Jake Barber

Jake Barber is a former US Air Force helicopter pilot and special-operations crew member who said in January 2025, in interviews with NewsNation and Ross Coulthart, that he flew missions recovering non-human craft, including an egg-shaped object he lifted by sling load, and that operators were selected in part for psychic aptitude. He co-founded Skywatcher, a private group that says it summons and films objects using trained individuals, and he has released footage from its expeditions.

Barber's Air Force service is documented; the missions he describes are his testimony and no craft or imagery from them has been shown. The Skywatcher videos show distant lights and shapes that have not been independently analysed. Several other witnesses have said they know or corroborate parts of his story; none has described the recoveries themselves in public.

The corpus interviews Barber once, under the title 'I Retrieved a UFO With My Helicopter', and he is among the most frequently discussed figures in the later episodes, where the host follows Skywatcher's expeditions and other guests assess his credibility. The knowledge base records his claims as testimony from a verified veteran that is uncorroborated.