Bill Birnes appears as Lan’s special guest tonight on Overnight AM. Bill will cover the UFO equation, and also a new and intriguing subject for Bill, terrorist cover up by the United States government. It’s happened more than once in our country since the 9/11 attacks. Bill will join lan to talk about a few cases of blatant government conspiracy and the need to keep it quiet begining tonight at 9:15 PM EST.
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Birnes is well-qualified to lead such a team, having written and edited over 25 books and encyclopedias in the fields of human behavior, true crime, current affairs, history, psychology, business, computing, and the paranormal. He is the co-author of The Day After Roswell, which was a New York Times bestseller in 1997, and subsequently a documentary on The History Channel. Birnes is a frequent radio and television talk-show guest, having appeared on “Good Morning America,” “Dateline, NBC,” “Entertainment Tonight,” “Coast to Coast AM,” “UFOs in Russia,” “USOs, Underwater Submersible Objects,” and “Black Box UFOs.”
His previous cable feature, The Riverman—based on the book he co-authored with detective Dr. Robert Keppel about how serial killer Ted Bundy helped police track Green River Killer Gary Ridgway—was broadcast on A&E in September 2004. Birnes’ other cable documentary, on A&E and The History Channel, was The Haunting of the President, based on his and Joel Martin’s book of the same name. His title Black Dahlia Avenger, recently sold to New Line, is currently in development as is his title Life in the Balance by Billy Sinclair at Karmic Studios.
As a television producer, Birnes’ first cable feature was When Husbands Cheat for Lifetime Television with Hearst Entertainment Television. Among his books are: Worker in the Light with George Noory, Space Wars with William Scott and Michael Coumatos, The Grisly Business Unit with Robert Keppel, The Killer Next Door with Joel Norris, Signature Killers with Joel Norris, The McGraw-Hill Personal Computer Programming Encyclopedia, When You are the Headline with Robert Irvine, and Selling at the Top. Birnes is currently completing two criminology textbooks: Signature Killers, with Robert Keppel, Ph.D., and Mass Murderers with John Liebert, M.D.
He holds a law degree and received a Ph.D. from New York University in 1974.
"The network is taking a close look at how popular UFO Hunters is before making any decisions about giving it a fourth season," Birnes said late Saturday night. "What the network doesn't add to the equation is the passion with which members of the UFO community believe that the government is holding onto and covering up a big secret.
I have never missed an episode, although I admit that my working hours typically overlap with the live show - so I use my DVR machine to tape each episode and I watch it when it's more convenient. I have been watching UFO documentaries and television series for as long as I can remember, and I have never enjoyed a series as much as this show.
And if you don't know this already, funding for anything in the UFO field is very narrow. The field has the manpower and the technology to at least get us closer to the answer.
UFO Hunters has the ability and the funding to get to the site of interesting cases and theories - and explore them with the audience. It's an opportunity that few people get to be involved in, and I think, an important arm of ufology in this country. Saving this show is also about keeping the study of UFOs going in a better and more meaningful and open direction.
