"By applying sophisticated intelligence community analytical techniques, often used in cases where the government does not have direct access to the target being studied, the authors have succeeded in generating important new insights about the scale and objectives of those controlling the mysterious UAP phenomenon. This approach offers important new insights about UAP that any serious student of the subject will want to understand. The authors have done us all a favor, one I hope the US government will itself carefully consider as this work surpasses the depth of analysis the government itself has produced regarding major trends in UAP behavior." --CHRISTOPHER K. MELLON , Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence; Former Staff Director, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence " UFO Intentions is a serious and provocative contribution to discussions of UFO history, pattern analysis, and national-security significance. The authors ask readers to look beyond familiar debates over individual sightings and to consider the larger historical record in a more systematic way. The authors bring together historical material, analytic structure, and interpretive argument in a way that is both provocative and readable. UFO Intentions is sure to spark discussion among serious students of the subject and anyone interested in the possible motivations underlying the actions of the UAP phenomenon.

" --DR. MARK RODEGHIER, Scientific Director, J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies "For decades, the US military and intelligence community publicly dismissed UFOs while privately treating them as a serious national-security concern. In UFO Intentions , authors Larry Hancock, Ian Porritt, Sean Grosvenor, and Dr. Joshua Pierson draw on six years of groundbreaking research, including declassified Air Force files, radar-tracked incidents, and newly analyzed military reports from 1945-1975. Using the intelligence community's own methodology of 'indications analysis,' the authors map long-term patterns of UFO activity around atomic weapons sites, strategic air bases, and deployed forces. They document objects displaying flight characteristics far beyond known human technology, with repeated interest in America's nuclear arsenal and consistent evasion of interceptors. They also describe electromagnetic and IFF interactions that resembled technical probes or 'handshakes,' along with carefully controlled visibility, including loitering and close approaches calibrated to human reactions.

The book traces an evolution in UFO behavior and agenda, explores evidence of attempted 'messaging' that was ignored by the military, and confronts the deeper question of who is behind the phenomenon. These patterns appear structured, responsive, and escalating in sophistication--exactly the kind of non-verbal signaling ethologists, anthropologists, and militaries recognize as communication across species or cultures. One of its most provocative and carefully argued threads is that UFO activity in this period wasn't random or purely observational--it included clusters of deliberate, inferential signals expressed through behavior rather than language. The authors suggest that high-visibility daylight activity declined sharply in favor of lower-profile nighttime operations--a shift from attempted engagement to long-term behavioral study after 'message not received.' It's a sobering case that the real breakdown in 'communication' may have been on the human side. This is the most rigorous, evidence-based assessment of UFO intentions ever published." --ROSS COULTHART, author of In Plain Sight: An Investigation Into UFOs and Impossible Science.