Unidentified: The National Intelligence Problem of UFOs

/Unidentified/ is an enjoyable book that will challenge your view of the UFO phenomenon.”- Robert Powell, Co-author of UFOs and Government: A Historical Inquiry, Director of Research and head of the Science Review Board for the Mutual UFO Network, member of the Society for Scientific Exploration, and the UFODATA Project.. “Unidentified: The Intelligence Problem of UFOs/ is a tantalizing book that takes a different look at the history of UFOs. The book approaches the sightings of UFOs beginning in the 1940s in the way an intelligence agency or military body would examine the information at hand. Is there a threat?

In addition to oral history work, he is became immersed in document research pertaining to the CIA, State Department, FBI and various military intelligence groups. Known as a "document geek", he researched and published several collections of intelligence and national security related documents prior to beginning his writing efforts. His business employment allowed him the opportunity for extensive travel in the U.S., Canada, Europe, Japan, China and Australia. Larry Hancock earned h

 Over some three decades both military and civilian intelligence groups used the standard methods of conventional and technical intelligence to resolve what was officially stated to be a serious security and air defense problem.  Those well-established methods failed, frustrating those involved in investigations and creating serious public relations and credibility problems for the U.S. In the end the intelligence challenge of highly anomalous “unknowns” - unconventional aerial objects internally and confidentially described in both Air Force and CIA reports as national security threats - had literally beaten the system. Unidentified explores that intelligence failure, beginning during World War II and continuing over some three decades of official inquiries. Published June 2017 by Treatise Publishing.. It also profiles the events – including inter-service and inter-agency political posturing – which prevented the problem from being elevated to a level of true national security tasking. There is simply no doubt that unidentified aerial objects were taken seriously by military intelligence. Beyond that, the operational p