Welcome to Somewhere in the skies. I'm your host Ryan Sprick. This week we're going to do something completely different and admittedly should have happened much sooner. When I first started the podcast, I pronounced that it would pick up where my book of the same name left off.

And the book focused primarily on those who've witnessed and experienced the UFO phenomenon

firsthand.

And while I've interviewed many researchers, OFO phenomenon firsthand.

And while I've interviewed many researchers and others with an interest in this topic on

the show, the core of this entire mystery rests on the shoulders of the witness, always.

So today, you're going to hear four separate accounts from four separate witnesses.

They spend decades, continents, and experiences.

My heartfelt thanks goes out to Vance, Kiran, Scott, and Brian for sharing their stories today.

These stories genuinely interested and mystified me and I hope they will

do the same for you. But more importantly I hope you'll share these accounts with others.

Maybe, just maybe one more person will have the courage,

as these four did, to come forward with their own stories.

And we can then move forward without ridicule or hesitancy, and begin to embrace these

deeply profound experiences somewhere in the skies.

I hope you enjoy. Hey Ryan, thank you for asking us to do this. I'm Vance Nesbitt. But I appreciate you asking the word out there because I love to hear other people's

UFO experiences. My experience, it was actually my first experience into anything strange or abnormal or

or paranormal however you want to categorize it, but it was my first experience.

I was either six or seven years old. We lived in a two-story house in the rural

suburbs of Chicago. What I mean by that it was an undeveloped urban or suburban area.

There were houses being built sporadically throughout the neighborhood but it really was not a fully developed neighborhood yet. Anyway, the two-story house, my bedroom was up on the second floor along with my parents and I was laying in bed and looking out the bedroom window I had noticed this bright light just above the horizon and it was through the trees but off in the distance but it was a relatively bright light but it was

similar to that of an aircraft.

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