Christopher
O’Brien had been a professional
designer, musician and an actor/model in New York City
for over a decade when he moved to the San
Luis Valley of Colorado in 1989.
From
1992 to 2002, Christopher O'Brien investigated over one
thousand paranormal events reported in the San Luis Valley
— located in South-central Colorado/North Central
New Mexico. Working with law enforcement officials, ex-military,
ranchers and an extensive network of skywatchers, he documented
what may have been the most intense wave of unexplained
activity ever seen in a single region of North America.
His ten-year investigation resulted in the three books
of his "mysterious valley" trilogy, The
Mysterious Valley, Enter
the Valley, and Secrets
of the Mysterious Valley. His meticulous field
investigation of UFO reports, unexplained livestock deaths,
Native American legends, cryptozoology, secret military
activity and the folklore, found in the world's largest
alpine valley, has produced one of the largest databases
of unusual occurrences gathered from a single geographic
region. He is currently working with a team of specialists
installing a high-tech video surveillance and hard-data
monitoring system in and around the San Luis Valley. His
latest book Stalking the Tricksters
has just been released by Adventures
Unlimited Press. This controversial book distills
his years of field investigation and research into an
ingenious unified paranormal theory that is sure to create
intense interest and controversy.
Media
Projects
O'Brien
is an entertaining, thought-provoking speaker and has
been a guest on Coast-to-Coast;
developed, supplied footage, field-produced and appeared
in four segments of the Paramount television program Sightings.
He has provided visual elements and appeared on UFO
Hunters, Inside Edition,
Extra, Showtime's
Sci-Friday Chronicles;
the TBS documentary UFO: The
Search; the BBC2 program Louis
Theroux's Weird Weekends, Nippon TV's Special
Research 2000, the Discovery Channel's two-hour
documentary, Billion $ Secret
with Jane's Defence Weekly's Nick Cook, the
TV series Exploring the Unknown,
The Unexplained, Secrets
of:, Profiles in Ufology,
Unexplained Mysteries
and in the English documentary film Mutilation
Files plus others. At home in front or behind
the camera, O'Brien has field-produced and directed television
segments for the nationally-syndicated paranormal news-magazine
Strange Universe.
O'Brien also produced History,
Mystery and Greed: the story of Snippy the Horse,
and co-produced Dead Whisper.
He is a
consulting producer and writer/researcher for Stage 3
[Television]
Productions. Chris has co-written an action/adventure
film screenplay, Deadline,
inspired by his field-research that was
judged Honorable Mention in the Southwest Screenwriter's
Guild Contest.
Publications
and Appearances
Since
1993, he has written articles for Fate,
UFO Universe, Leading
Edge, CyberWest,
Western Spirit, World
Explorer’s Club Magazine, Crestone
Eagle, Phenomena,
Zeitgeist and UFO
Encounters. His investigation and research
have been featured in the Denver
Post, Pueblo Chieftain,
the New Mexican, the
Rocky Mountain News,
the Albuquerque Journal,
the Desert News, the
Red Rock News, Phenomenon,
(France) OVNI (Spain),
Borderline (Japan).
He has appeared on dozens of regional and national radio
stations and was a perennial guest lecturer at Adam's
State College. An entertaining speaker, O'Brien has captivated
conference and seminar audiences around The USA with his
unique insight into some of our culture’s last remaining
mysteries. He hosted his own regional Colorado/New Mexico
radio show, Mysterious Valley
Report (1996-1999), and published the bi-monthly
Mysterious Valley Report
(1993-2000).
A
keyboard player/music-producer, digital artist and videographer,
he also produces reproductions of classic Maya art for
his brother's company Tierra Maya at his home near Sedona,
Arizona, another place well-known for UFO and related
phenomena of high-strangeness.
Christopher
has a website at: http://www.ourstrangeplanet.com/
Sources:
http://www.mysterious-america.net/chrisobrieninter.html
http://www.tmv.us/content/view/32/56/
