Disclosure 2021
UFO activists are amped up by an imminent “60 Minutes” story and the upcoming UAP report being written for the Senate. Is Disclosure on?
The feeling in UFO circles these days is like the one you get when there are a trillion cicadas in the field on close approach and you have to shout to be heard above the buzz. Things really do feel like they are starting to go public in bold, new ways.
Of course, I’m talking about the breaking news that Peacock (NBC’s streaming service) has just commissioned a new series — “Unidentified with Demi Lovato,” that will feature, wait for it, Demi’s skeptical friend Matthew and her kid sister Dallas joining the singer to chase down the truth about alien…
Photographic Evidence
Five decades ago, a Costa Rican government mapping team accidentally took a photo that looks absolutely strange, other-worldly, and totally convincing. Is it?
Are there better (authentic) UFO photos out there than the one you’re looking at? Undoubtedly. Unfortunately, it seems that those photos have yet to be released, declassified, or otherwise made available to the general public. Until that day occurs, this one is going to have to do. It has many fans and a few detractors, but the story is still compelling.
2021 is the 50th anniversary of this photo being taken. In those five decades, the legend of the Lake Cote photo has only grown.
In 1999, for example, the French government put it on the cover of its COMETA…
Estimate of the Situation
He managed to speak not a word about UAP in the 2020 campaign. Soon he’ll have to respond to government reports and reporter’s questions. It’s a new day of reckoning.
Like it or not, President Joe Biden is going to get asked about UFOs. More specifically, he’s going to get asked about UAP, now that the report is imminent from the Director of National Intelligence, and even the Defense Department’s own Inspector General is looking into it. Let’s not forget either that Vice President Kamala Harris was on the Senate committee that asked for the UAP report we’re about to get.
Will he give us a taste of the Joe Biden candor or will he find a way to deflect and deny?
Imagine that Biden does one of his famous…
Editorial
It’s hypocritical for the Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies to use a public letter to ask Congress for UFO openness and then redact all the signer’s names.
The above screen capture shows the redacted names of 55 members of the Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies who have signed a letter to the chairman and vice-chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, namely Senators Mark Warner and Marco Rubio. The SSCI is the committee that’s given the Office of the Director of National Intelligence until June 25 to come up with a public report on UAP.
To be absolutely crystal clear, those names were not blacked out by the U.S. Senate or some government bureaucrat hiding behind the Freedom of Information Act. No, they were blacked out…
60 Year Anniversary
Sixty years after the Hills said they encountered extraterrestrials, my obsession to tell the story only strengthens.
THE STORY IN BRIEF: On the night of September 19/20, 1961, Barney and Betty Hill, returning from a honeymoon in Canada, encountered a large UFO in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. The next thing they remembered was being thirty miles down the road with two hours elapsed that they could not account for. Both physical evidence and nightmares alarmed them. Later, they were hypnotically regressed and recovered memories of being on board the craft and subjected to medical exams by non-human entities. Their story swept America in the mid-1960s, and remains the most famous abduction case in history.
A First Time for Everything
The…
UFO/UAP Style Guide
As the disclosure of UFO/UAP reality gets more attention in scientific, journalistic, and political circles, should we try to clean up the grammar or is it already a lost cause?
Some day in the not-too-distant future, the people who write manuals like the Associated Press Stylebook, the University of Oxford Style Guide, the MLA Handbook, and the Chicago Manual of Style are going to have to grapple with the UFO issue. Until then, however, those of us at Trail of the Saucers are going to have a go of it.
Since the trend line is toward more open discussion and writing about the mysteries that Unidentified Flying Objects represent, the time is right to see if we can get some consensus about how to express ourselves in a standard way…
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena
Congress gave the Director of National Intelligence until June 25 to submit a report about UFO/UAP reality. It’s time to hear the facts as they are known.
Dear DNI Avril Haines,
You have heavy responsibilities in your new position as the Director of National Intelligence: counterterrorism, cybersecurity, counterproliferation and counterintelligence. It’s a lot, and you’ve only been on-the-job since mid-January 2021. We get it.
Under normal circumstances, it would be easy to see a demand from a Senate Committee (SSCI, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence) to report to them about Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) as something better delayed until a more opportune moment. Please don’t do that. We all know that circumstances in today’s world are not normal at all. Far from it.
This moment you’ve…
Estimate of the Situation
U.S. intelligence agencies are at the crossroads — they will soon formally acknowledge UFO/UAP reality or they will commit to a new generation of deception.
STATUS: The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence has demanded an unclassified UAP report by June 25, 2021. It will be a huge test of UFO transparency and openness for the Biden Administration.
OVERVIEW: Remember that in mid-2020, the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence called for the Director of National Intelligence to put together a report on UAP activity within 180 days of the enactment of the Intelligence Authorization Act. The IAA was just a part part of the Omni Bill passed by both houses of Congress and signed by then President Trump in December 2020 to get the Covid relief funding out there.
The bottom line is that Trump’s signature caused the Act to be enacted. That set the clock ticking and quick calendar consult set June 25 as the drop…
Estimate of the Situation
Could both sides in the Disclosure debate be right and wrong at the same time? Even if we do have a right to know, will we be able to handle the truth?
I’m one of those people who have been talking about the disclosure of UFO/UAP reality for what seems like forever. It’s a central theme of the first film I wrote called Official Denial (Syfy), and even 20 hours of a primetime network alien invasion series Dark Skies (NBC). As if that wasn’t enough, Richard Dolan and I wrote an entire book about the impact that big “D” Disclosure would have on our society and all Earthly institutions, A.D. After Disclosure. It’s been my obsession for a quarter of a century now.
You Can’t Handle the Truth
In A Few Good Men, Jack Nicholson’s Colonel Jessep…
Close Encounters of the Hollywood Kind
Syfy’s first original film — Official Denial — was about an abductee the government used as bait to shoot down a UFO. The twist ending? They were us.
Bryce Zabel
Writer/producer in features & TV. Creator, five primetime series. Ex: TV Academy CEO; CNN reporter; USC professor. Author: Beatles, JFK what-ifs. UFO analyst.
