The 'X' Zone Radio/TV Show

Ben Moss and Tony Angiola - Socorro Update

Ben has been interested in UFOs most of his life. He has been a MUFON Investigator since the 90's and is currently the Chief Field Investigator for VA. He is a speaker and appears on season 2 of the History Channel Hangar 1 show as well as NASA's Unexplained Files and various radio talk shows. As a MUFON investigator, Ben has also studied such diverse disciplines as history, archaeology, physics, astronomy, and religion, among other sciences to better understand and investigate UFOs.

Tony is the Assistant State Director VA and a member of the rapid deployment Star. Tony has a background in Information Technology and has been studying UFOs since the early 90s. He became an investigator in 1999 and has lived in Northern VA for over 20 years. As technology progresses, Tony hopes to be able to bring new evidence to light with the goal of one day explaining more scientifically the various forms of propulsion that appear in photographs and are found in different types of evidence left behind by strange phenomena.

Jan Harzan is the Executive Director of MUFON. He’s been a member of that organization for a very long time and has worked at administration of MUFON for many years. His interest in UFOs was inspired by his one sighting, and that not only sparked an interest in UFOs, but also his life work.

Irena (McCammon) Scott is an American author and physiologist. She received a BS from The Ohio State University, an MS from the University of Nevada, and a PhD from the University of Missouri in the Department of Veterinary Medicine. Her post-doctoral studies were done at Cornell University.

She has been employed as an Assistant Professor (Department of Biology) at St. Bonaventure University, and has done research and teaching at the Ohio State University, the University of Missouri, the University of Nevada, and at Battelle Memorial Institute. She was a correspondent for Popular Mechanics magazine, with articles appearing in the "Technology Update" and "Science" sections. Scott has also worked as a volunteer astronomer at The Ohio State University Radio Telescope in Delaware, Ohio. She is the author of six books and has contributed chapters and articles to numerous scientific journals, magazines, and newspapers. Her listings include Who's Who in the World, World Who's Who of Women, Who's Who in the Midwest, Dictionary of International Biography, and Who's Who in Frontier Science and Technology,

Don Ecker is a writer/researcher/commentator currently living in the Los Angeles area. Serving as the former Director of Research and Media Liaison for UFO Magazine for 20 years, Ecker is an internationally renowned investigator of the UFO phenomenon. A former law enforcement officer and criminal investigator with over 10 years-experience, he brought legitimacy to a field that has for years suffered being painted with a fringe brush. He has written numerous articles for the definitive UFO publication, UFO Magazine, as well as articles for international publications, the United Kingdom's Fortean Times, Omni, the Compuserve System, and the ParaNet Computer Data Base.

Ecker hosted his own weekly national radio talk show, "UFOs Tonite!," on Cable Radio Network for five years, and most recently "STRANGE DAZE" 5 nights a week on the Liberty Works Radio Network. Starting in January, 2004 Ecker and his good friend Dwight Schultz began a new national radio program called DARK MATTERS. Today Dark Matters Radio airs on the Cameo/CyberstationUSA Network. Ecker has been a guest on well over a thousand radio talk shows around the country.

He has recently completed a novel titled Past Sins that is published by Gateway Publishing. The novel is currently under consideration by a major production house for a movie or television series. More can be learned at Amazon http://www.amazon.com/Past-Sins-Don-Ecker/dp/0975264508

Mark O'Connell has written several episodes of "Star Trek: The Next Generation" and "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine” -- one of which, the DS9 episode “Who Mourns For Morn?”, was named by Hugo-winning science fiction writer Charlie Jane Anders as #72 on the io9.com list of the Top 100 Star Trek episodes of all time. Mark has had feature film projects in development with Disney, DreamWorks Animation, Launchpad Productions, Barcelona Films and Al Ruddy Productions. He currently writes the UFO blog "High Strangeness" at www.highstrangenessufo.com and made his reality show debut in 2015 on "Mysteries at the Monument" on The Travel Channel. Mark has written “The Close Encounters Man,” the authorized biography of UFO scholar Dr. J. Allen Hynek, for Dey Street Books, an imprint of HarperCollins, available now.

Alejandro Rojas is Director of Operations for Open Minds Production, the host for Open Minds UFO Radio, editor and contributing writer for OpenMinds.tv, and emcee for the International UFO Congress. He is also a blogger for the Huffington Post. For several years Alejandro was the official spokesperson for the Mutual UFO Network as the Director of Public Education. As a UFO/Paranormal researcher and journalist, Alejandro has spent many hours in the field investigating anomalous phenomena up close and personal. Alejandro has been interviewed by media organizations around the world, including the largest cable and network news agencies with regular appearances on Coast to Coast AM. He has been featured on the Travel Channel, Syfy, National Geographic, and E!.

Honorable discharged from the Army in 1977 and has lived in Washington State since 1987. Has trained and worked as a police officer and detective and served as a detective sergeant. Just recently resigned as the MUFON State Director for Washington. And, of course, has a life-long commitment exploring the UFO mystery.

Philip Mantle is a veteran UFO researcher, author and publisher is the UK. He has been actively involved in UFO research and investigation for nearly 40 years and during that time he was part of the Yorkshire UFO Society, the British UFO Research Association and the Mutual UFO Network. In 2015, he founded FLYING DISK PRESS and has so far published 3 UFO books from Poland, Romania and the USA with more to come.

Chase Kloetzke earned her Master Trainer, Master Instructor title while employed with the Department of Defense. Armed with a Bio-mechanical Engineer accreditation, she was responsible for designing specialized programs and the supervision of complete success regarding Force Readiness, unique mission responsibilities and Elite Force Protection.

She joined the Mutual UFO Network in 1996 and was selected as The Star Team Manager and Deputy Director of Investigations through 2011. She was responsible for the program design, protocols and investigation procedures for a national rapid response unit. This position included supervision of the most experienced investigators and access to the most sensitive and complex cases reported to MUFON. As of today, Chase leads the "Special Assignment Team" of experienced and specialized investigators in MUFON, responding to the reports that need specific and thorough attention
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Lance Moody is a film editor and animator living in Cincinnati, OH. Lance is a long time skeptic of the paranormal, especially UFO’s. His rarely updated blog is notaghost.com.