A.D. After Disclosure

New Edition of "A.D. After Disclosure" Coming May 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 for a May 2012 release.

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.

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.

The Debate We'd Like to See

Naturally, at this time and place in the B.C. world (Before Confirmation) that will some day give way to the A.D. (After Disclosure) world, UFOs aren't going to be a significant part of any of 2012's presidential debates.

This is too bad. Just imagine for a moment that the topic of what these unidentified flying objects really are and what they mean was as meaningful to candidates as ethanol subsidies was in Iowa. The candidates would still act and talk like themselves, but they'd be talking about life in the Universe and whether or not it has come here and what we should or should not do about it. Wouldn't that just be astonishing to watch?

Introducing… HIDDEN AGENDA, the Petition Edition

Sometimes you have to have a sense of humor. In that vein, we introduce "HIDDEN AGENDA" -- a new comic strip set in the world of Ufology, written by Bryce Zabel and illustrated by Dennis Rano. This particular cartoon, "Petition Edition", is the first in a series.

If you click the cartoon, you'll be able to see it in 800 pixel size the way it's intended to be viewed.

You may recognize some of the people in these cartoons. That, of course, is purely a coincidence. :-)

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If you would like to sign The Need-to-Know Petition, all you have to do is click on this link below. Thank you. Tell your friends. Try to get 25 signatures that you are personally responsible for. That kind of commitment will put us over the top.

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WE PETITION THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION TO:

Investigate Unidentified Aerial Phenomena as Reported by Citizens, Police, Astronauts, Pilots and the Military.

Searching for microbes on Mars and radio signals from space is not enough. We must explain Unidentified Aerial Phenomena or UAP, right here on Earth.

For six decades worldwide, credible witnesses (including Presidents Carter and Reagan) have consistently described objects with flight capabilities beyond our technology. UAP are often verified by radar and even seen at nuclear sites by military officers. 

Given the national security implications, the United States should conduct an independent investigation. This inquiry must transparently review the key unsolved UAP reports with access to classified documents. It must have the power to call witnesses and grant immunity.

The findings should be publicly presented.

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Commit now to getting signatures from 25 of your friends.

Success will make the response to this petition a news story.That will cause presidential candidates to be asked about it, including Obama.Now isn't that worth the time it takes to figure out the White House website? 

People say it's too hard to get 25,000 signatures. The number should be lower or the time should be longer, that kind of thing. Yet if we can't get 25,000 signatures in 30 days, then we aren't really much of a social movement, are we? OWS protestors are getting pepper-sprayed but we can't be bothered to spend five minutes figuring out how to sign a petition on a website? Please don't let that be the reality. 

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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].

False Assertions from The White House about ET

Sixty-four years after flying disks became a worldwide phenomenon, a formal position on this phenomenon has been issued in print by the executive branch of the United States government for the first time.   On Friday, November 4 the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) responded to two petitions submitted to the We the People section of the White House website.  One of these, the Disclosure Petition, was submitted by Paradigm Research Group.   The White House response gave the administration's assessment of the assertion by a growing number of researchers and activists that flying disks and other related phenomena confirm an extraterrestrial, non-human intelligence engaging the human race. 

See:  https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions#!/response/searching-et-no-evidence-yet and www.disclosurepetition.info.

OSTP researcher Phil Larson wrote, "The fact is we have no credible evidence of extraterrestrial presence here on Earth."  Unfortunately for the OSTP and the Obama administration, that assertion is false.  Furthermore, given that approximately 50% of the American people are now convinced of an extraterrestrial presence and more than 80% believe the government is not telling the truth about the phenomenon, it is an embarrassment.

There are only four possible explanations for this statement from the OSTP:

The Power of Song in UFO Disclosure

In this post, you'll find a real Battle-of-the-Bands except that all three sets of musicians are winners and so are we. You see, all three of them have recorded a version of "Need-to-Know: The UFO Disclosure Song." We bring them to you now as YouTube videos that have been created to support the petition advocating UFO Disclosure that is up and thriving -- as we speak -- on the White House website.

As of now, the petition has already crossed the threshold of 5,000 signatures that guarantees a White House response to the issue. It's happening because the White House opened up a new section on their website called "We the People," which allows citizens to post a petition about a matter they want the White House to address. If the petition obtains 5,000 signatures within a month, the White House reviews the issue and make an official response. 

Political activist Stephen Bassett of the Paradigm Research Group posted the petition on September 22, and five days later breached the 5000 signature mark. His petition reads:

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.

Does this mean the battle is won and over? Hardly. In fact, given the fact that new signatures can be added until October 22, now seems the time to really floor it and try to get a record number of signatures.

