Board of Directors

Hollywood

CJ Arabia

Talent Scout / Writer / Producer

CJ Arabia began her career working on TV shows like News Radio, Animaniacs, Futurama, and many more as a Script Coordinator, Casting Associate and Assistant to the Producers. She worked as a writer and actor on Disney's One Saturday Morning and ABC. Later, she moved over to the digital world at NBC-dotcom, GeekNation and a variety of other websites as a Senior Editor and Website Manager.
In 1977, while walking home from school, CJ saw a UFO hovering overhead. Since that day, she’s been a believer and continues to await Disclosure. She’s also a MUFON Field Investigator, UFOlogist, and a writer on the topic of UFOs. She lives and works in Southern California.
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Tim Crawford

Founder & CEO of UFOTV®, UFOTV® Studios & UFOTV® ALL ACCESS / Filmmaker

UFOTV® Founder Tim Crawford is a musician, actor, writer, filmmaker, artist, producer and the Creator of UFOTV®, UFOTV® Studios and UFOTV® ALL ACCESS.
Tim comes from a family of artists. Tim’s father, John Crawford, is a Puppeteer who worked with Jim Henson and The Muppets, as well as filmmakers, such as Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, James Cameron, and Roger Corman, inspiring Tim to become a filmmaker.
At the age of 20, beginning in 1980, Tim went to work for “The Video Station” creator George Atkinson, who is considered to be the Father of “Home Video.” For 10 years, Tim distributed movies for the top 15 Movie Studios to the new Home Video Marketplace.
At the age of 24, Tim became the first person to put “video rental” into 7/11 convenient stores, and also Co-Founded a Children's start-up Home Video Label called Kid Time Home Video. In 1990, Tim founded Indy Video, a marketing company for the major movie studios by which to outsource marketing and sales of "A" quality, lesser-known movies. This became the launching pad for UFO Central Home Video, the world’s only one-stop source for films on UFOs, Exotic Science, Conspiracies, Suppressed History, and Spirit Cinema, at a time when no one in the entertainment industry and the home video market even knew these films existed.
During this time, Tim became the Creator and Executive Producer of the TV series: Phenomena: The Lost Archives, which was hosted by Dean Stockwell, star of Quantum Leap. Phenomena featured a cross section of films and subjects that Tim curated while creating UFO Central Home Video.
In 2000, at the dawn of the new millennia, UFO Central Home Video became UFOTV®, and expanded into a worldwide, multi-platform, Media Network.
Today, Tim spends most of his time as a filmmaker, producing and directing a steady stream of original movies while concurrently serving as CEO of UFOTV®, UFOTV® Studios and UFOTV® ALL ACCESS — a Video-On-Demand Streaming Platform for movies focused on UFOs and all-things-unidentified and unexplained, in exotic science and suppressed history.
Tim lives in California with his wife, son, and daughter. In addition to being an artist and filmmaker, Tim continues to experiment with Music. Since a young age, he has been a lifelong student of music, and is a highly accomplished fusion drummer.
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Dan Harary

Founder, Asbury PR Agency & Author, “After They Came”

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Sean Jablonski

Writer / Producer / Director

Sean Jablonski has been a writer, producer and director in Hollywood for over 25 years. With credits such as Oz, Nip/Tuck, Suits and two — TWO! — Law and Order franchises, Sean has helped create and craft some of the most seminal shows on TV.
But it was his time spent show running History Channel’s Project Blue Book about the Pentagon’s efforts to publicly explain, but privately discredit the UFO phenomenon which Sean counts as his most glowing and personally satisfying achievement to date. The truth is out there!
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Thomas Jane

