Nomar Slevik - Otherworldly Encounters: Evidence of UFO Sightings and Abductions

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Otherworldly Encounters: Evidence of UFO Sightings and Abductions 2018 by Nomar Slevik.

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Spectres from heaven are rational creatures, and come down from the fountain of reason, and will therefore deal reasonably with us, by allowing us a fair opportunity to ascertain the reality of their mission. But for this examination, the mind is incapable when terrified by a sudden surprise.

Reverend Abraham Cummings, 1859

Contents

by Martin Willis

: Only a Step Away

: Nineteenth-Century UFOs

: The Girl Who Saw Monsters

: A Curious Occurrence in Anson

: Village of the Strange

: When the Sky Roared

: The Man Who Fell to Earth

: The Tote Road Boys

: A Familys Encounter

: It Watched Them While They Slept

: The Creature on Washington Street

: Behold the Otherworldly Evidence

: Close Encounters

: Trappers in Athens

: The Great Escape!

: The Case of the Shrunken Brothers

: Escape to Witch Mountain

: The Woman Who Time Forgot

: The Time Dad Saw a Spacecraft

: Strangers by the Lake

: The Tale of Two Brothers and a TR-3B

: The Dark Skies of Orrington

: Invasion in Scarborough

: Chased by a UFO

: The Psychic Who Saved the World

: Starship Trooper

: Lorings First Encounter

: UFO Oddments

: Shoot Low, Theyre Riding Shetlands

: The Hopkins Hoax

: John King Avenged!

: Frightening Things with Angry Eyes

: Allagash or Balderdash?

This book is dedicated to the love of my life, April.

You are the reason that I enjoy every single day.
Thank you for supporting (putting up with?)
my strange passion. You are my mainstay,
you are the safe harbor I so desperately need.

Acknowledgments

First, I must thank all the people who have reported their encounters. Without you, there would be nothing to research or investigate, and friendships would have been missed. Second, my publisher and editor, thank you! You have made my UFO obsession turn into authorship once again. Third, my ragtag team of researchers, writers, and UFO maniac friends who share this passion and with whom Ive had some great conversations: Erik Cooley, Valerie Schultz, Joe Kelly, Josh Powers, Jason Merritt, Brian Thompson, and Kyle Sawyer.

Id like to thank those who inspired the need to research, investigate, and write about this topic: Stanton Friedman, Loren Coleman, Jenny Randles, Charles Fort, Linda Godfrey, Jason Hawes, Josh Gates, and Michelle Souliere.

And lastly, to my family. I would like to thank my parents and sister and her family for their continued support. And to April and Malik, you make everything better.

Foreword

By Martin Willis

Being immersed in the area that you are writing about is an advantage for authors who write about incidents of UFO sightings. You know more about what the people in that area are like; you know their everyday lives, nuances, and how to approach them. Growing up in Maine, and spending most of my life here after living just over fifteen years combined in Colorado and California, I have come to realize Mainers are a special breed. We deal with tough winters, hard work, and summers full of tourists with their own ideas on what Maine is or isnt. I find that when a Mainer looks you in the eye and tells you a story in earnest, for the most part you can count on the authenticity of it.

I grew up in the small town of Eliot, about 2,500 people, which is featured in one of this books chapters (Village of the Strange ) . I left for Colorado two years prior to the incident Nomar writes about, but I am almost certain I would know the witness by his full, real name. During the 1960s, there was a lot of talk about UFOs in the area, especially at school recess or sometimes even in the classroom. I remember hearing of alleged sightings, but nothing concrete. However, as the flap about area sightings grew, there was a hoax created by some teenagers with lights and dirt bikes out in a local gravel pit.

It took many years and an actual sighting of my own to take a hard look at the UFO topic. I was in Carmel Valley, California, in 2006 at dusk and watched a perfectly shaped disk move overhead, stop, and move again without a sound. Ridiculed while trying to report it to the police department and again at my workplace for describing it, I decided that going forward, I would keep the encounter to myself. It wasnt until I moved back to Maine in 2011 that I started taking a serious look at UFOs again and wondered why there was any ridicule at all. During my own research, I have found countless stories by credible, intelligent people who have witnessed something unknown in our skies. The more I talk to these people about their encounters, the further I get from understanding what or who these encounters are with. It has been an interesting ride.

After starting a podcast ( Podcast UFO ) shortly after I landed in Maine, I began wondering about local Maine encounters. I had recalled hearing about the Allagash Abductions, but not much else other than the stories from my home town. In 2014, I heard of a book being published, UFOs Over Maine: Close Encounters from the Pine Tree State. It was exciting that there was finally a book where I could read about encounters from my own state, and I thoroughly enjoyed Nomar Sleviks writing style.

With his new work, Otherworldly Encounters: Evidence of UFO Sightings and Abductions, Nomar has dug deep into brand new or often recounted Maine sightings to share fascinating cases, ones sure to keep you on the edge of your seat. This book is highly engaging and contains some spine-tingling UFO and abduction cases. Also, the way in which Nomar writes about his own investigations is nothing short of fascinating. He has conducted personal interviews with witnesses, dived headfirst into declassified Project Blue Book files, and brought forth newly discovered information that has never been in print (such as Mothman in Maine, a man abducted from Bangor who fought his alien captors and lived to tell the tale, and truly bizarre encounters reported from Dow Air Force Base). Being a fan of history, I found the chapters Nineteenth-Century UFOs, Escape to Witch Mountain, and The Psychic Who Saved the World utterly captivating.