Dr. Buchman served as a candidate for the United States House on three occasions, 2008, 2017, and 2023.  He has also been a candidate for the Utah state House (2018), Utah State Senate (2016), and for Utah Treasurer (2022).  He has received a total of over 100,000 votes in those campaigns.  In each of those campaigns he focused on two issues 1) Freeing all witnesses and whistleblowers from any illegal NDAs (Non-Disclosure Agreements) regarding waste, fraud, criminal activities, and evidence of human interaction with NTI (Non-Human Intelligence) both technology and biologics and 2) Open Congressional hearings to eliminate wasteful spending, prosecute fraud and crimes (AKA "abuse"), and cause Disclosure of the ET presence.

Joe earned a Ph.D. from the Indiana University Media School (1989), an MS in Finance from Purdue (1983), and a BS in Marketing from IU (1980). He also completed post-graduate work in Mongolian studies while on the faculty of Indiana University.

Dr. Buchman has served on the faculty of Western Michigan University, The University of Tennessee, and Indiana University.  After earning tenure as a Professor of Business Management, he left traditional higher education to develop online MBA finance courses for the University of Chicago's online MBA program, and pursue his dreams of adventure travel (chasing total solar eclipses (5 so far), trekking the Altai Mountains of Mongolia, exploring his family's genealogy in Switzerland, serving on the volunteer staff of Burning Man, the Sundance, Napa Valley, and Sonoma Film Festivals, and driving the entire US interstate highway system in a camper van with his wife and four children (now all grown), and throat singing).

His lifelong interest in cosmology, nucleogenesis, and the possibility of extraterrestrial life led him to serve, with six former members of the United States Congress, on the 2013 Citizen Hearing on Disclosure in Washington, DC, first as the moderator, and then as a member of the Congressional panel.

His research has been published in a wide variety of college textbooks and trade publications, and presented to the American Psychological Association, the US Library of Congress, the National Association of Broadcasters, TEDx at Burning Man, the Roswell UFO Festival, the Society for Scientific Exploration, FreedomFest, Contact in the Desert, and the SETI Institute's Contact: Cultures of the Imagination conference at NASA  Ames.  

 

He is also the author of the Forward to ROSWELL: THE ULTIMATE COLD CASE by Donald Schmitt and Tom Carey.

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