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James Lacatski
Former DIA Senior Career Civilian AAWSAP Programme Manager Author 🇺🇸 United States
In Brief
Dr. James T. Lacatski is a former senior career civilian intelligence officer at the Defense Intelligence Agency. He holds a doctorate in mechanical engineering and served as the programme manager of the Advanced Aerospace Weapons System Applications Program from October 2008 to its formal conclusion in 2010. AAWSAP was the DIA contract with Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies that produced the thirty-eight Defense Intelligence Reference Documents.
He is the primary historical anchor for the AAWSAP-era institutional UAP investigation and co-author with Colm Kelleher and George Knapp of Skinwalkers at the Pentagon (2021) and Inside the US Government Covert UFO Program: Initial Revelations (2023).
Notable Statement
"The Bigelow contract was not a fringe undertaking. It was a serious, properly designed, scientifically rigorous attempt to understand a measurement problem the intelligence community had been told to study."
In the Archive
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