This is somewhere in the skies with Ryan Spread. Oh, No more thank you so much for joining me today on Somewhere in the skies.

It's an absolute pleasure love the show. Thank you so much for having me on.

Oh thanks man. I read your book and I knew immediately I had to have you on. This is an area that I haven't covered often on my show. when I learned that you not only lived in the main area

but that you had so many stories from there that you've collected it was unlike anything

I'd I'd ever known about this area of the United States.

So first and foremost, I'm super excited to talk to you today.

But before we even get to your book, I want to ask, like I do most of my guests what is your origin story if

we're going to go the comic book route? How did you get involved with UFOs?

Well it started 35 36 years ago or so I think it was what is that 82 83 something like that and I was four or five years old and I had a sighting of my own in Fort Kent. Fort Kent is at the tip of

Maine. You can literally throw a rock and hit Canada. And it was late winter and I was

sound asleep and a clap of thunder woke me up and I could hear like tapping of rain hitting the windows

I was seeing flashes of light and I was like oh a thunder and lightning storm so I kneeled up in bed and

and I wanted to watch the storm so after a little bit I saw this really thick lightning

bolt penetrate a cloud and if I ask you to draw lightning bolt you'd

probably draw like this thick jagged yellow line or maybe think the the charging

indicator on your smartphone.

Like that is what I saw and I still remember it to this day.

It's a lightning bolt stuck in a cloud.

And there was electricity coming off of it and there were loud booms happening and then eventually I

drifted off to sleep. I woke up the next morning I went to the bathroom. When I was walking

back to my room I could see out my bedroom windows and the lightning bolt was still there.

And even at that age I knew that, you know, lightning you last less than a second.

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