William J. Birnes

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William J. Birnes
Born (1944-11-07) November 7, 1944 (age 80)
NationalityAmerican
Education
  • Concord Law School (JD
    )
Occupations
Known forUFO Hunters
UFO Magazine

William J. "Bill" Birnes (born November 7, 1944) is an American author, the chairman of the board at Sunrise Community Counseling Center, and ufologist.[1]

Education

Birnes earned a degree from

Concord Law School, a private online law school.[2]

Career

Birnes served as a Lily Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the

Trenton State College.[3]

UFOlogy

Birnes believes that Earth has been visited by many different types of

extraterrestrials, and that pictures taken by NASA have been airbrushed to remove any evidence of alien activity.[1] Birnes speculates that NASA may have taken missions to the Moon after Apollo 17, but these missions were kept secret from the public due to alien interference and new-found extraterrestrial artifacts. Birnes claims that NASA made three additional trips to the Moon; Apollo 18, Apollo 19, and Apollo 20. Additionally, he claims that the Apollo 13 incident was actually an extraterrestrial attack meant to scare humans away from landing on the Moon.[4]

Birnes's credibility was questioned when a UFO sighting over Morris County, New Jersey, on January 5, 2009, was later revealed to be the result of a hoax. The sighting was featured on an episode of

April Fool's Day 2009, two college students, Joe Rudy and Chris Russo, admitted that they had deliberately launched balloons tied to flares near the local airport on January 5 as a "social experiment on how to create your own media event surrounding UFO sightings...to show everyone how unreliable eyewitness accounts are, along with investigators of UFOs."[5]

Media

As a writer of popular nonfiction, he co-authored The Riverman with detective/academic

NASA's Unexplained Files
 and in early 2016 on Reelz TV's Dr. Feelgood.

Bibliography

References

  1. ^ a b "Bill Birnes Talks Aliens and Apollo 18". huffingtonpost.com. 4 September 2011. Retrieved 2015-08-30.
  2. ^ Keppel, Robert D., Birnes, William J.[1]. Academic Press, 2003, p. xii.
  3. ^ a b "William J. Birnes Coast to Coast Guest". coasttocoastam.com. Retrieved 2015-08-30.
  4. ^ "Bill Birnes on Apollo 18". askmen.com. Retrieved 2015-08-30.
  5. ^ "UFO Hoax Was a Social Experiment". livescience.com. 2 April 2009. Retrieved 2015-08-30.
  6. ^ "Bill Birnes - UFO Hunters Cast - HISTORY.com". history.com. Retrieved 2015-08-30.
  7. ^ "UFO Hunters | William J. Birnes | Macmillan". us.macmillan.com. Retrieved 2015-08-30.
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