A.D. After Disclosure

Can UFO Visitors Actually Be Time Travelers?

For what it's worth, the UFO field is buzzing about time travel, anticipating that it is the Next Big Thing in this unfolding story. 

At the recent IUFOC in Phoenix, for example, Bentwaters witness James Penniston re-told the story about how in September 1994 he allowed himself to be hypnotized to help him recall what happened in Rendlesham forest and what it might mean. In the session, Penniston stated that he received telepathic communication from a landed craft in the forest and that the craft’s occupants had come from Earth’s future to gather genetic material to help them survive.

When I heard this, I knew that sounded more than a little familiar to me. Then I saw a post today from UFO skeptic Ian Ridpath who offered the explanation that Penniston may have gotten the idea from a movie he'd seen that claimed the same thing and aired just ten months before his hypnosis.

I wrote that movie.

In November 1993,the first original film for the Sci-Fi Channel (now SyFy) was produced from my screenplay, Official Denial. Although it was about the UFO cover-up and was the first piece I wrote that invoked Majestic-12, it contained a twist ending in which the question turned out to be not where the aliens were from, but when they were from. The Others were not alien after all: they were ourselves. Having bred diversity from their DNA in order to survive an environmental collapse, they had returned backward in time to save us, and thus to save themselves. The abduction of certain people was part of a protocol to follow specific bloodlines that were important in DNA development and ancestry. Later, I followed that "Bloodlines" theory up in Dark Skies as well, as that was the title of our final episode.

For those who aren't familiar with him, James Penniston was an Air Force Staff Sergeant at a joint U.S. Air Force and Royal Air Force base at Bentwaters in the UK. On December 26, 1980, he was sent to investigate strange lights in the forest. What he and others found was a triangular craft that he examined at close range and for an extended period. This has become one of the best documented UFO sightings in history, referred to as the Rendlesham Forest Incident.

My film was released on video in May 1994, only a few months before Penniston’s hypnosis. As Ridpath interprets it, "The similarities between the film and Penniston’s story are striking. Of course, we have no evidence that Penniston actually saw this film, so it could simply be coincidence."

John Alexander: Realities and Myths

I first met John Alexander in 2003. Of all the people associated with the topic of UFOs, he is undoubtedly among the most interesting. Indeed, he has become something of the official ufological boogyman. Go to any UFO conference, and if John Alexander is there, he will inevitably be the subject of much private conversation and speculation.

The reasons are self-evident, once you learn a little bit about the man. Alexander spent a long and distinctive career within the U.S. Army. While rising to the rank of colonel, he distinguished himself as a maverick. Consider that in an organization as rigid and bureaucratic as the U.S. Army, he championed such areas of research as psi phenomena, remote viewing, and non-lethal weapons technology. None of this was easy, and yet Alexander was quite successful in the course of his career. He is clearly a formidable individual. 

Then there is the UFO connection. During the 1980s, Alexander initiated and led an extended inquiry throughout many avenues of the Pentagon at high levels to find a UFO related program. As he put it many times, he was convinced such a program had to exist. After all, he himself has long been a believer in the reality of UFOs as something that is not from our ordinary reality, and which could well be extraterrestrial.

Toward that end, he created something he innocuously titled the Advanced Theoretical Physics Group. Later, this was erroneously called the UFO Working Group by the journalist Howard Blum in his 1990 book Out There. Alexander intended this group to be something of a crowbar that would pry open the doors of secrecy. The idea was that by creating a group of top notch specialists culled from throughout the U.S. defense establishment, who would conduct sophisticated analyses of UFO reports, that such a group might gain the attention of the “real” UFO program that had to exist within the Pentagon – so Alexander reasoned.

But they never got the call. After years of door-knocking and briefings with generals and other senior officials, John Alexander never saw evidence that any group or any department was mandated to study UFOs in any capacity. There was much private interest, yes, but no official investigation going on anywhere that he could see. 

The Washington Post Makes Fun of Military Officers

An Open Letter to The Washington Post

Shame on you.

And, yes, I'm talking to you, columnist John Kelly, and also to your ultimate boss, Marcus Brauchli, The Washington Post's Executive Editor. Together, you have embraced ignorance, for reasons you should have to explain, but probably never will.

Basics first. Somehow, in advance of the September 27 news conference at the National Press Club -- where retired military officers who had responsibility for the nation's nuclear weapons went on the record saying that UFOs had interfered with their security -- a decision was made not to send an experienced reporter who deals with national security issues. Whether you made that decision or not, Marcus Brauchli, the responsibility is yours. Then a decision was made to send a "Metro" reporter who is actually a regular columnist responsible for light, often humorous, lifestyle pieces. That would be you, John Kelly.

Kelly wrote a dismissive and lighthearted piece that began and ended with his description of the cookies served at the news conference, contained no analysis or background, and was skeptical in the extreme. You can read his original column here, and our response to the coverage the news conference generated here. In our own analysis, we said:

The Washington Post couldn't be bothered to send a real reporter, but they did send a columnist, John Kelly, who -- and I'm not kidding -- opened his coverage by explaining he arrived late and only came because they offered cookies. The newspaper that prides itself on breaking the Watergate story now feels that credible testimony from people who have honorably served their country in key positions of authority, responsible for war and peace, should be ignored by "real" reporters with important stories to cover and relegated to a humor column. Sad.

