falls far short of explaining the 2019 UFO encounters. And also why so many UFO videos appear to be fuzzy.
In his interview with George Knapp in May 2022, Dr. Taylor said: “You know, I had never seen a UFO until I got out there. Now, I have seen more UFOs now than you can count.”
In a surprisingly candid and wide-ranging interview, Dr. Taylor shared his opinions about the role of science in the pursuit of the unknown, his personal experiences with strange phenomena on Skinwalker Ranch, the physical effects of close encounter cases, and the mysterious “hitchhiker effect” that multiple UFO/paranormal eyewitnesses have reported.
In his opinion, this unexplained phenomenon can be different for people in regards to their brain activity. Hypothetically speaking, he said that the phenomenon can be connected with different planes in the universe. He added that he could go along with the idea of a portal but was not sure. He believes it is bizarre but there is some truth to it.
