A.D. After Disclosure

A.D. After Disclosure - Day One

Authors Richard Dolan and Bryce Zabel marked the moment when their book A.D. After Disclosure began shipping to buyers as guests on Coast-to-Coast AM. It happened literally as the calendar slid from October 24 to October 25, which is to say, they went on at midnight.

Although they have both appeared on C2C individually multiple times, it was the first time Rich and Bryce had appeared together to talk about the project. The host for the interview, Las Vegas journalist George Knapp, asked a number of excellent and surprising directions and, in the two hours, a lot of territory was covered as a result.

Here is the link to the MP3 files and the Streamlink to the interview.

Also, today, A.D. After Disclosure received a very significant review to mark its publication from Open Minds, the latest heavyweight player in UFO coverage in magazine, Internet, and video. In a review that will appear in the December issue but was published on-line today, reporter Alejandro Rojas wrote:

 "I thought I had given thought to most situations in a post-disclosure world and how things might come about. However, reading this book sent my mind whizzing with new and different possibilities, and while this is a book about what might be, it helps one think about what the government and the public can do right now to either assist in shaping this bold future, or how to brace for it."

You can read Alejandro's entire review at the Open Minds website. We think it's fair and thoughtful, and we're proud to recommend it to you.

Because so many new people are coming to this site as a consequence of both of these events, we want to take the opportunity to direct your attention to some of the content that is here for you already. We're trying to make this site a place for discussion and debate of the Disclosure topic. This means you'll find plenty of material that exists parallel to the book itself.

Here are a dozen posts that have attracted a lot of attention and traffic at the site over the past few months:

1. What If UFO Secrecy Ended Tomorrow?
2. Maelstrom @ Malmstrom
3. If This Isn't a National Security Issue, Then What Is?
4. It's the Media That Can't Handle the Truth
5. Shame on Evan Davis and the BBC
6. An Open Letter to the Washington Post
7. Facts Still Matter (More Than Ever)
8. 60 Years On: The McMinnville Photos
9. One Dozen UFO Documents You Need to Know About
10. John Lennon Would Still Say "Gimme Some Truth"
11. Just Another NBC Series About Disclosure
12. Cookies for Kelly

With the book finished and available, we now begin the work of telling people about it, and discussing the ideas it contains. Thanks to all of you who are a part of that process!

10/10/10: A.D.'s Top Ten (Literally) Greatest Hits

When the date is 10/10/10, the temptation to create a Top Ten List is irresistible. Especially when you run a site -- A.D. After Disclosure -- that speculates that there's a whole new way of looking at the calendar in our future.

So we have a Top Ten List of our own, this one basically featuring the posts which have generated the most reader traffic since we began the site last April.

Please feel free to leave your comments here after a post, or to join our Facebook page and take part in the discussion there. Remember, Disclosure is the biggest change imaginable but that all change begins when people learn new things and decide to act on their new-found knowledge.

1. What If UFO Secrecy Ended Tomorrow?
2. Maelstrom @ Malmstrom
3. If This Isn't a National Security Issue, Then What Is?
4. It's the Media That Can't Handle the Truth
5. Shame on Evan Davis and the BBC
6. An Open Letter to the Washington Post
7. 60 Years On: The McMinnville Photos
8. One Dozen UFO Documents You Need to Know About
9. John Lennon Would Still Say "Gimme Some Truth"
10. Just Another NBC Series About Disclosure

Hope you enjoy your 10/10/10. Thanks for stopping by.

The People's Guide to UFOs and Nukes

March 16, 2011 is the 44th anniversary of the unsettling events that took place at Malmstrom Air Force Base back in 1967. We also mark the date now because Robert Salas -- who was in the center of that event -- will be speaking (along with Rich Dolan and Bryce Zabel) at the OZUFO Summit in Lawrence, Kansas, March 18-20.

Salas was an essential part of the news conference at the National Press Club on September 27 that here at the A.D. After Disclosure site generated three comprehensive posts that each had huge interest from our readers. 

 

If you'd like to see how it all went down and then participate in this on-going discussion and debate, here's how they lay out:

• If This Isn't a National Security Issue, Then What Is? This is Richard Dolan's original post on the subject of UFOs and nuclear weapons (which he has written about extensively in UFOs and the National Security State), timed to coincide with the news conference at the National Press Club on Monday, September 27. Although it devotes some analysis to the Malmstrom AFB case, it is a general survey of all the cases of alleged interference, and is a great place to start any study. It also dovetails nicely with any coverage you may have seen in the media about the news conference.

