Overview: Flying Saucers, Unidentified Flying Objects, Unidentified Anomalous Objects, Foo Fighters, Ghost Rockets, Phantom Airships, Chariots of the Gods - whatever you call them - strange things have haunted our skies since the dawn of time.

Are they invaders from outer space as imagined in Hollywood movies? Are they the product of psychological, sociological, and cultural factors? Are they non-terrestrial intelligences who are intimately linked to humanity?

Find out more on the subject through Paranormal Perspectives: Portraits of Alien Encounters Revisited, a brand new prose on the subject from author Nigel Watson.

Verdict: Instead of wrestling with theories and speculation, Watson speaks directly with ‘ordinary’ people in the United Kingdom who have reported seeing UFOs and a wide range of startling associated phenomena, that in the past were considered by UFO investigators as too far-fetched or ‘crazy.’

His decades-long research shows how UFO encounters can often escalate from simple sightings of lights in the sky to sightings of alien entities, robots, men in black, and angelic beings. UFO witnesses and experiencers can also be plagued by a life-changing poltergeist or other ghostly experiences, telepathic messages, alien communications, strange coincidences, visions of the future, and abductions.

So, as we all know by now, flying saucers and alien sightings, often categorized under the broader term UFOs (Unidentified Flying Objects) or more recently, UAPs (Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena), are reported phenomena that have sparked both public fascination and scientific inquiry.

Now, playing devil’s advocate here, these very same sightings, while frequently linked to extraterrestrial visitation, can also be explained by a wide range of factors, from misidentified natural phenomena and human-made objects to psychological and cultural influences.

And yet back in the 1940’s and 1950’s reports of flying saucers and the such became an American cultural phenomena. Indeed, sightings of strange objects in the sky became the raw materials for Hollywood to present visions of potential threats.

Furthermore, if UFOs were visiting our world, where were these extraterrestrials? Could they be hidden among us? Comic books and television have also dutifully illustrated down the years how the possibility of extraterrestrial visitors reflected anxieties of that era, albeit a fear (or genuine excitement and curiosity) that has bled through the following decades rather seamlessly.

Here in Paranormal Perspectives: Portraits of Alien Encounters Revisited - High Strangeness British UFO Cases, author Nigel Watson explains that UFO’s are here to stay and that even though now and again there are mutterings that the subject matter is a dead duck it only takes a fresh new sighting; a video or photograph, to quickly, and eagerly revive interest in the subject.

In conclusion, sure, many of the stories shared here might seem like science fiction or the very stuff of nightmares, and yet they are told by people of different age groups, social backgrounds, and locations. This is what makes this book such a compellingly intriguing read for as chock full of a lot of statistical and residual information on the subject to hand that it is, it also manages to showcase a very well researched and subsequently documented case study. One that is as infectiously beguiling as it is, at times, imaginatively crafted.

Meaning, to my mind, whatever the answer, and if there is any one answer, this is a most fascinating look at how UFO experiences have evolved in the UK and how they reflect similar worldwide changes in our relationship with the unknown.

About the Author - Nigel Watson has researched and investigated historical and contemporary reports of UFO sightings since the 1970s. He writes a monthly column Saucers of the Damned about UFOs for Fortean Times and regularly writes book reviews for the Pelicanist blogspot. He lives in Plymouth, UK.

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