Speakers

Marcus Allen is the British distributor and publisher of the UK edition of Nexus Magazine. Like many others, Marcus watched the Apollo Moon Landings live on Television, and at the time applauded the evident success of those missions. After attending a lecture in the 1990's which questioned the validity of the Moon Landings, he decided to carry out his own research. Having worked as a photographer in London in the 1960s, Marcus was able to examine the well known photographs issued by NASA from a professional viewpoint. He has also researched many other aspects of Apollo.

Grant Cameron became involved in Ufology as the Vietnam War ended in May 1975 with personal sightings of an object which locally became known as Charlie Red Star.  The sightings occurred in Carman, Manitoba about 25 miles north of the Canada-US border. Hundreds of other people sighted objects at the same time during a prolonged flap of sightings.

Natasha Acimovic is a lecturer in Further Education at a British and currently teaches Adult Literacy and Academic Study Skills at a British college. An interest in various theories, language and the constructions of identity led her to complete a degree Creative Writing and English Literature, an MA by Research in English Studies and a PGCE in Adult Literacy.

Mike Freebury was born and brought up near Birmingham and has enjoyed a long career as a Finance Manager in advertising, construction and manufacturing. His logical approach has served him well as a researcher.

In 2000 he began his investigation into the Dartmoor Ponies incident and has continued in this difficult field of research ever since.

CNN correspondent-turned-screenwriter Bryce Zabel has created five primetime television series, notably NBC’s Emmy-winning UFO series Dark Skies, just released on DVD in January 2011. This year his just published non-fiction book, A.D. After Disclosure: The People’s Guide to Life After Contact, is being developed as a weekly television series by his production company Stellar Productions and Electric Farm Entertainment.

In 2008, Zabel received the Writers Guild of America (WGA) award for writing his third fourhour Hallmark mini-series, Pandemic. He has written multiple studio feature scripts, receiving credit on produced films and miniseries that include Atlantis: The Lost Empire, Mortal Kombat: Annihilation, Blackbeard, and The Poseidon Adventure. He is currently under contract to write Majic Men, about the Roswell investigation. He wrote SyFy’s first original film, Official Denial, and the first film in the Unsolved Mysteries MOW franchise, Victim of Love.

Robbie Graham is an independent scholar examining Hollywood's historical representations of UFOs and extraterrestrial visitation. As a writer and lecturer his work emphasises the cultural, industrial and political processes by which Hollywood's UFO movie content is shaped, as well the impact of these movies on popular perceptions of the UFO phenomenon.