John Alexander, Ph.D.
is a retired U.S. Army Colonel and a leading advocate for the development of non-lethal weapons. John figures prominently in Jon Ronson’s book The Men Who Stare at Goats which examines the subject of New Age ideas influencing the military. He joined the Army in 1956, obtained a PhD in 1980 and retired in 1988 after serving among other things with research and development, special operations, and served as a Special Forces commander in Vietnam and Thailand. During his time in the army he showed interest in esoteric techniques similar to those explored by Lt. Col. Jim Channon in his First Earth Battalion manual. Alexander is interviewed for the documentary featurette "The Science Behind the Fiction" which appears on the DVD for the 2009 film Push. There he discusses his personal experiences with paranormality within the US military. He claims that the Soviet Typhoon class submarine, Red October, first became known to American military intelligence by paranormal methods. His presentation will be based upon his latest book, UFOs: Myths, Conspiracies, and Realities. www.johnbalexander.com

Mike Bara
is an aerospace engineering consultant, lecturer, and the co-author of the New York Times best-seller Dark Mission: The Secret History of NASA. Mike spent more than 25 years designing and consulting on engineering and Computer Aided Design for a variety of aerospace companies He is currently starring in the documentary film Moon Rising, and will be starring in and producing his own documentary film based on Dark Mission for Sacred Mysteries Productions. Mike’s latest book is The Choice, which he describes as “The unified field theory of physics and metaphysics.” His presentation, The Choice: Using Conscious Thought and Physics of the Mind to Reshape the World is based upon The Choice. www.mikebara.com
 

Dolores Cannon
is a past-life regressionist and hypnotherapist who specializes in the recovery and cataloging of "Lost Knowledge". Her roots in hypnosis go back to the 1960s. She has been specializing in past-life therapy since 1979. Dolores has written the three volume set Conversations With Nostradamus, the series on the translation of Nostradamus' quatrains. This series contains the translation of almost 1000 prophecies; all interpreted for the first time and have been in print since 1989. It is considered the most accurate interpretation of the prophecies ever printed. Dolores has been a UFO investigator for twenty years, using her skills as a regressionist to help people that had been involved in abduction cases. She has written several books on the UFO information volunteers have revealed while under hypnosis. Dolores is now teaching her unique technique of hypnosis all over the world. Her presentation, The Three Waves of Volunteers and the New Earth, is based upon her book of the same title. www.ozarkmt.com

Joseph P. Farrell, Ph.D.
has a doctorate in patristics from the University of Oxford, and pursues research in physics, alternative history and science, and “strange stuff”. His book The Giza Death Star was published in the spring of 2002, and was his first venture into “alternative history and science”. The sequel, The Giza Death Star Deployed came out in Spring 2003, and the final book of the Giza Death Star trilogy, The Giza Death Star Destroyed, in 2005. Additionally, he has published two books on Nazi secret weapons, Reich of the Black Sun and The SS Brotherhood of the Bell. The Cosmic War: Interplanetary Warfare, Modern Physics, and Ancient Texts, came out in the autumn of 2007, and the sequel to The SS Brotherhood of the Bell, Secrets of the Unified Field: The Philadelphia Experiment, the Nazi Bell, and the Discarded Theory, came out in March of 2008. His presentation will be based upon his forth-coming book, Saucers, Swastikas, and Psyops: A History of a Breakaway Civilization: Hidden Aerospace Technologies and Psychological Operations www.gizadeathstar.com

Linda Moulton Howe
is a graduate of Stanford University with a Masters Degree in Communication. She has devoted her documentary film, television, radio, writing and reporting career to productions concerning science, medicine and the environment. Linda has received local, national and international awards, including three regional Emmys, a national Emmy nomination and a Station Peabody award for medical programming.
She has written four books which cover high strangeness topics such as the worldwide animal mutilation phenomenon, U.S. military, intelligence and civilian testimonies about other forces that interact with Earth life, and an investigative report of the on-going crop circle formations. In addition to producing, reporting and editing her award-winning web site, Linda appears weekly on the nationally syndicated Coast to Coast AM and the internet’s Dreamland Online. www.earthfiles.com
 

