James T. Lacatski

James T. Lacatski, Ph.D., is a Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) rocket scientist and career intelligence analyst with expertise in missile defence and advanced propulsion systems. From 2008 to 2012 he served as program manager of the $22 million AAWSAP (Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program), the most significant government-funded UAP investigation since Project Blue Book. In that role he coordinated operations and strategic direction, produced 38 Defense Intelligence Reference Documents on advanced physics topics and conducted extensive field investigations.

• DIA rocket scientist and intelligence analyst
• Expertise in missile defence and advanced propulsion systems
• Program manager of AAWSAP (2008–2012), a $22 million program
• AAWSAP as the most significant government-funded UAP investigation since Project Blue Book
• Produced 38 Defense Intelligence Reference Documents on advanced physics topics
• Witnessed anomalous phenomena during an official visit to Skinwalker Ranch, which helped convince the DIA to fund the program
• Co-author of Skinwalkers at the Pentagon (2023) with Colm Kelleher and George Knapp — the first insider account of AAWSAP's operations

Lacatski is the rare government scientist who translated a personal field experience at Skinwalker Ranch into a concrete, fully funded Pentagon program. For the UAP timeline he is therefore an unusual case: a DIA scientist who not only administers but becomes a witness himself — and who afterwards puts the program, including his own observations, into the public record as a book.