Bill Homann
Bill became the Legal Guardian of the Mitchell-Hedges Crystal Skull in 2007. The Crystal Skull is with him virtually 24/7. His passion is helping people. He is devoted to this work. Bill has conducted thousands of meetings over the past thirty-plus years. He’s been worldwide and met with Aborigines in Australia; Indigenous American Tribal Shamans and Chiefs; Mayan Elders; a Peruvian Tribal Priest; Egyptian Archeologists; Buddhist Rinpoche: Arija Rinpoche, and Turkish Holy Men. All have been in the pursuit of helping people find love, joy, and happiness in their lives.
The Mitchell-Hedges Crystal Skull
Perhaps, you are curious. Curiosity leads to knowledge. Knowledge to Awareness and Awareness of all that there is—Wisdom. The Mitchell-Hedges Crystal Skull has a unique, unprecedented ability to connect those who enter its high-frequency field of consciousness to remember who they were in past lives. What their Power was and to bring it forth in these traumatic, turbulent, yet Pivotal Evolutionary Times in the development of mankind.
Not presenting lecture this year.
Bill Homann, legal guardian of the Skull since 2007, and Catherine Lanigan, will answer all your questions about the Mitchell-Hedges Crystal Skull and the mysteries surrounding it in this small …
Bill Homann, legal guardian of the Skull since 2007, and Catherine Lanigan, will answer all your questions about the Mitchell-Hedges Crystal Skull and the mysteries surrounding it in this small …
Jim Ledwith
UFO Jim (aka Jim Ledwith) has been researching UFOs and extraterrestrial-related phenomena for over 47 years. His investigative works include interviews with retired military and defense industry personnel, and other prominent people associated with the genre. His extensive research encompasses England’s crop circles, Area 51, Roswell, alien abductions and contactees, and relevant literature.
For nearly 13 years, Jim has been teaching his UFO Series classes through Adult Education, Rotary Clubs, California MUFON chapters, and other organizations, both Nationally and abroad.
UFO Jim was instrumental in bringing the “UFO Symposium” to the Sonoma International Film Festival in April 2011, and every year since. The SIFF is the only mainstream film festival in the world that includes UFO / ET-related films — all thanks to Jim.
Dr. Joseph Buchman
Dr. Buchman is the only ballot-qualified candidate to openly call for whistleblower protection of witnesses, and open Congressional UFO/ET Disclosure Hearings in two campaigns for federal office – US House in 2008 (UT CD1), and again in 2017 (UT CD3). Each of those campaigns earned national media attention. Last month (April 2023) he was in Washington DC for an event at the Library of Congress and to lobby several members of the US House and their key staff for hearings.
Dr. Buchman served as a key producer of, and moderator for, the 2013 Washington DC CITIZEN HEARING ON DISCLOSURE. He also served as the seventh member of the Congressional Panel, replacing Representative Darlene Hooley of Oregon after she was called away.
Dr. Buchman is returning to CONTACT IN THE DESERT after appearances here in 2015 and 2018. He is also the only (so-called) “UFO Researcher” to have been invited to speak to the NASA-SETI Contact: Cultures of Imagination Conference in Mountain View, CA (2014).
After earning a BS in Marketing from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University (1980), Joe worked at various radio and television stations (WHAS-TV, WTIU-TV, ESPN, WBWB, WTTS, WLRS, WQHI, WREY, WUTK and others). From 1982 to 1983 he served as Creative Services Director for WAGT-TV, the NBC television affiliate in Augusta where he managed the advertising and promotion campaign that led to WAGT becoming the fastest growing television station in the nation. Joe left television to earn a Masters of Science in Finance from the Krannert Graduate School of Management at Purdue University (1983), a PhD from the Media School at Indiana University, and spent the next 15 years in traditional Higher Education. His postgraduate studies include Mongolian language and khoomii.
After earning tenure in 1996, he left traditional higher education to develop online courses for the University of Chicago’s UNext/MBA program, and to pursue his dreams of adventure travel (chasing total solar eclipses, trekking the Altai Mountains of Mongolia, driving the entire US interstate highway system in a RoadTrek campervan, and throat singing). He is a long-time volunteer with the Sundance, Sonoma, and Napa Valley Film Festivals, is the former Chair of the Utah Libertarian Party, former Chair of the national LP Platform Committee, former Chair and three-term member of the LP Financial Audit Committee, and in 2022 ran for Treasurer of the State of Utah, receiving 97,171 votes.
Joe is a full member of the Society for Scientific Exploration, and in addition to Contact in the Desert, and Contact: Cultures of the Imagination, has given research presentations to: the American Psychological Association, FreedomFest, the National Association of Broadcasters, the X-Conference, the Broadcast Education Association, the Society for Scientific Exploration, the Roswell UFO Festival, the Popular Culture Association, StarWorks, and TEDx in Black Rock City. He has served as an expert witness in multiple media-related trials. His publications include materials in a wide variety of both graduate and undergraduate management and broadcast research and promotion textbooks, scholarly and trade publications, and most-recently the Forward to Don Schmitt’s and Tom Carey’s 2020 book: Roswell: The Ultimate Cold Case: Eyewitness Testimony and Evidence of Contact and the Cover-Up. His media appearances include Coast-to-Coast AM, The Other Side of Midnight, HERO Paranormal.
Joe and his wife Cindy will celebrate their 30th anniversary next month, have four highly successful children, one not-so-successful cat, and several distressed houseplants.
Not presenting lecture this year.
No appearances on panels this year.
Byron Belitsos
Belitsos is known to ufology as the editor and publisher of a bestselling series by Philip Krapf, a Pulitzer-winning editor at the LA Times whose books (1998-2007) describe his abductions by an advanced ET race known as the Verdants. Byron has also been a close collaborator with Jim Marrs (Ancient Aliens), Timothy Wyllie (Rebel Angels series), and Gordon Novel, and is a leading exponent of The Urantia Book (1955), a repository featuring detailed descriptions of alien life on inhabited worlds and angelic life on higher worlds that has sold over a million copies worldwide.
Lisa Puzo Strickland, PhD
Lisa Puzo Strickland credits her inner voice for helping her navigate a 30-year career in the radio, record, and the television industry. Her search for understanding the gift of intuition took her through studies in religion, psychology, philosophy, and spirituality. Upon shifting her focus to quantum physics, Lisa began seeing exciting parallels between nature, science, and paradigm-altering life principles which eventually led her to acquire a PhD in Philosophy and Parapsychology.
Since then, she has expanded her discussions to include AI, crypto currency, Biomimicry, and the pending Disclosure of non-human intelligence (NHI/UAP) – all of which connect. Lisa’s global experience coupled with her progressive thinking allows her to speak to any size or type of group. Lisa resides in Franklin, TN with her husband and 2 children.