• It's the Media That Can't Handle the Truth. Bryce Zabel weighs in with an analysis of the media coverage that accompanied the news conference, and finds that it was a very mixed bag, particularly when it comes to the establishment media. You'll find one horrendous example from CNN here, and another from the Washington Post. Our conclusion: it's good that it was done at all, but the reaction continues to show the difficulties faced along the road to Disclosure.

• Maelstrom @ Malmstrom: What Really Happened in 1967?  This comprehensive post by Richard Dolan is as long as a few chapters in the forthcoming A.D. book itself. In it, we address a debate that has been raging in some corners of ufology about whether the UFO explanation for the Malmstrom missile failures ever happened at all, and whether or not one of the key witnesses, Robert Salas, has been truthful in his testimony. It's long, but Richard weighs all the facts and, at the end, comes to a conclusion.

Feel free to join the debate yourself by leaving comments to any of these posts. They are moderated only for abusive behavior, and will be posted soon after you leave them. Also, our Facebook page is always available for a healthy thriving debate.

HEADLINES FROM A.D. -- UFOs and nukes have history together... the established media still doesn't get it when it comes to UFO reporting... and, even in the UFO community, debates continue to rage, often with a lack of civility that is counter-productive to the larger goals of Disclosure. 

Reader's Choice: A Baker's Dozen of the Most Read Posts

This site -- A.D. After Disclosure -- has been steadily growing in traffic and, from time-to-time, explosively so. With so many new readers, we decided to let our "early adopters" recommend some of their favorite material based on the number of page views our posts have received. This comes down to a Baker's Dozen for us -- 13 posts, some of heavier weight than others but all of them, by virtue of our readers so far, worth recommending to those who are joining the conversation in progress.

Please feel free to leave your comments here after a post, or to join our Facebook page and take part in the discussion there. Remember, Disclosure is the biggest change imaginable but that all change begins when people learn new things and decide to act on their new-found knowledge. 

• What If UFO Secrecy Ended Tomorrow?  This is far and away are most widely read post -- it's the entire word-for-word "Introduction" to the upcoming A.D. After Disclosure book. It lays out the mission of the book in detail but, beyond that, it even breaks down what readers can expect in each of the ten individual chapters. If you're thinking about buying a copy, this is a good way to see what you're getting ahead of time.

• If This Isn't a National Security Issue, Then What Is?  Written by Richard Dolan to coincide with the news conference held in Washington, D.C. at the National Press Club on September 27, 2010. If you want the basic case for UFO interference with the world's nuclear missile sites, this is the primer you need to read.

• Shame on Evan Davis and the BBC  British news "presenter" Evan Davis managed recently to write a column that was so over-the-top in its arrogance and bias toward UFO research, that it merited special attention and analysis. In fact, we put more thought into our deconstruction of his flimsy reporting than he obviously did to his work in the first place.

• 60 Years On -- The McMinnville Photos  The two photos taken by the Trents in 1950 have stood the test of time and hard-nosed scrutiny. We summarize the story behind the story of the photos but also use it to show a faux-Time magazine cover that the case would  have merited if the national media gave UFO reporting anything approximating the coverage it deserves.

• The 1947 Twining Memo Anniversary  It was 63 years ago that a high ranking United States Air Force General, Nathan Twining, said -- in writing -- that UFOs were the real deal and that people who were seeing them were not crazy or liars but were reporting a real phenomenon. You can read about it, and the even read the memo itself here.

• "The Event" Probably Isn't THE Event  There's been a lot of talk about NBC's new series, "The Event," and whether or not it has an extraterrestrial explanation. While the jury is still out on that, it does seem that even if there is a connection, it will not be dealing with Disclosure in the real, practical way that it will eventually happen, something that gets pointed out in this piece about what true Disclosure really means.

• Art Imitating Life: JFK and Disclosure  Colonel Phillip Corso is famous (or infamous) in UFOlogy for his book, The Day After Roswell, where he claimed to have helped implement key reverse engineering with the Roswell wreckage. Open Minds unearthed an interview from before Corso's death where he also said that President Kennedy and his brother Bobby Kennedy also knew, something that formed the backbone of the 1990s NBC drama series, Dark Skies.

