A.D. After Disclosure

Carl Sagan: They’re Everywhere But Here

Like a lot of ufologists, I have a problem with S.E.T.I., or the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence. It's always seemed to me that if UFOs are real, then you don't need to listen for alien signals from space, you should start looking here on Earth. So the news that the Allen Telescope Array near Mount Shasta is being shut down over the budget crisis leaves me with mixed feelings. I'm in favor of science, but I'm not in favor of sham.

But it has me thinking about one of America's earliest and strongest advocates of S.E.T.I., Carl Sagan.

Sagan took America by storm during the 1970s and 1980s and became, practically speaking, America’s public Scientist-in-Chief. He first entered millions of living rooms as the affable scientist who appeared regularly on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. The Cornell University professor had a passion for astronomy and a gift of making complex ideas easy to understand.

Sagan’s celebrity increased with the release of the PBS Cosmos series in 1980, when he became famous for his phrase “billions and billions” (which he denied ever saying exactlly in those words) to describe galaxies, stars, and planets. He pioneered the science of exobiology and promoted SETI through the use of radio telescopes to listen for signals from space.

As an investigative reporter for PBS, specializing in space science, I met Carl Sagan several times in 1981. Cosmos was still airing on the network, and the unmanned Voyager spacecraft was approaching the planet Saturn.

Sagan gave a live, on-air interview as the pictures came in and were assembled by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena. He was effusive about what a great moment it was for humanity. He talked passionately about how this first step beyond Earth would someday lead to manned adventures further and further into space. He was positive that the universe, because of the sheer numbers of habitable planets and what he saw as the “bias” toward life, would be teeming with intelligent beings.

The Non-Response Response from The White House

I would love to have been a fly on the wall when personnel of the Office of Science and Technology Policy of the Executive Office of the President at the New Executive Office Building in Washington , D.C., discussed how to respond to a petition about disclosing data on UFOs. I suspect that nobody brought up the enormous amount of information available indicating that not only are aliens visiting, but the US and other government have been withholding information for many decades. The response certainly indicates intentional lying and misrepresentation or total ignorance.

The petition, prepared and submitted by Steve Bassett’s Paradigm Research Group, went like this:

“We, the undersigned strongly urge the President of the United States to formally acknowledge an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race and immediately release into the public domain all files from all agencies and military services relevant to this phenomenon."

I, for one, was not one of more than 5000 persons signing the petition. My reason was straight forward. Having worked under security for 14 years and having researched the flying saucer phenomenon (certainly most UFOs are NOT alien flying saucers) for 53 years , I believe there is a very strong national security side to the question. I cannot see releasing technical data that could be of use to other countries also researching the phenomena and wanting to duplicate the extraordinary flying capabilities of the flying saucers… for military purposes

The response was issued by research assistant Phil Larson. He stated “The US government has no evidence that:

• [1] any life exists outside our planet or
• [2] that an extraterrestrial presence has contacted or engaged any member of the human race. In addition
• [3] there is no credible information to suggest that any evidence is being hidden from the public’s eye.” No indication is provided as to just what sources, if any, were evaluated. Furthermore, a real red herring was provided “There are a number of projects working toward the goal of understanding if life can or does exist off Earth”.. He then discusses SETI, The Kepler Spacecraft, the Mars Science Laboratory, Curiosity, soon to be launched to Mars. None of these have anything to do with the extraterrestrial presence here, the petition’s topic!! Why mention them?

Larson generously concedes that "the odds are pretty high that somewhere among the trillions and trillions of stars in the universe there is a planet other than ours that is home to life”. Odds cannot be determined when there is no data. He also foolishly states that ”the odds of making contact with any of them.. especially any intelligent ones- are extremely small given the distances involved”. To which distances is he referring, billions of light years to very distant galaxies?? Or 39.3 light years to Zeta Reticuli? Where is any data to support these totally baseless claims? Does he have travel schedules for civilizations outside Earth? Surely the astronomical community knows nothing about interstellar travel. More about evidence below, but let us first look at [3].

Actually, You Can Get Here from There

"You can't get here from there."

