Jim has literately written the book on UFO Investigations... it's called "5000 years of UFO's-Are we really alone?" by America House publishing... He has been a UFO investigator for nearly 30 years and he has trained over 100 field investigators. He, along with author Chris O'Brien wrote the Skywatchers UFO handbook. He has appeared on many radio shows including The Laura Lee show, The Cybercity show, The 21 Century Radio Show with Bob Hieronimus, the Jeff Rense show, the Art Bell show, the Jerry Pippen show, the Karen Grant show, the X-Zone show, and of course, Jim is the host of radio's Wake UP USA show on the Stardust Radio Network. Jim has appeared on the TV shows "In Search Of..." and "Sightings".

In the past, Jim was Vice-President of Skywatch International Inc. and was a UFO researcher for NICAP, and he was host for MSN's UFO Forum for many years His second book "A Dark Harvest- The Alien Menace is at the publishers now. He is currently active with writing his 3rd. book, "A UFOlogist's Notebook", and his weekly "Hickman Report" articles are widely published on the Internet.

"Jim Hickman brings the study of UFOs out of the basement, out of the clutches of the hoaxers, and places it in the context of competent scientists and technicians. He also provides a framework that many reporters currently use to achieve credibility and approach the truth, incorporating the scientific method instills trust in the soundness of the research while maintaining an appropriate distance of skepticism."- The University of South Carolina Journal.

Jim is the host of Wake Up USA- A UFO Study on the Stardust Radio Network, he has intervied many of the biggest names in the UFO business including; Stanton Friedman, Dr. David Jacobs, Dr. Bruce Macabee, Jim Marrs, Chris O'Brien, Dr. Roger Leir, Peter Gersten, John Timmerman, John Schuessler, Rob McConnell, Derrel Sims, George Filer, "Alien X"-Phil Tori, Stephen Yulish, Lloyd Pye, Marc Davenport and many, many others, check his website for all the names, http://www.thehickmanreport.com.