Chris W. Brethwaite

About the author: Chris W. Brethwaite is a writer and a former radar operator with the Air National Guard.

The author recounts his encounters with UFOs, which include both visual sightings and mysterious radar signals. Witnessing a UFO that cannot be explained was for him a profound and unforgettable event. Such experiences caused him to realize that humanity is not alone in the universe.

Thanks to my dad I've been interested in UFOs since I was 10. In the early 1950s, when he was an air force officer, pilots told him of strange encounters with disc-shaped objects that outperformed their jets. Later, he shared these tales with me, and still later, I had my own encounters with UFOs.

In 1976, I was living in Phoenix, Arizona, and in addition to my fulltime job, I was a radar operator in...