Majic Kingdom
About this episode
The episode explores the connection between Disney and UFO narratives, tracing historical events and media influences.
In “Majic Kingdom,” Bryce and Brent ask an uncomfortably fun question: why does Disney keep showing up in the UFO story? Bryce starts with the modern reality—Disney isn’t a historical footnote, it’s the current epicenter of alien storytelling, “industrializing” non-human intelligence across Disney+ through Marvel , Star Wars , and the Fox-era franchises in its orbit. From there, they rewind to 1953’s CIA-sponsored Robertson Panel and its blunt talk about “training” and “debunking,” including the suggestion to use television and motion pictures and explicitly naming Disney as a partner. The episode then dives into the “two 1995 whoppers”: the wildly pro-UFO Tomorrowland lobby film Alien Encounters from New Tomorrowland (with lines that sound like a government briefing) and a two-week Disney UFO conference that flew in major speakers… yet apparently drew an audience of only about a dozen because Disney didn’t promote it at all , raising the question: what was it really…
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