Apparently, I wasn't the only reader of this non-coverage who felt just a little outraged at its bias and silliness. John, you then wrote a follow-up, Close Encounters with UFOs (Unexpectedly Furious Observers). In that column, you compared the angry and horrified reaction you received to that which came from previous columns about the right way to hang toilet paper and make a peanut butter sandwich. Another attempt at clear ridicule. Cherlyn Gardner Strong, writing for the Tucson Citizen, had this to say about you. I think it's interesting to note that this paper which is now just a collection of unpaid blogs had more content that The Washington Post.

Should we make fun of you, John, because you play the drums in a Monkees cover band? Would that be relevant to your abilities as a reporter? Or Marcus, should we say you're in the tank with the establishment because you got a severance package worth $6.4 million from the Wall Street Journal? The truth is that both of those assumptions would have more bearing on who you two are than your own assumption that because a man says the word "UFO" out loud he should be ridiculed as an implied liar or crazy person regardless of his past history for truthfulness or service to country. Or that the story he is attempting to tell is not as interesting as the quality of the snacks being served the media.

You know as well as anyone that the reporter who writes the story controls the context and if derision and dismissal is the goal, there's always fodder to use. But that kind of writing does a disservice to the real story and is always a disreputable cheat when done on an issue of public importance.

You may have your reasons. In particular, I address this to Marcus. If you feel that either the men who spoke at that press conference are lying or delusional, then given their history, their military service and the stories they were telling, don't you have an obligation to explain to your readers why you felt it was the proper journalistic decision to cover the story through John Kelly's smirky put-down rather than send a reporter with experience in national security? I'd really like to know your answer. But you have $6.4 million dollars in a golden parachute to fall back on so you don't need to answer, right? Do you see how that works? Rather than attack your journalistic judgment, with a little sleight of wordplay, you become the issue. It's not fair to you, and it sure wasn't fair to those men at the National Press Club.

It's the Media that Can't Handle the Truth

If you want to understand just what the truth is up against when it comes to getting any kind of responsible UFO reporting from the mainstream media, the September 27th news conference at the National Press Club certainly makes the case. 

If you missed it, a half dozen former U.S. Air Force officers spoke out publicly in the nation's capital about the existence of UFO sightings near U.S. nuclear weapons facilities -- events witnessed by multiple soldiers in which nuclear missiles actually malfunctioned in the aftermath. The incidents go back decades and continue on to present day, and they involve countries in addition to the United States, with multiple incidents happening on international soil. Plus, declassified U.S. documents were produced that reveal startling details. 

All these military witnesses (plus another 100+ who didn't testify) worked in sensitive areas at nuclear weapon installations. These are people trusted to guard, maintain and, if necessary, use and fire the nation's nuclear arsenal at an enemy. And they are willing to testify, solemnly, that vehicles they could not identify violated security in the airspace above their missiles and in several cases disabled them. You can read all about these events, and Rich Dolan wrote a very comprehensive essay that can bring you up to speed in ten minutes.

 

If you ask me, this kind of public discussion is a pretty big deal and deserves to be covered so that the American people can evaluate the evidence and, if they are not satisfied with the answers they get, demand new ones from their representatives. The news conference was lightly attended and virtually shunned by the media heavyweights. Here's how Wired put it in a magazine section, unpromisingly called, "Tinfoil Tuesdays":

• But the officers didn’t face a particularly skeptical crowd. There were as many well-wishers at the Press Club as there were journalists in a conference attended by about 30 people, congratulating them on their bravery. One gentleman took the mic to confess that he had been “a contactee” in Santa Monica in 1986 and 1997. “I can affirm this phenomenon is real,” he said. Another journalist asked the panel whether it was “time to admit that there are other spiritual beings in the universe.”

Not only were the media's big-boys missing-in-action, but ABC, NBC and CBS did not think even a streamed video clip was worthy of being included in any of their evening news broadcasts. I didn't see the news conference covered in the Los Angeles Times or the New York Times. CNN was a very mixed bag. They did, apparently, go "live" from the conference but they also allowed a pair of arrogant, condescending and, worse, ill-informed on-air talent (an anchorwoman and a weatherman) to ridicule these military men for coming forward. You have to see this to believe it.

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.

POLL: What Could Trigger Official Disclosure?

Given that the secret-keepers have kept this secret for over six decades, it seems clear that they won't give it up easily. Most people who understand the situation believe it will take some kind of big event to trigger an escalating sense of pressure that will inevitably lead to some kind of official disclosure. Some (not all) of those possibilities are included in this poll. Which one do you think is most likely to be the event that gets things started?

Online Surveys & Market Research

A.D. AFTER DISCLOSURE: The Future Is Almost Here

NOTE: This original post announced a September 23/24 publication date. As it turns out, printing issues dictate a revised date of October 11. Pre-orders will begin on September 5 at Keyhole Publishing.

