Michael Lindemann was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1949. At the Stanford University he studied political science and psychology. During the Vietnam era Lindemann got his interest in arms control, foreign affairs and government policy. At Antioch University Lindemann finished his BA degree psychology and after that he studied two years at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley. The knowledge Michael Lindemann had gained through his studies he later used as an educator, futurist and Social Analyst. In 1989 Lindemann started a private research organisation called the 2020 Group. The purpose was to study the forces that shape the future. Michael Lindemann started to do investigations in the UFO phenomena to find out if there was any possible connexion to covert weapons development and social policy. After having examined several cases Lindemann launched the Visitors Investigation Project to conduct and publish UFO research. In 1994 Lindemann cofounded the first online institute to study cases of human contacts with intelligent alien life forms called ISCNI, the Institute for the Study of Contact with Non-Human Intelligence. ISCNI has many offers to the public like private classes and lectures with researchers and they also publishes a twice-monthly online newsletter called CNI News (aka ISCNI*Flash). Michael Lindemann is the President of ISCNI and the assistant editor of the CNI News. Lindemann has also held lectures in almost every state in the USA and been on many Radio/TV shows like Art Bell, Hieronimus, Sightings, Encounters, The Other Side, Paranormal Borderline etc. etc. The 2020 Group has published yhe following titles: UFOs and the Alien Presence: Time for the Truth (1990), UFOs and the Alien Presence: Six Viewpoints (1991,republished 1995), UFOs and the New World Order (1992), UFOs and the Alien Presence (1992, 35-minute videotape written and hosted by Michael Lindemann) and UFOs and the Global Situation" (1994, two-hour videotape and three-hour audiotape versions)