A.D. After Disclosure

Dark Skies | Accept No Imitations

Friends and supporters have been contacting us, many with congratulations on how our “Dark Skies” has been made into a new film, starring Keri Russell, to be released by Dimension Films next February. While it sounds like a dream, we tell them, it’s actually a nightmare.

To set the record straight, we’re Bryce Zabel and Brent Friedman, the two writer/producers who created the NBC series called “Dark Skies.” It was produced by Columbia TV (now Sony) and aired in 1996 and 1997. We wrote the pilot, multiple episodes and produced all twenty hours that were aired in primetime on Saturday nights.

Our original “Dark Skies” introduced viewers to an alien invasion that featured a continuing focus on the mysterious and terrifying abduction phenomenon. So our well-intentioned friends can be forgiven if they hear about the Dimension Films version that focuses on an alien abduction and assume we had something to do with it. While that is decidedly not the case, our definitive version may have inspired it.

Our “Dark Skies” had been in the news even before Dimension decided to use our title for their film. Our series was given a world-wide release on DVD in 2011 from both Shout Factory (US) and Medium Rare Entertainment (UK). In dozens of reviews, the work received critical praise as a classic that has stood the test of time in the sci-fi and UFO media. It also spawned new interest in the reboot of our series, something that we were talking to Sony TV about when the news from Dimension Films broke.

Our "Dark Skies" has established itself in the minds of a significant number of science fiction fans as a gripping piece of conspiracy drama set in the world of UFOs and abductions. It anchored NBC's Saturday night "Thrillogy" concept in the 1996 season premiere and starred Eric Close ("Nashville") and the late film character actor J.T. Walsh (“Sling Blade”). Its main title design won the Emmy award and its pilot screenplay received a Writers Guild nomination. The Syfy Channel aired the entire series multiple times. Since 2010 there's been a Facebook page where thousands of fans from many different countries push Sony for a TV revival. 

And yet here we are. A film in the same genre as our work is being promoted right now using the same exact title as our work. Most Hollywood businesses legitimately consider creative and artistic interests and rights in these cases. This one seems to have slipped through the cracks of acceptability.

Supporters of the creative rights of writers should ask Dimension Films to let their film stand on its own merits and call it by a different title. "Dark Skies" is taken. 

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http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5A1058EDE798E4B1

Read more about Dark Skies @ AfterDisclosure.com
http://www.afterdisclosure.com/dark-skies/

Get the original, classic and definitive Dark Skies series @ Amazon.com
http://www.amazon.com/Dark-Skies-Declassified-Complete-Series/dp/B00465I156

WGA (Writers Guild of America) Credit, 1996
“Dark Skies” | Created by Bryce Zabel & Brent V. Friedman

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115151/

New Edition of "A.D. After Disclosure" Out Now in 2012!

After an extremely successful hardcover run from Keyhole Publishing, A.D. After Disclosure has been picked up by New York's Career Press - New Page Books and released for the summer of 2012.

The book about how the world changes after the reality of UFO and alien contact is revealed can be pre-ordered from both Amazon and Barnes & Noble now. In fact, B&N has decided to feature the book in their front entry table's "New & Noteworthy" sections.

The provocative and leading-edge book was originally published in October 2010 and has now been extensively revised and restructured by authors Richard Dolan and Bryce Zabel.  

The new version includes updates from the world of UFOlogy in 2011, corrections, additions and new thinking. Additonally, it will feature an extensive photographic element. That new look includes the cover design below:

The title has been changed from A.D. After Disclosure: The People's Guide to Life After Contact to A.D. After Disclosure: When the Government Finally Reveals the Truth About Alien Contact.

New A.D. Video - Coast-to-Coast Appearance Version

This video debuts in association with the May 8, 2012 "Coast-to-Coast AM with George Noory" appearance of Richard Dolan and Bryce Zabel. It is part of the new C2C use of videos that support appearances of their guests. 

This book is now available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble sites for shipping and as an e-book. It will be in stores by the end of the month of May throughout the world.

As Stan Lee says on the cover of the new edition: "Zabel and Dolan have brilliantly created a compelling blend of history and informed speculation that makes their exciting world seem like tomorrow's news today. Don't dare miss it."

After a successful run as a Keyhole Publishing hardcover, A.D. AFTER DISCLOSURE: WHEN THE GOVERNMENT FINALLY REVEALS THE TRUTH ABOUT ALIEN CONTACT is being released by Career Press - New Page Books as a trade paperback. It has been revised, edited, updated and, if ordered from Amazon or Barnes & Noble on-line site will ship today. It will be in major bookstores throughout the nation by May 22, including Barnes & Nobles (and is a featured book in their stores this July and August).

With the book getting a major polish, the authors have taken one of their original book videos containing interviews and given it a major production overhaul as well. Please give it a look and tell your friends.

UFO Disclosure & Office Politics

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.

Lessons From Egypt: The Inevitability of Sudden Change

The world has turned upside down. What seemed unthinkable a mere month ago has now become a major political force throughout the world. 

Hosni Mubarak, the autocratic head of Egypt, a man who had ruled his country for thirty years under a “State of Emergency,” who had suspended the Egyptian constitution, who had suspended the most basic human rights, who ran an irredeemably corrupt regime, who enriched himself and his family to the tune of more than $70 billion from the backs of the Egyptian people, has fled the country. 

It took just two weeks of massive public demonstrations to get rid of him. 

