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UFO\u2019s. New books. A movie script with a character who has a gold nose, and a beaver dinosaur. Star Trek, Yerkes Observatory, and of course, aliens. Mark O\u2019Connell brings the best stories and big news to the show this week- everything you would expect from a Star Trek writer, screenplay writer, UFO book author, podcast host\u2026. All around awesome friend of the show! You\u2019re going to love this episode.\xa0

Mark O\u2019Connell got his start in television writing for Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, most notably DS9 fan favorite Who Mourns for Morn? Since then, he has had feature screenplays optioned and placed in development at Al Ruddy Productions, DreamWorks Animation, and Disney. His comedy screenplay Doug and Dave was in development at Disney with the late Bill Paxton attached to direct. Mark\u2019s first book is The Close Encounters Man: How One Man Made the World Believe in UFOS, a biography of Dr. J. Allen Hynek, famed UFO researcher and inspiration behind Steven Spielberg\u2019s epic film Close Encounters of the Third Kind. The Close Encounters Man was published by Dey Street Books, an imprint of HarperCollins. Mark was recently featured in a UFO documentary produced by NHK, Japan's Public TV network, and he can currently be seen in the National Geographic TV Documentary UFOs: Investigating the Unknown, streaming on HULU. Mark lives in Georgia with his wife Monica.

Get a copy of Mark\u2019s book, Close Encounters Man, and follow him as an author here: https://www.amazon.com/Close-Encounters-Man-World-Believe-ebook/dp/B01KFBO77U?ref_=ast_author_mpb\xa0

Other Oddities Mentioned on the Show:\xa0

Yerkes Observatory: https://yerkesobservatory.org/\xa0

The Movie 65 with Adam Driver: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/65_(film)\xa0

Watch Now: National Geographic\u2019s TV Show, UFO\u2019s: Investigating the Unknown (where Mark is featured along with his work and research) Episode 2 https://www.nationalgeographic.com/tv/shows/ufos-investigating-the-unknown/episode-guide/season-01/episode-02-giant-ufo-in-texas/vdka32402838\xa0

And Episode 3: Close Encounters at Nuclear Bases: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/tv/shows/ufos-investigating-the-unknown/episode-guide/season-01/episode-03-close-encounters-at-the-nuclear-bases/vdka32402854

Listen To Far Fetched, Episode 35, My Unsold Star Trek Pitches: https://ococonnell.podbean.com/\xa0

AND, check out the Micro-G NEXT project opportunity at NASA\u2019s Johnson Space Center NBL here, as mentioned in the commercial!\xa0 https://microgravityuniversity.jsc.nasa.gov/about-micro-g-next