For All We Know,  recipient of the 2025 Eric Hoffer Category Finalist Award, is a literary excursion into the lived experience of the UFO phenomenon, interwoven into a tapestry of music, psychedelics and the flux-and-flow of everyday life. Written from the first-perspective the book provides the reader with a biographical snapshot of the processes by which anomalous experiences are perceived, processed and incorporated into a personal perspective on the cosmos and the human condition. "Flying saucers appear alongside books, both of which appear alongside the so-called dead. 'We are them.' Take that as large and vast as you can." —Jeff Kripal, author of The Flip "Mike Fiorito finds the UFO in experiences as diverse as Catholic Mass to the modern rituals of heavy metal music...A fun and extraordinary experience. —Diana Pasulka, author of American Cosmic Reviewed by Brent Raynes, Alternative Perceptions Mike Fiorito is both an author and freelance journalist from Brooklyn, New York, whose book Mescalito Riding his White Horse, received the 2024 Independent Press Distinguished Book Award, as did his short-story collection Falling from Trees in 2022. Other books he's penned are The Hated Ones, Sleeping with Fishes, Call Me Guido, Freud's Haberdashery Habits, and Hallucinating Huxley. Anyone who has delved into the UFO mystery and engaged for any significant length of time with this thought-provoking subject comes out of it with their own personal stories. Sometimes those stories can become rather interesting to a readership as the author shares personal details of his journey, the various people he's met, their stories, the literature he's been influenced by, the challenging situations he's confronted in his efforts to comprehend and discern the proverbial truth behind such unusual cases. Sometimes, as with Whitley Strieber and John Keel, their books may become so interesting and entertaining to their readers that they become a movie. Now I'm not saying Mike's For All We Know will be appearing on the silver screen, but already a lot of very prominent figures in ufology have voiced words of praise for his literary contribution. For example, on the very cover of his book we read: "Mike Fiorito finds the UFO in experiences as diverse as Catholic Mass to the modern rituals of heavy metal music...A fun and extraordinary experience," -Dr. Diana Pasulka. "Flying saucers appear alongside books, both of which appear alongside the so-called dead. 'We are them.' Take that as large and vast as you can." -Dr. Jeffrey J. Kripal. Mike says he's always believed in UFOs. At age ten he was obsessed with books dealing with "spaceship and futurology," and soon was pouring through the pages of Fate magazine (a publication that as a teenager back in the 1960s I became hooked on, as did many others back in the days before the internet). Mike shares that sense of isolation where parents and others may not understand and appreciate your obsessive fascination with such things. They may express concern that it's holding you back from getting a proper education and making something worthwhile of your life. Grow up and become a responsible adult is the clear message, whether fully spoken aloud or not. Mike's personal journey shares his interactions with sympathetic others and those who of course weren't sympathetic, but it's the ones who became a part of his journey and who joined in the dialogue and the inner process, who were on their own path that eclipsed with his own at certain points. That for him and others included aspects of the well-worn and evolving pathways offered by spirituality, music, meditation, prayer, sometimes simply being in the soothing presence of natural surroundings, like sitting quietly along a forested mountain stream, relaxed and letting go. There are various avenues to choose from. Choose wisely. Welcome those spontaneous and special moments when anomalous episodes and synchronicities come knocking at your door. For some the numinous journey may just even be fueled by the UFO mythos that can also (don't laugh) be a powerful archetypal guiding light in the ongoing human search for enlightenment, meaning, and fellowship with one's fellow seekers. Mike certainly found it to be so, as have many others. And consider keeping a journal or a diary. You never know. Yours may be the next story for others to enjoy and learn from in a book, a YouTube video, or maybe a movie. Published in the Red Hook Star Revue , by Michael Quinn. Do you believe in UFOs? For some, the existence of aliens is a given, based on statistical probability or the (limited) evidence from photos and videos. Others swear they've had firsthand encounters, often shrouded in mystery. Years ago, I had a boyfriend who once, with terror in his voice, recounted an eerie childhood alien abduction experience. He never mentioned it again during our five years together, possibly because of my stunned reaction. For believers, the idea