Attorney and self-described experiencer who was a Ph.D. candidate at the University of California, Berkeley, when he co-founded the Dr. Edgar Mitchell Foundation for Research into Extraterrestrial and Extraordinary Encounters (FREE) alongside Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell, astrophysicist Rudy Schild, and researcher Mary Rodwell. Co-edited 'Beyond UFOs' (2018), reporting FREE's five-year, multi-language survey study of over 4,200 self-described contact experiencers across 100-plus countries.
Reinerio 'Rey' Hernandez is an attorney and self-described experiencer who was pursuing a Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley, when he co-founded the Dr. Edgar Mitchell Foundation for Research into Extraterrestrial and Extraordinary Encounters (FREE), along with Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell, Harvard-Smithsonian astrophysicist Rudy Schild, and Australian researcher Mary Rodwell. He helped organize FREE's Experiencer Research Study, a five-year quantitative and qualitative survey that collected responses from more than 4,200 self-described contact experiencers in over 100 countries, and co-edited the resulting 820-page volume 'Beyond UFOs: The Science of Consciousness & Contact with Non Human Intelligence' (2018) with Rudy Schild and John Klimo.