# Richard Dolan: Is The Phenomenon Dark? | USOs, Alien Behaviour & Humanity's Future Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/that-ufo-podcast-129588/richard-dolan-is-the-phenomenon-dark-usos-alien-behaviour-humanity-s-future Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/that-ufo-podcast-129588/richard-dolan-is-the-phenomenon-dark-usos-alien-behaviour-humanity-s-future.md Podcast: [That UFO Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/that-ufo-podcast-129588) Published: 2026-06-18T10:11:00+00:00 Episode link: https://audioboom.com/posts/8917631 Audio file: https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/audioboom.com/posts/8917631.mp3?modified=1781688342&sid=5024014&source=rss Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/that-ufo-podcast-129588/episodes/richard-dolan-is-the-phenomenon-dark-usos-alien-behaviour-humanity-s-future Duration seconds: 3309 ## Resource In Part 2 of my extended conversation with Richard Dolan, we move beyond disclosure politics and into some of the deepest questions surrounding the UFO phenomenon. We discuss whether some aspects of the phenomenon may be darker than many researchers are willing to admit, why Richard believes humanity may be facing challenges of its own making, and what decades of UFO and USO reports suggest about the behaviour of the intelligence behind these encounters. Drawing on research from his new book, A History of USOs Volume 2 , Richard explains how studying patterns across thousands of cases has changed his understanding of the phenomenon and what it may reveal about the long-term presence of these objects around our planet. We also discuss: Whether the phenomenon has our best interests at heart The listener question asking if Richard is "holding something back" Alien behaviour and adaptation Humanity's future and technological dependence Why Richard fears human actions more than non-human intelligence Historical and modern USO cases Underwater UFO encounters Behavioural patterns across decades of sightings The USS Franklin D. Roosevelt case How Richard researched and analysed thousands of reports What the data may reveal about the phenomenon's intentions This is Part 2 of a special extended conversation with Richard Dolan. Richards new book - https://amzn.eu/d/0f8bTqTs πŸ”₯ Support the show & get bonus content: πŸ›Έ YouTube Memberships: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHw9Lru3EcpRQyM7AI5TlmA/join πŸ›Έ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/ThatUFOPodcast πŸ›Έ Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/that-ufo-podcast/id1511121397 πŸ›Έ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7wnXUAQ3vwdsX1BoyaEvjZ πŸ›Έ Buy Me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ThatUFOPodcast πŸ“² Connect with the… ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/that-ufo-podcast-129588/episodes/richard-dolan-is-the-phenomenon-dark-usos-alien-behaviour-humanity-s-future/transcription-requests` β€” Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/that-ufo-podcast-129588/richard-dolan-is-the-phenomenon-dark-usos-alien-behaviour-humanity-s-future.md` β€” Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.