The witnesses are legion, scattered across the world and dotted through history, individuals who looked up and saw something impossible smoking cigarettes the night time sky. What those objects were, where they originated from, and who-or what-might become inside them may be the subject of fierce controversy and equally brutal mockery, so that most who glimpsed them found want they hadn’t.

Most, but not everyone.

Among those who know very well what they’ve noticed, and are forever changed by it, are a pilot, an heiress, a journalist, about Sekret Machines Reserve 1: Chasing Shadows and a prisoner of war. From the waning days of the twentieth century’s final great war to the fraught fields of Afghanistan to the otherworldly secrets hidden amid Nevada’s dusty neverlands-the truth that’s out there will propel each of them into a labyrinth of otherworldly technology and the competing goals of these who might look for to prevent-or harness-these beings of unfathomable power. Because, as it works out, we are not the only ones who can invent and build . and demolish.

Featuring actual events and various other truths attracted from sources inside the military and cleverness community, Tom DeLonge and A. J. Hartley provide a tale simultaneously terrifying, fantastical, as well as perhaps all too true.