What if we forget the hardware of UFO sightings? What if we let go of the government conspiracies because they simply don't exist? What if we stop assuming aliens are visitors from another place? Stop looking for alien life on Mars because it's right here, right now. We're certain of it…we live with it…we try to understand it…we attempt to avoid letting it consume our lives or bring us to madness, so we incorporate it into our lives and attempt to find real meaning in the mystery.

Seek out others who share the alien encounter experience and search for clues to the meaning of contact. According to the Mayan calendar, Nostradamus and Edgar Cayce, the world is approaching a transition in the year 2012 and the people experiencing alien contact may hold clues to our future. Unlike other "UFO" programs we won't focus on lights in the night sky because that tells us nothing. Being a witness to a UFO is fine, but it's like watching a car pass by on the highway and having no contact with the driver. Terrestrial Extras will only focus on people who have both seen the vehicle AND communicated with its operators. We will break tradition with all other UFO programs by eliminating the "so-called expert investigative team consisting of ex-CIA or nuclear physicist UFO chasers" that is common to all programs because they don't work. Terrestrial Extras will utilize a team of experiencers like me, who also have ongoing extraterrestrial encounters.

The reason for this is that I've learned there's a sort of "knowing" when meeting other experiencers that allows us to recognize valuable encounter elements that would otherwise go unnoticed by those inexperienced in the alien contacts. I've always found that when experiencers come together, there's a sort of catalyst-effect that triggers memories and additional contact events. We would conduct an investigation of each experiencer's case that would include corroborating stories and evidence. We would evaluate the encounters for pieces to the bigger puzzle and attempt to uncover any "special gifts" that the individual may have developed post-encounter. An example of this is my own ability to predict coming encounter events due to a unique indicator developed post encounter. I share this trait with Best Selling Author Whitley Strieber, the writer of Communion, which is his own story of alien encounters.

Each episode the team will wrap up the investigation with an analysis of the encounters and they will see if it leads to another event or experiencer linked by the mysterious events. I've been a participant in the PEER Foundation, created by Dr. John Mack at Harvard in which he studied many experiencers under the strictest guidelines. His studies were published just before his death and the closing of the foundation. My own experiences began when I was eight years old and continue to this day. My encounters have involved my wife, daughter, mother, brother, friends and strangers. Some played out on national television with famous participants.

Very much like the Ghost Hunter or Psychic Kids programs which attempts to capture events as they happen, we would do the same. There are many people who experience alien contact during normal daylight... working... playtime hours. To even the most hardcore believer, finding that the extraterrestrials can walk amongst us is still a reality-jolt. I understand this because it's happened to me during an encounter conference I was attending in Dayton, Ohio. I was contacted at this event by a being who could alter their appearance, communicated telepathically and could appear and disappear unnoticed. This encounter involved several other people, all of whom confirmed the contact in great detail. Each of us was affected in a different way by this encounter and I was approached by this non-terrestrial and exchanged at length via telepathic communication. During this exchange I was encouraged to continue my encounter research work and to continue to share it with others.

Jim O'Connell is a working screenwriter/producer. He and producing partner Jake Fink just completed filming on a forty minute short by the same name. Over the years, Jim has traveled and lectured on his experiences. His council on the encounter subject has been sought by people from across the country. Jim's screenplay Widow's Row was showcased at the Toronto International Film Festival. The producing partners are currently seeking financing for the project and have begun attaching talent. Jim's work also includes the alien television pilot, Shades of Grey. Jim has pitched projects at DreamWorks, Sci-Fi Channel, Universal and Disney. He continues to live in Connecticut with his family and his otherworldly experiences.

Director Jake Fink, a resident of Provincetown Massachusetts, has co-directed, directed or produced a number of independent films over the last two years. In addition to his film work, Jake has worked in television at the Versus sports network, serving as cameraman and lighting designer. Jake has covered major sporting events in NHL hockey, college football and IRL. Jake's background includes photojournalism as well as a commercial photography business based at his Whaler's Wharf studio in Provincetown. Jake began shooting Terrestrial Extras January 2nd of 2010 and has served as co-producer, director, cinematographer and editor.