A.D. After Disclosure

The People's Guide to Life After Contact

While we certainly hope it's a compelling title all by itself -- A.D. After Disclosure -- we still added the sub-title, "The People's Guide to Life After Contact." Here's why:

We want our book to be accessible to people who have never read a UFO book before, to be a "cross-over" project. Given that we're already living in life after contact, albeit in official denial and secrecy, we think it's time to get the general population up-to-speed on the issues so that when the truth finally is widely accepted it won't be such a shock. The reality is that this transition from denial to truth is coming at humankind sooner than later now. When the line gets crossed, it's going to affect everything from the economy and government to religion and science and even media and culture.

The book, weighing in at over 300 pages and going off to the printer in about a week, touches on all these issues. Lurking behind them all is the warning, one we've often heard expressed by concerned observers, that history is replete with cases where the weaker civilization is overwhelmed and ultimately destroyed by the stronger one. Think Cortez and the Aztecs.

We just don't think that has to be the fate of humanity. We do, however, believe that knowing what's coming and being mentally prepared is absolutely the most intelligent thing we can do now to make sure the outcome we get is the best one available when it all goes down.

So we've written a "People's Guide" to the world of A.D., or After Disclosure. We think it may be the first of its kind but it undoubtedly won't be the last. We'll keep updates coming at this site. Meantime, watch the skies!

Another One Bites the Dust

The UFO caught in the headlights? The one with the deer-cam in Texas? It's a camera malfunction, according to MUFON. 

 

We're reminded by this case that photos can be troubling kinds of evidence. In our own poll of readers on the A.D. After Disclosure site, we found that a piece of "photographic evidence" ranked dead last among respondents as to the kind of "trigger" event that could lead to Disclosure. 

Returning to the Brock-Piekarski photos from Texas, A.D. friend and UFO journalist Steve Hammons has written a great piece about the MUFON investigation. We re-print it today with his permission, and welcome him as a guest contributor to the site. And if you want to see the entire collection of original photos, they are available here.

What if...

What if UFO secrecy ended tomorrow? What happens when the powers-that-be finally admit that we are not alone? And that the Others we share the universe with are not light years away, some kind of cosmic pen-pals chatting by radio telescope, that they are here, now.

How will the truth change our society and your life?

A.D. After Disclosure is the first work of non-fiction to tackle these questions about the new winners and losers in government, science, religion, media, culture, law, education, and politics.

Life will go on, but it will never be the same.

Like a UFO Caught in the Headlights?

NOTE: MUFO says it's case closed here, that the compelling photos were simple evidence of a camera malfunction. We've left up this original post to show that first looks can be deceiving.

 

 

It's a new kind of UFO photo -- one that strips away the fallibility of humans who can lie or perform miracles with Photoshop. We've been working on the pages in A.D. After Disclosure that deal with photos as evidence, finding that they are more prevalent than ever before, but, at the same time, far less trusted. Then along comes something like this one out of Texas.

Shame on Evan Davis and the BBC

For over six decades, debunkers have been getting away with incredibly transparent attempts to use "deny and ridicule" to make anyone who wants to present serious evidence for UFO and UAP cases feel silly and small. Rarely, however, has any established journalist done it so baldly and with such flimsy reporting as this current example from Evan Davis, BBC reporter and presenter.

Let's, for the sake of argument, imagine that during the height of the U.S. Watergate scandal coverage in the 1970s, that a respected journalist went to Washington, D.C. for a single day, having done no work on the subject beyond reading a few articles, and returned to his desk and immediately wrote a report like this:

Let me be completely honest. I do not believe laws have been broken. Nothing could persuade me that the Nixon administration has abused its power in any way. It is an issue, in fact, on which I am uncharacteristically closed-minded. There is no evidence you could cite that would make me change my mind. I would always regard it as far more likely that the evidence was planted by Democrats trying to convince us of illegalities, rather than by Republicans themselves.

I think we could all pretty much agree that this would be the shoddiest kind of journalism imaginable. But the BBC's Davis, in his reporting of August 11, "The Truth Is Not Out There," did exactly that. He begins his coverage this way, word-for-word:

Let me be completely honest. I do not believe in alien UFOs. Nothing could persuade me that extra-terrestrials are hovering above us or getting ready to drop in for tea. It is an issue, in fact, on which I am uncharacteristically closed-minded. There is no evidence you could cite that would make me change my mind. I would always regard it as far more likely that the evidence was planted by earthlings trying to convince us of UFOs, rather than by Martians themselves.

Astonishingly close-minded, ill-informed, smug, arrogant and ridiculous. I graduated from the School of Journalism at the University of Oregon. If I'd written an article for a classroom assignment that began like that, I would have gotten a failing grade. I was an investigative reporter (and won some awards) at PBS for a few years. If I'd written something like that for delivery on-air, my editor would have stopped it, and I would have been fired.

BBC Worldwide's "Hera" - Alien or Internet? You Decide.

The BBC sure looks like it's getting in the Disclosure game with their new "SuperPower" programming that examines how the Internet is transforming lives globally. The character they've created to make the case is "Hera." 

Check out her first introduction. While it is clever to call her the Internet, and that is what she is on one public level, there is no doubt that she is also a metaphor for some form of benevolent contact.

BBC Worldwide's "Hera" has been shortlisted for A Cannes Film Lion in June 2010. It was directed by Matthias Hoene, produced by Miranda Johnstone and edited by Joe Randall-Cutler.

