Bill Birnes
Birth Name:
William J. Birnes
Profession
Writer, Producer
Fast Facts
- Was a fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities, a Lily Post Doctoral Research Fellow, and a grants award judge for the National Endowment for the Arts
- Graduated from New York University with a Ph․D․ in Medieval Literature and a law degree from Concord University
- Started out in television as a producer on the 1998 TV movie "When Husbands Cheat" and first appeared on camera in the 1999 documentary "According to Occam's Razor․"
- Was an Instructor of English, teaching Structural Linguistics and Historical Linguistics, at Trenton State College
- Best known as the publisher of UFO Magazine and as a consultant for "UFO Hunters" and "Ancient Aliens․"
- Is the author of numerous books, including "The Day After Roswell," "Unsolved UFO Mysteries," and "The Haunting of Twenty-First Century America․"
- Two of his books have been adapted for the small screen: "The Day After Roswell" was an episode of the TV series "UFO Files," and "The Riverman: Ted Bundy and I Hunt for the Green River Killer" was made into a TV movie