Lies Above (Paperback)

David Alan Burkett

ISBN 13: 9798218813086

Published by Lies Above, 2026

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Paperback. The U.S. government now admits that unidentified craft are real. It spent the previous seventy years making sure you would not believe it.In Lies Above, cybersecurity researcher and forensics expert David A. Burkett builds the documented case for how that happened, and to whom. For seventy years the Pentagon has publicly dismissed UFOs while privately tracking objects with capabilities far beyond our own, craft that operate by principles our best physicists still consider theoretical. This is not a book about belief. It is a book about documented evidence, and about the machinery of denial that ran for three generations: the ridicule manufactured by committee, the investigations built to debunk rather than discover, and the sworn testimony to Congress that does not survive contact with the record.Burkett traces the pattern from the first cover stories of the late 1940s to the present day. Project Sign and Project Grudge. The Robertson Panel that turned mockery into policy. Project Blue Book, built to look away. Nuclear missiles going offline over Malmstrom while the public was told there was nothing to see. The 2004 USS Nimitz encounter the Navy could not explain and would not discuss. And in 2023, an intelligence officer named David Grusch testifying under oath that the United States retains craft it did not build. The thread connecting them is not a single secret but a method: a cover-up that has grown more dangerous than the truth it conceals, subverting democratic oversight and hiding a reality with consequences for everyone.What sets Lies Above apart is its refusal to ask for your trust. QR codes on nearly every page open the source material on your phone. Hear the pilot testimony in their own words, read the declassified documents, and watch the sensor footage for yourself. You are not asked to believe the author. You are handed the evidence and shown where to check it.Lies Above carries a foreword by Michael Ian Black, the New York Times bestselling author, comedian, actor, and UFO witness. Author David A. Burkett tracks nation-state threat actors for a living and wrote the first published white paper on the Detection as Code methodology. Here he turns that same discipline on the public record, applying the standards of proof used to expose hostile actors hidden in data to a seventy-year history of official deception.Rigorously sourced and built to withstand scrutiny, Lies Above is both an indictment of a cover-up finally coming apart and a guide to the disclosure now underway. The U.S. government now admits unidentified craft are real, after seventy years of making sure you wouldn't believe it. In Lies Above, forensics expert David Burkett shows how the Pentagon misled Congress and the public, every claim sourced. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Lies Above (Paperback)
• Publisher: Lies Above
• Publication Date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798218813086
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: Rostad, Anders
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

The U.S. government now admits that unidentified craft are real. It spent the previous seventy years making sure you would not believe it.

In Lies Above, cybersecurity researcher and forensics expert David A. Burkett builds the documented case for how that happened, and to whom. For seventy years the Pentagon has publicly dismissed UFOs while privately tracking objects with capabilities far beyond our own, craft that operate by principles our best physicists still consider theoretical. This is not a book about belief. It is a book about documented evidence, and about the machinery of denial that ran for three generations: the ridicule manufactured by committee, the investigations built to debunk rather than discover, and the sworn testimony to Congress that does not survive contact with the record.

Burkett traces the pattern from the first cover stories of the late 1940s to the present day. Project Sign and Project Grudge. The Robertson Panel that turned mockery into policy. Project Blue Book, built to look away. Nuclear missiles going offline over Malmstrom while the public was told there was nothing to see. The 2004 USS Nimitz encounter the Navy could not explain and would not discuss. And in 2023, an intelligence officer named David Grusch testifying under oath that the United States retains craft it did not build. The thread connecting them is not a single secret but a method: a cover-up that has grown more dangerous than the truth it conceals, subverting democratic oversight and hiding a reality with consequences for everyone.

What sets Lies Above apart is its refusal to ask for your trust. QR codes on nearly every page open the source material on your phone. Hear the pilot testimony in their own words, read the declassified documents, and watch the sensor footage for yourself. You are not asked to believe the author. You are handed the evidence and shown where to check it.

Lies Above carries a foreword by Michael Ian Black, the New York Times bestselling author, comedian, actor, and UFO witness. Author David A. Burkett tracks nation-state threat actors for a living and wrote the first published white paper on the Detection as Code methodology. Here he turns that same discipline on the public record, applying the standards of proof used to expose hostile actors hidden in data to a seventy-year history of official deception.

Rigorously sourced and built to withstand scrutiny, Lies Above is both an indictment of a cover-up finally coming apart and a guide to the disclosure now underway.

About the Authors

David A. Burkett is a cybersecurity researcher who tracks nation-state threat actors for a living, building the anomaly-detection systems and writing the detection signatures that find them across petabyte-scale sensor data. He authored the first published white paper on the Detection as Code methodology. The security team he managed won the 2021 James S. Cogswell Outstanding Industrial Security Achievement Award, the highest honor the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency gives cleared industry. Raised in a religious household in the South, he found his way into the skeptic community and spent his career separating real signals from noise. For years he assumed the UFO question had long since been settled by people doing the same. It hadn't. Lies Above is what happened when he turned the tools of digital forensics on seventy years of the government's own record.

Rob Jones is a former naval nuclear propulsion engineer who turned his attention to the harder question of what is flying over our heads. He was the research assistant and editor on this book, and his fingerprints are on every chapter. He helped find its voice, checked the data line by line, filled in the gaps, and opened doors that would otherwise have stayed shut. It would not have been finished without him. He has since turned that work into a career of its own. As of 2026 he is an official UFO researcher at NewsNation, where he reports on the Pentagon's handling of the UAP issue alongside investigative journalist Ross Coulthart.

Michael Ian Black is a comedian, actor, and writer who has spent three decades on American screens. He broke in with the MTV sketch troupe The State, later turned up in Wet Hot American Summer and four seasons as Phil Stubbs on NBC's Ed, and now sits on the panel of CNN's Have I Got News for You. He wrote and directed the film Wedding Daze, co-wrote Run Fatboy Run with Simon Pegg, and, in an earlier life, voiced the Pets.com sock puppet. He has written more than a dozen books for adults and children, among them the memoir You're Not Doing It Right and A Better Man, a letter to his college-bound son. His interest in the subject of this book is not academic. In 2023 he called UFO whistleblower David Grusch his hero of the year, and in 2024 he joined the Hollywood Disclosure Alliance.