UFO (TV series)
Following poor ratings for "Joe 90" (1968–69) and the cancellation of children's espionage television series "The Secret Service" (1969) after only one series, Lew Grade approached Gerry Anderson to look into creating his first live-action TV series. Anderson worked with his wife, Sylvia, and producer Reg Hill to create a sci-fi adventure series based around UFOs. Anderson said the core idea for the series was that UFO sightings were a common issue during the late 1960s and that idea of aliens harvesting human organs came from the work of Christian Barnard and his pioneering transplant operations. The creative team initially envisioned an organisation called UFoeDO (Unidentified Foe Defence Organisation), which was to become the secret SHADO (Supreme Headquarters Alien Defence Organisation).
Michael Cohen (writer)
Michael Cohen (born 1970) is an Australian writer and presenter of articles on events claimed to be paranormal. Cohen, who began his career as a radio and print media paranormal expert and psychic, has been described by The Huffington Post as "the new P.T. Barnum of the modern era". He has been responsible for exposing and publicizing a large number of the most high-profile events related to UFO witness reports, alleged alien sightings and cryptids including the 'Jerusalem UFO' event, an alleged alien corpse discovered in Siberia, numerous Chinese alien and UFO incidents that made international news and similar footage and reports from the Amazon region in Brazil.