Pentagon Confirms Investigation into UFO Whistleblower Jake Barber’s Allegations
Written by Christopher Sharp - 22 February 2025
The Department of Defense’s (DoD) Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) office, the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), has confirmed to Liberation Times it is investigating allegations from new UAP whistleblower Jake Barber.
DoD spokesperson Susan Gough told Liberation Times that “AARO is aware of Barber's claims and is investigating them.”
In an interview with podcaster and UAP researcher Jesse Michels, Barber stated that he and his team have a relationship with AARO.
In the interview, Barber said:
“We're conducting demonstrations for the new director of AARO. They are fully privy to our work—they've seen our videos, our data, and our report.”
Barber also added:
“Since we left the program, and reorganized, and are now working with AARO, all this information I’m giving you—including our reports—is also being provided to AARO…”
The Hill opinion contributor Marik Von Rennenkampff told Liberation Times that his sources indicated AARO Director Dr. Jon Kosloski was referring to Barber as one of the two witnesses he mentioned during a Senate Armed Services Subcommittee hearing in November 2024.
During that hearing, Kosloski stated:
“We've met with several of their interlocutors and a couple of firsthand witnesses, and we are making great progress in those firsthand witnesses that we have talked to [so they] do feel comfortable coming back to us.”
Susan Gough told Liberation Times that she could neither confirm nor deny whether Barber was one of the witnesses referenced by Kosloski.
Speaking to Liberation Times, Jake Barber commented:
“Skywatcher has had positive initial interactions with AARO under Dr. Kosloski and other federal authorities.
“We are focused on scaling up our efforts to collect high fidelity data in the field and look forward to sharing our preliminary findings with the public when they are analyzed, by ourselves and independent experts.”
Jake Barber, who first came forward publicly in an interview with NewsNation journalist Ross Coulthart, claims to have been involved in the retrieval of non-human craft.
Whilst officially employed as a mechanic at Pope Air Force Base, Barber was, in reality, conducting covert operations for an unnamed agency and received extensive training in special operations.
He describes being deployed on high-value target missions, providing security for presidential operations, and taking part in classified operations, including in Bosnia.
After the 9/11 terror attacks, Barber says he transitioned into private contracting, building legitimate businesses as a helicopter pilot to support his cover while securing government contracts.
He has stated that after 9/11, his work led him to classified test ranges, where he first encountered anomalous craft.
Barber describes recovering a pearl-white, egg-shaped object roughly the size of an SUV and, on another occasion, retrieving an octagonal disc in a mountainous region.
During the latter recovery, he says he experienced an intense emotional and telepathic reaction.
Barber alleges that UAP, reflecting non-human craft, are sometimes brought down using high-powered microwave weapons and that elements within the U.S. government are engaged in summoning and attempting to communicate with them.
He adds that UAP secrecy is so tightly controlled that even senior government officials remain unaware of the true extent of legacy programs.
Now, Barber is leading Skywatcher, a group he says he has recruited from within the U.S. intelligence and aerospace communities to investigate UAP incidents independently.
He says the team is working in coordination with government agencies and has already been deployed to investigate last year’s East Coast drone sightings.
In August 2024, the team conducted its own operation to summon a UAP using a psionic asset—a term referring to an individual believed to possess heightened mental or psychic abilities, such as telepathy or remote influence.
According to Barber, this effort led to an aerial dogfight between two unidentified craft.
Beyond disclosure, the team aims to push the federal government to reveal the full extent of its UAP programs and any criminal actions taken to suppress the truth.
Barber says he has already briefed congressional staff, including those working for current Secretary of State Marco Rubio (when he was a Senator on the Senate’s Intelligence Committee), filling in what he describes as critical gaps in lawmakers’ understanding of the issue.