Javier Sierra

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Javier Sierra
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Sierra in 2009
Born
Javier Sierra Albert

(1971-08-11) 11 August 1971 (age 52)
Teruel, Spain
Occupation(s) Journalist, Writer

Javier Sierra Albert (born 11 August 1971 in Teruel, Aragon, Spain) [1] is a journalist, writer and researcher who studied journalism at the Complutense University of Madrid.

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Biography

In 1989, being 12 years old, he hosted the radio programme Radio Heraldo. [2] Six years later he founded the journal Año Cero. [3]

He is editor consultant of the monthly magazine Más Allá de la Ciencia (Beyond Science) [4] distributed in Spain and Latin America and he participates in several radio and television programs. During the last years, he has concentrated on writing about purported ancient mysteries.

For years[ quantify ], Sierra has been working with people like Graham Hancock and Robert Bauval attempting to demonstrate the existence of a Golden Age of humanity. [5] His hypothesis holds that this Golden Age was extinguished about 10,500 years ago, and it was the origin of all the known civilisations. [6]

Career

In 1995 he published Roswell: Secreto de Estado, about the Roswell incident, where he analysed the case. [7]

He became the first Spaniard to be in the Top Ten of best sellers in United States. [8] His 2006 novel The Secret Supper was in the top ten of The New York Times Best Seller list and has been published in 42 countries. [9] The Lady in Blue was published in 2007.

On 20 December 2017 it was released the documentary fiction Otros mundos by #0, which is about the great mysteries in the world. [10] On 22 December 2019 it was released the second season. [11]

Books

Essays

Collaborations

Prizes

Radio

Television

Press

Editorial

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