That simple expression sums up the most common objection to the notion that some UFOs represent intelligently controlled extraterrestrial vehicles. The saddest part is that it's just plain wrong.

Usually few details are given by people who make this statement, but the objections tend to be that it would take too much energy, take too long, and the laws of physics, especially relating to Einstein’s Theory of Relativity prevent it.

Very few such comments, even though from well educated professionals, are based on serious attempts to really determine feasibility. It as if the details don’t matter. It is impossible. As noted in the chapters on aviation and space travel in “Science Was Wrong” (Ref.1), it is clear that the devil is in the details. Aerospace engineers have long since performed the “impossible” such as flying faster than the speed of sound, flying non-stop around the Earth, etc.

Stanton Friedman is a nuclear physicist who started writing about UFOs in the 1960s and has stubbornly refused to quit, making him the veteran researcher actively working in the field of Unidentified Flying Objects today. Inducted into the Roswell Hall of Fame in 2010, Stan is the original civilian investigator of the Roswell incident. His dogged investigation has, for many, legitimized a collection of Top Secret documents that had been leaked about the shadowy Majestic-12 group formed by Harry Truman. He has written five books in the ufology topic.

A good scenario is available to determine how easy it is for smart people to go far astray. Astronomer Dr. John Campbell published a paper (2) in 1941 attempting to determine the required initial launch weight of a rocket able to send a man on a round trip to the moon. He had pages of equations and concluded that the initial launch weight would have to be a million million tons. In 1969 NASA sent three men to the moon with a Saturn 5 multistage chemical rocket whose initial launch weight was only 3000 tons. He was wrong by an incredible factor of 300 million! He understandably assumed chemical rocket propulsion systems. Unfortunately, he had not studied the considerable engineering literature that had been published by such very competent engineers as Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Hermann Oberth, Robert Goddard and many others.  But his assumptions clearly indicated he knew nothing about the practical side of space flight to the moon.

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."

Dear NASA... We like the Super-Tough Microbes, Yes, But...

It's a question of balance. Again, today, the question was called, and fell short.

NASA should know better about non-human life, and may, but still pretends it doesn't. Or the working scientists, who are pursuing legitimate research in their own worlds, know not to ask big uncomfortable questions that will get their funding cut. Meanwhile, the ruling elite of the media buy the the scraps but miss the meal.

Today we heard about some microbes that can exist in the extremely salty, alkaline, arsenic-rich body of water in eastern California that's known as Mono Lake. This death-stew should kill most living things, crushing any primitive will to live completely. But not this new life form that uses arsenic in place of phosphorus to build DNA and proteins. Because Mono Lake is such an inhospitable environment for life, the scientists say, this means that maybe we can find life "in some places we might never have thought to look before." 

That's low-hanging fruit. They could start by craning their necks up and opening their eyes.

The esteemed scientists gathered today say their discovery clears the path "for a whole new way of thinking about where to look for life" in the universe, and even in this Solar System. Well, now...

It isn't just that NASA should be scolded for looking down when they should have been looking up, it's the sense of importance they bring to their bacteria while ignoring so many other solid facts, witnesses and reports and that, by doing so, they allow the sense of derision the media heaps on anyone who dares believe that UFOs are sometimes physical craft from someplace that isn't here.

For example, Time magazine's Michael D. Lemonick phrased it this way in his article "Arsenic and Old Space: A Key to Life on Other Planets?

The Web has been percolating for a couple of days now about a hush-hush NASA press conference scheduled for Thursday afternoon about a major discovery in the field of astrobiology — the search for life on other planets. "Has NASA Found Life Near Saturn?" asked the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. "Has NASA Found Alien Life?" wondered PC Magazine. Well, no, and it's unfortunate that all of this nonsense has been out there, because the real story is important enough without the hype. What a team of scientists actually found, as described in a paper in Science, is what may be the oddest bacteria on Earth.

Let's start with the fact that reporter Michael Lemonick wrote his article from the point-of-view of knowing what was in the paper, but he wrote it before the news conference. This means that he had an early release copy. That's right. Lemonick, like all the other favored reporters, gets his back scratched and he probably likes his insider status. And, in return, he attacks other people for speculating while he acts like the sage and wise man of knowledge. That's just not right.

