Futurologist, cultural anthropologist, expert for frontier sciences and extraterrestrial phenomena, bestselling author and award-winning film producer, Hesemann studied cultural anthropology and history at Gottingen University. He lives in Dusseldorf, Germany. Since 1984 he has published Magazine 2000 which comes out in German, English and Czech. His international bestsellers UFOs: The Evidence, A Cosmic Connection and UFOs:A Secret Matter were published in fourteen countries with a circulation of more than 500,000 copies. Hesemann produced several award-winning documentaries and worked for TV programs in Germany, Japan and the U.S. He spoke at international conferences in twenty-two countries on five continents, at thirty universities, and at the United Nations.
Philip Mantle from Batley, West Yorkshire, England. Married with a family, he worked for the last 17 years as a lithographic plate preparer for a large company in Leeds, West Yorkshire. Philip Mantle is the former Director of Investigations for the British UFO Research Association, is the Mutual UFO Networks representative for England, and is a honorary member of the Research Institute on Anomalous Phenomena in the Ukraine. Philip Mantle has published one book entitled Without Consent a study of UFO abductions in UK which he co-authored with Carl Nagaitis. An international lecturer on the subject of UFOs, Mantle has also worked for a variety of TV and radio companies around the world.
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Background: If you have Who's Who in the World you will find my bio in a recent copy. I am also in Who's Who of Emerging Leaders in America, Who's Who in the South and Southwest, 3,000 Personalities of the World, and American Artists.
To summarize, I am schooled in zoology and fine art, and after college I worked for the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, which also published several of my scientific papers (on insect coloration, Indo-Australian butterflies, etc.). I've always had a strong interest in photography, and after a lengthy struggle, photography won out over zoology, and I left the Smithsonian (and Walter Reed Army Medical Center, where I also worked briefly for the CIA) and moved back to Virginia to work in photography.
I operated a photo studio and camera store for some time, opened a photographic import and distribution business, and began writing for photo magazines. Ten years ago I sold the photo import business and have been a full-time magazine writer/editor ever since. For the last five years I have been editor of Shutterbug, the world's third-largest monthly photo magazine. I am also technical editor of Outdoor & Nature Photography magazine. I was publisher of PIC magazine in the UK for all of l994, as well as 50% owner of that magazine, and have sold the magazine recently. I am on the technical staff of Color Foto in Munich, Germany's largest photo magazine.
I am highly regarded as a technical expert on photography and have authored more than a dozen books on photographic subjects, including Canon Compendium (a complete history of the Canon Camera Company) with English and German editions, Pro Guide: Mamiya Camera Systems (English and German editions), Pro Guide: Canon EOS Systems (English and German editions). At present I am under contract to write four more photographic books.
I have also kept my fine arts interest alive, with painting, drawing and sculpting. In l995 I won an international graphic design award from Graphics in Switzerland for a magazine cover I designed. Through my company, Bob Shell Ltd., I do consulting on product design and technical photographic problems for major camera companies, other firms, government agencies, etc. I am also sometimes called to testify as an expert witness in federal court cases involving photography, and have also testified in patent courts on technical photographic patent interpretation.
