A substantial private collection documenting decades of UFO and UAP research will be available through an online auction on Saturday, December 13, 2025. Direct Auctions will present the professional archive of Chris Wyatt, an Emmy Award-winning television producer. The collection represents a turnkey production resource for television companies, streaming platforms, and documentary filmmakers, with full broadcast rights included. According to Direct Auctions owner Jeff Schwarz, the industry response has been significant, describing it as the number one auction in terms of immediate interest he has ever handled in his forty-year career.
Assembled between 1992 and 2004, the archive provides comprehensive production materials. The winning bidder will acquire 39 hours of broadcast-quality master tapes featuring never-aired interviews with prominent figures in UFO research, including the second interview ever filmed with Bob Lazar discussing Area 51. Intellectual property assets include an original, unpublished feature film script about Lazar's life and full broadcast and licensing rights to all footage. Visual archives contain over 150 original photographs from the private collection of Lt. Col. Wendelle Stevens, many previously unpublished, and an extensive B-roll archive. Research documents comprise more than 500 declassified government documents related to CIA projects, Project Aquarius, and Majestic 12, plus hundreds of vintage books and rare periodicals.
The centerpiece artifact is the 1947 Roswell Army Air Force Base Yearbook, considered extraordinarily rare within UFO research circles. This copy, reportedly one of the only copies not held by government institutions, was acquired by Wyatt in 1996 from Roswell Air Force Base through a base officer. The yearbook provides personnel records that could enable researchers to locate witnesses, offering investigative angles for documentary projects. The archive includes extensive interviews with key figures such as Gordon Cooper, Stanton Friedman, Linda Moulton Howe, Budd Hopkins, and Dr. David Jacobs, among many others listed in the source material.
From a producer's perspective, Chris Wyatt stated this library is the raw DNA of the modern UFO phenomenon, captured before the internet diluted the narrative. He described it as a time machine offering the unvarnished truth from the people who lived it. Industry analysts suggest the archive contains sufficient primary source material to produce five to six feature-length documentaries or a limited series without requiring expensive third-party licensing fees. The auction will be conducted globally online via the platform iCollector, with worldwide participation and international shipping available. Broadcast-quality promotional materials for the auction are accessible at this Dropbox link.
This auction matters because it consolidates a significant volume of primary source material from a critical period in UFO research into a single, commercially available collection. The implications are substantial for media production, historical research, and public understanding of unexplained aerial phenomena. For the industry, it lowers barriers to producing authoritative documentary content by providing licensed, broadcast-ready assets. For researchers and the public, it potentially preserves and makes accessible interviews and documents that might otherwise remain private, influencing future narratives about government transparency and extraterrestrial investigation. The rare Roswell yearbook alone could catalyze new investigative journalism by enabling contact with potential witnesses or their descendants, demonstrating how historical artifacts continue to shape contemporary inquiry into enduring mysteries.