• Mad Men with Aliens Coming to DVD  Dark Skies, like Mad Men, was set mostly in the early 1960s, with all the same great costumes, cars and sets. Now, after 13 years of non-stop attempts to get the 20 hours of episodes released so they could be seen outside the hit-and-miss NBC program-and-pre-empt strategy, it has finally happened. This post contains the details on the January 18, 2011 release, timed to coincide with the 50th anniversary of President John Kennedy, the time period that begins the series pilot.

• Small Steps and Giant Leaps  Where were you on July 20, 1969? Everyone who was alive then has their own set of "Moonwalk Memories" that brings the time to vivid life. Here is one about fathers and sons, being fired for the first time, and the importance of history. We urge you to read it, and leave your own story in the comments section.

• Our Majestic 12 (Documents)  Here are a dozen documents that takes UFOs very seriously, several of which you may be unaware of, many of which were brought to light and clarified through the Freedom of Information Act. From the Twining Memo to the Teheran Encounter to the Rendlesham Forest incident, if you read this post, you will know more about the subject that 99% of the people you are likely to meet in your daily life. Impress them with your command of the facts.

• Testing Reactions to Disclosure  This is the story of Lt. Col. Ellison Onizuka, one of the astronauts who died in the 1986 Challenger crash, and how he claimed to have been exposed to a "test" of UFO Disclosure while being stationed at McClellan Air Force Base in the 1970s.

• What Value Do UFO Photos Have?  We talk about them all the time, there are thousands of them out there, and yet -- in our reader poll -- photos were considered the absolute least likely "trigger event" to force Disclosure. 

• Edgar Mitchell Says "Prepare for the Inevitable"  Apollo 14 lunar pilot Edgar Mitchell has generously recommended this book and when you see the kind of interest his comments generated, you can see what kind of high esteem he is held by people in the know.

We want to encourage you to learn more about this important subject of Disclosure so that you can discuss it calmly and intelligently, not just with people who believe as you do, but also (and especially) those who have yet to form an opinion. We want to grow this conversation, and there is a role you can play, if you want to help. Search engines index sites favorably when they see that other sites and blogs are linking to them. So if you see something you think is worth spreading around, please reblog, repost and let other people know. Thank you.

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A Dozen Documents That Take UFOs Seriously

Ask people what they think about UFOs, and you’re sure to get opinions ranging through all extremes and nuances. Some are so embarrassed by the topic that they simply refuse to consider any evidence whatsoever, like the Pope refusing to look through Galileo’s telescope. Others claim not only to be certain that aliens are here, but to have exact, insider knowledge of what it’s all about. Between these extremes are endless variations.

It’s the same with how we approach the subject. Some people read UFO books for fun, like a mystery novel or scary story. Others are more interested in scientific evidence, such as analysis of photographs, videos, or material samples. Still others prefer more hypothetical roads, like theories about the likelihood of life elsewhere in the universe, or how an advanced propulsion system might work. There are a host of specialized studies, too, ranging from abductions, to crop circles, to animal mutilations, and more. Or, you may focus on the believers and witnesses themselves by studying UFOs as an element of popular culture, or from a psycho-social perspective.

Another approach is historical. There are, after all, government UFO documents that anyone can read. What do they say? Can these documents tell us whether the government or military have ever been interested in this phenomenon? If so, why?

Granted, this approach might not be of the same value as subjecting a piece of flying saucer to laboratory tests. But it would certainly be important if the government had documents showing that UFOs are truly something extraordinary, and even possibly alien. Especially after telling the public the opposite for years. Since belief in UFOs is a near-professional suicide in most respected circles, what would it mean if we discovered that, within the classified world, people have taken it seriously for years?

It just so happens that they have. They do.

For many years, it was hard to obtain declassified government documents about UFOs. During the 1950s and 1960s, a few documents wended their way to the rest of the world, but this was rare. Then, in 1974, the U.S. government amended the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). The result was a veritable golden age of document releases that lasted roughly until a 1982 Executive Order from President Reagan. While UFO documents continue to be released, a repeat of the Great Flood of the seventies appears unlikely.