Jake Barber crash-retrieval account (NewsNation, January 2025)
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Jesse Michels · 3:14:05
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American Alchemy / Jesse Michels ↗YouTube-hosted preview and player; not relicensedIn January 2025 former Air Force helicopter crewman Jake Barber told Ross Coulthart on NewsNation that he had been part of a team that recovered an egg-shaped object by helicopter and that "psionic" individuals had been used to summon craft. In the corpus the host and a skeptic dispute what Barber did and who sent the egg video.
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What was reported. Barber said that as a helicopter crewman he took part in recovering a smooth egg-shaped object under sling load, that a video shown by NewsNation depicted such a recovery, and that a program used people with psychic ability to attract craft. He later founded Skywatcher, a company that says it stages such events. (FACT about the testimony; SPECULATION about the world.)
What the corpus adds. In the Mick West debate the host describes Coulthart's story about psionic assets and Barber's crash-retrieval team; the two discuss that the egg video was sent anonymously to Coulthart rather than taken by Barber, and the host notes Barber was a mechanic, not the pilot. Another guest mentions Barber's claims about a gifted-and-talented program. (FACT about testimony.)
Explanations offered. Skeptics note that the egg video shows a helicopter carrying a load and nothing more, and that Skywatcher's later claims have not been verified; supporters point to Barber's service record and his report to Congress. (INFERENCE.)
The event
| Date | |
|---|---|
| Place | 40.7128, -74.0060 approximate · United States |
| Official response | The Department of Defense has not commented on Barber's account; Barber said he had reported to Congress and to the Inspector General. |
Reported by
- Jake Barber military former USAF helicopter crewman; Skywatcher founder
Who spoke about it later
- Jesse Michels 3:14:05 UFO Skeptic Mick West Challenged To A Debate ▶ 2025
- Jesse Michels 3:19:46 UFO Skeptic Mick West Challenged To A Debate ▶ 2025
- anonymous guest 0:47:48 Jeffrey Epstein & Aliens: The Global Satanic Cabal (ft. Jay Anderson & Kurt… ▶ 2025
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UFO Skeptic Mick West Challenged To A Debate 26 January 2025
- 3:14:05 ▶ Jesse Michels
Ross Kolithart's NewsNation story involving psionic assets, specifically a guy named Jake Barber, who was part of a crash retrieval team involving these psionic assets, people psychically calling in uh exotic material
- 3:14:05 ▶ interview
- 3:15:07 ▶
It wasn't actually taken by the Jake Barber guy, was it? It was sent anomalously. No, I'm just like anomaly. Yeah. No, it was it
- 3:19:46 ▶ Jesse Michels
Jake Barber uh who, you know, is I believe he was a mechanic on the helicopter, not the pilot. I'm not sure I Yeah, I would be I
- 3:19:46 ▶ interview
- 3:14:05 ▶ Jesse Michels
Jeffrey Epstein & Aliens: The Global Satanic Cabal (ft. Jay Anderson & Kurt Metzger) 17 July 2025
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Jake Barber crash-retrieval account (NewsNation, January 2025), David Grusch goes public (NewsNation, 5 June 2023), House Oversight UAP hearing (26 July 2023). Open the full map filtered to this record.
Sources on this record
- 3:14:05 UFO Skeptic Mick West Challenged To A Debate · Jesse Michels ▶
Ross Kolithart's NewsNation story involving psionic assets, specifically a guy named Jake Barber, who was part of a crash retrieval team involving these psionic assets, people psychically calling in uh exotic material
- 3:15:07 UFO Skeptic Mick West Challenged To A Debate ▶
It wasn't actually taken by the Jake Barber guy, was it? It was sent anomalously. No, I'm just like anomaly. Yeah. No, it was it
- 3:19:46 UFO Skeptic Mick West Challenged To A Debate · Jesse Michels ▶
Jake Barber uh who, you know, is I believe he was a mechanic on the helicopter, not the pilot. I'm not sure I Yeah, I would be I
- 0:47:48 Jeffrey Epstein & Aliens: The Global Satanic Cabal (ft. Jay Anderson & Kurt… ▶
You have Jake Barber coming out talking about gifted and talented education program. Well, yeah. He talks about it in also in the context of, you
- Whistleblower says he was part of UFO retrieval program