On November 5, 1975, a group of loggers in the mountains of northeastern Arizona observed a strange, unusually bright light in the sky. One of those men, Travis Walton, recklessly left the safety of his truck to take a closer look. What happened next sent his companions fleeing in fear. When Travis failed to reappear, the men were suspected of murder. For five days authorities mounted a massive manhunt in search of Walton or his body. Walton eventually reappeared, disoriented and initially unable to tell the details of his terrifying encounter. His book Fire in the Sky provides an account of his experience. A major motion picture was also made with the same name.
Jennifer W. Stein started doing film work about 20 years ago when a friend of hers was killed in a terrorist buss attack in Israel in 1989. Jennifer wanted to memorialize her friend Rita Levine and create something positive from this tragedy. Rita was an attorney studying at an Ulpan language school is Tel Aviv when she was needlessly killed in a terrorist attack on a public bus. Jennifer handled the fundraising, and pre production research & planning, filming, and editing of this film with a New York editor who assisted her in this production called “Rita’s Journey”.
In 2012 Jennifer won two Open Minds’ International UFO Congress EBE film festival awards for her co-production of the Disclosure Dialogues with Ron James. She again succeeded in winning two more EBEs at the 2015 Open Minds’ film festival for her film Travis: The True Story of Travis Walton. Jennifer has produced numerous video treatments for speakers in the UFO field and hosts her own cable network television show in Radnor.
She founded Main Line MUFON, www.MainLineMUFON.com 12 years ago, an organization in the Philadelphia suburbs, which serves as a regional education arm for the Mutual UFO Network and Noetic Science’s “Shift in Action” for South Eastern PA. Jennifer is a State Section Director and field investigator for MUFON. Her regular monthly program meets at the Tredyffrin public Library in Strafford Pa. For more information visit her sites at: www.mainlineMUFON.com and https://onwingesproductions.com.
For those interested in how the TRAVIS film came about, Here is the basic background… it started out as project for the 40th anniversary conference back up film in case the weather did not permit a sight tour due to heavy rains or snow. Jennifer was invited into the planning stages of the Travis Walton conference after a dinner discussion in Roswell in July of 2010.
Author Peter Robbins invited Stein to meet Travis and to begin conference coordination meetings online. One thing led to another and before Jennifer knew it she was in Arizona shooting a forest sight tour with the original Co-producer Bob Terrio from Philadelphia.
Guerrilla Novelist, Casper Parks is considered a "must read author" for today's generation. He uses science fiction to explore the possibilities of reality past, present and future. His readership spans numerous ages and nations.
After high school, he served in the United States Navy, doing a Westpac. Three semesters into collage opportunity knocked and he answered. For years, he worked in the industry, and as an actor and radio announcer. In the music industry, he started by setting stages working his way into lighting-tech and stage manger. He worked as onsite manager of a rehearsal studio in Downtown Los Angeles, then left his career in the music industry on Labor Day 1993.
Casper Parks is active and respected in the UFO community. He has witnessed a number of UFOs and has posted one encounter online.
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Dave Bara was born at the dawn of the space age and grew up watching the Gemini and Apollo space programs on television, dreaming of becoming an astronaut one day. This soon led him to an interest in science fiction, especially on television. His early years were filled with dozens of episodes of the original Star Trek, Lost in Space, The Outer Limits, and The Twilight Zone.
He began to read science fiction voraciously in his teens, with authors like Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Frederick Pohl, Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, Gordon Dickson, and Joe Haldeman being among his favorites. This led him to try his hand at writing, which he continued all through his college years, even using a novel project as part of his undergraduate degree studies. During these years the story concepts for what would become The Lightship Chronicles series began to take form.
Dave's writing is influenced by the many SF novels he has read over the years, but most notable were books like Dune (Herbert), The Mote In God's Eye (Niven and Pournelle), Dorsai! (Dickson), The Forever War (Haldeman), Tau Zero (Poul Anderson) and the Foundation novels (Asimov), among many others.
Dave looks forward to bringing SF fans many exciting stories, heroic characters, and soaring action-adventure in the years to come.
Ben Hansen was the lead host and investigator of the SyFy channel's Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files.
With three seasons on the air, the show focused on recreating videos and photos of alleged paranormal events to see if they have a natural explanation, were hoaxed, or if they remain unexplained. The six person team takes on cases of ghosts, UFOs, Bigfoot, chupacabras, mermaids, and other unusual occurrences. Hansen graduated from the University of Utah and went to work investigating child physical abuse and sex crimes at the state level for several years before moving on to work for the FBI. His speciality consisted of forensic interviewing and working with special victims. Hansen is a spokesperson for Bushnell's line of night vision equipment which can be found at www.nightvisionops.com
When he's not filming, he travels the country lecturing, and conducting public UFO and ghost investigating events.
JEREMY KENYON LOCKYER CORBELL is an American contemporary artist and investigative filmmaker based in Los Angeles California.
Corbell documents ExtraOrdinary individuals and their belief systems. This research has taken him into the worlds of nanotechnology, aerospace exploration, exotic propulsion systems, as well as, an in-depth examination into the life and discoveries of the enigmatic “Godfather of Conspiracy” John Lear. Corbell has documented the surgical removal of alleged Off-World Alien Implants, and with access to NASA, he has filmed the analysis of anomalous materials alleged to be physical evidence of extraterrestrial nano-technology from UFO landing sites. Corbell has obtained death-bed confessions from former CIA and government intelligence officials, who claim to expose the truth about the UFO reality and the worldwide coverup of the ultimate truth. Corbell’s film work reveals how ideas, held by credible individuals, can alter the way we experience reality and force us to reconsider the fabric of our own beliefs.
Join CORBELL on his journey to explore the EXTRAORDINARY BELIEFS of enigmatic people deep within the aerospace, military, intelligence, conspiracy, extraterrestrial and underworld communities.
Jamie Bartlett is a journalist and tech blogger for The Telegraph and Director of The Centre for the Analysis of Social Media for Demos in conjunction with The University of Sussex.
In 2013 he covered the rise of Beppe Grillo's Five Star Movement in Italy for Demos, chronicling the new political force's emergence and use of social media.
In 2014 he released a book entitled The Dark Net, discussing the Darknet and dark web in broad terms, describing a range of underground and emergent sub cultures, including social media racists, cam girls, self harm communities, darknet drug markets, cryptoanarchists and transhumanists.
He regularly writes about online extremism and free speech, as well as social media trends in Wikipedia, Twitter and Facebook.
started doing film work about 20 years ago when a friend of hers was killed in a terrorist buss attack in Israel in 1989. Jennifer wanted to memorialize her friend Rita Levine and create something positive from this tragedy. Rita was an attorney studying at an Ulpan language school is Tel Aviv when she was needlessly killed in a terrorist attack on a public bus. Jennifer handled the fundraising, and pre production research & planning, filming, and editing of this film with a New York editor who assisted her in this production called “Rita’s Journey”.
