ELVERSON, Pa., February 6, 2003 (PRIMEZONE) -- Is there intelligent life on other planets? If so, have these extraterrestrials ever tried to contact mankind? Does evidence of their presence on earth exist? These questions and others like them have fascinated and frustrated men for years. Author William McElroy understands the appeal of outer space, and offers his own theories and thoughts in Arbaron (now available from 1stBooks Library).
Protagonist Dave Macklyn discovers a cave in the mountains north of Los Angeles that turns out to be an abandoned space outpost from the planet Arbaron. Sealed by a landslide for thousands of years, the cave contains a treasure of golden cylinders, highly evolved equipment and an actual flying spacecraft. The cave also contains secrets and dangers.
Dave discovers one of the hazards of alien technology when he removes the end plug of one cylinder and accidentally blows the end off a building. The fire caused by the cylinder's explosion draws the attention of local law enforcement. Federal agents and Air Force personnel are sent to investigate, and, if possible, obtain for their own uses, the source of this powerful force.
They learn from equipment in the cave that the elements in the cylinders could be turned into a weapon so potent that it could, in fact, destroy the world. Knowing the true danger of the cylinders, Dave refuses to divulge their location until the agents agree to destroy them. However, he is betrayed by the agents and is forced to make the ultimate and final decision about his discovery. The fate of Arbaron rests in his hands.
Author William McElroy was born and raised in rural eastern Pennsylvania. Retired, he and his wife of forty-eight plus years enjoy many springtime visits to the Amish farmlands of Lancaster County and summer vacations flounder fishing in Ocean City, Md. Arbaron is his first book. McElroy resides in Elverson, Pa.
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