Actor / Producer

Thomas Jane’s production company, Renegade Entertainment, has been prolific since launching late in 2019. They are currently in production on the second season of their scripted series Troppo, starring Thomas Jane, for Amazon / IMDBTV and AGC Studios (based on the bestselling novel by Candice Fox).
Since the beginning of Covid, Renegade Entertainment has completed: Murder At Yellowstone City (starring Gabriel Byrne, Isaiah Mustafa, and Thomas Jane), The Last Son (starring Thomas Jane, Sam Worthington, and Colson Baker), and the noir thriller Dig (starring Thomas Jane, Harlow Jane, and Emile Hirsch).
Thomas is also producing a comic series called The Lycan (continuing the Malone franchise with a sequel to the cult fan favorite Give ‘Em Hell, Malone), and teaming up again with the director of Thomas Jane’s Crown Vic, which premiered at the Tribeca film festival for the crime drama, The Alternate.
Additionally, Jane is producing the thriller Gathering Dark for MGM, based on the novel by Candice Fox.
In 2020, Thomas starred in films including Run Hide Fight, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival and A24’s Hot Summer Nights, opposite Timothee Chalamet. And Jane also has had a starring role in 20th Century Fox’s The Predator, directed by Shane Black.
Thomas is a triple Golden Globe nominee for the comedy series Hung, and has starred in such classic films as The Thin Red Line, Deep Blue Sea, and Boogie Nights. Among his other credits are The Punisher, Magnolia, and The Mist. Thomas won critical acclaim for his role as New York Yankee baseball legend Mickey Mantle in HBO’s 61* and was most recently seen on TV in the Alcon / SyFy series The Expanse.
Thomas Jane recently completed his non-fiction book, A Human’s Guide to Advanced Visiting Aliens. A combination of cutting edge scientific insight, exo-speculation, and an incisive, unflinching review of the human condition makes a Human’s Guide indispensable for ufologists, futurists, humanists — anyone with a keen interest in the human animal and where we may or may not be destined, as individuals, as a society, as a species.
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Kevin Kutchaver

Visual Effects Artist / Indie Writer / Director

One of Hollywood’s most in-demand Visual Effects Artists, Kevin Kutchaver has worked on countless feature films and TV series during the course of the past 40 years. Early in his career, he was involved in creating, designing and producing FX for such blockbuster motion pictures as Return of the Jedi, Ghostbusters II, both Addams Family films, all three RoboCop movies, Blade, and the comic book-inspired, Hellboy.
He was one of Hollywood’s leading originators of desktop visual effects work for TV with Babylon 5. He then became one of the co-founders of Flat Earth Productions, which created and produced six-years-worth of visual effects for two of the world’s biggest-ever syndicated TV series: Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and Xena: Warrior Princess.
Kutchaver just wrapped up being the Senior VFX Artist for the Warner Bros. Television hit shows The Flash and Legends of Tomorrow. A 2005 Emmy Award-winner for Outstanding Visual Effects for his work on the TV show Lost, Kutchaver also won the Arkin Medo Award for Photographic Excellence in 1979, and was nominated in 2007 by the Visual Effects Society for “Outstanding Supporting VFX in a Broadcast Program” for his work on Alias.
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Steve Longi

Film Producer

Steve Longi is a veteran feature film and television producer with over 20 years of experience. He has produced 14 feature films and has worked with an array of talented stars, such as Robert Downey, Jr., Sigourney Weaver, Rooney Mara, Whoopi Goldberg, Kat Dennings, Zach Galifianakis, Justin Long, Bob Saget, Rebel Wilson, Anton Yelchin, and Ray Liotta, to name a few.
Longi is credited with setting up and co-producing the Academy Award-winning film, Hacksaw Ridge, directed by Mel Gibson and starring Andrew Garfield. The film was nominated for six Academy Awards and won two. Longi recently published the book The Birth of Hacksaw Ridge, through Pacific Press Publishing, which details the early years of private Desmond T. Doss.
Longi has produced numerous film and TV projects, including the Emmy Award-nominated movie Prayers For Bobby, starring Sigourney Weaver, for the Lifetime movie network — the film was one of the highest-rated cable movies in the history of the network. Longi produced and also directed the Netflix comedy special Willie Barcena: The Truth Hurts. His other credits include Dimension’s Youth In Revolt (Michael Cera, Zach Galifianakis, Ray Liotta, Justin Long); Disney's Double Take (Eddie Griffin, Orlando Jones, Garcelle Beauvais); and Match (Patrick Stewart and Carla Gugino).
Steve Longi has numerous projects on his development slate, which includes the film rights to the Off-Broadway musical comedy Zombie Prom. The film is being written by Vince Marcello, who wrote and directed Netflix's The Kissing Booth Parts 1, 2, and 3 (one of the most-watched franchises on the platform).
Steve has developed over one hundred film, television, and theatrical projects and recently acquired the rights to John G. Fuller's book “The Interrupted Journey,” which chronicles the true-life experiences of Betty and Barney Hill, an interracial couple in the 1960s, who claimed under hypnosis that they had been brought aboard an alien spacecraft and examined by extraterrestrials. The project was recently set up with George Gallo (Midnight Run) to write and direct.
Originally from New Jersey, Steve Longi relocated to Los Angeles, and after attending UCLA ,served as Vice-President of Permut Presentations, INC. He oversaw the development, production, marketing, and release of Permut’s entire slate and began by working as the producer’s assistant on the breakout hit Face / Off (Nicolas Cage, John Travolta), which was one of the top ten highest-grossing films of its release year.
Longi's last film, The Reenactment, starring Tony Todd (Candyman) was released on December 7th, 2021, on all streaming platforms.
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Lisa Puzo-Strickland

