Road Not Taken

It’s been 80 years since John Lennon’s birth and 40 years since his death. What would he think about our world today?

What if?

What if John Lennon had not been murdered forty years ago this coming December? If he’d kept his health, he would have been 80 years old on October 9th.

Just like his bandmate Ringo Starr turned 80 this year, and it seemed so right and normal.

If that octogenarian John were still with us today, he would be talking about Ringo’s favorite “peace and love,” but also Trump’s election freak-out, the politics of pandemic, Black Lives Matter, climate change, nuclear stockpiles, Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, and how our inhumanity to humanity was going to kill us all. …

First Person

How I searched for the truth about UFOs by writing fiction, and learned the world really is stranger than you imagine.

We still haven’t learned the history so we can’t understand the lessons. On this 57th anniversary, it’s clear that time is running out.

Back in 2013, on the 50th anniversary of the assassination, the level of coverage was significant. Most of it, however, was a tribute to the important historical leadership of John Kennedy and the affection most people still feel for him even after five decades whether or not they were alive when he was murdered. As someone who has done a very deep dive into the JFK murder, I found the massive news and entertainment product that I watched and read to be disturbing.

Immersing myself in the coverage and specials, it became clear that both the political establishment and the mainstream media seemed to have decided that their new meme is that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone after all. At best, when it came to the assassination, they seem to have taken the position that “we’ll just never know.” …

Estimate of the Situation

His plate is full with coronavirus, a cratered economy, partisan blood feuds and global crises, but the UAP issue is knocking at the door anyway.

Congratulations on your victory, Mr. President-elect.

I know you have some serious issues to tackle. Coronavirus, economic recovery, social justice, climate change, terrorism, Russia conflict, China trade, North Korean nukes...

It’s a lot.

Still, it’s probably a good time for you and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris to schedule an intelligence level briefing on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena and its implications during your upcoming term in office.

The world now knows, based on your Covid-19 approach, that respecting science is very important to you. Well, paraphrasing Mark Watney from The Martian film, we’re going to have to science the shit out of this one, just like the virus.

You need a policy and you need one fast. …

Dark Skies 25th Anniversary

The cult-hit Dark Skies TV series had a subversive on-air storyline matched only by its off-air intrigue with real Men-in-Black.

Twenty-five years ago this fall, I was in Washington, D.C. producing the pilot of the NBC primetime television series Dark Skies. During some freezing November weather, my co-creator Brent Friedman and I watched director Tobe Hooper shoot key scenes from our pilot script, “The Awakening,” in front of the White House, Capitol Hill, and even the Reflecting Pool on the National Mall.

All of it was in service of a TV concept we’d cooked up the year before that said an extraterrestrial species known as the Hive planned to take the Earth away from humans by placing themselves into our populations before we could even recognize the danger. …

Estimate of the Situation

Bush era Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld’s tortured Iraq WMD analysis turns out to be a window into understanding the UAP/UFO reality issue.

Knowing What You Know and What You Don’t

Back on February 12, 2002, just five months after 9/11, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, holding forth at a U.S. Department of Defense briefing, got asked about the lack of evidence linking Iraq’s government with weapons of mass destruction and terrorist groups.

His response is a classic, with every word to be savored, and well-worth re-visting.

“Reports that say that something hasn’t happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns — the ones we don’t know we don’t know. …

Election 2020

The NBC reporter is already a controversial moderator for the final presidential debate. She might as well go all in and leap into the history books.

Despite being haze-Tweeted and rally-attacked by the President of the United States in just the last few days, NBC correspondent and anchor Kristen Welker will still be asking most of the questions on Thursday night in her role as the moderator of the final presidential debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden.

The question is, will she have the guts to ask The Question?

The Topic

The Nashville debate will run for 90 minutes without commercial breaks. It’ll be broken up into six segments, each lasting about 15 minutes. Welker and the Commission on Presidential Debates have released the topics.

• “Fighting COVID-19”
• “American…

The UFO/UAP reality issue will need to be dealt with by the next President of the United States. The question is: will he do it in secret or bring the public in on it?

Clearly, in this heated political climate, made more chaotic by a president spreading coronavirus through mass rallies, the idea of the impact of UFOs in the election seems, well, distant. Still, if you believe that UAP reality is on a path with a certain degree of momentum, then it’s logical to consider that the man who wins on November 3rd is going to be very influential in this area.

Comparison Shopping

President Donald Trump, the disruptor-in-chief, is more likely to just say out loud that UFOs are real and ad-hoc his way through the chaos to follow.

Former Vice President Joe Biden, an institutionalist, is more likely to work quietly behind the scenes on the UAP security issue, seeking consensus on a plan to move forward. …