Christopher O’Brien and Loren Coleman, June 27, 2018. Portland, Maine, Worldwide Cryptozoology Museum.
I’m in shock. Chris is gone.
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On Sunday morning, November 24, 2024, Christopher O’Brien, well-known creator of a number of works on his investigations of unexplained phenomena (together with UFOs, UAPs, and cattle mutilations) was experiencing what he thought was a “panic assault.” He determined to drive himself to a near-by hospital in Sedona, Arizona, the place he was dwelling on the time. He died on route, though officers particulars are incomplete.
BREAKING
This assertion is simply in from Ron James, the producer whose home Chris was staying at in Sedona. James was away when the occasions occurred.
Ron James writes that Chris was
“serving to me with the sequel to my Movie Unintended Fact when he skilled catastrophic respiration difficulties and tried to drive himself to the emergency room. He most likely misplaced consciousness, resulting from not having the ability to breathe, and subsequently crashed his automobile right into a stone signal and was fatally wounded.
”I’ve identified Chris for over 25 years and he has helped me on 5 of my documentary movies. I’m engaged on extra info and a extra formal announcement. I used to be in San Francisco on the SOL convention when this occurred.
“On the way in which again to Sedona,  I requested my departed pal to offer me an indication. Earlier than going house, I finished by the scene of the accident. That is what I discovered. Thanks my pal for years of loyalty and friendship.”
Pictures by Ron James/Fb/Nov 25/2025
Chris’ Life
David Perkins, Tom Adams, and Gary Massey would be a part of Chris O’Brien as an unstructured early group of researchers concerned in what David known as “the fledgling examine dubbed ~ tongue-in-cheek – Mutology.”
Listed below are the beginnings of how Chris acquired deeply enmeshed in Mutology. One small level. Chris out lasted the checklist of fellows that died earlier than hime (see the checklist on the finish), and. till this weekend, was the “survivor.”
Chris was born on March 24, 1957, in Medina, Washington State. He went to Kentridge Excessive (Class of 1975), and attended Lehman Faculty of the Metropolis College of New York. He studied media, geology, anthropology, and music from 1975-1978 and in 1980. He was an investigative journalist, creator, television/radio spokesperson, sonic sculpturist, and an aspiring techno shaman.
Chris O’Brien in 2000.
Christopher O’Brien, Unsolved Mysteries, Season 17 (October 2, 2024), Quantity 5, General Episode 610, “Mysterious Mutilations.”
Most lately, when not touring, visiting mates, and staying with them, Chris lived alone in Chemung, New York.
Since 1992, Christopher O’Brien investigated over one thousand unexplained occasions reported within the San Luis Valley–positioned in South-central Colorado/North Central New Mexico. Working with regulation enforcement officers, ex-military, ranchers and an in depth community of skywatchers, from 1992 to 2002, he documented some of the intense waves of unexplained exercise ever reported from a single geographic area of North America. His ten-year investigation resulted within the three books of his “mysterious valley” trilogy, The Mysterious Valley, Enter the Valley, and Secrets and techniques of the Mysterious Valley.
His meticulous subject investigation of UFO experiences, unexplained livestock deaths, Native American legends, cryptozoology, secret navy exercise and the folklore, discovered on the earth’s largest alpine valley, has produced one of many largest databases of bizarre occurrences gathered from a single geographic area.
Chris lately was working with a workforce of specialists putting in a high-tech video surveillance and hard-data monitoring system in and across the San Luis Valley. His 2009 ebook Stalking the Tricksters distilled his years of subject investigation and analysis into an unified paranormal concept.
His final main ebook Stalking the Herd (600 pages) has been known as “The Bible of cattle mutilations books.”
O’Brien, an entertaining, thought-provoking speaker was a frequent visitor on Coast-to-Coast and a whole lot of different radio reveals. He has additionally been seen on a number of broadcast TV packages akin to: Historical Aliens, Bizarre or What, Conspiracy Idea, and UFO Hunters.
Beginning within the early Nineties, Chris developed, provided footage, field-produced and appeared in 4 segments of the Paramount tv program Sightings and was featured on Inside Version, Additional, Showtime’s Sci-Friday Chronicles, the TBS documentary UFO: The Search, the BBC2 program Louis Theroux’s Bizarre Weekends, Nippon TV’s Particular Analysis 2000, the Discovery Channel’s two-hour documentary, Billion $ Secret (with Jane’s Defence Weekly’s Nick Prepare dinner,) the TV sequence UFO Recordsdata, Exploring the Unknown, The Unexplained, Secrets and techniques of:, Profiles in Ufology, Unexplained Mysteries, and within the English documentary movie Mutilation Recordsdata. At house in entrance or behind the digicam, O’Brien has field-produced and directed tv segments for the nationally syndicated paranormal news-magazine Unusual Universe.
Chris was a consulting producer and author/researcher for Stage 3 [Television] Productions the place he additionally wrote and produced Historical past, Thriller and Greed: the Story of Snippy the Horse, and co-produced the documentaries Lifeless Whisper and Disclosure Dialogues which gained two EBE Movie Pageant Awards. Impressed by his field-research, Chris co-wrote an motion/journey movie screenplay, Lethal Waters, that was judged Honorable Point out within the 1998 Southwest Screenwriter’s Guild Contest.
Since 1993, he has written articles which have appeared in Open Minds, Destiny, UFO Universe, Main Edge, CyberWest, Western Spirit, World Exploror’s Membership Journal, Crestone Eagle, Phenomena, Zeitgeist, and UFO Encounters.
Chris’ investigation and analysis have been featured within the Related Press, Denver Publish, Pueblo Chieftain, the New Mexican, the Rocky Mountain Information, the Albuquerque Journal, the Deseret Information, The Purple Rock Information, UFO Journal, Phenomenon, (France) OVNI (Spain), Borderline (Japan).
An entertaining and thought-provoking speaker for a number of many years, he was a perennial visitor lecturer at Adam’s State Faculty and he has captivated convention and seminar audiences along with his distinctive perception into a few of our tradition’s final remaining mysteries. He additionally hosted his personal regional Colorado/New Mexico radio present, Mysterious Valley Report (1996-1999), and printed the bi-monthly Mysterious Valley Report (1993-2000).
Chris’ involvement in Unusual Universe and his co-produced movie w/ Ron James, It Might Occur Tomorrow, gained two 2012 EBEs for Greatest Characteristic and the Peoples Alternative Award. His newest James’ co-production, Unintended Fact (2023) has gained seven movie pageant awards. He additionally co-produced/artistic consulted for James Fox’s current award successful movies The Phenomenon (2021) and Second of Contact (2023). Latest work has been for this system, Past Skinwalker Ranch. Christopher O’Brien was the foremost interviewee on Unsolved Mysteries, Season 17 (October 2, 2024), within the episode “Mysterious Mutilations.”
Chris additionally labored underneath the identify KK Barnes with Michael Esposito.
All through the 2000s, Christopher O’Brien was a frequent speaker at Para-conferences by means of the USA, in addition to doing podcasts. His enter shall be missed.
Christopher O’Brien and David Weatherly at Paradigm, October 26, 2013.
Christopher O’Brien was the creator of
See additionally:
David Perkins (October 18, 1945 ~ August 20, 2023).
Tom Adams (Might 6, 1945 ~ August 20, 2014)
Gary Massey (March 5, 1948 ~ September 7, 2010)
“Itʼs unclear whether or not on the time of his dying, Tom even knew of Gary Masseyʼs obvious suicide in 2010.” ~ David Perkins.
“Massey set his home on hearth, shot his canine, after which shot himself lifeless.” ~ Christopher O’Brien