Strange Incursions
A clear-eyed guide to UFOs and UAPs — curious but not credulous, open-minded but allergic to nonsense.
About this book
The Pentagon admits they are real. Now a master of science fiction tells you what they actually are. A clear-eyed, witty field guide to UFOs and UAPs — curious but not credulous, open-minded but allergic to nonsense.
For decades, “flying saucers” were the domain of tinfoil hats and campfire stories. Then, in 2021, the United States government officially acknowledged that our skies are visited by Unidentified Aerial Phenomena — craft exhibiting physics-defying technology far beyond the human inventory.
In Strange Incursions, Stephen Hunt steps out of fiction to apply first-principles logic to the greatest mystery of our time. Drawing on decades of building worlds and dissecting narratives for major publishers, he navigates the jargon and the declassified memos in search of what is actually there.
Inside: why governments investigate UFOs every twenty years only to say “nothing to see here”; the dominant theories — nuts-and-bolts extraterrestrials, “ultraterrestrial” visitors from another dimension, or human time-travellers from a dark future; the “breakaway civilisation” and the black-budget question; and how The X-Files, Star Trek and Avatar have prepared us — or programmed us — for first contact.
Hunt's non-fiction turn: a witty, logical and occasionally terrifying roadmap to the UAP question, written with the pace of a thriller and the analytical eye of a professional storyteller.
- you're curious about the post-2021 UAP disclosures but allergic to nonsense;
- you want a storyteller's clarity rather than dry academia or wild conspiracy;
- you like the Fermi Paradox, the military-industrial complex and a genuine mystery.