Once upon a time, I was a teen-age UFO investigator. Later I became a professor of religious studies—my specialty, religious traditions of heavenly ascent. From 1976 through 2000, I taught Jewish history in the Religious Studies Department at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Now retired from teaching, I live in North Carolina with my wife Rose. I've written five non-fiction books on Jewish mysticism and messianism. Journal of a UFO Investigator is my first novel.