i just don't really even know what to put here... i read this book very quickly and found it very engaging, not in craft but in content. i have never read any sort of paranormal or UFO literature before and had nothing in mind re: what to expect, but maine is my home state and i reckoned i should know about this event.

what this book did give me was a lot of things to genuinely think over and consider; the stuff in here is very thought provoking and just interesting to entertain. i do think the claims this book makes that it has indisputable proof of alien abduction are obviously in no way truly verifiable, but if you're willing to suspend a little bit of doubt there's a lot of food for thought in here.

my biggest issue with this book was the writing craft and how the author chose to approach things like tone and objectivity. my standards for craft are lower when reading nonfiction because it seems only fair, but there were some glaring craft issues that actually for me were the greatest lack of credibility in the story. the editing is very poor. obvious letters and words are missing from sentences even in the third edition. the author is very presumptuous when describing the witnesses under hypnosis and will use overdramatic language that betrays bias while simultaneously giving the feeling that he's exploiting the real emotion and trauma of the witnesses. it's a genuine bummer when the actual testimony and evidence is hampered rather than helped by how an author presents it, but this book really suffered that way.

deeply interesting read trapped up in the confines of being told by an overconfident/egotistical writer.