Dead Reckoning

For more than seventy-five years, the United States government has denied, dismissed, and buried one of the most unsettling mysteries in modern history.

Now the story is beginning to crack open.

In Dead Reckoning, R.M. Cochran traces the hidden history of the UFO/UAP phenomenon from the deserts of Roswell to the halls of Congress, uncovering a decades-long pattern of secrecy, classified investigations, military encounters, and whistleblower testimony that challenges everything we think we know about the world above us.

Drawing from declassified documents, sworn testimony, official government reports, and firsthand accounts from military and intelligence personnel, Dead Reckoning examines:

• The Roswell incident and the birth of modern UFO secrecy
• Project Sign, Project Blue Book, and Cold War-era investigations
• The Washington D.C. UFO incidents of 1952
• The role of the intelligence community and defense contractors
• The 2017 New York Times revelations that reignited global attention
• Congressional hearings, Pentagon disclosures, and modern whistleblowers
• The growing divide between public explanations and classified reality

Part historical investigation, part political thriller, and part exploration of institutional secrecy, Dead Reckoning asks a disturbing question:

What if the greatest cover-up in American history was never about whether the phenomenon existed... but about how long the government has known?