Person · Registry ID 018
Dr. James T. Lacatski
Retired DIA official / author (current appointment not verified)
2 positions on the chart3 evidence records
Positions on the chart (2)
Registry record
- Past roles
- Defense Intelligence Agency intelligence officer and AAWSAP program manager
- Credentials
- Ph.D.; DIA aerospace and intelligence program management (degree details to verify)
- UAP involvement
- Government program manager for AAWSAP; associated with Skinwalker Ranch investigation history
- Principal disclosures
- Coauthored accounts of AAWSAP and alleged unusual aerospace findings | V85: Elizondo reports Lacatski recruited him for AAWSAP counterintelligence in July 2008 and said DIA Director Lt. Gen. Michael D. Maples supported program.
- Evidence contributed
- Program history and insider testimony; books; some government program records
- Knowledge type
- Firsthand program oversight; claims about phenomena vary by account
- Corroboration
- DIA AAWSAP existence documented; particular extraordinary interpretations not independently verified
- Assessment
- Program role significant; claims of anomalous technology remain unverified
Evidence (3)
- DIA management of AAWSAP research contract Claim unverifiedFirsthand
- Coauthored AAWSAP investigative accounts with George Knapp Claim unverifiedFirsthand
- Fravor and Dietrich describe Tic Tac object above ocean-surface whitewater disturbance ReportedFirsthand