Childress has appeared on NBC ("The Mysterious Origins of Man"), Fox Network ("Sightings" and "Encounters"), Discovery Channel, A&E, and History (e.g. "Ancient Aliens"), to comment on subjects such as the Bermuda Triangle, Atlantis, and UFOs. Since first entering the industry in 1984, Childress has been involved in two lawsuits regarding publishing; one, concerning the Kennedy assassination, failed after expiry of a statute of limitations and the other, involving an unpublished master's thesis about UFOs written in 1950, was settled out of court. Childress writes humorously about these suits in his 2000 autobiography "A Hitchhiker's Guide to Armageddon". Childress has been interviewed on several radio programs.