In this episode of Lost River Legends, we visit with Mark O’Connell. Mark is a screenwriter, teacher, and blogger. He wrote episodes for Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and has developed feature film projects with major studios, including Walt Disney and Dream Works Animation. He is also the founder of the UFO blog, High Strangeness. 

He’s also the author of the book, The Close Encounters Man: How One Man Made the World Believe in UFOs, which is the biography for Dr. J. Allen Hyneck, infamous UFO researcher and lead investigator for Project Blue Book -- the secret, not so secret, government entity which largely researched UFO and alien encounters across North America.

Mark is also featured on the television series, UFO Witness on the Discovery Plus channel.