On July 26, 2023, David Charles Grusch-an ex-intelligence officer-declared under oath, before members of the House of Representatives, that the US government had long possessed several crashed spaceships of non-human origin, as well as the remains of their crews, also non-human. This revelation makes international headlines.

Egon Kragel is an outstanding storyteller, revisiting fifty-six encounters with extraterrestrials that defy the Pentagon and the FBI. In a rigorous, anecdote-packed book, the author draws on unpublished archives and press articles to analyze the actual contacts between humans and non-humans that took place between the 1950s and today.