Antonio Huneeus
2007 PRG Courage in Journalism
He traded in a mainstream journalistic career with great promise in order to engage a phenomenon the government denied was valid at a time when the truth embargo was in full force.
J. Antonio Huneeus (Chile) is a Chilean-American science journalist and
internationally known researcher of extraterrestrial-related phenomena.
When Laurance S. Rockefeller commissioned Marie Galbraith and Sandra S.
Wright to assemble a report on the best evidence for UFOs to send
members of Congress and selected VIPs worldwide in the mid-90s, Huneeus
was one of the co-authors (with Don Berliner and M. Galbraith).
This report was published as a Dell paperback under the title of
UFO Briefing Document: The Best
Available Evidence.
He has covered the field from an international perspective as a science
journalist, investigator and lecturer during the past 24 years. His
articles have appeared in a variety of newspapers, magazines and
journals in the Americas, Europe and Japan. These include Fate
Magazine, The Anomalist, and the New York City Tribune
in the US; the magazines Mo Cero and Mundo Desconocido in
Spain; Phenomena in France; Magazine 2000 in Germany;
Planeta in Brazil; Cuarta Dimension in Argentina;
Borderland and Super Science in Japan; the newspapers La
Tercera and La Segunda in Chile, El Tiempo in
Colombia; Anomalia in Russia; Notiziario UFO in Italy;
UFO Magazine in Hungary and other specialized publications around
the world.
He edited the anthology
A Study Guide to UFOs, Psychic
and Paranormal Phenomena
in the USSR;
was consultant and producer for a LaserActive disc in Japan, UFO & ET,
produced for Pioneer Electronic by the Tokyo company Studio Garage in
1995; author of the 1998 and 1999 UFO Calendar (NY: Stewart, Tabori &
Chang); one of several essayists in the book Of Heaven and Earth,
edited by Zecharia Sitchin (The Book Tree, 1996, published also in
Germany); and commentator for the DVD
Ultimate UFO! - The Complete
Evidence (Central Park Media, 2000).
Huneeus has lectured at dozens of conferences in the Americas, Europe
and Asia during the past 18 years, including the USA, Costa Rica, Chile,
Argentina, Brazil, Spain, Italy, Hungary, Germany, Japan and South
Korea. He received the "Ufologist of the Year" award at the
National UFO Conference in Miami Beach in 1990; the 1991 annual award of
the New York Fortean Society; and the In Memoriam Colman S. von Keviczky
medal (international category) in 2000, awarded by UFO Magazine
in Budapest, Hungary. He has served for many years as International
Coordinator for the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON).
In addition to his UFO endeavors, Huneeus worked for many years as a
science journalist with emphasis in space-related issues and also the
environment. He was science editor for the weekly magazine Que
Pasa in Santiago, Chile in the 1970s and wrote a weekly science
column in the 1980s for the New York City Tribune and the
Hispanic New York daily Noticias del Mundo.
He was born in 1950 in New York, the son of a Chilean diplomat and United Nations official. He studied French language and civilization at the Sorbonne University in Paris in 1970, Journalism at the University of Chile in Santiago in 1972-73, and Communications Theory at the Catholic University in Santiago in 1974. He is fully fluent in Spanish, French and English.
Published Books
UFO Briefing Document: The Best
Available Evidence (Dell, 1995)
A Study Guide to UFOs, Psychic
and Paranormal Phenomena
in the USSR
(Abelard Publications, 1991)
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