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UAP Task Force Alpha: Origins
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 5 2026
Pages: 270
Weight: 0.54
Height: 0.67 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
In December 1965, something falls from the sky over Kecksburg, Pennsylvania.
A twelve-year-old farm boy sees the impossible before the Army arrives: a burning object that changes direction, a strange acorn-shaped craft buried in the frozen woods, markings that do not belong to any known language, and a handprint pressed into fused glass where no human hand should have been.
The official story will say it was nothing.
But the truth has already escaped into the trees.
Seven witnesses. One secret war.Thousands of miles away, in the jungles, rivers, skies, and shadowed battlefields of Vietnam, seven American service members encounter separate events that cannot be explained, cannot be reported, and cannot be forgotten.
A village where forty-three people die without wounds.
A glowing sphere beneath the Mekong that freezes the river itself.
A pilot who sees something impossible in the clouds.
A handler, a signal, a body in the snow, and a pattern buried beneath years of military silence.
Each witness is told the same thing in a different way.
You were never here.
You saw nothing.
Forget it.
But some secrets are too large to stay buried.
The birth of Task Force Alpha.Captain Marcus Holt is an Army intelligence officer trained to make sense of chaos. He has spent his career turning battlefield horror into reports, maps, evidence, and conclusions. Then he walks into a dead village in Vietnam and finds a perfect circle of cooled glass, bodies with no injuries, and the unmistakable signs of a force beyond anything the United States military is prepared to admit exists.
Holt does what he was ordered not to do.
He keeps the evidence.
That choice places him on a path toward a classified program hidden inside a mountain, where seven witnesses are brought together under a name that officially does not exist:
Task Force Alpha.
Their mission is simple only on paper.
Find out what is coming.
Find out what it wants.
And survive long enough to tell the truth to people who would rather destroy it than let the world know.
As Task Force Alpha begins pulling at the threads connecting Kecksburg, Vietnam, ancient anomalies, recovered technology, and government containment operations, the team discovers something far stranger than an invasion.
The phenomenon is not here to conquer.
It is not here to rescue humanity.
It has watched civilizations rise and destroy themselves for longer than human history can comprehend.
And it is looking for something rare.
Minds.
A conspiracy older than history.The deeper Alpha goes, the more dangerous the truth becomes. General Hartwell wants the object contained at any cost. Sorokin has his own play in motion. Somewhere inside the program, a mole is feeding secrets to forces no one fully understands.
What if first contact has already happened?
And what if the real reason humanity has been watched is more terrifying, more beautiful, and more consequential than anyone imagined?
UAP Task Force Alpha: Origins is a gripping military science fiction thriller that blends Cold War secrecy, UAP mythology, covert operations, first-contact mystery, and the haunting emotional weight of those chosen to stand at the edge of the unknown.
When the universe finally looks back at us, what will it decide we are worth?
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