Stories of UFO encounters on display in new book

Prepare to have your beliefs about the unknown challenged as Ryan Sprague’s second book, “Stories From Somewhere In The Skies,” (Beyond The Fray Publishing) uncovers more accounts of UFO sightings.

A native New Yorker who now lives in Scotland, Sprague transcribes audio submissions from his top-rated podcast, “Somewhere in the Skies,” where listeners submitted their stories.

“It is in their own words without any interruptions or interjections by me,” notes Sprague, who is also a regular contributor to History Channel’s “Ancient Aliens” and CW’s “Mysteries Decoded.”

Sprague, who has been a UFO researcher for 25 years after having his own sighting as a young teen, stitches together a fascinating collection of accounts of UFO sightings and experiences that span continents.

“From a bubbling black blob that ascends into the air in Scotland to a humanoid figure engulfed in flames hovering in the middle of a military installation in the Outback of Australia, we are not dealing with just a singular mystery here,” Sprague says of something he’s come to realize with this new book.

New York proves to continue to be a hotbed of activity and is featured in two stories.

One of the book’s most notable interviews comes from a Bronx native who, as a young teen in 1989, says that he saw a UFO over the Whitestone Bridge with jets scrambling behind it — and again 13 years later as a security guard for a Bronx beer distribution company.

Another story features a story of a man from northern New York who says he saw a giant egg in the sky in 2015.

Perhaps under a spell, he felt too calm to snap a photo, something he constantly questions today.

“Stories From Somewhere In The Skies” presents a diverse range of sightings in three categories: Sightings (accounts from people who saw something in the sky they couldn’t explain), Close encounters, (accounts from people who came into contact with phenomena or craft) — and Military incidents, (accounts from people who had sightings or encounters while on active duty in the armed forces.)

These powerful, scary, and beautiful moments in people’s own words are testaments to life-changing events forever remembered in their lives.