BLACKGROVE INTELLIGENCE NETWORK
ABOUT
We work the strangest subject there is.
With the rigor it has never had.
Blackgrove Global Risk is the first publisher of intelligence dedicated to the unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) issue: risk analysis, geopolitical assessment, and forecasting. We define a category that did not previously exist: disciplined, primary-source intelligence tradecraft applied to a subject long dominated by advocacy, speculation, and aggregation.
Our readers are decision-makers and serious students of the subject: risk professionals, the C-suite, corporate boards, allocators, and the smaller set of rigorous minds who want the issue handled with intellectual honesty rather than handled to them. We do not sell belief. We do not sell debunking. We sell a clear-eyed account of what is established, what is not, what could move, and how confident anyone should be.
We cover the issue as it happens. Our analysts work hearings, filings, agency releases, and primary documents firsthand, in the model of a defense and security intelligence house rather than a wire service: original newsgathering executed to intelligence-tradecraft standards, published under our own name and reputation. When we work an event ourselves, we report it as a primary source with our own locator, not as a secondhand account of someone else's coverage.
The field offers two easy positions. One dismisses the subject without examining it. The other accepts it without testing it. We hold neither. Blackgrove engages the evidence at full aperture, classifies each claim by what can actually be established, and renders judgment only where the record permits. Where it does not, we say so, and we say precisely what would resolve the question.
Every claim we publish is tiered by the strength of its source: what is documented in a primary record, what rests on independent reporting, what is on-record testimony, what is our own labeled inference, and what is merely circulating. We argue up from the ordinary explanation before reaching for the extraordinary one. We grade our own confidence in the open, and we revise it on the record when the evidence moves.
NETWORK FOCUSED ANALYTICAL PRODUCTS
The Brief
Blackgrove publishes the only intelligence brief dedicated to UAP risk. Key judgments are confidence-rated. Claims are source-tiered. Every edition tells you what changed, what it means for your sector, and what to watch next. Most of what moves in this space moves quietly — buried in defense authorization language, congressional testimony, or contractor disclosures that never make headlines.
Global Primers
New to UAP as a policy and risk issue? Start here. Each Primer maps one critical dimension — legislation, defense industry exposure, or the disclosure timeline — in plain language backed by primary sources. No speculation, no advocacy, no prerequisites. These are the briefing documents we wish existed when the subject first crossed into boardrooms and committee hearings.
Essential Background
Blackgrove's deep reference work — Player Profiles, Posture Assessments, Interview Analyses, and Case Reviews — maps the institutional landscape most observers treat as a single story. These products apply the same sourcing discipline and analytic standard used in classified environments to a subject the classification system has kept opaque. The picture is more structured than you think. We've done the work to prove it.
Blackgrove separates what's established from what isn't, and makes it usable wherever decisions happen.
Gene Sticco, Founder
Gene Sticco spent over two decades inside the global security apparatus — protecting nuclear weapons for the U.S. Air Force, securing Baltic energy infrastructure against Russian state pressure, managing post-9/11 aviation screening transitions, and helping the Department of Homeland Security architect its earliest critical infrastructure defense frameworks alongside the CIA, FBI, and HSARPA. He holds a Master of Arts in Security Studies from the Naval Postgraduate School and is a DHS-designated Chemical-Terrorism Vulnerability Information Authorized User.
Inside Shell’s Corporate Affairs Security — the energy giant’s quiet intelligence wing — he designed the company’s first global security risk management methodology, enforced international maritime security standards, and implemented human rights compliance frameworks in conflict zones across more than 120 countries. He later commanded private military operations for Olive Group North America and managed high-risk security operations for BHP Billiton in Pakistan and Papua New Guinea.
Then he testified against the system he had served — delivering insider evidence in a landmark UK Supreme Court ruling that is rewriting the rules of multinational corporate liability.
Blackgrove exists because of what came next: the discovery of the Černohajev Archive — 119 pages of Soviet-era aerospace manuscripts containing propulsion engineering, fusion reactor specifications, and advanced materials science described in Černohajev’s own words as “22nd century technology.” Sticco is the co-author and lead investigator of Engineering Infinity: Earth’s First Interstellar Blueprint, the first publication built from that archive. He didn’t come to this subject from the outside. He arrived with the exact intelligence tradecraft it requires — and built Blackgrove to apply it.
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