The Art of Contact
Sometimes extremely complex ideas can be expressed in a very simple way by reducing them to a haiku format. With that key concept, #haikufo was born.
I make no claims to be a poet, but it did occur to me a few years ago that trying to truly understand the mystery of the Phenomenon we are encountering may require more than literate essays to convey its meaning. So I started writing what I called “haikufo” poems (a smash-up of haiku and UFO) on my Twitter account under the #haikufo hashtag. A few other people joined in, and I’ve been collecting them ever since.
The haiku originated in Japan as far back as the 9th century with a specific structure, style, and philosophy — basically, a 5–7–5…
Commentary
If every generation gets the Superman it deserves, then we should let a man of color wear the cape as the new Man of Steel.
Remember that Kal-el from Krypton is an extraterrestrial, an alien. He is not actually Superman, that’s only the name for the superhero he becomes. Nor is he entirely Clark Kent, that’s only the name given him by his adoptive parents. To borrow from that now odd artifact from the 50s, The Adventures of Superman, he comes of age as a “strange visitor from another planet.”
Kal-el finds himself living on a world with nearly eight billion people, but he does not belong. He’s a man on the outside. No matter what he does — keep airplanes from crashing or defeat…
Estimate of the Situation
The latest SEC filing from the TTSA says it’s become just another entertainment company trying to sell UFO content. The dream is over.
Like a cosmic gas giant, To the Stars Academy appears to have exploded after a period of rapid expansion and instability. Details have been scarce since founding members Luis Elizondo, Steve Justice and Chris Mellon took their leave last December. Now the fall from grace has been made official, noted in the “forward looking” rhetoric of a required Securities and Exchange Commission filing that reveals the showbiz core of planet TTSA is all that’s left.
RESPECT | REIMAGINE | REBOOT
On its 25th anniversary, the classic sci-fi drama can become a new series franchise that speaks to the times we live in today.
Express Yourself
We aim to make our publication a “go-to” read in the UFO/UAP reality space in 2021. We need great writing and professional format from diverse writers with something to say.
Who We Are
The content created for “Trail of the Saucers” comes from an expanding collective of writers, researchers, journalists and activists talking about the confirmation and/or disclosure of UFO/UAP reality.
We aim for the writing at Trail of the Saucers to be lively, useful, and revelatory. It should appeal to those who already know much about the history, science, and politics of the UFO issue, yes, but it must also be user-friendly to those readers who are just coming to the subject based on the breaking news of the past several years.
Each voice in our publication is unique but within that…
A Voice Gone but Not Silenced
Scientist Vince White passed away in 2020. Parkinson’s robbed him of the use of his body, but his mind was alive with thoughts about what UFO/UAP reality meant.
Vince White and I first connected ten years ago over the subject of UFO disclosure. At the time, Richard Dolan and I had just published the original version of A.D. After Disclosure in September 2010 and had included a quote from Vince (Rich knew him) in that extended first edition. Vince was convinced that we had written the book that he always wanted to read. We met at the first UFO conference I ever attended as a speaker back in 2011 in Kansas. …
A Plea for Sanity
If the UFO issue is allowed to be lumped in with outrageous conspiracy theories, it will undermine the real progress that’s been made toward UAP truth.
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.”
Charles Dickens wrote those words in A Tale of Two Cities back in 1859, yet it certainly rings true of the times we are living in.
The Best of Times refers to the increasing acceptance that we are on the…
What’s Next?
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?
Since 2017, the Pentagon appears to be a bit more forthcoming on the UFO/UAP reality issue than it’s been in the past. The problem is that if UFOs are a yes or no question, then you can’t get away with a little disclosure any more than you can be a little bit pregnant. Or can you?
There’s a big test coming at us this year, given that the Senate Intelligence Committee has demanded (in an approved bill) a public report on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, and they want it no later than June 25, 2021.
This could either be a bright…
Estimate of the Situation
There are people worldwide with classified access who’ve seen the UFO/UAP evidence and have spent billions of dollars investigating. What now?
UFOs have always existed since, by definition, any object in the air that you can’t identify is one of them.
As has often been said, even by people who know the most about the phenomenon, most sightings can be explained away. Yet anyone who has done any research knows that a large, stubborn, significant collection of them have always defied easy explanation. Moreover, the paper trail they’ve left in our government files is crystal clear that our representatives actually have tried to understand them from the beginning. …
Life Imitates Art
In the late 2000s, my wife and I wrote a TV miniseries about an apocalyptic disease outbreak, and then years later watched it happen in real life with the coronavirus.
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.