A.D. After Disclosure will be published and available for on-line orders at midnight EST as September 23 turns into September 24.

Literally, the Stroke of Midnight. We picked the date for a reason.

September 23, 1947 is the day a top U.S. General said, in writing, that UFOs were real. A day later, on September 24, 1947, a U.S. President may have officially established, in writing, the highly classified group that kept it all secret for over six decades so far.

We're Richard M. Dolan and Bryce Zabel -- the book's co-authors. We believe this non-fiction book represents the first extensive, nuts-and-bolts look into what our world will be like after the disclosure of ET reality.

The 1947 anniversary dates mark the year that UFOs first exploded into public consciousness as "flying saucers." It was a time of escalating tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union. July of that year was the also the time that the National Security Act was passed. In one fell swoop, the U.S. government created the CIA, the National Security Council, an independent Air Force, and the Department of Defense. It was the single most important Act in U.S. history toward the expansion of government power and secrecy. 

Of course, 1947 was also the year of Roswell. Indeed, the crash of one or more UFOs near Roswell, New Mexico, took place just a few weeks before the passage of the National Security Act. 

 

Writing the Book We Wanted to Read

Thousands of books have been published, all debating whether UFOs are real or just figments of our imaginations.

This new book -- A.D. After Disclosure -- is not one of them.

Our collaboration involving what the world will look like after UFO disclosure takes place is set to be published at the stroke of midnight between September 23 and September 24 of this year.

We wrote it, frankly, because it was the book we both wanted to read but no one had ever written it.

Within the UFO literary tradition, each book seems to allow itself a sentence or two, maybe even a paragraph, sometimes a few pages, where the author dips his toes into the disclosure water. All of that teasing just made us both thirsty for more.

 

Over six decades into this quiet revolution that UFOs herald, we can now see the outlines of a reality that’s been sneaking up on us one step at a time. The issue that got hushed up by one generation and turned into an object of derision by another now demands to be heard straight up in ours.

Since the first major wave of UFO sightings in 1947, the number of people who believe that UFOs are of extra-terrestrial origin has steadily risen. Today nearly 70% of Americans believe that this is the case, and at least five percent claim to have actually seen a UFO.

The evidence that something strange has been happening and is happening is now voluminous and convincing.  All you have to do is look for it. Over the years, determined civilian researchers have forced the release of once-classified reports prepared by the United States government and other nations. These accounts tell a story of contact through the eyes of thousands of professional and military witnesses. The vast majority of the public now rejects the theory that all sightings can be explained away as weather balloons, swamp gas flares, ball lighting or mass hallucination. Instead, they seem to have settled on one conclusion:

At least some UFOs appear to be intelligently controlled physical craft of some kind from some place that isn’t here.

Accepting that as our starting point is what makes our book different.

A.D. ✪ After Disclosure focuses exclusively on what might happen after an announcement that UFOs are real.

After Disclosure, Courtesy of Wordle

 

Thousand of books have been published, all debating whether UFOs are real or just figments of our imaginations.

This book is not one of them.  

You already know we are not alone. What happens when the powers-that-be publicly admit that fact? How will the truth change our society and your life?

We're Richard Dolan and Bryce Zabel, the authors of a new book, A.D. After Disclosure: The People's Guide to Life After Contact, that ships to customers on or before October 25, 2010.

We believe that this book is the first work of non-fiction to exclusively tackle these questions about the new post-Disclosure winners and losers in government, science, religion, media, culture, law, education, and politics. Life will go on after the truth is told, but it will never be the same. 

What follows below this box is the actual word-for-word "Introduction" to A.D. After Disclosure. We've posted it so you can get a feeling for our writing and for the content we'll be discussing in the 344 page hardcover edition.

If you like what you read, you can order the book now by simply clicking on the PayPal button in the left sidebar. You do not need a PayPal account to order, and the book can be shipped anywhere in the world. If you want to order directly from the publisher, with PayPal, or through a downloadable order form, please visit Keyhole Publishing.

A.D. After Disclosure -- The Complete Introduction

Over six decades into this quiet revolution, we can now see the outlines of a reality that has been sneaking up on us, one step at a time.

The issue that was hushed up by one generation, then turned into an object of derision by another, now demands to be heard straight up in ours.

Since the first major wave of UFO sightings in 1947, the number of people who believe that UFOs are of extraterrestrial origin has steadily risen. Today a majority of Americans, as well as other global citizens, believe that this is so, and at least five percent claim to have seen a UFO.

 The evidence that something strange has been happening is voluminous and convincing. All you have to do is look for it. Over the years, determined researchers have forced the release of once-classified reports prepared by the U.S. government and other nations. These accounts tell a story of contact through the eyes of thousands of professional witnesses – law enforcement, military pilots, and even astronauts. Most of the public now rejects the theory that all sightings can be explained away as weather balloons, swamp gas flares, ball lighting, or mass hallucination. Instead, people seem to have settled on one conclusion:

At least some UFOs appear to be intelligently controlled physical craft of some kind from some place that is not here.

Accepting that as our starting point is what makes our book different.