Speaker / Author / Producer

Lisa Puzo-Strickland is a speaker and author who credits her inner voice for helping her navigate a 30-year career in the radio, record, and television industry. Her search for understanding this intuition has taken 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 interconnect.
Lisa’s global experience, coupled with her progressive thinking, allows her to speak to any size or type of group. She sits on both the Executive Board and the Board of Directors for The Hollywood Disclosure Alliance and was a panel speaker during Contact in the Desert 2025. Lisa resides in Franklin, TN, with her husband and two children.

Shawn West

Agent to the UFO Stars

Known as the “Agent to the UFO Stars,” Shawn West represents dozens of world-renowned UFO experiencers, investigators, and book authors, including Travis Walton (Fire In The Sky), Nick Pope (Ancient Aliens), Richard Dolan (UFO Chronicles), Jason Martell (The Proof Is Out There), Lynne D. Kitei, M.D., (The Phoenix Lights Network), Dr. Michio Kaku, Stephen Bassett (Paradigm Research Group), Steven Greenstreet (Ancient Aliens, The Proof Is Out There), Steve Quayle, Timothy Alberino (Birthright-novel), and many others.
These talented individuals are heavily sought after for film and television series, UFO conventions and conferences, as well as other types of corporate, personal appearances and product endorsements.
In the fields of TV development and production, Shawn also represents UFO film and documentary creators, including J3 Films (The Extraordinary film franchise), Darcy Weir (Occult Journeys, Secret Space franchise, The Underground), Sarah Davies (Alien Endgame), as well as dozens of shows distributed by Uncorked Entertainment, 1091 Media, and seen on network, cable and streaming television, incl. NBC, History Channel, Netflix, Science Channel, Travel Channel, Amazon Prime, and many more.
Shawn West is also a UFO experiencer himself, having encountered a triangle-shaped UFO silently hovering near Fairchild Air Force Base in Spokane, WA, in 2005. He also witnessed a cube-shaped UFO flying out of a mysterious floating “portal” at the base of Mt. Adams in Washington State, in 2007 – the site is near Mt. Rainer, where the infamous “Flying Saucer” sighting was first reported in 1947 by airplane pilot, Kenneth Arnold.
On a daily basis, Shawn actively seeks out people who have experienced strange phenomenon and makes efforts to help them tell their stories to media outlets, news programs, and prominent global publications.

