We even hear from filmmaker Steven Spielberg as we delve into one of Lovern's chapters.

Each chapter is a detailed account of a particular incident, carefully taken from the statements of eyewitnesses and individuals who directly experienced it, as well as reporting by the news media. In many cases, there were multiple witnesses to the incidents. In some instances, local public safety personnel were involved.

For example, in Chapter 2, a community college psychology professor and his two teenage sons were driving home one evening in 2003 near Morehead, Kentucky, and clearly saw an oval-shaped object or craft in the sky nearby. They also observed "dazzling" bright lights near the object.

Meanwhile, local police were getting calls from local residents of a woman screaming.

Upon arriving home, the college professor and his sons soon were visited by peace officers checking the neighborhood for a possible woman in distress. Soon, approximately 20 public safety, rescue and law enforcement personnel were searching a nearby field where the oval-shaped object had been seen by multiple witnesses.

It's unknown to the professor and his sons what happened to the UFO. A woman in distress was apparently never located.

DANGERS OF ENCOUNTERS

The potential dangers of encounters with UFOs were part of Lovern's account of a sad and touching report of a young boy who had apparent close contact with a beam of strange light from an airborne source or craft, and who died of a brain tumor approximately one year later.

The 11-year-old boy's family had moved from their home state of West Virginia to Detroit, Michigan, and in 1993 they boy and his friend were in the yard during a heavy snowstorm building a snow fort to play in.

Suddenly, an "aircraft" of some kind hovered approximately 50 feet above the boys and two beams of light flashed down on them. One light was reported to be yellow and the other blue, according to the boys' statements. An adult neighbor and other witnesses also saw the lights.

The boys were quite frightened, and shortly afterward developed an unusual rash all over their bodies, as well as other physical problems. Their emotional reactions to the incident were described as terror and fear.

But much more serious than these outcomes was the subsequent diagnosis of a brain tumor in the boy from West Virginia. He passed on from this medical condition in 1994.

Did the brain tumor have something to do with the UFO? We will probably never know. But, there have been other reports of UFO witnesses developing symptoms similar to radiation poisoning.

In Chapter 13, the potential dangers of close encounters are again noted in the account of three women driving through Kentucky in 1976. They saw an intense red glow about 11 p.m. and later seemed to have experienced "missing time" until 1:25 a.m. They noticed raw skin, blisters and odd marks on their bodies and they were unusually thirsty.

Under hypnosis by a psychologist at a later date, all three women reported similar accounts of being in a hospital-like setting, being examined and experiencing medical-type procedures by small beings appearing like the so-called "Grays."

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