To that end, I've been working with several musicians on the song that was released last year, "Need-to-Know: The UFO Disclosure Song" to adapt it for a YouTube video promoting the petition and signatures.

Here's the original version of the song, composed and performed by Los Angeles Cherish Alexander (we first worked together on The Crow: Stairway to Heaven) with song producer Damian Valentine.

Performed by Cherish Alexander

The battle for UFO disclosure has been a political movement without a song for too long. To bring people together and create change, we believe we need a musical anthem that gives voice to our feelings.

It seems to be doing just that. The song has been covered now by multiple people on the Internet, most recently Bangor, Maine musician James Friedman (son of famed UFOlogist Stanton Friedman). Here's his version, set roughly to the same video components:

Performed by James Friedman

Regardless of which version you prefer, we agree with the passion behind the performances. Like the song says, we're ready to be told and, yes, we do need-to-know. 

But wait, there's more! A third version of "Need-to-Know" has been recorded by Cj and Jen from the Somnium Theater YouTube Channel. 

Performed by Cj and Jen

We're very pleased, of course, that the song seems to be attracting people who want to express its powerful message in their own way. Thanks to Cherish Alexander and Damian Valentine for giving it life in the first place; and to James Friedman and Cj and Jen for shooting new life into it with their own interpretations.

If you would like to purchase an MP3 of the original version of Need-to-Know: The UFO Disclosure Song, it is available from iTunes for $.99.

50 Years Since the Betty & Barney Hill Abduction

The 1961 Betty & Barney Hill UFO abduction is being developed as a feature film by Stellar Productions.

The feature film, Shades of Gray, will tell their story based on new information from the book Captured! The Betty and Barney Hill UFO Experience by Stanton T. Friedman and Kathleen Marden.

All ufologists know, of course, that Betty and Barney are not just the Flintstones' next door neighbors, but the names that belong to the Hills, the married couple who became the ignition point of the modern alien abduction era.

50 years ago, on September 19, 1961, Betty and Barney Hill were driving home from Canada and about 100 miles northwest of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, when they saw a UFO at close range and then suffered one of the first recorded "missing time" episodes. Later, under hypnosis, they gave strikingly similar and detailed accounts of their kidnapping.

It is a compelling and seminal narrative of the UFO abduction phenomenon. Over the years, it has spawned books, articles, a film and even, in my own instance, an appearance in the Dark Skies series.

I'm pleased to announce, in time for the 50th anniversary, that my production company, Stellar Productions, has optioned the film rights to Captured! The Betty and Barney Hill UFO Experience (New Page Books) by Stanton T. Friedman, MSc. and Kathleen Marden. Friedman, of course, is the leading scientific ufologist of our time and a former nuclear physicist, the man who broke the Roswell case. Marden is Betty Hill's niece and the trustee of her estate. I'm thrilled to be in business with them in bringing this profound and unsettling case to what we all hope will be its largest audience yet.

Their book, published in 2007, reveals a wealth of new information about the Hills’ lives, the UFO encounter and abduction, and the scientific evaluation of the evidence. It has given new life to the Hills’ extraordinary story, and has caused me to get involved.

I will be working on this with friend and producer Don Most, my collaborator on Majic Men, the film script that was just completed about the competition between Stan Friedman and Don Schmitt to prove the Roswell story beyond reasonable doubt during the late 80s and early-to-mid 90s. We'll have an update on that project soon.

This won't be the first time that Betty and Barney's story has been filmed or a book written about them, but it will be the most definitive book/film combo that has come to the screen. A 1966 book, The Interrupted Journey, written by John Fuller, topped the New York Times best-seller list and went on to be the basis of a primetime NBC movie of the week, The UFO Incident, in October 1975.

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Captured! -- the book I have under option that will form the basis of the film Shades of Gray -- includes previously unpublished information about the lives of the Hills before and after Barney's death in 1969, their status as celebrities, Betty's experiences as a UFO investigator, and other activities before her death in 2004. Kathleen Marden writes in depth about new details from her discussions with her aunt Betty about the event and her riveting hypnosis sessions about their time onboard the spacecraft. Stanton Friedman, the original investigator of the Roswell incident, reviews and refutes the arguments of those who have attacked the Hill case, as well as the star map that Betty Hill saw inside the craft and later recreated. 

That map, by the way, provides a whole new window on where humanity fits in the larger scheme of things by showing two sun-like stars that are 30 times closer to each other than our sun is to the next star over and a cool billion years older than our own sun and less than 40 light years away from us.