UAP / ET

Stephen Bassett

Executive Director, Paradigm Research Group

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Judy Chadderdon

Researcher / Disclosure Advocate

Caroline Cory

Award-winning Filmmaker/ Best-selling Author / Founder, Omnium Media

Caroline Cory is an award-winning filmmaker and the visionary author of best-selling books on Consciousness Science and Energy Medicine. As a child and throughout her life, Cory has had numerous UFO encounters, as well as E.S.P. (extra-sensory) and pre-cognition experiences, which led her to become deeply connected to existential topics, the study of Consciousness, and the mechanics of the universe.
After teaching Energy Medicine and consciousness work for over a decade, Cory founded Omnium Media, an entertainment and media platform that tackles various thought-provoking topics on the human condition and the nature of reality.
In addition to writing and producing, Cory appears regularly as a guest expert on supernatural phenomena and the science of consciousness at major conferences and television shows, including The UnXplained with William Shatner and History Channel's popular series Ancient Aliens and “History’s Greatest Mysteries” with Lawrence Fishburn.
Among several recent accomplishments, her latest films AMONG US, SUPERHUMAN: THE INVISIBLE MADE VISIBLE and A TEAR IN THE SKY have won multiple film awards and nominations at various festivals around the globe.
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Paul Hynek

Entrepreneur / Professor / Futurist & Son of Project Blue Book Science Advisor J. Allen Hynek

Paul Hynek has decades of successful experience in finance, technology, cryptocurrency, and entertainment.
A Wharton MBA, Paul’s an Adjunct Professor of Accounting and Finance at Pepperdine University, and the creator of startup financial projections software that’s raised over $1 billion for thousands of startups. He has significant executive, finance, software, and high-tech experience in the U.S., Europe, and Asia. Paul works with numerous startups as either a Board member, advisor, or part-time CFO.
He was involved in the making of Avatar, Lord of the Rings, Planet of the Apes, Tintin, Real Steel, Warcraft, The Hobbit, Halo, Call of Duty, and numerous other movies and games. Paul has led the successful acquisition of Giant Studios’ ownership of its renowned virtual production motion capture software, and was instrumental in Giant’s sale to James Cameron for Avatar 2-5.
Paul was a consultant on HISTORY’s Project Blue Book TV series about his father’s research into UFOs for the U.S. Air Force, which starred Aidan Gillen from Game of Thrones. He was the Technology Consultant on Mayne vs. Shark, which was Discovery Channel’s big Shark Week special in 2019.
He conceived and produced Surf Monkey, the world’s first children’s online service, and introduced it with Bill Gates at the launch event for Microsoft Internet Explorer 4. Paul was instrumental in raising over $30-million, and positioning it for an IPO.
As Director of Business Development at Bandai Digital Entertainment, he produced the first online service for a set top box, managing this multi-million-dollar project with custom browser, chat, and email (including relationships with over 100 developers).
Paul has worked with the leading virtual and augmented reality companies, in both content creation and distribution, and has helped USC incorporate VR into their stroke recovery technology.
He has significant board experience, serving on several Corporate Boards and Advisory Boards, and has 15 years of non-profit board experience, incl. nine years as Chair.
Paul is a grant reviewer for the National Science Foundation. He has lived in Asia and Europe, is fluent in French, capable in Japanese, and speaks some Mandarin, Thai, Portuguese, and Spanish. He holds a Master of Business Administration from The Wharton School of Business, a Master of Arts in International Studies from the University of Pennsylvania’s Joseph H. Lauder Institute, and a B.A. in French from the University of Illinois.
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Ron James

Director of Media Relations, MUFON

Ron James is a filmmaker, on-camera personality, writer, editor, researcher, content creator and entrepreneur. His new documentary, Accidental Truth: UFO Revelations, narrated by Matthew Modine, has won 17 film festival awards and was recently mentioned by name at the beginning of the latest UAP congressional hearing by U.S. Representative Tim Burchett. The film has been called one of the most important UFO documentaries of all time, as it lays out both the case and the truth behind the headlines that the film seems to predict.
Ron is a regular guest on many related podcasts and shows, including Ancient Aliens and more. He is the co-founder of MUFON Television, an online TV channel boasting the world’s largest collection of commercial-free UAP related material. He also holds the title of Media Relations Director for MUFON, the Mutual UFO Network.
He has created many feature length documentaries and dozens of original independent series episodes. He is the winner of 37 national awards, including 4 EBE awards and The Telly Award, and is a four-time winner of the Aegis Award for Excellence in Broadcasting.

Ron currently makes his own shows, including Bigger Questions, Spacetime, MUFON Presents, and more. He maintains his own independent production studio in L.A.
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Ron's newest film, Accidental Truth: Next, will be released during late 2025.

