BRUCE OLAV SOLHEIM, PH.D.

Bruce Olav Solheim was born in Seattle, Washington, to Norwegian immigrant parents. Bruce was the first person in his family to go to college. He served for six years in the US Army as a jail guard in West Germany, and later as a warrant officer helicopter pilot at the 82nd Airborne Division. He is a disabled veteran. He also worked as a defense contractor at Boeing for five years. Bruce earned his Ph.D. in history from Bowling Green State University in 1993, with his main field being US foreign policy. Bruce is a distinguished professor of history at Citrus College in Glendora, California, where he has taught for 26 years. He was a Fulbright Professor and Scholar in 2003 at the University of Tromsø in northern Norway. Bruce founded the veterans program at Citrus College and co-founded (along with Ginger De Villa-Rose and former East Los Angeles Vet Center Director Manuel Martinez) the first in the nation college transition course for recently returned veterans called Boots to Books. Bruce has published eleven books and has written ten plays, six of which have been produced. He has lived a paranormal life since age four having experienced angels, demons, ghosts, cryptids, telepathy, psychokinesis, mediumship, and alien contact. In addition to his academic books/journal/novel (The Nordic Nexus: A Lesson in Peaceful Security, On Top of the World: Women’s Political Leadership in Scandinavia and Beyond, Viet Nam Generation Journal, Women in Power: World Leaders since 1960, The Vietnam War Era: A Personal Journey, Ali’s Bees, and Making History: A Personal Approach to Modern American History), Bruce has published a trilogy of paranormal books about his personal paranormal experiences: Timeless, Timeless Deja Vu, and Timeless Trinity, and a book about his contact with a non-human intelligence (NHI)—Anzar the Progenitor. His latest book is We Are the Aliens: A Case of Alien-Human Integration. He has also taught a Paranormal Personal History course at Citrus College. Bruce has also published two comic book series featuring an alien hybrid character named Snarc and Dr. Jekyll Alien Hunter with a female lead character. Bruce is married to Ginger and has four children (one serving in the US Air Force) and two grandsons.