The Hazing of America is a work of investigative nonfiction examining one of the most persistent and least understood influence campaigns of the modern era: the long shaping of public belief about UFOs and unidentified aerial phenomena.
The modern UFO story did not begin in this century. It traces back to 1947 — to Roswell, to the first wave of sightings, to the earliest government interest and the earliest official denials. That history matters, and this book accounts for it. But the current chapter, the one still unfolding around us, begins in 2001 with the Disclosure Project press conference. That is where this investigation picks up the thread.
Since 2001, the American public has been fed a steady drip of whistleblowers, leaked videos, congressional hearings, and promises of imminent revelation. Each cycle follows the same pattern — seeds of wonder and secrecy, credible-sounding witnesses, media amplification, legislative pressure, the promise of a breakthrough, spectacle without substance, and just enough admitted past manipulation to reset the public's trust before the cycle begins again.
This book argues that what we have witnessed is not organic disclosure. It is a coordinated, multi-layered operation that has hazed the public, the press, Congress, and now the highest levels of government. The 2025 admission of the Pentagon's own decades-long disinformation program was not an anomaly. It was a glimpse of the machinery.
The author has spent roughly fifty years with this subject — the first half as an interested observer fascinated by lights in the sky and the psychology of belief, the second half as an investigator building an archive of interviews and primary sources, including sixteen years of broadcasting. This project is the result of connecting those dots.
A note on method: this book draws a hard line between what is documented, what has been officially admitted, what has merely been alleged, and what is the author's own interpretation. The central thesis — that this was a deliberate hazing — is argument, not established fact. The evidence is laid out so readers can judge for themselves.
The dispatches published here are interim field notes as the work progresses. The book itself is coming.