One of the producers, investigative reporter and NYT bestselling author of several novels, Jim Marrs, is the author of the global, best-selling novel in UFOlogy, "Alien Agenda", as of 2017.
The producers wish to pay homage to the late John E. Mack, M.D., Professor at Harvard Medical School, whose seminal work in the book "Abduction: Human Encounters with Aliens", 1994, inspired the show's producers, and established the parameters by which experiencers have been chosen to share their stories.