Jim Marrs is a Texas journalist and author of four New York Times Best Selling books. His latest book, Our Occulted History, concerns the origins of humankind and the possibility of extraterrestrial intervention.  After a leave of absence from his newspaper job, he went to serve with a Fourth Army Intelligence Unit during the Vietnam War, he became a military and aerospace writer, and an investigative reporter.

Nick Redfern is the author of more than 30 books on UFOs, Bigfoot, lake-monsters, the Chupacabras, and Hollywood scandal, including Monster Diary; Memoirs of a Monster Hunter; Celebrity Secrets; There’s something in the Woods; Contactees; Final Events; The Real Men in Black; The NASA Conspiracies; Science Fiction Secrets; On the Trail of the Saucer Spies; Strange Secrets; and – with fellow Texas-based researcher and author, Ken Gerhard –

Story Musgrave was born in 1935 on a dairy farm in Stockbridge, MA. He was in the forests alone at 3 and by 5 floated his homebuilt rafts on the rivers. He rode combines at 5, drove trucks and tractors at 10 and when alone in remote fields, repaired them by 13.

Barbara Harris, is a local historian living in the area around Joshua Tree National Park. She has researched the Morongo Basin, Giant Rock and the Integratron for well over 30 years. Her passion has been finding the mysterious and unusual events of the Mojave Desert. As a former President of the Morongo Basin Historical Society she has successfully combined her business skills in Computer Graphics and Advertising with her knowledge of mysterious desert history and created a private travel business that gives a unique perspective to visitors wanting to explore the local desert. When Barbara is not out roaming the desert she is presenting lectures on Giant Rock & The Integratron, sharing local history, folklore and legends behind the stories that make up this place she calls home.