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Bryce Zabel passionately discusses the implications of the Trump administration's UFO document release and its connection to historical events and personal experiences.

The Trump administration's first major UFO/UAP document release has triggered a worldwide media firestorm — with newly declassified files, Apollo-era astronaut reports, military encounters, intelligence documents, and unexplained aerial incidents dominating headlines across cable news, newspapers, podcasts, and social media. The release, presented as the beginning of an ongoing "slow drip" disclosure process, includes references to astronaut sightings during the Apollo missions, unresolved military cases, and decades of government investigation into anomalous phenomena. For many observers, the question is no longer whether something unexplained is happening — but how much the government actually knows, and how long it has known it. In this special stand-alone episode, Bryce Zabel responds personally and passionately to the release through the lens of a lifetime spent chasing the mystery — from co-creating NBC's Dark Skies and being approached by men claiming to be from the Office of Naval Intelligence, to writing A.D. After Disclosure with Richard Dolan and working alongside Ross Coulthart during the modern disclosure era. Bryce connects the newly released Apollo material to…

People in this episode

Host: Bryce Zabel

Topics covered

• UFOs
• government disclosure
• Apollo missions
• military encounters
• anomalous phenomena
• media coverage

Keywords

• UFO
• UAP
• government secrecy
• Apollo
• military
• disclosure
• media
• anomalies

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: NBC, Office of Naval Intelligence

Books & works: A.D. After Disclosure

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