Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program or (AAWSAP) Program Manager, at the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), was James T Lacatski, D. Eng. He was a Ph.D. rocket scientist for the DOD. His full name is James Thomas Lacatski, with a date of birth of 9 January 1951. He was also one of the authors of the new book about Skinwalker Ranch called; Skinwalkers at the Pentagon: An Insiders’ Account of the Secret Government UFO Program. On many occasions, the former (second) AATIP manager, Luis Elizondo, has referred to the program’s former (first) manager without using his name.
From 1984 to 1986, he was a joint author of several technical papers regarding plasma engineering investigations in Torsatron reactors. Later in 1986, he was an Engineer Assistant in the Nuclear Design Section of Duke Power Company, responsible for reactor core design, operating predictions, startup, and plant support.
Lacatski was the head of AAWSAP, and most importantly, he was likely Sen. Harry Reid’s source of information. Reid states below that he is gravely concerned that Russia and China could pull ahead with UAP technology. By May 2009, Harry Reid was concerned that the United States was asleep at the wheel, that the mixture of bureaucratic fear and scientific conservativism at the Pentagon was handcuffing the ability of the U.S. to make improvements in exploiting UAP-based technology.
So, from where did Reid get his ideas that those nations even had a UFO crash retrieval program? A senior scientist at the Defense Intelligence Agency, like Lacatski, could just be that source. Harry also believed that Lockheed Skunkworks had UAP crash retrieval items, but then he took retracted that statement.
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In June 2004, Lacatski, Intelligence Officer, Missile Defense, Defense Intelligence Agency, attended a U.K. conference titled “Ballistic Missile Defence.” January 2005, James Lacatski was promoted to GG-14 within the DIA. And in August 2008, he was appointed as the COR and government project leader in the DIA’s AAWSAP solicitation number HHM402-08-R-0211.
And in April 2009, the DIA’s own internal magazine “Communique” showed Lacatski celebrating ten years of Federal service. In August 2016, he attended an energy conference and listed a DIA email address as his contact details. Interestingly, his wife Wisal Abouo Lacatski had worked for NASA (at least around 1997.)
Robert Bigelow supposedly invited him out to Skinwalker Ranch, where he witnessed a floating object in the middle of a room. Lacatski then went back to DIA and told them that the Pentagon needed to start immediately researching what was going on in Skinwalker Ranch.
Below is some fascinating information about James T Lacatski (although Elizondo does not mention him by name.)
“UAP has even been associated with demons and anti-Judea Christian beliefs.”
Lue Elizondo stated that “I experienced this first hand during my time working at the U.S. Government’s Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, where certain senior government officials thought our collection of facts on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena was dangerous to their philosophical beliefs. In fact, my AATIP predecessor’s career (read Lacatski) was ruined because of misplaced fear by an elite few. Rather than accept the data as provided by a top-rank rocket scientist, they decided the data was a threat to their belief system and instead, destroyed his career because of it.”
It’s a fascinating and interesting statement by Lue and explains why Lacatski has not appeared in the public domain discussing his knowledge of the program and topic.
So if you are interested in Skinwalker Ranch mystery and UFO secrets, go ahead and read the book. Skinwalkers at the Pentagon: An Insiders’ Account of the Secret Government UFO Program. The book additionally reveals the names of the people in the DOD currently running their UFO programs.