Remember, it was NASA's own press release that caused all the speculation in the first place, and not just in the blogosphere. So they gin it up by design, then guys like Lemonick get to deplore as "unfortunate" all the "nonsense." Then he assures us the story is important on its own because -- gasp -- scientists have found an unusual and hardy bacteria right here on Earth! On Earth! Amazing!

I'm sure Lemonick also thinks UFOs are deplorable nonsense. He's probably never looked into the area and, if he has, he clearly has not done so with an open mind. I wonder if he would read Leslie Kean's great new book, UFOs: Generals, Pilots and Government Officials Go On the Record. How exactly would he dismiss all that Kean reports so clearly? What about my co-author's excellent first two volumes of UFOs and the National Security State? There may be different interpretations for what's being reported in those works, but nonsense they are not.

But we can't single out for shame any one reporter on this story. They all contribute to the problem. NBC's Lee Cowan managed -- twice -- in his report to use the phrase "little green men." It's just so ignorant, and the fact that he can invoke this canard in his story, that a segment producer lets it go, that the show producer approves it, and that Brian Williams says, "Well, that settles it" after the piece, simply shows how deeply the media does not get it.

So it's probably no surprise that media poobahs don't fare too well in the new book that Rich Dolan and I have just published, A.D. After Disclosure. But, then again, neither do the scientists. So let's end with another great quote, this time from lead report author Felisa Wolfe-Simon of NASA's Astrobiology Institute and the U.S. Geological Survey. She actually said this at today's news conference:

"We've cracked open the door for what's possible for life in the universe, and that's profound. What else might we find?"

Well, Felisa, how much time do you have?

The problem here is that Felisa Wolfe-Simon is probably an incredibly bright woman, and a top notch scientist. But she is a product of the system that discourages such brainpower as hers from actively looking into the UFO phenomenon. She is doing good, if limited vision, work. Someday, and maybe soon, she is going to have her mind blown by the idea that she was looking at Earth microbes to learn more about non-human, possibly extraterrestrial, life at a time when advanced intelligent non-human creatures had traveled here from wherever "there" is.

Felisa might just answer her own question by looking up at the skies. If she did, with all the sophisticated technological equipment that her employer could bring to bear on that endeavor, we would wager she would find evidence for something like this:

• Some Unidentified Flying Objects appear to be physical, structural craft with performance characteristics that defy current public knowledge, things that aren't supposed to exist. But they do, and they don't appear to be from here, and they act with intelligence, either remote or on-board.

That is what else we might find.

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What Does NASA Know?

UPDATE: When we first wrote about the Thursday NASA news conference, we ended with the advice to "Lower your expectations."

On that much, at least, we were right. Arsenic-laced life may be a big biological moment, but it's not life on Europa or copping to the truth about ET/UFO reality.

In any case, here is the original post...

NASA has called a news conference for this Thursday "to discuss an astrobiology finding that will impact the search for evidence of extraterrestrial life." Their words, not ours.

Of course this causes people to speculate about what those carefully chosen words might mean. Life on another planet? A new way to look for life? Evidence of previous life?

And, if you read the coverage from the establishment media types, many of them use the blog chatter the NASA announcement has stirred up to then imply "there go those crazy UFO guys again." It's a maddening game, to be sure. This graphic to the left is what CBS used to illustrate its coverage. They get to have their cake (invoking real ET contact) and eat it, too (making people who know something about the subject seem goofy). There's another excellent example of this shell game on CNN where they have goofy aliens in the photo and use the story as a springboard to smackdown people who take the bait and discuss this on the Internet. Sigh...

Back to NASA. We don't know what they've discovered, and they're not talking until they're good and ready, so we'll just have to wait. We tend to think that this will not be a blockbuster type of event, just something that moves the ball a little further down the field. A few yards gained, no score.

