Petr Vachler

Petr Vachler (born 1966 in Strakonice) is a Czech producer, screenwriter and director. After studying at Prague's FAMU he founded the Vachler Art Company in the early 1990s. In the UAP scene he became visible through the Netflix/Sky History series Top Secret UFO Projects: Declassified (2021) as a UFO witness and director, additionally produced Top 10 Secrets and Mysteries (2016) and has documented UAP sightings in Central Europe from the Cold War era to the present.

• Czech producer, screenwriter and director, born 1966 in Strakonice
• Studied at Prague's FAMU (Film and Television School of the Academy of Performing Arts)
• Founded the Vachler Art Company in the early 1990s
• Self-directed and UFO witness on the Netflix/Sky History series Top Secret UFO Projects: Declassified (2021)
• Documentary series Detektor (2008) on mysticism and esotericism; Executive Producer of Top 10 Secrets and Mysteries (2016)
• Documentation of UAP sightings and archival work on the UFO phenomenon in Central Europe
• Feature film debut Doblba! (2005), ten-year project The Meaning and Mystery of Life (2022); co-founder of the Czech Lions and the Czech Film and Television Academy (ČFTA)

For the UAP timeline, Vachler is the cinematic chronicler of Central Europe: his documentary formats make Czech and Eastern European UFO cases graspable for an international audience in the first place — beyond the American-dominated disclosure narrative.