Sources

Travis Taylor on Inside The Black Vault (Nov 2022): chief scientist of the UAP Task Force

Physicist/engineer Travis Taylor (Army directed-energy work; roughly split NASA and IC contracting; Ancient Aliens and Secret of Skinwalker Ranch host) is interviewed by John Greenewald. Describes being recruited as UAPTF chief scientist by director Jay Stratton after briefing the Pentagon on Skinwalker Ranch data in 2019, work split between budget/planning and reverse-engineering sensor data, an FBI on-call arrangement at Skinwalker, NDAs with TV producers and ranch owner Fugal, and his current role at Radiance Technologies.

Claims in this source

Each claim is graded on its own; this source is not graded.

Claim	Verdict	At	Relation
Taylor said he has not seen a UFO in a hangar as of 2022	Documented · said	01:02:58	asserts
Taylor and Jay Stratton now work at Radiance Technologies	Documented		asserts
Taylor said UAPTF work was about half budget/advocacy and half analysis of existing sensor data	Unproven		asserts
Taylor said a specific unexplained case occurred that he cannot describe due to NDA	Unproven		asserts
Taylor said the FBI was on call at Skinwalker Ranch for surveillance of 'men in black' operating outside constitutional authority	Unproven		asserts
Taylor was chief scientist of the UAP Task Force under Jay Stratton	Documented		asserts
Taylor was recruited after a 2019 Pentagon briefing on Skinwalker Ranch data	Documented		asserts

Ties

To	Role	Years	Verdict	Source
Travis Taylor	source	2022	—	youtube.com
AARO	successor office; Taylor's view that the delay is bureaucratic	2022	—
Patuxent River UAP claims	the foreign-materiel-exploitation industry that retrieval claims ride on	2022	—
Vallee on the Bigelow podcast (Sept 2026)	Vallée cites a Taylor memo: one satellite carrying ~15 classified payloads from different agencies that don't share	2026	—

Tied from

From	Role	Years	Verdict	Source
Stratton co-created AAWSAP with Jim Lacatski, created AATIP, and directed the UAP Task Force	Stratton recruited Taylor as UAPTF chief scientist	2019	Documented · occurred

Opinions stated (not graded)

Taylor reads AARO's late report as ordinary bureaucracy rather than a cover-up.

Gaps