about the author
Mastermind Behind this Masterpiece
Gregg McManus was born and raised in Indiana, spending nearly half of his life in the Indianapolis region and half in Evansville. McManus earned a Bachelor’s Degree in history and political science from Butler University, a Master’s Degree in Foreign Service from Georgetown University and a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from Indiana University. He served as an assistant to U.S. Senator Birch Bayh (IN) in Washington during the Watergate era. He returned to Indiana to begin work over the next twenty-six years as manager, director or vice president of government & public affairs at Vectren Corporation and its predecessor companies, working with and lobbying federal, state and local officials on a wide variety of public policy issues. He traveled hundreds of times through southern Indiana on his way from Indianapolis to Evansville. Since 2004 he has taught over eighty courses in American History to the Present at the University of Evansville and University of Southern Indiana. His interest in astronomy and the UFO phenomenon dates back to his childhood when he would first observed the satellite “Sputnik” cross the night sky.
Much of this book results from an application of his knowledge of government and public policy as it might be directed at the UFO phenomenon. Gregg and his wife Jane Hackett-McManus currently reside in Peterborough, New Hampshire, although they have kept their home in Indiana He first became interested in “Flying Saucers” and UFOs as a ten-year-old boy after seeing the Soviet “Sputnik” satellite in Rushville’s night sky. He continued his interest in the subject throughout his life. When he saw a television program on “alien abductions” of human beings, he wondered why someone hadn’t “gotten a shot off at them”. This stimulated his imagination to wonder what would happen if someone actually landed “a punch”? Who in Washington would take that call? This novel involving science fiction also incorporates his years of experience in government, politics and public policy so that many of the events outside the science fiction are rooted in reality or at least probability.
