Andrew Collins
Andrew Collins is a science and history writer, as well as the author of over a dozen books that change the way we perceive the past. They include From the Ashes of Angels (1996), Göbekli Tepe: Genesis of the Gods (2014), The Cygnus Key (2018), Denisovan Origins (2020) and Origins of the Gods (2022), co-authored with Gregory L. Little. His most recent book, The First Female Pharaoh, Sobekneferu, Goddess of the Seven Stars (2023), a quest to piece together the life and times of the first woman to wear the crowns of Upper and Lower Egypt.
In 2008 Andrew led the team that discovered Giza’s lost cave world under the shadow of the Great Pyramid. The site is today known as Collins’ Cave. The story is recorded in Andrew’s 2009 book Beneath the Pyramids. Andrew is also one of the world’s leading experts on Gobekli Tepe, Karahan Tepe and the origins of human civilization. He is a regular contributor to shows such as Ancient Aliens, UnXplained with William Shatner, and Gaia TV’s Ancient Civilizations and Deep Space. His website is www.andrewcollins.com
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Dave Foley
Since 1988, Canadian-American comedic actor Dave Foley has been entertaining audiences with movie and TV roles in such productions as The Kids in the Hall, NewsRadio, Blast from the Past, VEEP, and Young Sheldon, to name just a few.
In 2023, Dave partnered up with writer/producer Tom Wheeler to launch their highly popular podcast REALLY??? With Tom and Dave. Since its debut, their podcast has featured interviews with a number of the most compelling and credible journalists, researchers and government officials on the frontlines of “exotic” UFO alien technology. The duo and their guests break down fact from fiction in a world where Congress has passed groundbreaking bi-partisan legislation to study UFOs and investigate Secret Access Programs that may be hiding crashed otherworldly crafts.
To date, Dave and Tom have interviewed many of America’s leading UAP/ET experts and newsmakers, including: Jeremy Corbell, Paul Hynek, Leslie Kean, and Ralph Blumenthal, George Knapp, Dr. Avi Loeb, and Ryan Graves.
Thomas Wheeler
Tom Wheeler is a showrunner, screenwriter and novelist. His most recent novel Cursed was a New York Times Bestseller and was adapted into a 10-episode Netflix fantasy adventure series that Wheeler co-created and executive produced with comics legend Frank Miller.
His next novel Everwhen: School of Time Travel will be published next May by Simon & Schuster. Wheeler is also writing the screenplay for the animated feature adaptation of Everhwen with Paramount Animation.
Other recent feature credits include: the Academy Award Nominated Puss In Boots 2: The Last Wish, Dora The Explorer and Lego: Ninjago. Wheeler also wrote the original Puss In Boots, which was also nominated for Best Animated Feature.
In television, Wheeler has produced pilots for the CW and ABC and was the Creator/Executive Producer of the NBC series The Cape and the ABC maxi-series Empire.
Russell Targ
Russell Targ is an American physicist, author, and ESP researcher, and pioneer in the earliest development of lasers and their applications in the 1950s and 60s.
Targ received a Bachelor of Science degree in math and physics from Queens College in 1954, and did graduate work in physics at Columbia University, leading to his early work with lasers.
In 1997 he retired from Lockheed Missiles & Space Co. as a project manager and senior staff scientist, where he developed laser technology for airborne detection of wind shear and air turbulence. He has published nine books and more than a hundred refereed papers on ESP research, lasers, plasma physics, and laser applications. The most recent of Targ’s books is The Reality of ESP: A Physicist’s Proof of Psychic Ability.
At the Stanford Research Institute in the 1970s and 1980s, Targ and his colleague Harold Puthoff founded a 23-year, $25-million program of research into psychic abilities and their operational use for the U.S. intelligence community, including the CIA, Defense Intelligence Agency and Army Intelligence. These abilities are referred to collectively as “remote viewing.” Targ and Puthoff demonstrated that retired police commissioner Pat Price, photographer Hella Hammid and artist Ingo Swann all had remarkably accurate and reliable psychic abilities. Targ and Puthoff published their findings in Nature and the Proceedings of the IEEE.
He has recently produced a two-hour documentary film Third Eye Spies describing the true story of CIA psychic spying. Targ gave a half hour which was to be a TED talk. But TED decided it was too controversial.
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Brad Olsen
Brad Olsen is a captivating speaker and author of ten books, including three in his Esoteric Series: “Modern Esoteric” “Future Esoteric.” and the newly-released “Beyond Esoteric.” An award-winning author, book publisher and event producer. His keynote presentations and interviews have enlightened audiences at Contact in the Desert, Conscious Life Expo, and the Mt. Shasta Summer Conference, and dozens of radio (including Coast to Coast, Ground Zero, and the Patriot Underground) and television shows (including Ancient Aliens, America Unearthed, Beyond Belief, Book of Secrets, The Truth is Out There and Mysteries of the Outdoors). He has traveled to all seven continents, including Antarctica by sailboat, seeking adventure and the answers to the mysteries of humankind’s past.
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