About the Author

Michael Brein is an author, lecturer, consultant, travel storyteller, adventurer, and publisher of travel books and guides. He earned his PhD in social psychology, with a specialty in psychology-all things travel-as well as an MBA at the University of Hawaii. He has had a career for more than 20 years as a college professor in psychology and business, teaching at a variety of universities in Hawaii, as well as an overseas two-year stint teaching for the University of Maryland in Europe. Michael was the first to coin the term travel psychology. Through his doctoral studies, work, life experiences, and world travels, he became the world's first and perhaps only travel psychologist. As The Travel Psychologist, he appears in leading newspapers, magazines, blogs, and radio programs all over the world, commenting on the psychology of travel. Michael has been a member of a number of world travel clubs including the Travelers Century Club, whose requirement for membership is travel to a minimum of countries, and the Circumnavigators Club, which requires going around the world in one complete trip. He was the first to complete the United Airlines 50 State Marathon contest in 1985, flying to all 50 U.S. states to win a first-class pass for a year on United's domestic U.S. flights, including Hawaii. Michael's travel guide series, Michael Brein's Travel Guides to Sightseeing by Public Transportation, is a first of its kind, showing travelers how to sightsee the top 50 visitor attractions in the world's most popular cities easily and cheaply by public transportation. Michael has traveled the world over for the last four decades interviewing nearly 1,800 world travelers and adventurers, collecting their fantastic travel stories for an e-book and audiobook series on the psychology of travel. Michael resides on Bainbridge Island, Washington. His website is www.michaelbrein.com, and email is michaelbrein@gmail.com. Rosemary Ellen Guiley is one of the leading figures in the paranormal and metaphysical fields: author, researcher, investigator, and publisher. She has written more than 65 nonfiction books on a wide range of topics, including a series of authoritative single-volume encyclopedias. She is often the go-to person for explanations of unusual phenomena and events. Her works focuses on the how and why people have extraordinary experiences of all kinds: paranormal, spiritual and mystical, contact with the dead, contact with aliens and otherworldly beings, and psychic breakthroughs. Rosemary owns and runs an independent publishing house, Visionary Living, Inc., which publishes paranormal, metaphysical and ufology titles. She also publishes Strange Dimensions, a monthly newsletter and blog. She is Executive Editor of FATE magazine. Rosemary is a former board director and member of the research committee of the Edgar Mitchell Foundation for Research Into Extraterrestrial Encounters. She is a founding member of the Afterlife Research and Education Institute, and a fellow of the International Institute for Integral Human Sciences in Montreal. Rosemary makes numerous media appearances and lectures internationally. She is a frequent guest on Coast to Coast AM with George Noory. She lives in Connecticut. Her website is www.visionaryliving.com, and her email is reguiley@gmail.com.

Reviews

"The Road to Strange: UFOs, Aliens and High Strangeness is simply one
of the best UFO books I've read in years. By that I mean a book which in
one manner or another earnestly attempts to advance our understanding
of UFO phenomena, the intelligences behind their breathtaking
technology, and in the process, gives us yet one more real-world asset
to recommend to anyone interested in furthering their own UFO-alien
reality education. The Road to Strange accomplishes these objectives
handily, but in a particularly methodical (and most appropriate) manner;
that being, by respectfully, repeatedly, and deliberately delivering us
into the lives of real people, one after another, as they each share an alltoo-
real memory a of life-changing sighting and/or experience.
"We shouldn't be surprised that this book is the outstanding UFOliterary
powerhouse it is. Long-respected authors, lecturers, scholars, and
world travelers Michael Brein and Rosemary Ellen Guiley remain highly
focused throughout on delivering readers into these unvarnished, highly
credible, firsthand witness and/or experiencer testimonies. Each one is
followed by an appropriately thoughtful, insightful commentary, all of
which reflect clear insights throughout.
"It's easy to allow things to get complicated when you're writing about
the paranormal and UFOs, a challenge to keep things simple, even for
the most experienced of writers, and Rosemary and Michael are writing
at the top of their form. They make an old story come alive with new
meaning, and they make it look simple. I among many others know from
experience it is anything but. It is welcome to read both these authors
again, and most appropriate that they chose to include selected parts of
Brein's interview with UFO giant Dr. J. Allen Hynek. Dr. Hynek's words
still ring out to us today in as timely a manner as when he first wrote
them. Congratulations to the authors, and sincere thanks to all those
good people whose accounts are included in this marvelous book."
- Peter Robbins, author and UFO researcher"All too often, UFO literature keeps the "experts" in control. Finally, here is a book that lets the witnesses describe their experiences, and more importantly, their feelings and how their lives were affected. This volume represents a promising new direction for paranormal study."- Greg Bishop, radio host and author, It Defies Language!"With the sudden, serious discussion of UFOs in a variety of mainstream
media outlets, this ever fascinating--and important--subject has seen
renewed attention. Many individuals have long worked to chronicle
this unusual phenomenon; here, two of those researchers, Michael
Brein and Rosemary Ellen Guiley, present us with some of the most
perplexing and interesting cases that suggest the reality of unusual aerial
phenomena in our midst. From sightings of enigmatic flying objects, to
'high strangeness' reports of incidents and occurrences that challenge
the imagination, this collection of firsthand encounters lends a valuable
sampling of case histories for review, as we look ahead to the future of
UFO studies."
- Micah Hanks, UFO writer and researcher