The 'X' Zone Radio/TV Show

Nick Redfern has worked as a freelance feature writer for the Daily Express, People, Western Daily Press and Express & Star newspapers, as well as a full-time feature writer for Planet on Sunday. He has been a freelance journalist for the British newsstand magazines The Weekender, Animals, Animals, Animals, Pet Reptile, Military Illustrated, Eye-Spy, The Unopened Files and The X-Factor.

With Simon & Schuster of London he wrote of A Covert Agenda: The British Government’s UFO Top Secrets Exposed (1997), The FBI Files: The FBI’s UFO Top Secrets Exposed (1998) and Cosmic Crashes: The Incredible Story of the UFOs That Fell to Earth (1999).

Redfern works the lecture circuit, both in the US and overseas, and has appeared in internationally syndicated shows discussing the UFO phenomenon. Redfern is a regular on the History Channel programs Monster Quest and UFO Hunters, National Geographic Channels's Paranormal and the Syfy channel's Proof Positive,
He has been identified as a member of an informal group of friends often called others as the "Paranormal Rat Pack" and "The Cabal"; other members are filmmaker Paul Kimball, and authors Greg Bishop, and the late Mac Tonnies.

In 2012 Redfern took on the role of on-air radio talk-show host of a paranormal themed internet radio show Epic Voyages Radio produced by the Inception Radio Network.

Don Ledger is a private pilot and aircraft owner with 20 years experience and over one thousand hours of flying time. A former Zone Commander for the Halifax District's Civil Air Search and Rescue Association, Ledger is also past president and current editor for the Stanley Sport Aviation Association. He is a member of the Canadian Owners and Pilots Association and the US Experimental Aircraft Association. A coordinator at Legislative Television, Ledger spends his spare time flying and writing. Swissair Down is his third book.

Paul Kimball is the founder of Redstar Films Limited, a member of the Nova Scotia Barristers Society, the Nova Scotia Film Advisory Committee, and the Society of Composers Authors and Publishers. Since 2001, Paul has established a reputation as one of Canada's leading UFO researchers, both through his work as an award-winning documentary filmmaker and as a researcher, writer, and speaker. He has appeared on television, radio, and in person at conferences and symposiums to discuss the UFO phenomenon.

Charles I. Halt is a retired United States Air Force colonel and the former base commander of RAF Bentwaters, near Woodbridge, Suffolk. After serving in Vietnam, Japan and Korea, he was assigned to Bentwaters as deputy commander. The Rendlesham Forest incident of late December 1980 occurred shortly afterwards.

In the late hours of December 27, and early December 28, 1980 then Lieutenant Colonel Halt led a patrol to investigate an alleged UFO landing site near the eastern edge of Rendlesham Forest. During this investigation they witnessed several unidentified lights, most prominent of them being a bright flashing light in the direction of Orford Ness. In January 1981 Halt composed an official Air Force memorandum listing details of the events. The memo was then dispatched to the Ministry of Defence. Halt also made an audio tape recording of the incident

After retiring from the US Air Force in 1991, Halt made his first public appearance in a television documentary, where he confirmed the authenticity of the Rendlesham Forest incident. His book on the subject is entitled The Halt Perspective.
In June 2010 Halt issued a notarized affidavit in which he summarized the alleged events of the Rendlesham Forest UFO incident and concluded: "I believe the objects that I saw at close quarter were extraterrestrial in origin and that the security services of both the United States and the United Kingdom have attempted – both then and now – to subvert the significance of what occurred at Rendlesham Forest and RAF Bentwaters by the use of well-practiced methods of disinformation."

John Shirley is an American writer, primarily of fantasy and science fiction and songwriting. He has also written one historical novel, a western, about Wyatt Earp, Wyatt in Wichita, and one non-fiction book, Gurdjieff: An Introduction to His Life and Ideas. Shirley has written novels, short stories, TV scripts and screenplays, and has published over 40 books and 8 short-story collections. As a musician, Shirley has fronted his own bands and written lyrics for Blue Öyster Cult and others.

John Shirley is known for his cyberpunk science fiction novels, as well as his suspense, horror novels and stories and horror film work. His best known script work is the film The Crow, for which he was the initial writer, before David Schow reworked the script. He also wrote scripts for Deep Space Nine and Poltergeist: The Legacy. Appreciation of John Shirley as an author of dark fiction was amplified by a January 2008 The New York Times review, by critic Terrence Rafferty.

