Lester Velez is a graduate of the University of Vermont. He served as an officer in US Army, Field Artillery branch. Currently, he is Vice President of Luscombe Engineering, a Silicon-Valley manufacturer's representative company. Les also serves as the Assistant State Director for MUFON, the Mutual UFO Network, in Northern California, Co-Chairman of the Abduction / Experiencer Research Committee (MUFON) Co-Founder and Vice President of OPUS, (Organization for Paranormal Understanding and Support). Les Velez talked about the Organization for Paranormal Understanding and Support (OPUS), and was joined by contactee Naomi Duane. Velez said that the mission of OPUS was to "help people who are having paranormal experiences" and to create a network of people who could provide support for such experiences. He stressed the positive power of comradery amongst paranormal experiencers, saying "what we've found to be one of the best things for people to be able to do is to communicate with someone who's had a similar circumstance happen to them."