Mingo County Native Kyle Lovern says he's believed in UFOs since he was nine years old.  That's when he first saw unidentified flying objects on a summer evening while sitting on his front porch.

"We saw three objects coming from Kentucky, we lived right on the border, right over top of the mountain.  They hovered there, just at treetop level," Lovern said on Monday's MetroNews Talkline.

Lovern saw UFOs again in 1973 when a rash of UFO sightings were reported.

Many others have had similar sightings.  He chronicles those stories in his recently released second book titled APPALACHIAN CASESTUDY: UFO Sightings, Alien Encounters and Unexplained Phenomena VOL. 2.

Volume 1 was released back in 2008.

"Once that came out (the first book), once people started hearing that I was interested in this, I was a researcher and an investigator of this kind of phenomena, people started contacting me with more stories," Lovern said.

Lovern says he believes many of the stories he hears.

"You can usually interview people and talk to them and tell that their credible witnesses," he says.  "A lot of cases, of course, can be explained.  But there are a lot of those that cannot be explained."

Lovern is a longtime reporter in West Virginia.