Bryce Zabel

Bryce Zabel

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Bryce Zabel is a television writer, producer, and former Academy president whose projects and reporting explore the intersection of Hollywood, UFO history, and disclosure.

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Bryce Zabel is an American writer, producer, director, and former television journalist. He created or developed genre series including Dark Skies and served as chairman and chief executive of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. His career has moved between news, scripted entertainment, and nonfiction work about unidentified aerial phenomena.

Zabel’s career includes newsroom work, television producing, screenwriting, and leadership of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. He co-created the alien-invasion drama Dark Skies, later wrote and hosted nonfiction projects, and developed a long-running collaboration with journalist Ross Coulthart. That movement between scripted and documentary forms gives his biography a distinctive perspective on disclosure: he understands both how governments communicate and how entertainment supplies the images through which audiences imagine secrecy.

Dark Skies embedded UFO history and government-cover-up mythology inside a 1960s conspiracy drama, giving Zabel firsthand experience adapting disputed claims into mass entertainment. He later co-authored A.D. After Disclosure with Richard Dolan, co-hosted Need to Know with Ross Coulthart, and developed Sound, Light & Frequency with Brent Friedman. Across those projects, he examines how official secrecy, witnesses, and popular culture shape expectations about what “disclosure” would mean.

Zabel’s lasting contribution is his ability to move between the production machinery of entertainment and the belief ecosystem surrounding Hollywood and UAP. His scripted work helped shape the visual language of secrecy, while later interviews and nonfiction projects connected creators with journalists, officials, and experiencers. That dual career made him a long-running interpreter of UAP disclosure and of the cultural expectations attached to it.

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Jesse Michels Drops UFO Bombshell

We agree with this overview, and encourage people to watch and judge for themselves. https://t.co/T1Lm9c3RAX https://t.co/aUC12VJOAv [Quoted] This issue is more than "He Said, He Said," even though it clearly is a dispute where both sides can't be a little bit right. One of them is not telling the truth. https://t.co/EjmI222uq8 Brent Friedman says he was a neighbor of former Secretary of Energy John Herrington and that, as an 18-year-old, he was asked to drive Herrington's cars (plus his pet)...

[Retweeted] This issue is more than "He Said, He Said," even though it clearly is a dispute where both sides can't be a little bit right. One of them is not telling the truth. https://t.co/EjmI222uq8 Brent Friedman says he was a neighbor of former Secretary of Energy John Herrington and that, as an 18-year-old, he was asked to drive Herrington's cars (plus his pet) across the country after he'd taken a job in the Reagan Administration. Friedman says that Herrington told him (in the summer of...

[Retweeted] "That kind of propulsion is not within our capability, and it's not within the capability of any country that I know of." ~Herrington on UAP What might make Herrington cry himself to sleep? ⬇️ "I'm a practicing Christian. I believe strongly...that God created the earth and everything in it. If we have people coming from other planets (laughs), it puts a hole in my beliefs (laughs) a little bit." ~JH ~ John Herrington: "I did not, during the time I was there, come across anything i...

Look, straight up, John Herrington has turned this into a zero sum game. Either he's lying or Brent Friedman is. We urge you to watch this and make your own call. It's important, given that Dave Grusch wants Herrington to testify to Congress. https://t.co/T1Lm9c3RAX https://t.co/9saleNRQoX

[Retweeted] This is the cleanest test the subject has had in years. In 1981, Brent Friedman (@BFree63) says a family friend pulled him onto a Virginia porch and told him aliens were real, they were here, and he had seen them. That man was John S. Herrington, later Reagan’s Secretary of Energy. Friedman, with @BryceZabel, put the claim on Jesse Michels’ @AmericanALCHMY. Herrington has now sat in the same chair and called the story total BS. He says he barely knew Friedman. Friedman says Herrin...

[Retweeted] Jesse, thank you for getting John Herrington on the record. His story has obviously evolved while Brent's has remained consistent since I heard it back in 1994. