"A.D. - After Disclosure: The People's Guide to Life After Contact" by Richard Dolan and Bryce Zabel. What happens after they finally tell us the truth about UFOs?
As regular readers know, we advocate that people who understand UFO/ET reality need to begin speaking out more openly about their beliefs -- not just to fellow believers, and not just in internet rants, but person-to-person. Our friends at Majic1947's YouTube Channel have put together a little animated back-and-forth on the subject of Disclosure, created using the xtranormal software and published to YouTube. Don't take it too seriously, it's just for fun!
Wonder what office these two work at? Majestic? But the point is if the dynamic is going to change, people have to start speaking openly -- at work, at school, in their homes.
If seeing this video causes any of our readers to experiment with xtranormal themselves, please send us your own bits and we'll put them on the site as well.
It's been a run of important Disclosure-related posts here -- writing about the WikiLeaks situation and even the NASA news conference about life in Mono Lake. Hopefully, then, you can excuse a light, quick end-of-the-year journey into a "making of" story about the A.D. After Disclosure book project.
In his classic rock ballad, "Against the Wind," Bob Seger talks about "what to leave in, what to leave out."
Any finished project -- a film, a television series, or even a book like A.D. After Disclosure -- tends to look after it's over like it could only have been the way it turned out. To the right, you'll see the inner flap to our back cover. It looks familiar to us now but, oddly, it was the very last thing to change as the book was going into the printers.
Two nights before, there was another picture on that cover. We weren't smiling in that one.
We had done an entire photo shoot with the talented Los Angeles photographer Alex Asher Sears for the cover photo and, out of the shoot, came three different looks, all variations on a theme. The theme was basically working writers telling a serious story. So the decision was made to go with collared shirts and loosened ties and no smiles. After all, we thought, when you're talking about a sixty-plus year cover-up, what's to smile about?
But, at the last minute, a debate caught fire and the voices that won the day were the ones that argued that book authors had a duty to appear friendly to their potential buyers and that smiles were not a sign of weakness. That is why, if you buy the hardcover version, you will see the smiles. But there was another picture, one that did not make the first cut, or the last-minute replacement and, yet, oddly, it's the one that both of us actually liked best.
Although we liked this photo by Alex Asher Sears a lot, Bryce's son thought he looked like a "badass" and his wife Jackie thought he looked angry, so it became the one that the subjects and the photographer all liked but, possibly, too controversial for a book project that asks people to actually pay for it.
This photo above was inspired by a photo we'd all admired that had been taken of Robert DeNiro and Martin Scorcese by French photographer Brigitte Lacombe. We liked the stripped down ascetic of the picture and the white background. We asked Alex not to copy it, but to take inspiration from it, and we knocked off a few quick shots in the last minutes, just for fun.
Alex also shot a couple of other excellent versions. One was what we called the "All the President's Men" photo which we liked but ultimately didn't fit the vertical photo layout we had in mind for the book cover.
Full Disclosure: We still love those photos that Alex took that day.
We know we're not smiling.
Think of it this way. We're thinking about the Breakaway Group of secret-keepers and how they've ignored your need-to-know for almost seven decades. It made us a little more somber than usual...
If you want to know a bit more about the book itself, here is the link to read the Introduction to A.D. After Disclosure. It is easily available through Amazon.com. Or you can order it through your local bookstore.
As always, we thank you for considering a purchase of the book through the button below at Keyhole Publishing. It will be shipped directly from the publisher signed by co-author Richard Dolan, and you will receive a free MP3 of "Need-to-Know: The UFO Disclosure Song," currently available on iTunes.
The revelation of first contact with an alien intelligence is a serious matter. Still, like almost everything else in the world, it will be treated by someone as the inspiration for a joke. Whether it's a riff on 'To Serve Man' being a cookbook, to an alien fixation with babies and crop circles, most comedians see Disclosure as ushering in boom times for joke telling. This is one of a number of cultural topics we cover in our Chapter 7 "The (New) Age of Aquarius" from the new book. We talked to New York comedian Chris Rush who told us he'd be rushing down to get on stage at a comedy club right away.
"Maybe they'll be advanced cow-like creatures who have come to our Earth to arrest Ronald McDonald for war crimes. Or maybe their IQ level compared to ours would be like a human trying to talk to yogurt -- armed and violent yogurt. So maybe they'll sterilize the Earth, turn the Moon into a gigantic mothball and store their winter clothes here. "
Rush, by the way, was friends with the late comedy great George Carlin, and says Carlin expressed his strong view that the "planet's owners" have known about the Others for a long time, but have not confessed their knowledge because they have never felt they could control what would happen if they did. There's more from Carlin in A.D. After Disclosure like his belief that the media just didn't get it.