Clearly whoever's writing press releases for NASA has put something in writing that makes it seem that they may have found evidence to support the existence of ET life. Of course, Walter Haut wrote a pretty famous press release from Roswell back in 1947 and then had to pull that one back... you never know...

It's been a busy year, looking for life. The Kepler Mission has already found almost a thousand possible alien worlds while scanning a small section of space holding less than 200,000 stars. In September, NASA found Gliese 581g, a planet they think could hold liquid water on its surface. Two months later, NASA said they'd catalogued the 500th planet beyond our solar system. 

But that's not what they're going to announce.

From a basic reading of the press release (you can read it at the end of this post), this has all the earmarks of the space agency finding the right chemical signatures -- possibly relating to the Moon or Mars or (our own pony to bet on) one of Saturn's moons. Rhea has been found to have some oxygen and CO2. Titan, Saturn's largest moon, is also the subject of speculation given that two of the panelists named have written about the place in relation to the search for off-Earth life. 

Then there is Europa, of course, with (we believe) more liquid water than Earth!

Reason to consider the Microbes-on-Moons theories: the group of scientists in attendance includes an oceanographer who has used photosynthesis, arsenic and life in the same sentence; a geologist who's used knowledge of rocks to look for life on Mars; and a biologist who has speculated that Titan strikes him as resembling an adolescent Earth. There's also an ecological astrobiologist who specializes in the chemistry that has to happen in an environment to create life.

The bottom line is that these are not SETI-type disciplines. They are, however, relevant to planetary issues, or findings from our own solar system as opposed to Hubble-like discoveries of planets out there that might be suitable for life.

As for the huge revelation, don't look for NASA to make a disclosure with a capital "D." They haven't found a whale on Europa or even an insect on Mars. And even if they had, recall that these people are historically very closed minded on the subject of there actually being intelligent life visiting us here on Earth. For NASA, the action is all "out there."

As evidence that we should temper our sense of anticipation about Big-D "Disclosure," we offer this statement from NASA's own website, lifted from their "Ask an Astrobiologist" page, which goes to the mind-set of the astrobiologists who'll be sitting at the conference table:

Question: Has NASA any had UFO problems? (I'm doing a school project on them.)

Answer:  No, I can't imagine that NASA would have any problems with something that doesn't exist. The sad thing about UFO reports is that they distract so many people from understanding and enjoying real science.
(There is a lot of nonsense on the Internet about UFOs, but I do recommend the website http://skepdic.com/ufos_ets.html). 
David Morrison
NAI Senior Scientist

Thank you for your open mind, Mr. David Morrison. After Disclosure, you will have to sit in the corner and wear a special dunce cap. We hope you won't be too distracted. We digress...

We're not saying the news conference has anything at all to do with UFOs -- it doesn't. What we're saying here is that the way they think is to get excited about the discovery of an organism that can thrive on a cold moon but maintain a completely closed mind to the actual evidence for advanced, complex life-forms coming to visit us right here on Earth. 

The smart money is on Microbes-on-Moons. This is a far bigger deal than who Kim Kardashian is dating but it is not as big a deal as it probably should be, given that NASA -- or at least a few people there -- must actively know that Others are running around in our skies in vehicles that aren't supposed to exist from places that aren't here and that the life-forms operating these vehicles are definitely not just microbes.

Because of this head-in-the-sand mentality, we have one piece of advice for the rest of us about Thursday:

Lower your expectations.

• Just so you can see for yourself, however, here is the word-for-word release that NASA has up on its official site as we speak.

On Ancient Aliens: Seeing the Future in the Past

21st century humanity likes to think of itself as the sole master of its own fate. But a detached review of ancient history provides a strong case that humankind has never been alone.

It is a case currently being made to great popular acclaim on the History Channel's Ancient Aliens. This kind of investigation into the past seems brand new, electrifying a new generation of viewers, but the ideas have been gathering momentum in our culture ever since 1968, with the publication of Erich von Däniken’s Chariots of the Gods? This international best-seller almost single-handedly created the study of “ancient astronauts.”

Ancient artwork provides supporting evidence. All around the world, there are ancient rock and cave paintings that depict beings looking remarkably like space travelers.

