Unidentified : Treatise Publishing : 9780692892299 : 069289229X : 30 Jun 2017 : There is simply no doubt that unidentified aerial objects were taken seriously by military intelligence. Over some three decades both military and civilian intelligence groups used the standard methods of conventional and technical intelligence to resolve what was officially stated to be a serious security and air defense problem. Those well-established methods failed, frustrating those involved in investigations and creating serious public relations and credibility problems for the U.S. Air Force. Ultimately the only solution to the UFO problem was to simply abandon it. In the end the intelligence challenge of highly anomalous "unknowns" - unconventional aerial objects internally and confidentially described in both Air Force and CIA reports as national security threats - had literally beaten the system. Unidentified explores that intelligence failure, beginning during World War II and continuing over som