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Hollywood, The CIA & UFOs:
The History Beyond Spielberg
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\nJesse Michels:<\/p>\n

For decades, U.S. intelligence (namely, the CIA and Office of Naval Intelligence) has been quietly shaping what Hollywood tells the public about UFOs, hiding truths in plain sight. Bryce Zabel and Brent Friedman, creators of the 1996 NBC alien-themed series Dark Skies, say a man claiming to be Naval Intelligence showed up at their own premiere party already knowing what was in their unaired pilot, and offered them a trade: classified access for guidance on their future scripts.<\/p>\n

Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Poltergeist Director Tobe Hooper told Brent that Steven Spielberg got the same offer after Jaws, took the deal, and went on to make Close Encounters and E.T.. Separately, Brent Friedman says his family friend John Herrington who later became Secretary of Energy (Head of the entire Department of Energy) told him privately after a few drinks that aliens are real and he\u2019s seen them. Official attempts have been made to get Herrington (now 87) to testify about these claims, but he\u2019s ignored them. Friedman himself also reports of having had an encounter with a \u201cNordic\u201d alien being. This was one of the wildest episodes we\u2019ve ever filmed.<\/p>\n

Timestamps<\/u>:
\n0:00 – Introduction
\n3:04 – Meet Bryce Zabel and Brent Friedman
\n5:01 – The Dark Skies Premiere Party
\n6:45 – The Mystery Man “JC”
\n10:18 – Office of Naval Intelligence Deal
\n12:26 – Sound, Light and Frequency
\n14:32 – The “We Are Watching You” Postcard
\n17:30 – Brent Meets John Herrington
\n33:18 – Grusch and the Herrington Connection
\n40:16 – The Haight Family
\n45:39 – The Office Meeting
\n50:08 – Managing Reality
\n53:55 – The Vial and the Moon
\n57:00 – Walking Away From the Deal
\n1:01:39 – Sponsors (Zbiotics)
\n1:02:55 – Sponsors (The Perfect Jean)
\n1:04:22 – Tobe Hooper and Spielberg’s Deal
\n1:07:50 – Spielberg’s Intervention on Dark Skies
\n1:14:32 – Decoding Close Encounters
\n1:16:40 – Reagan Watches E.T.
\n1:18:12 – What Spielberg Knows
\n1:32:19 – 7 Billion vs 8 Billion
\n1:35:27 – Nathan Twining and the WARDEX
\n1:39:13 – Whitley Strieber and Communion
\n1:41:46 – Roswell, Robertson Panel, Walt Disney
\n1:45:00 – First David Grusch Interview
\n1:50:13 – Brent the Lifelong Experiencer
\n1:54:47 – Witnessing Six Deaths
\n2:06:47 – Cancer and the Light Beings
\n2:11:34 – The Witch at the Foot of the Bed
\n2:20:46 – The Nordic Alien on Orcas Island
\n2:29:51 – The Reality Management System
\n2:34:08 – The Betty and Barney Hill Effect
\n2:36:47 – Obama, Spielberg and Disclosure Day
\n2:39:57 – Nixon, Jackie Gleason and the Bodies
\n2:44:14 – Writers as Remote Viewers
\n2:49:41 – Why Disclosure Day Matters
\n2:52:24 – The Netflix Series “Dark”
\n2:57:37 – Malmgren, Roswell and Bluegill
\n3:01:36 – Rashomon and Mandela Effects
\n3:04:24 – The Timelines Experience
\n3:20:38 – Sound, Light and Frequency at CERN
\n3:21:45 – The Ross Coulthart Lockheed Claim
\n3:29:52 – Psionic Pilots and Brain Interfaces
\n3:33:34 – Getting Herrington on the Record
\n3:36:28 – Closing Thoughts
\n3:38:24 – YouTube Membership
\n3:38:52 – Editor Application<\/p>\n