Some of them -- as in the French cave known as Pech Merle -- portray objects that look like flying saucers, moving about among the local wildlife.

Pech Merle dates from 17,000 to 19,000 years ago.

(Note: To see these pictures in a larger size, simply click on them.)

There are also the haunting cave paintings of Kimberley, Australia.

Created 5,000 years ago by the native aborigines, they depict entities called the Wandjina, or “sky beings.” These beings were part of the aborigine “Dream Time” at the beginning of creation. They had great powers over nature, and one of them even became the Milky Way.

The mysterious god-like Wandjina do not resemble the aborigines who painted them. More than anything else, they look like modern depictions of the so-called “Gray” aliens, with hairless, oversized heads, large black eyes, no ears, and no mouth. How and why did ancient aborigines create images like this?

Many other cave and rock paintings, or petroglyphs, from early human artists can easily be interpreted as depictions of ancient astronauts.

In the northern Italian region of Lombardy, there is a rock painting dated to the Copper Age, between 5,000 and 7,000 years ago, depicting what may be two priests or two god figures.

They each appear to have a halo, or else are wearing a helmet. Straight lines extend out from them.

North America has many fascinating petroglyphs, many of the most spectacular being in Utah.

One, a seventeen-foot high painting in Barrier Canyon, is about 3,000 years old.

It has never been adequately explained by archaeologists, but depicts tall beings standing ominously, without apparent arms. One of the beings, larger than the rest, is reminiscent of the images in Kimberley.

Another petroglyph, in Utah’s Sego Canyon, is equally arresting, depicting many figures of the same type, including several with very large eyes.

These and many other such paintings around the world undeniably have an other-worldly appearance. Whether they were meant to represent shamans, gods, or ancient aliens is an enduring mystery. Disclosure may shed some light on this. If it turns out these were “aliens” of some sort, the knowledge might shock our world nearly as much as having the Others here now.

In addition to visual depictions, humanity’s written record may also contain written descriptions of extraterrestrials. Writing was invented in the Near East, in the land known as Sumer (modern day Iraq), some 6,000 to 5,000 years ago. The Sumerians were a remarkable people. They are credited as the first people to have a bona fide civilization: urban towns, division of labor, trades, laws, political and religious hierarchy, and a developed agriculture. If that fails to impress, the Sumerians even invented the wheel.

But the Sumerians also had a fascinating pantheon of gods, known as the Anunnaki. In the past few decades, the work of the recently deceased Zecharia Sitchin has made them prominent in any discussion of “ancient aliens.” Sitchin was born in Russia in 1910 and raised in Palestine. He studied Hebrew (ancient and modern), other Semitic and European languages, the Old Testament, and the history and archeology of the Near East. He was one of the few people in the world who could read Sumerian tablets. In 1976, he began publishing The Earth Chronicles, a series of books arguing that the ancient writings more-or-less accurately describe what actually happened.

And what do they say, according to Sitchin? That the Anunnaki are an extraterrestrial race who came to the Earth nearly half a million years ago from a planet known as Marduk or Nibiru. They then genetically engineered the creation of homo sapiens, partly in their own image, in order to use humanity to mine gold for them. This gold was needed on their home world to shield it from solar radiation following damage to their atmosphere. This must have worked, because many thousands of years later, the Anunnaki returned to Earth, granted civilization to the Sumerians, and lived among them for some time. The Anunnaki were able to live for thousands of years, they could be good or evil, they sometimes warred with each other, and they interbred with humans.

Let's Get Small

While researching this book, we also looked through a lot of quotations to use as scene-setters at the beginning of individual chapters. As it turns out, we ended up using two quotations per chapter; one from powerful lyrics of songs that are cultural touchstones, and one from the more traditional sources. There are so many great ones that it was a difficult winnowing process. One of our favorites didn't make the cut, but we present it here now:

“The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.”

Stephen Jay Gould, Paleontologist, 1996

Pondering this one, it reminded us of an email that was making the rounds a few years ago. We don't know where these pictures come from and, although we think they're scientifically in the ballpark, we aren't absolutely sure. If you know the provenance of the work, please let us know and we will properly credit the source and, likewise, if there are factual corrections to be made, we hope you'll post a comment to this post and set the record straight.

