Mike Clelland’s 2015 book, The Messengers, was met with high praise. In it he explores the mysterious connection between owls, synchronicities and UFO abduction. It was his first-hand experiences with these elusive events that have been the foundation for his research. This book is also a personal memoir, and a journey of self discovery.
Mike also hosts a podcast, Hidden Experience. These platforms feature extended audio interviews with visionaries and experts examining the complexities of the overall UFO experience.
Mike is also considered an expert in the skills of ultralight backpacking, and is the author and illustrator of a series of instructional books on advanced outdoor techniques. After 25 years living in the Rockies, he now lives in the Pacific Northwest.
The Messengers (2015)
The owl has held a place of reverence and mystique throughout history. And as strange as this might seem, owls are also showing up in conjunction with the UFO experience. Mike Clelland has collected a wealth of first-hand accounts in which owls manifest in the highly charged moments that surround alien contact. There is a strangeness to these accounts that defy simple explanations. This book explores implications that go far beyond what more conservative researchers would dare consider.
But the owl connection encompasses more than the UFO experience. It also includes profound synchronicities, ancient archetypes, dreams, shamanistic experiences, personal transformation, and death. From the mythic legends of our ancient past to the first-hand accounts of the UFO abductee, owls are playing some vital role.
This is also a deeply personal story. It is an odyssey of self-discovery as the author grapples with his own owl and UFO encounters. What plays out is a story of transformation with the owl at the heart of this journey.
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Author Richard Dolan said this about THE MESSENGERS, “I would characterize very few UFO books as beautiful. But this one is.”
Stories from The Messengers (2017)
This is a companion to the groundbreaking ideas that began with Mike Clelland’s earlier book, The Messengers. It is a further exploration into the connection, both symbolic and literal, between owls and UFOs.
There is a strangeness to these accounts that defies any simple explanation. Each chapter tells a deeply personal story where these mysterious experiences are explored in depth. The book reads like a collection of short stories. The ancient mythology of the owl is repeating itself within the modern UFO report. What plays out is a journey of transformation, with an owl at the heart of each story.
Hidden Experience (2019)
I wrote about the most difficult time of my life as it was happening and posted it on a blog. I’d been confronted with a chain of strange events that seemed impossible to understand. I tried to dismiss what was happening, but all the clues pointed to one thing, and I was forced to ask myself, “Am I a UFO abductee?” I started writing ten years ago as an attempt to answer that question.
This is a collection of the most vital posts from the popular blog Hidden Experience. It’s a roller coaster journey of doubts and fears as I wrestle with UFOs, missing time, synchronicities and owls.
The story that unfolds is scary, mysterious, disturbing—and at times funny. It’s an insight into the strange challenges of otherworldly contact. Confronting the darkest unknowns ultimately lead to an awakening of consciousness. This is the personal journey from the author of the groundbreaking books The Messengers and Stories from The Messengers.
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Mike Clelland’s latest book is another must-read. His books delve into the high strangeness from personal perspectives, much like Whitley Strieber and John Mack. It’s one thing to theorize the topic, it is quite another to actually speak about from an authoritative first-person perspective, and that is exactly why Clelland’s book can’t be put down.
—Diana Pasulka, author of AMERICAN COSMIC
The Unseen—a novel (2023)
The Unseen is a fast-paced paranormal thriller. The story taps into real-life experience from his extensive research into the mythic role of the owl, synchronicities, and supernatural contact.
A disillusioned artist embarks on a haunted journey into the wilderness. His odyssey culminates in a lonely town, full of mystery and secrets. He is confronted by ghosts from the past, and premonitions of the future, and he struggles to understand his destiny in the face of questions without answers. There is a story beneath the story, filled with hope, longing, and the quest for profound connection. Spiraling twists, psychic spies, and mind-bending adventure keep the pages turning, all while pulling the reader to the edge of reality and beyond.
Reviews:
Mike Clelland has clearly been holding out on us in waiting until now to produce his first—spectacular—work of fiction. The Unseen is riveting from beginning to end. Gripping storytelling, emotional nuance, and metaphysical mystery sweep the reader away on a tide of synchronicity, intuition, and high strangeness. Clelland masterfully paints the core emotional reality of being an experiencer: the rawness, the vulnerability, and the ever-ambiguous connection to truth. This is a work of fiction that could only be written by someone who deeply knows the reality of the phenomena. It’s destined to be a classic.
—Sharon Hewitt Rawlette, PhD, Author of The Source and Significance of Coincidences
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Mike Clelland’s new fiction book Unseen is a whole mood. There is a story beneath the story here, filled with longing and mystery and the hope of profound connection. It all remains tantalizingly beyond reach, leaving behind a strange sensation that’s somehow both familiar and foreign. This book is unsettling and sad, beautiful and redemptive. It has stayed with me.
—Robin Lassiter, author of Earth: A Love Story
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When one reads this book, a startling possibility emerges: that unexplained phenomena eagerly find refuge in the margins of fiction, where their existence is suspended between fact and fantasy. The Unseen may be from Mike Clelland’s head, but it isn’t in his head. It is a lived reality that every experiencer and student of the paranormal will find as authentic as any true tale.
—Joshua Cutchin, author of The Ecology of Souls
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Wow—what an intriguing story that sticks! I stayed up way too late, turning the pages to see what happened next. The writing is meticulously crafted, and the scenes came alive in my mind’s eye. The subtle and intricate twists kept me thinking long past the final read.
—Scarlett Heinbuch, author of We Met on the Other Side: A True Love Story