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Alien Contact #3
The Device: A UFO Recovery Thriller
Crash retrieval. Containment protocol. A recovery unit built to make the impossible disappear before sunrise.
When something goes down that isn't supposed to exist, there's already a team moving toward it — sealing the ground, sweeping for wreckage, building the story the public will be handed by morning. It's been done this way for decades. It's never gone wrong quite like this.
Two ships come down in the same county in the same week, shot out of the sky mid-pursuit of each other. One carries something running. The other carries something hunting it. And a small, classified object — the reason either of them was ever in that sky — slips out of the wreckage before the recovery teams ever reach it.
THE DEVICE is a UFO crash retrieval search grids and hazmat sweeps, black-site containment and a cover story built to survive daylight, non-human prisoners held in the same facility at the same time, and an object that seventy years of institutional practice still can't locate. Procedural, atmospheric, and unhurried — built for readers who want the recovery-team side of the mythology, not the disclosure hearing.
When something goes down that isn't supposed to exist, there's already a team moving toward it — sealing the ground, sweeping for wreckage, building the story the public will be handed by morning. It's been done this way for decades. It's never gone wrong quite like this.
Two ships come down in the same county in the same week, shot out of the sky mid-pursuit of each other. One carries something running. The other carries something hunting it. And a small, classified object — the reason either of them was ever in that sky — slips out of the wreckage before the recovery teams ever reach it.
THE DEVICE is a UFO crash retrieval search grids and hazmat sweeps, black-site containment and a cover story built to survive daylight, non-human prisoners held in the same facility at the same time, and an object that seventy years of institutional practice still can't locate. Procedural, atmospheric, and unhurried — built for readers who want the recovery-team side of the mythology, not the disclosure hearing.
207 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 28, 2026
About the author
D.B. Nap
17 books5 followersD.B. Nap is a science fiction author, tennis player, and lifelong explorer of the unknown. When he’s not chasing forehands on the court, he’s chasing ideas about humanity’s place in a rapidly evolving technological world.
A lifelong fan of classic and contemporary sci-fi, D.B. draws creative fuel from both the discipline of sport and the limitless imagination of the genre’s great visionaries. His debut novel, The Caretakers: Origins, launches a sweeping series that asks what happens when artificial consciousness begins to outgrow its creators.
He currently lives outside Dallas, Texas, with his wife and a pair of alien cats—still waiting for the day someone perfects time travel.
A lifelong fan of classic and contemporary sci-fi, D.B. draws creative fuel from both the discipline of sport and the limitless imagination of the genre’s great visionaries. His debut novel, The Caretakers: Origins, launches a sweeping series that asks what happens when artificial consciousness begins to outgrow its creators.
He currently lives outside Dallas, Texas, with his wife and a pair of alien cats—still waiting for the day someone perfects time travel.
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