When this was showing up at our Inboxes, international astronomers had everyone thinking about the cosmos for at least a day by throwing Pluto out of the Solar System for being a shrimp, a "dwarf planet" that is so small it can't even control its own neighborhood. This means that size does matter, at least astronomically, and it is a perfect way to begin to wrap your brain around what this universe is all about and put in context how consciousness expanding the act of Disclosure may be against a backdrop of truly orienting us into the universe.

Comedian Steve Martin made a splash in 1977 with his debut album "Let's Get Small". By the time you get through this photo journey you will feel even smaller than Martin felt at his smallest but you'll have a new context that is what Gould was driving at. Ready? Here's picture number one.

Now this should make you feel pretty good. There's our home planet Earth looking like the biggest baddest kid on the block. Mars, which is our closest cousin in the solar system they say, looks like a puny runt compared to us. Now let's roll in the outer planets in the solar system.

Whoa! Suddenly we're looking downright tiny and insignificant. If Jupiter is a basketball, then we're a marble, barely. Mars has turned into a BB. And we're still in the local neighborhood. Now let's pop in our own sun, Old Sol.

Suddenly our scale is, well, underwhelming. We need the arrow to see the Earth because, at its current size, we'd miss it. We're getting seriously small. But at least we can agree that it's all relative because the sun is immense, right?

{quotes} STANTON FRIEDMAN | First In-Depth Answer

Stanton Friedman is a nuclear physicist who started writing about UFOs in the 1960s and has stubbornly refused to quit, making him the veteran researcher actively working in the field of Unidentified Flying Objects today. He still actually prefers the term "flying saucer" because he believes many UFOs have, in fact, been identified.

Inducted into the Roswell Hall of Fame in 2010, Stan is the original civilian investigator of the Roswell incident and found numerous original sources in the investigation that lead to Crash at Corona: The Definitive Study of the Roswell Incident (co-authored with Donald Berliner). Yet it is his dogged investigation conducted for his  later book, Top Secret/Majic, that has propelled it through six printings, including a recent one, and legitimized a collection of Top Secret documents that had been leaked about the shadowy Majestic-12 group formed by Harry Truman. He has also co-authored, with Kathleen Marden, the gripping tale of the first widely-reported abduction case, Captured! The Betty and Barney Hill UFO Experience. His latest book — also co-authored with Marden — is Science Was Wrong!

Because his opinion matters so much in the field of ufology, we were privileged to have Stanton Friedman read a very early copy of A.D. After Disclosure.

"Considering the overwhelming evidence that Earth is being visited by alien spacecraft and that many intelligence agencies and military groups have known this to be true for some time, we certainly need to consider the serious question of what happens when Disclosure actually occurs. This book by Zabel and Dolan is the first in-depth attempt to answer that question. It is long overdue and sets a high standard of discussion about this very complex issue. Well worth reading."

Stanton Friedman, UFO Researcher, Nuclear Physicist

Stanton -- a dual citizen of the US and Canada -- has scientific credentials that are extremely impressive. He spent two years at Rutgers University and then received his Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in physics from the University of Chicago in the mid-50s. He was employed for fourteen years as a nuclear physicist by such companies as GE, GM, Westinghouse, TRW Systems, Aerojet General Nucleonics, and McDonnell-Douglas, working in such highly advanced, classified, eventually cancelled programs as nuclear aircraft, fission and fusion rockets, and various compact nuclear power plants for space and terrestrial applications.

When he argued in his 2008 book, Flying Saucers and Science, that the technology needed to travel to Earth from other worlds can already be envisioned and understood, the case comes from real thought and professional experience. It makes Stan an extremely unique voice in the sometimes bewildering cacophony of less-knowledgeable voices that the government -- by its refusal to share this secret -- has encouraged. 

What If UFO Secrecy Ended Tomorrow?

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.D. After Disclosure: The People's Guide to Life After Contact. 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 321 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. 

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.