Unidentified Update
As most of you know, my interests in recent years have broadened – from political assassination to a range of national security topics. Those topics include threat and warnings intelligence, national command and control systems (how they work; how they don’t) and the study of both American and Russian covert action as reflected in both deniable political warfare and regime change.
It might have surprised some to see me do a book – Unidentified – on the subject of UFO’s, but if you have read it you will know that the book’s theme was national security and the application of threat and warnings intelligence methods to several decades of the UFO experience, beginning during World War II.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/069289229X/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i1
I had worked on and anticipated an update to Unidentified, a second edition, which would have been out this year. But what has become increasingly clear is that the work I was doing and the new copy that was generated was literally becoming outdated, month by month.
First it was the discovery that there had been a contemporary program within the Defense Intelligence Agency to explore certain aspects of unconventional and anomalous aerial objects, including the technical exploration of some highly theoretical physics which might explain observed flight characteristics and propulsion.
Then there were ongoing revelations about incidents occurring in restricted Navy test areas on both the west and east coasts of the United States, and even more striking incidents involving ongoing intrusions of unknown objects during maneuvers and training routines involving our most advanced Navy nuclear carrier strike groups. As time went on (months only) it became clear that those were not just isolated incidents but in some instances repetitive intrusions occurring over hours, days and even weeks.
Now if you have read Unidentified you will recall that such waves of intrusions are really noting new; it’s just that in earlier decades they occurred over atomic materials production plants, then atomic weapons construction sites, then atomic weapons storage sites and finally over Air Force ICBM sites and SAC bases. For that matter, the experiences being related by Navy pilots are not unlike a wave of interceptor encounters which observed all along the strategic northeast corridor from Boston down to Washington DC and the huge Navy base at Norfolk, Virginia in 1952.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_Station_Norfolk
That wave of reports, including a series of incidents over Washington DC, was serious enough to get President Eisenhower to call a secret meeting on “Defense of the Capital” and hand off the problem (since the Air Force couldn’t give him the answers he wanted) to the Central Intelligence Agency.
Unfortunately that sort of historical context is totally missing from the current interviews with the Navy pilots and from all the media reporting. Yet the only thing that has really changed since 1952 is that today’s pilots have the benefit of both ship based and airborne phase array radar as well as infrared tracking systems which literally allow them to track and record data in a manner not at all possible during earlier years.
The tracking and data collection in these Navy incidents is so comprehensive that it’s literally impossible to ignore that actual objects of some sort are repeatedly appearing, and to some extent engaging, with Navy interceptors. Of course as the Navy pilots themselves observe, it’s not really an engagement given the dramatic difference in flight capabilities demonstrated by the UFO’s. The same flight characteristics that have been reported – but never captured and recorded on a variety of tracking devices as in the current incidents.
In fact it’s so obvious, and of such concern, that the Navy is in the process of issuing its own new directives for the reporting of UFO incidents. What the Air Force or other elements of the national intelligence community is doing – if anything – is totally unknown. There is also no discussion of whether or not similar intrusions are occurring over any other segments of the national security/defense complex.
You can read more about what’s going on now below – and appreciate why a second edition of Unidentified a work in progress as I struggle to extend it into the 21st Century.
I’ll offer a few thoughts to bridge the gap – and to comment on certain questions I’ve received – in a follow-on post.