The events in Egypt – and before them, Tunisia – are electrifying for many reasons. In the first place, there hasn’t been a real popular uprising in the Arab world against their perennially autocratic rulers in most people’s living memory. There have been Islamicist movements, yes, and there have been many government-sponsored public demonstrations regarding the plight of the Palestinian people. Yet, for year after year, generation upon generation, Arab people continued to suffer at the hands of their own governments. 

A populist venting of the people hasn’t occurred since Gamal Abdel Nasser’s pan-Arabism of the 1950s and 1960s. And even those protests pale in force and depth of feeling to those of today. 

For what we are seeing now is something Nasser never encouraged: a true democratic spirit, a true voice of the people. Not an anti-foreign, anti-imperialist populism, but a genuine populism that has identified the corruption and evil of one’s own government, and which seeks to remove the tumor. 

Across the Arab world, people are euphoric. Everything is up for grabs. Right now, demonstrations are occurring in Algeria, Yemen, and Jordan. Look for them to expand in Palestine and Syria. 

A.D. comiX: Contact as a Laughing Matter

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...

"Most Thrilling Book on the Subject I've Yet Read"

We've said from the beginning that there must have been 10,000 books written about UFOs, all trying to prove they are real, and that our book is not one of them. Now comes Eric Wargo of Washington, D.C. to pick up on that theme in a comment about A.D. After Disclosure just posted on the Amazon review page where he explains what A.D. is and isn't clearly and concisely. Here is his comment in full:

When I first heard Richard Dolan was working on a project called "A.D. After Disclosure," I was in shock and disbelief. How could he put off completing Volume III of UFOs and the National Security State? The first two volumes in that trilogy are indeed pretty much the definitive books on the evidence for UFOs, and I've been waiting with bated breath for the third, which promises to be just as earthshattering. But A.D. arrived from Amazon two days ago, and well, okay, I forgive him. With the other reviewers here, I think this is the best -- and honestly the most thrilling -- book on the subject I've yet read. 

I have been waiting for a serious book about UFOs that just goes ahead and takes for granted the reality of the phenomenon and moves forward from there. Once you've looked at the evidence compiled and presented by serious UFO researchers -- and there are now plenty of sources for this evidence (not just Dolan's previous works, also Leslie Kean's new book, James Fox's documentaries, Jacques Vallee's many great books, etc.) -- there's no longer any doubt that UFOs are real, so why not just proceed on that assumption? This is, to my knowledge, the first book by a serious UFO researcher that does that. 

Reading A.D., I realized how basically defensive most books and documentaries on UFOs have been -- and really, have had to be -- up until now. They have had to try and convince you by showing you evidence, or at least persuade you to maintain an open mind. The confidence Dolan and his coauthor Bryce Zabel project is a refreshing step forward. They no longer need to persuade. They are able, at this point, to address their readers as a community of intelligent people whose minds are already well open to the reality and significance of the subject, and are ready, as I said, to proceed. Proceed to where? That's what this book is about. Read it. 

If you agree, or if you want to comment further, you can read give a thumb's up to Eric's comment here on the Amazon page, it's a gesture of thanks, and it moves it toward the top of the reviews. Other readers of the book are encouraged to leave their own reviews at Amazon and to leave comments.

New Trailer from A.D. After Disclosure

During the run-up to publication of A.D. After Disclosure, there were several video trailers produced, each one with a slightly different emphasis.Together they received over 20,000 views on Youtube and an unknown number when uploaded to our Facebook page (which has over 2,300 "likes" as we speak).

Now we've taken them and mashed them up into one single updated trailer. The old publication date is gone and new images from the book itself substitute now for the previous temp art. If you haven't seen it before, it's a good way to spend a few minutes.

If you like the song -- "Need-to-Know: The UFO Disclosure Song" -- you can get an MP3 of it from iTunes. It was composed and performed by talented LA rocker Cherish Alexander who did work on the TV series, "The Crow: Stairway to Heaven."

Stewart Beats Colbert... in a Landslide!

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.

Given that Stewart is an author with a new book out himself, there may be some chemistry to be had. His new book is called Earth (The Book): A Visitor's Guide to the Human Race which seems like a good fit for our A.D. After Disclosure: The People's Guide to Life After Contact.

Bryce Zabel -- who served as the chairman/CEO of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences -- knows Stewart from the Emmy Awards. Stay tuned.

Hitstorm: (Before) After Disclosure

This chart below is from Sitemeter, the service we use to track our site's traffic. The yellow part of the bars represents the unique visitors to the A.D. After Disclosure site (the one you're on right now) and the orange portion represents the total number of page views. To think that we had almost 35,000 page views last month means that not only are we not alone in the universe but we aren't alone in thinking that Disclosure is an idea whose time has come. To see this kind of growth at the site before the book even came out has been very gratifying and we thank our readers for making it happen.

We've tried hard to be a place where interested readers could find out information about what the book was about and how they might order it. But it was also a place where we would put new material out before the public and encourage an on-going discussion of the issues that affect not just Disclosure, but the world that will take shape after it happens. You'll notice three new tabs at the top of the page. Reviews, of course, collect the written reviews we've gotten for the book itself, and Quotes refers to the words of endorsement we've received from people like Stan Lee, Edgar Mitchell, Stephen Bassett, Jim Marrs and others. Voices is something new where we're either re-publishing existing essays on Disclosure or encouraging new ones written specifically for the site.

Our Facebook page now has almost 2400 members and seems to grow each day as well. We hope you'll consider joining the on-going discussion there, too.

If you agree with what we're about -- trying to focus an active discussion on Disclosure and its related issues -- we hope you'll spread the word and keep coming back. Thank you.