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Debating UFOs with Carl Sagan
Debating UFOs with Carl Sagan
Early in my TV news career, I debated UFO reality with the esteemed scientist in a PBS parking lot after the Voyager II Saturn encounter.
Bryce Zabel
Sep 15
UFO Confirmation: A Change is Gonna Come
UFO Confirmation: A Change is Gonna Come
Humanity’s survival in what may be a crowded universe requires rapid thinking and bold action. We need to level up fast.
Bryce Zabel
Feb 9, 2022
Getting Personal with Non-Human Intelligence
Getting Personal with Non-Human Intelligence
The Disclosure genii is out of the bottle and ontological shock is very much a thing. How best to handle it?
Charley Sweet
Sep 3
The Other UAP Shoe Yet To Drop
The Other UAP Shoe Yet To Drop
Long time disinformation by covert elements within the United States Government is a smear on the lens of reality. Can we clear that up?
Mark Hammons
Aug 15
The Real Secret of UAP
The Real Secret of UAP
What’s really at stake with reverse engineering of UAP? Are we really talking about consciousness?
Mark Hammons
Aug 8
As the Veil of UFO Secrecy Starts to Lift, Some Will Still Refuse to Look
As the Veil of UFO Secrecy Starts to Lift, Some Will Still Refuse to Look
Over the last few years I’ve grown accustomed to having frustrating and occasionally heated conversations with UFO skeptics and debunkers…
David Bates
Aug 3
What AI Thinks about Hollywood’s AI Problem
What AI Thinks about Hollywood’s AI Problem
Addressing the WGA and SAG Conflicts and the Path Forward
Bryce Zabel
Aug 1
On To Logical Shock
On To Logical Shock
We have entered a moment where people are faced with recognizing as real what they have long been conditioned to believe is not so. Are you…
Mark Hammons
Jul 31
“Non-Human” Biologics and Crashed UAPs
“Non-Human” Biologics and Crashed UAPs
How a congressional hearing on UFOs brought a bipartisan call for government transparency
Ryan Sprague
Jul 31
On the Trail of the Saucers by Bryce Zabel
Humankind’s Hail Mary Play
Humankind’s Hail Mary Play
It may turn out that the only thing that can let us see our similarities over our differences is a robust transparency on the UFO/UAP…
Bryce Zabel
Mar 18
Flashboom at the UFO Corral
Flashboom at the UFO Corral
We’re living through the end of society’s denial about UFO/UAP reality. What we’re about to learn may take us to a dark place.
Bryce Zabel
Aug 9, 2022
We Can Handle the Truth
We Can Handle the Truth
Why now — despite pandemic, protests and politics — is the perfect time to end the UFO cover-up.
Bryce Zabel
Jun 8, 2020
People Get Ready
People Get Ready
Humanity’s survival in what may be a crowded universe requires rapid thinking and bold action. We need to level up fast.
Bryce Zabel
Aug 13, 2020
A Profane Rant about Modern Ufology
A Profane Rant about Modern Ufology
Even the Navy UAP videos contain a trained military airman shouting, “What the fuck is that?” Here’s the case with profanity included.
Bryce Zabel
Oct 21, 2021
Code Red for UFO Disclosure
Code Red for UFO Disclosure
The world’s problems are desperate and intractable. Disclosure of UAP reality could finally show us that we are more alike than different.
Bryce Zabel
Aug 10, 2021
UFO Confirmation: A Change is Gonna Come
UFO Confirmation: A Change is Gonna Come
Humanity’s survival in what may be a crowded universe requires rapid thinking and bold action. We need to level up fast.
Bryce Zabel
Feb 9, 2022
Phasing in UFO Disclosure
Phasing in UFO Disclosure
There’s a way to look at how the truth about UAP reality rolls out to the public. What’s next could go fast or slow but the path is clear.
Bryce Zabel
Aug 21, 2021
Time’s Up on the UFO Issue
Time’s Up on the UFO Issue
Why it’s unreasonable to put off an open discussion of UFO/UAP reality any longer.
Bryce Zabel
Jan 30, 2021
Cosmic Watergate
Cosmic Watergate
As the topic of UFO/UAP reality expands to mainstream, investigative reporters will compete to break stories of increasing depth.
Bryce Zabel
Dec 3, 2020
Cosmic Watergate II
Cosmic Watergate II
Nixon thought the best spin to a lie was to salt it with a bit of truth. Could his playbook be used again with the UAP report?
Bryce Zabel
Feb 4, 2021
Summer of the Saucers?
Summer of the Saucers?
Since the 1950s, activists have predicted imminent Disclosure of UFO reality. Will they eventually be right? Will people care?
Bryce Zabel
Jul 5, 2020
The Unknown Unknowns Behind UFOs
The Unknown Unknowns Behind UFOs
Donald Rumsfeld’s tortured Iraq WMD analysis turns out to be a window into the UAP/UFO reality issue.
Bryce Zabel
Oct 25, 2020
Something’s Happening Here
Something’s Happening Here
There are people with classified access who’ve seen real UFO/UAP evidence and have spent billions of dollars investigating. What now?
Bryce Zabel
Feb 3, 2021
Is Now Really a Good Time to Disclose UFOs?
Is Now Really a Good Time to Disclose UFOs?
With the world as unsettled as it is, trying to introduce UFO/UAP reality into the mix may seem like a precarious policy.
Bryce Zabel
Jan 23, 2021
The Haiku of Alien Contact
The Haiku of Alien Contact
Sometimes it takes a simple poem to express extremely complex ideas like ET/UFO reality. Read some of our Haiku poems and share yours, too.
Bryce Zabel
Feb 28, 2021
The Non-Disclosure Disclosure Grinds On
The Non-Disclosure Disclosure Grinds On
New York Times sources say the UAP report that’s coming soon won’t say that UFOs are alien, but they can’t say they’re not, either.
Bryce Zabel
Jun 3, 2021
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