Antonio Huneeus
has covered the UFO field as an international journalist for 35 years, with hundreds of articles published in the USA, Latin America, Europe and Japan. He currently works as one of the editors and writers for Open Minds magazine and the www.openminds.tv  website. Antonio co-authored UFO Briefing Document–The Best Available Evidence and edited the book, A Study Guide to UFOs, Psychic & Paranormal Phenomena in the USSR. He studied French at the Sorbonne University in Paris and Journalism at the University of Chile in Santiago in the 1970s. He has lectured at dozens of UFO Conferences all over the world. His presentation, Global Perspective of the UFO Phenomenon in the XXI Century, will cover the Vatican, UN, new South American UFO agencies and the Rockefeller initiative.                                                    www.openminds.tv/author/antonio/
 

David M. Jacobs, Ph.D.
is a retired Associate Professor of History at Temple University David began researching the controversy over unidentified flying objects in America in the mid 1960s, and has amassed over 38 years of primary research data and analytical hypotheses on the subject. In 1973 David completed his doctoral dissertation in field of intellectual history on the controversy over unidentified flying objects in America. This was only the second Ph.D. degree granted involving a UFO-related theme. Since 1973 Dr. Jacobs has continued to devote most of his professional and personal energies to researching the UFO phenomenon in general, and the abduction phenomenon in particular. Having conducted nearly 900 hypnotic regressions with over 140 abductees, Dr. Jacobs is one of the foremost UFO abduction researchers worldwide and has written three books on the alien abduction topic. As a result of his extensive primary research, he has developed the first scientific typology of the abduction experience. David is a strong advocate of strict scientific and ethical research methodology. With colleagues Budd Hopkins and John Carpenter, he has given a series of workshops for members of the mental health community in the methods of abduction hypnosis, research, and therapy. www.ufoabduction.com

Ryan Jones
is an aerospace engineer with experience on the Space Shuttle, the B1-B bomber, the XC-45C unmanned aircraft and other classified defense programs. He is a patented inventor, an instrument-rated pilot and competitive pistol shooter. Ryan thrives on research and interviewed fighter pilots, federal agents, former military officers and SWAT team members while writing his novel SPECTERS which covers UFOs, the CIA and the Aurora spy plane. His presentation, An Engineering Analysis of the Nazi Bell Device, is a result of research for his forthcoming book, Final Security which will be published in 2012. www.ryanjones.biz

David Marler
joined The Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) in 1990 as a Field Investigator Trainee. Since then, he has served as Field Investigator, State Section Director, as well as Illinois State Director. David is currently an independent UFO researcher. During his tenure with MUFON, he had conducted numerous investigations into alleged UFO sightings and related experiences. He has discussed the subject of UFOs on several radio and television news programs. He assisted the History Channel for an episode of their TV show, Tactical to Practical where he discussed his research into the mystery of triangular UFOs and their history. He also appeared on The History Channel’s, UFO Hunters TV series. He has presented historical UFO material at various UFO conferences across the country. David believes in having an open mind regarding the UFO phenomenon. However, he also believes this must be balanced by a very skeptical approach when examining each individual UFO report. dmarler@charter.net
 

Paul Von Ward
is an interdisciplinary cosmologist and independent scholar, is the author of We've Never Been Alone: A History of Extraterrestrial Intervention, The Soul Genome: Science and Reincarnation and Our Solarian Legacy: Multidimensional Humans in a Self-Learning Universe. Paul focuses on a bigger picture including exobiology, exopolitics, and exopsychology in a conscious multiverse. Paul’s career has included roles as psychologist, Protestant minister, U.S. naval officer and American diplomat, and founder of an international nonprofit for cross-cultural understanding and peace. Current research includes the scope and nature of human and nonhuman consciousness — including reincarnation, the influence of advanced beings on human development, religious worldviews in societal conflicts, reform of social institutions, and natural spirituality. Paul’s presentation, based upon his latest book, is titled, We've Never Been Alone: The AB-Intervention Story.
www.vonward.com  www.reincarnationexperiment.org