Rob Mercer was born and raised in Springfield, Ohio. Rob worked in engineering at a nearby hospital. His interest in UFO's and Astronomy began when he was about 7, when his uncle Terry came to came to their house telling them about strange lights he saw in the sky on his way home from work one night. He asked Rob’s mom if he could come with him, and we went back out looking for them on that same night. They were unable to find them, but from that point on Rob was hooked on the subject. Rob would also read and watch everything he could find. Terry had a telescope, and would come over to their house with it often since they lived out in the county where it was dark. This is how Rob learned about the night sky. Rob has seen and followed objects that he thought were not of this earth, and would usually figure out what they were. Rob eventually bought his own, and would continue to stargaze with his daughter. It gives him a chance to conduct his own rudimentary investigations. They’ve been everywhere from Gulf Breeze to Roswell, Socorro, Snowflake, Sedona, the gates of Area 51, and more. His family doesn't complain, as a matter of fact, they had a better time in Rachel, Nevada.

The MIAMI VALLEY UFO SOCIETY was formed for all, including those from Ohio and the Miami Valley area interested in the UFO phenomenon and other mysteries.

If you have any NEWS, STORIES, PHOTOS or SIGHTINGS that you would like to share and/or have investigated, feel free to make contact. If you are witness to what you believe to be a reoccurring anomaly, or just know of a UFO hot spot in Ohio, Eastern Indiana, or Northern Kentucky make contact. A skywatch can be arranged.
The goal is to have educated observers watching the skies in search of answers.

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 is writing “The Close Encounters Man,” the authorized biography of UFO scholar Dr. J. Allen Hynek, for Dey Street Books, an imprint of HarperCollins, for publication in May, 2017

John Greenewald Jr. was born on April 17, 1981 in Tarzana, California, USA as John Raymond Greenewald Jr. He is a producer and writer, known for Unsealed: Conspiracy Files (2012), National Geographic: Hitler and the Occult (2007) and Secrets of the Freemasons (2006). He is best known as the creator of The Black Vault, a web site that houses thousands of UFO related documents obtained through FOIA from dozens of government agencies. He had been the master of ceremonies at many UFO related conferences and symposiums and is one of the leaders in the UFO community.

Rob has an undergraduate degree in physics and spent his career at the US Patent and Trademark Office working on intellectual property in a number of areas, most importantly in aeronautics and astronautics. (Ironically, he said since the latter includes circular aircraft, he can state he worked on flying saucers for the government.) His UFO involvement goes back to 1968 during what he called his larval stage, when ongoing sightings and the University of Colorado UFO study permanently nailed his attention. Once he arrived in the DC area with the PTO, he joined the Fund for UFO Research and subsequently was elected to the executive committee of that organization. Around 2006 as the Fund wound down due to the rise of the Internet and other factors (it still exists as an organization, however, although at the moment it's largely dormant), he was asked to join MUFON's board of directors, and continues to serve there to this day.

Chris Rutkowski is a Canadian science writer and educator with degrees in both science and education. Since the mid-1970s, he’s written about his investigations and research on UFOs, for which he is best known. However, he has been involved in many other writing and media projects for more than 30 years, including TV specials (The Monster of Lake Manitoba, 1996), planetarium shows (Moonlight Serenade, 1983, and Amateur Nights, 1989) and newspaper columns (Strange Tales, in the Northern Times, Thompson, Manitoba,1984 to 1985). He has nine published books on UFOs and related issues, a collection of short stories and has contributed to many other volumes, both fiction and non-fiction. His book Unnatural History was a comprehensive and historical survey of many kinds of paranormal phenomena, including ghosts, UFOs, Sasquatch and lake monsters, and documented many of his own investigations. His recent works include A World of UFOs (2008), I Saw It Too! (2009) and The Big Book of UFOs (2010). He is on Twitter (@ufologyresearch) and blogs at: http://uforum.blogspot.com/. In addition, he is a book reviewer for the Winnipeg Free Press, appears often on TV and radio, teaches courses on communication and is past-president of the Manitoba Writers’ Guild and the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada - Winnipeg Centre. He recently was appointed the new moderator and administrator of UFO UpDates, founded by the late Errol Bruce-Knapp.