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Anthony Lappé is a New York-based author, producer and director. He is the executive producer of the HISTORY Channel’s Unidentified: Inside America’s UFO Investigation He produced the award-winning Showtime documentary about the Iraq war, BattleGround. He was the Executive Editor of the Sundance-awarding winning Guerrilla News Network. He has written for Details, ESPN: The Magazine, New York Magazine, and the South China Morning Post, among many others. In addition, he has produced programming for Fuse, PBS, National Geographic Channel and the Discovery Science Channel. More recently, he was a writer/producer for Radical Media, where he wrote Robert Redford’s 3D documentary Cathedrals of Culture: The Salk Institute, which premiered at the Berlin Film Festival.
An Air Force veteran who held a TOP SECRET/CRYPTO clearance, Tom is now a retired Philadelphia area businessman. He has been a Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) State Section Director forSoutheastern Pennsylvania from 1986 to 2001, a Special Investigator for the J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS) from 1991 to 2001, and a member of the CUFOS board of directors from 1997 to 2001. Tom began investigating aspects of the Roswell Incident in 1991 for the Roswell investigative team of Kevin Randle and Don Schmitt, and since 1998 has teamed exclusively with Don Schmitt to continue a proactive investigation of the case.
Tom has authored or coauthored more than 40 published articles about the Roswell events of 1947, and has contributed to a number of books on the subject as well. He has appeared as a guest on many radio and TV shows throughout the country, including Coast to Coast AM with Art Bell and George Noory, Fox and Friends, Comcast Network Friends and Larry King Live!and has contributed to a number of Roswell-related documentaries, on-screen and behind the scenes. Tom was a consultant and interviewee on the highly acclaimed and rated 2002, two-hour SyFy Channel documentary, The Roswell Crash: Startling New Evidence, the History Channel’s Conspiracy Theory, the Travel Channel’s Weird Travels – Roswell, the SyFy Channel’s SyFyInvestigates and the History Channel’s, The UFO Hunters. He was also a featured interviewee on the 20th Century Fox, Golden Anniversary, re-release DVD of the 1951 sci-fi classic, The Day the Earth Stood Still.
His 2007 book, co-authored with Don Schmitt, Witness to Roswell: Unmasking the 60-Year Cover-Up, was the #1 best-selling UFO book in the world in 2007-2008. Its sequel, Witness to Roswell: Unmasking the Government’s Biggest Cover-Up, published 2009, remains a best seller. Both books are considered to be the best books ever written about the “Roswell Incident.” A motion picture, based upon these books is planned, as is a TV mini-series. A recent book about the secret history of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio titled Inside the Real Area 51, also co-authored with Don Schmitt and released in the fall of 2013, reached #1 in Amazon’s “Astronomy & Space Science” category and was also in its “Top 100 Books of the Year” for 2013. Another book about Roswell, The Children of Roswell, was released in 2016 and also reached #1 in its category on Amazon. Two additional books about Roswell, Roswell: The Chronological Pictorial and UFO Secrets Inside Wright-Patterson are scheduled for a 2019 release, while the team’s final Roswell book, Roswell: Case Closed is in press for a 2020 release. These books have been published in five foreign languages (so far): French, Italian, German, Chinese and Japanese.
Donald R. Schmitt is the former Co-Director of the J. Allen Center for UFO Studies of Chicago where he served as Director of Special Investigations for ten years. He is co-founder of the International UFO Museum and Research Center of Roswell, New Mexico and serves as an advisor to the board of directors. A seven-time best-selling author, his first book, co-authored with Dr. Kevin D. Randle was made into the Golden Globe nominated best TV movie ROSWELL. His book Witness to Roswell co-authored with Thomas J. Carey was the number 1 selling UFO book in the world for 2007-8. That book has been optioned by Bryce Zabel for the feature film CRASH. Schmitt is also an associate producer on the forthcoming feature film “701.” Schmitt has lectured all over the world including Russia, China, Japan, Australia, Canada, Mexico, Europe, the UK, and South America.
Tracy Wuischpard (Wish-pard) graduated from Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh where, along with her painting and filmmaking activities, she was a prominent member of the early punk rock music scene. Her band, The Shakes (later known as Combo Tactic), was well known on the scene and one of a handful of groups made up of artists from a variety of non-musical disciplines who picked up musical instruments with performance art in mind. She and her band left Pittsburgh in the early 80’s and headed to San Francisco, CA and later, Los Angeles where she took up editing; working on documentaries about Michael Jackson (ACE award winner) and Lou Reed. There she also used her musical skills to edit many music videos including an MTV award-winning piece for Edie Brickell at Propaganda Films.
In the late 90’s Ms. Wuischpard moved to New York City where she continued to pursue her editorial career working mostly in television and advertising. In 2008 she was in a devastating car accident which caused her to retire. After years of recuperation she got a call from an old friend from the Pittsburgh scene, Robert Elliott Balter. He now had a music publishing company in LA, Jordan/Balter Music, with partner Van Jordon. Robert called to ask her for technical advice regarding a film project he had in mind. His company had purchased the rights to a film they wanted to turn into something new.
The technical questions grew into conceptual questions and little by little, she was drawn into the project. Soon there was a request for story ideas. What could she do to make a new story from the old? It was an interesting problem, so she started to try to figure it out. Armed with stacks of index cards and a bulletin board, she set out to try to remake the story. When she pitched her idea Jordan/Balter loved it and they were off!
Things started to grow in complexity, so she asked her husband, editor Bruce Tovsky, to help out. He came on board and they began devising a way to cut away half of the old movie and add in new material that they either made (as animation), shot (via remote directing) or composited (pulling together both animation and live action elements) to make a new film. They even wrote music to score the new scenes. Bruce had been playing on the experiment scene in New York for years. They had a recurring experimental music and film salon at their studio in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. So, this opportunity was just the kind of project they were made to do.
George Thomas, Star Elvis Tribute Artist who was recently brought to Japan by the U.S.O to perform for the U.S. troops stationed near Tokyo. One of the shows took place on a Naval Base next to an aircraft carrier.
George has performed at the 75th birthday of Former-Russian president Mikael Gorbachev. Recently, I performed in front of 10,000 people as an opening act for the rock band “Good Charlotte” in Central America. He also co-starred on the N.B.C. hit TV show, “Las Vegas” as well as the A.B.C. hit show “Castle” as an Elvis tribute artist.
George has performed worldwide in such countries as Japan, Philippines, Singapore, China, Hong Kong (3 times), Thailand, Puerto Rico, Bahamas, Ecuador, Canada as well as in the U.S. including all over Southern California.