Andy McGrillin

Of the ones I read about, I really enjoyed some of the kind of stranger ones because it's really easy to write about cases in the United States because I think your average Joe in the street says this always happens in America.

But the remit for the book, the one remit was...

Can you make sure it's international with an international flavor?

So 17 U.S., 17 international.

But stuff like the Voronezh incident from the USSR was really strange.

Dal Nagorsk in 1986, there was material covered by Soviet scientists.

What runs through a lot of those cases, though, is U.S.

involvement, U.S.

scientists, U.S.

military kind of picking things up.

And we hear about a lot of that kind of stuff.

But the Frederick Valentich incident is really unique to me because you've got a pilot, a young pilot, going missing off the coast of Australia, over the Bass Strait, and you've got the transcript of what he says.

So it's not just radar data.

It's not just, you know...

a sighting you've got actually him speaking talking through I've got this thing following me it's above me it's not it's not an aircraft this is so strange and you get him talking through as it's happening and that's quite unique in a lot of UFO cases so for me that one is one that stands out and we never heard or saw of Frederick Valentich again so not only as a sighting but he disappears afterwards as well so it's pretty incredible and it would make for a pretty cool

episode on something, X-Files coming back, that kind of stuff.

That would look pretty cool.

Do you have a particular area of interest that is just really a focal point for you?

Dan, yours is abductions, right?

Mine's abductions.