As for what it's really trying to say... Alien or Internet? You decide. 

DARK SKIES: Emmy Winning Main Title Sequence

In anticipation of the January 18, 2011 U.S. release of Dark Skies on DVD by Shout!Factory, we want to feature the YouTube of the main title sequence. This work won the Emmy award for designer Mike Jones in 1997 in the "Outstanding Main Title Design" category. The music was composed by Michael Hoenig, as well as the short samples we use in between the main titles and at the end on this video. Michael was nominated for an Emmy for his work on the series, too. His music could be scary and suspenseful when it needed to, but it was tragic and elegiac when it needed to be, and so beautiful. It helped the entire series rise to a new level.

It's interesting to listen to Michael's music and watch the three versions in a row: the first is the one we ended up with and includes the classic "History is a lie" line, followed by "John, someone's coming!" and gunfire. The second one is just the instrumental, what was constructed by the title designers, the way we thought we'd might do it until we added the voice-over. The third one is the first version of the voice-over, different delivery and not nearly as strong, I think, as the one we ended up with. 

DARK SKIES: Finally Coming to DVD in 2011

Dark Skies -- the 1996-1997 UFO television series -- began its twenty-hour NBC run with a pilot episode that tied in the assassination of President John Kennedy to his interest in disclosing UFO reality if re-elected to a second term in office. This is not a contention we make in the A.D. After Disclosure book, however. It is just a dramatic conceit used by series co-creators Bryce Zabel and Brent V. Friedman to tell a story about the UFO cover-up set in the 1960s. Having said that, there is big news...

 

Dark Skies is, finally, for real, and without qualification, coming out on DVD. It will be released by the Los Angeles based Shout! Factory on DVD on January 18, 2011. This coincides with the 50th anniversary of the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy. 

Shout! Factory is a successful home video company that was originally started by an exodus of employees from Rhino Records. It has evolved into a premium supplier of content, including a full-line of classic TV series, like the recently released Max Headroom. Dark Skies is just the kind of product they love to bring to market -- an overlooked gem with passionate fans. As you can see from the photos below, the truth changes you!

 

Dark Skies is composed of twenty hours (18 one-hour episodes, and a two-hour pilot) that tells an epic story of suspense and danger, set against the colorful backdrop of the 1960s. The UFO cover-up unfolds from the point of view of John Loengard, a naive congressional staffer who comes to Washington D.C. to be a part of JFK's "New Frontier" but ends up reluctantly working for the secret organization Majestic-12 as an undercover operative from 1961-1967. Because of its period and the incredible set design and wardrobe, some fans consider it a forerunner of Mad Men, but with aliens!

The series starred Eric Close, Megan Ward, Jeri Ryan and J.T. Walsh and was created by Bryce Zabel & Brent V. Friedman.

On DVD, we believe that audiences will finally get to see the series the way its creators intended, free of the scheduling challenges it faced on its network run. Back in the pre-DVR mid-90s, Dark Skies was on Saturday nights, suffered numerous pre-emptions and spotty promotion that started great, then dropped off a cliff. 

MAJIC MEN Comes to COAST-TO-COAST AM -- Monday, August 9

I'll be on Coast-to-Coast AM with George Noory on Monday night, August 9 with our FODs (Friends of Disclosure) Stan Friedman, Don Schmitt and Don Most. We'll be talking about a new film project, Majic Men. Coast-to-Coast- AM has monumental importance to the Disclosure movement, so this should be something to look forward to, and for a number of reasons.

Majic Men (film poster below) is -- as we like to say -- the story of two down-to-Earth guys who are chasing a story that is out-of-this-world. In this case, the two guys are Stanton Friedman and Donald Schmitt, and the story is Roswell.

There hasn't been a film built authentically on the true story of Roswell, other than Showtime's 1994 effort, Roswell. This one will, obviously, have more current information and research represented in it, but it will also have a human element -- the lives of the researchers themselves and the struggles they faced to break open this long-held secret world.

Along with my fellow producer Don Most, we have optioned both the life rights to Stanton Friedman and Donald Schmitt but also the book rights to Friedman's Top Secret/Majic and Schmitt's (along with Thomas Carey) Witness to Roswell. With a screenplay funded, we are now beginning the first step of developing  Majic Men which will be the story behind the story of breaking the Roswell mystery into the open secret it is today. We hope to do for this story what All the President's Men did for Watergate and to use some of the same visual energy as was found in JFK. But with just enough humor to make audiences fall in love with the film at the same time they hear its message.

Contact: The Sheen Factor

Not that we want to pick only on the S.E.T.I. program but -- given that its enthusiasts seem to think that the universe is teeming with life but it couldn't possibly be here now -- it's a pretty big target. Then there's the Charlie Sheen factor that makes it simply irresistible.

 

The Arrival stars Sheen as radio astronomer Zane Zaminski who discovers evidence of intelligent alien life and, surprise!, they're here. Wikipedia has a pretty fair plot summary. Sheen can probably stand a little humor at his expense here. Before last year he made $825,000 per episode on Two and a Half Men, and this season that went up to -- are you sitting down? -- $2,000,000 per episode! And, of course, those of us who are breathlessly waiting for All Things Shee-tastic know that he thinks he is worth much more than that.

Just for a moment, consider how much UFO research could be advanced if he had donated a single week's salary to the cause.