Jonathan Axelrod

Jonathan Axelrod was a senior aerospace engineer within U.S. Navy Intelligence who rose to the rank of two-star admiral and gained particular recognition in connection with the "Tic Tac" UFO incident associated with the USS Nimitz carrier strike group. In July 2009 he led a BAASS team, together with Jim Costigan and David Wilson, that investigated Skinwalker Ranch in Utah within the Pentagon's AAWSAP program — and according to accounts in Skinwalkers at the Pentagon encountered massive anomalous phenomena there. Various experts suggest that Axelrod is in fact Jay Stratton, a U.S. Navy Intelligence executive; this identification has not, however, been officially confirmed.

• Senior aerospace engineer within U.S. Navy Intelligence, two-star admiral
• Involvement in the "Tic Tac" UFO incident of the USS Nimitz carrier strike group
• Led a BAASS team with Jim Costigan and David Wilson in July 2009, at the invitation of Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies
• Deployment as part of the DIA's Advanced Aerospace Weapon Systems Applications Program (AAWSAP)
• Encounter with a frightening anomaly during the ranch investigation
• Severe "hitchhiker effects" on his family in Virginia — dogmen in the backyard, multicoloured orbs, transfer to neighbours
• Pseudonymous description in Skinwalkers at the Pentagon by Lacatski, Kelleher and Knapp; experts believe Axelrod to be Jay Stratton

For the UAP timeline, Axelrod/"Stratton" is one of the most heavily pseudonymised military insiders: not only a witness to a Pentagon UFO program but himself a subject of the "hitchhiker effects" that constitute the core mystery of Skinwalker Ranch. His pseudonymous depiction shows how tightly the operational level of AAWSAP is linked with personal uncanny experience — and why part of the central actors remain officially invisible to this day.