Inside the US Government Covert UFO Program: Initial Revelations

Very well researched and professionally presented. This book leans toward the technical side. If you are looking for exciting reports you might wish to find a different book, although there are such reports within these pages, as well as several reports you probably have not seen. The Brazilian reports were unique and revealing.Rather than exciting reports in the usual sense, these authors focus on uncovering the common factors and related mechanisms of well known (and not so well known) reports. A methodology is presented which researchers use to pull together the various pieces of the UFO/UAP puzzle to reveal the underlying sources of energy, psi effects, physical phenomena, etc.This is a refreshing antidote to all the exciting reports that leave you wondering what the observer was actually experiencing. While the conclusions are theoretical for the most part, you gain a sense that there is a bottom to this mysterious well after all.

First the good news: The book does a good job clarifying the history and differing objectives of AAWSAP, AATIP, AARO, TTSA, BASS, and UAP/TF. The stunner of the book is the admission that the “United States was in possession of a craft of unknown origin and had successfully gained access to the interior.” Unfortunately, the authors could not disclose additional information related to that admission because of security concerns. The book also includes interesting information about AAWSAP’s interaction with MUFON, the UFO assault on Brazil, and physic effects/physical harm experienced by close encounter witnesses. Now the not so good news: The book includes a lot of detailed technical information, so the average reader will likely find himself/herself skipping past several pages and/or chapters at a time. Even so, the good outweighs the bad, making the book well worth a read.

As per an interview with authors, the book is more or less following the structure of the initial report(s) that came out of AAWSAP. I lament the fact that the program was paused after a couple of years. I read through a third of the book so far and I am enjoying it. Along with the published DIRDS the book encourages engineers and physics researches to think differently. I look forward to finishing it and the follow on publication.

If you read the back of the book and see the part about the US Government being in possession of an anomalous craft and gaining access to the interior, and you're desperate to know more about that... well too bad because that's all it is. One paragraph. If you read the back of the book, you read the most interesting part. It's a fascinating paragraph, but that's all there is and it's never mentioned again. They got in, couldn't find any controls or even an engine, fuel, etc. and they seemed to have no idea what the purpose of the craft was. I feel like that maybe uh... deserved it's own chapter? Where was the craft found, what did it look like, what color, how long did it take to find the door and figure out how to open it, etc.? Occupants? Biologics? Windows? Nah... here's another DIRD about refrigerated antimatter photon propulsion.A goodly sum of the book is composed of hypothetical science surrounding proposed propulsion mechanisms, power sources, etc. regarding UAPs and their observed anomalous behavior. It's stuff you've probably heard before mentioned in passing (antigravity, being able to stop on a dime and make a left turn, silent flight, etc.), but it's laid out here in exquisite detail - practically a bible of hypothetical UAP science complete with the names of all of the DIRDs that AAWSAP wrote so a person can follow up with FOIAs for additional reading if interested. I found myself thumbing through most of these pages though because it's too technical for my smooth brain and felt like I was reading Star Trek engineering fan fiction. Although I did find it interesting that for each section, there was a UAP sighting that went along with it. For example it would mention an event where the sighting caused static and interference on the observer's radio and it would then go into a hypothetical that the radio interference could have been caused by an immense power source driving the UAP. That's all genuinely interesting, but it's tough to get to the ground truth on some of these cases. It seemed like they gleamed a lot of their data from MUFON's databanks - which doesn't instill me with much confidence.There's also some other interesting data regarding their investigations such as when they first found out about the Tic Tac incident, but I didn't feel like I really learned anything new after having hear Cmdr. Fravor tell the story a dozen times in the last 8 years. Lacatski says the objects were observed on radar going from 60,000 feet to the ocean surface rapidly but when the story has been told elsewhere it was 80,000 feet to the surface rapidly. Not sure if that was an honest mistake or meant to be a correction of facts.

This book is dense! It feels like a text book, which makes it feel even more real. The technical explanations of the various processes and integrations is mind boggling. I can't wait for the next one...

This book is well researched and written with lots of supporting evidence to refer to.Well worth a read if you are interested.

Oh, such revealing detail. Regardless of whether any reader accepts it or not, it is something believers can look forward to. I continue to just take it all in, but not form a conclusion yet. I am being very scientific about it, which I believe will help me if I eventually see what is said to be coming.

Disappointing, old news, lots of charts, talk about sci-fi, talk about hypothetical science, nothing new, waste of money.