Richard Dolan

nighttime and nighttime operation another thing that that shifted or increased was cases of electromagnetic interference by these craft um whether of military or civilian boats or you know craft uh really to an extreme degree so that uh typical a typical situation would be where

An object approaches a vessel.

It could be American.

It could be Soviet.

It didn't matter.

It gets close enough, and then all the systems go offline.

Sometimes, in some cases, one Soviet case I can think of, the engine, this is of a large warship.

The engine died.

The engine of the ship died while the object was nearby.

Frequently, communications go down.

Frequently, weapon systems go offline.

So this phenomenon...

seemed to know exactly what it was doing.

Sometimes when you look at cases of electromagnetic interference, we tend to think of it as a kind of residual effect of the craft, not necessarily intentional.

But in my study of this, I think that it's very, very much intentional, that the EM is

is a tool perhaps you could even say a weapon but definitely a tool used by them to disable us while they were engaged in in observing us in the way that they wished so they they approach they shut down our systems and then when they're done they're done they just take off and they're gone uh this this happened so many times so many times i i really think um

One of the strongest patterns in the book is this repeated interaction between USOs and military assets.

This book is not all military, most of the cases are still civilian, but aircraft carriers, destroyers, submarines, strategic naval facilities, like these appear again and again and again, not just American, but Soviet, primarily those two.

To me, the pattern suggests much more than accidental encounters, like these objects

seem very interested in the very systems that represented the most advanced military capabilities of of that era especially nuclear-powered platforms and uh things like that so so um i think there's a lot of a lot of reason to believe when you when you look at the behavior of these usos that they are they are engaged in a very careful observation