"You may have noticed that, in the media, UFO believers are frequently referred to as 'buffs,' a term used to diminish and marginalize them by relegating them to the ranks of hobbyists and mere enthusiasts. They are made to seem like kooks and quaint dingbats who have the nerve to believe that, in an observable universe of trillions upon trillions of stars, and most likely many hundreds of billions of inhabitable planets, some of those planets may have produced life-forms capable of doing things that we can't do."
Just like Rush, we have some other readers who aren't waiting for actual contact to start working on their new material. One of them is teenage comic artist Aaron Sallan. He's been doing some regular work already at the nicely done new blog Boomer Tech Talk. And, just for fun, Aaron sent us a tribute strip called "A.D. Aaron's Dad."
Thanks, Aaron. We can't wait for the strip where you see a UFO and your old man gets to gloat...
While Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert had the media focused on their Rally to Restore Sanity,we conducted a poll of our readers to decide which of the two comedian commentators shows should be approached first about an author interview for the A.D. After Disclosure project.
Last night, as the polls closed on the nation's mid-term elections, we counted your own ballots.
It was no contest. Our readers overwhelmingly favor The Daily Show with Jon Stewart as a better environment to discuss the issue of the Disclosure of UFO/ET reality.
Stewart got 75.6% of the vote.
Colbert got 24.4%.
There were numerous reasons expressed for this but it seemed to come down to Jon Stewart's likeability, his perception of open mindedness and the opinion of those who had seen Leslie Kean's appearance on The Colbert Report that going on with Colbert playing his conservative persona, rather than himself, makes talking sense about UFOs even more difficult than it usually is.
So, the people have spoken (or at least our slice of people) and we'll be reaching out to The Daily Show with Jon Stewart to see if he'll have us.
If Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert truly want to restore some sanity (The Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear, October 30), they could start with the topic of UFOs after the election is over. Acknowledging the reality of UFO/ET presence is a subversive act to many mainstream voices, and that's why Stewart or Colbert (who see themselves as subversives) need to start getting into this topic.
Based on the competitive way these kinds of shows are scheduled, books authors don't appear on both. So -- during the weekend of the Stewart/Colbert rally -- we're offering up this poll to get your opinion about which show you think would be the best forum, and we'll have our publicist contact the winner after the election. Our poll is in the sidebar to the right.
Sometimes you have to fight fire with fire and sometimes you have to fight silly with silly. This is one of those times when we have to embrace the latter option. Silly is as silly does.
We're asking readers to consider sending cookies to The Washington Post's John Kelly, the columnist who both started and ended his coverage of the September 27 UFOs and Nukes event at the National Press Club with a description of the excellent quality cookies they serve reporters there. We think it is appropriate that Kelly as well as the executive editor Marcus Brauchli receive cookies now as a way to say to them, "Hey, guys, that was a pretty foolish approach you took to a very serious issue and it has been duly noted but, in the meantime, have a cookie on us and think about how you can do better next time."
John Kelly started his original column this way, "The cookies they serve at press conferences at the National Press Club are the same as the cookies we have in meetings here at The Post. I happen to like these cookies..." and he ended with "I grabbed a cookie on the way out." John Kelly, apparently, may not think there's much to the UFO/Nuke connection but he is a big fan of cookies.
So let's send him (and the Executive Editor of The Washington Post) cookies. But let's make sure that each batch comes with a personal note telling them about why the issue of UFOs is a serious one and why they really should accord it more serious coverage in the future. Finally, while it is tempting to send home-made cookies, you know those won't be accepted or eaten in today's world when they come from strangers. Please send store-bought, safely packaged cookies.
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We actually wrote the National Press Club and asked them where they got those wonderful cookies that John Kelly seems to be fixated on. We heard back from executive chef Susan Delbert who wrote, "Firehook Bakery... supplies our day to day chocolate chip, white chocolate, oatmeal raisin and oatmeal chocolate cookies." If this is the wrong cookie source, we're sure Kelly or the Post will correct us and we'll issue an apology which is probably a lot more than they will ever do.
We've written three posts on the subject of media bias as it pertained to this news conference:
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.
From time-to-time as we wait for the book to be published, we'll be posting our "Disclosure Comix" which are stills from alien-themed films from the past, interpreted with a skew toward After Disclosure news and politics. They're for fun, protected as fair use because of their commentary, and should be looked at like an editorial cartoon on the Op-Ed page (remember newspapers?). Anyway, here is our first one, from Contact, starring Jodie Foster.
Contact, the film, was based on Contact, the book, written by Carl Sagan. We take Sagan to task in our upcoming book for his blind-eyed belief in S.E.T.I. and his condescending dismissal of the possibility of UFO contact. He always said the universe was teeming with life but they couldn't possibly be here. We disagree.