His film, Accidental Truth, is now FREE to watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4Tp_Q_jyNI

Captain Ron Janix

Co-Owner, Producer & Host, Contact In The Desert

“Captain” Ron Janix has been immersed in the UFO / paranormal community for many years. Through working with various conferences, reading and researching, and doing hundreds of interviews, he has built up an extensive knowledge of the subject.
Ron began podcasting with the Elevate The Conversation show back in 2014 and then moved on to the Truth Be Told show along with Tony Sweet.
In 2021, he founded The Observation Deck, an online source for information on speakers, as well as a place to host virtual events in and around the UFO community.
In 2023, along with Gordon Pekrul, Ron bought the Contact In The Desert Conference. Ron will be starting up a new podcast before the 2024 conference, called Beyond Contact.
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Gordon Pekrul

Co-Owner, Contact In The Desert

Gordon Pekrul, with a lifelong fascination in UFO / UAP phenomena since his early teens, embarked on a quest for answers, amassing a library of hundreds of in-depth studied books on the subject.
A captivating sighting in Mexico during the nineties fueled his curiosity, leading him to become a dedicated MUFON member for 30 years.
Attending every UFO conference available for decades, Gordon's passion culminated in producing MegaCon in Laughlin NV, for four years (2019-2022) and producing The Mega UFO Blind Frog Ranch Symposium in 2022.
In 2023, Gordon made a significant investment in Contact in the Desert, and continues his search for answers. Today, Gordon and Ron Janix are the Co-Owners of Contact in the Desert.

Nick Pope

U.K. Ministry of Defense (Ret.)

Nick Pope worked for the UK Ministry of Defense, investigating UFOs and other mysteries officially for the British Government, leading the media to call him the real Fox Mulder.
Because of his work on these real-life X-Files, Nick has worked as a consultant or spokesperson on numerous UFO and alien-themed movies, TV series, and video games.
He is a regular contributor to various TV news shows and documentaries, including Ancient Aliens, The Basement Office and After Contact, the latter of which he created and hosts. He also moderates Ancient Aliens Live - a touring event based on the successful TV series.
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Robert Salas

U.S. Air Force (Ret.) / Aerospace Engineer / Teacher

Robert Salas served on active duty with the U.S. Air Force for seven years after graduation from the U.S. Air Force Academy in 1964. He earned a Masters Degree in Aerospace Engineering from the Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio. He also worked with the Titan III Missile Systems program office at Los Angeles AFS.
After being honorably discharged from the Air Force in 1971, Mr. Salas briefly worked as an engineer for Martin-Marietta Aerospace and Rockwell International. From 1974 until his retirement in 1995, Mr. Salas worked for the Federal Aviation Administration as an aircraft structures engineer.
He is currently employed as a high school mathematics teacher and has authored two books on the UFO phenomenon: Faded Giant (2005) and Unidentified - The UFO Phenomenon (2015).
Mr. Salas has spoken publicly in over 15 countries about the 1967 UFO / Missile Shutdowns, since 1996.

Daniel Sheehan

Disclosure Advocate & Researcher / Political Activist / Distinguished Attorney

Dan Sheehan has been a recognized leader in the movement to end UFO secrecy for over four decades.
His advocacy began in 1977, when he was tasked by the Carter administration to uncover the truth about the 1947 Roswell Incident. Since then, he has worked closely with leaders in the UFO research community, pressing for the formal acknowledgment of the reality of the UFO / UAP phenomenon, and its implications for humanity.
Daniel has a long and distinguished career working to protect civil liberties and human rights, incl. the following famous cases: Karen Silkwood, Three Mile Island, the Pentagon Papers, and Iran-Contra.
And more recently, Dan’s work on the climate crisis and the Lakota People's Law Project brought justice, reparations, and protections to Native Americans. Over the years, Daniel has collaborated closely with other leading Disclosure advocates and researchers, including Dr. John Mack, Paola Harris, Dr. Steven Greer, Leslie Kean, and Luis Elizondo.
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