Encounter Over Alaska

Mark Barresi spent three years in the army infantry, training at Fort Benning and then Fort Campbell, where he expanded his military knowledge and skills while going to college and taking creative writing courses. He has followed the paths of his favorite established authors, James Byron Huggins and Clive Cussler, and has authored seven books establishing himself as one of the great new talents of the action and horror genre. Encounter Over Alaska will be made into a major movie, based on the true UFO case of Japanese Jetliner JAL1628 that encountered three massive UFOs while flying over Alaska in November 1986. Barresi made a guest appearance on the History Channel's hit show Pawn Stars in 2014. He enjoys traveling, collecting antiques and being an animal rights activist, caring for abused and neglected animals. He currently lives in New York City.

On November 17, 1986, flight JAL 1628, a cargo jet, made international history. The crew on a routine flight to Anchorage, Alaska, encountered three massive UFOs. Days after the incident, it became one of the most famous UFO cases of all time.
This true story is what Mark Barresi's powerful science fiction novel Encounter Over Alaska is based upon. When lead executive investigator the FAA, Scott Andrews, is made aware of the case, he is at first unfazed by the report and believes there must be a plausible reason for the experienced pilot and his crew to make up such a wild claim about UFOs. But when investigative reporter Nicole Martone proves to Andrews there is an evidential cover up of both military and civilian radar reports, showing that UFOs tracked a cargo plane for forty-five minutes, the two become a team, risking their careers, and fight to expose government deception.