But this innocent hobby takes on a sinister urgency when Zukowski learns of mutilated livestock-whose exsanguination is inexplicable by any known human or animal means.Īlong an expanse of land stretching across the southern borders of Utah, Colorado, and Kansas, Zukowski documents hundreds of bizarre incidences of mutilations, and discovers that they stretch through the heart of America. He even takes the family with him on weekend trips to look for evidence of aliens. Like Agent Mulder of The X-Files, microchip engineer and sheriff’s deputy Chuck Zukowski is obsessed with tracking down UFO reports in Colorado. Here is the “fascinating” ( Publishers Weekly) true story of a computer programmer who tracks paranormal events in remote areas of the western United States and is drawn deeper and deeper into a mysterious conspiracy.

A real-life mix of The X-Files and Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Mezrich “writes vividly and grippingly…A terrific story… will make a heck of a movie” ( The Washington Post). Inspiring and terrifying, this true story will keep you up at night, staring at the sky, and wondering if we really are alone. Along an expanse of land stretching across the southern borders of Utah, Colorado, and Kansas, Zukowski discovers multiple bizarre incidences of mutilations, and suddenly realizes that they cluster around the 37th Parallel or 'UFO Highway.' So begins an extraordinary and fascinating journey from El Paso and Rush, Colorado, to a mysterious space studies company and MUFON, from Roswell and Area 51 to the Pentagon and beyond to underground secret military caverns and Indian sacred sites beneath strange, unexplained lights in the sky and into corporations that obstruct and try to take over investigations. But this innocent hobby takes on a sinister urgency when Zukowski learns of mutilated livestock, and sees the bodies of dead horses and cattle-whose exsanguination is inexplicable by any known human or animal means. He would take the family with him on weekend trips to look for evidence of aliens. Like 'Agent Mulder' of The X-Files, computer programmer and sheriff's deputy Zukowski is obsessed with tracking down UFO reports in Colorado. 'This real-life The X-Files and Close Encounters of the Third Kind tells the true story of a computer programmer who tracks paranormal events along a 3,000-mile stretch through the heart of America and is drawn deeper and deeper into a vast conspiracy.

The 37th parallel by ben mezrich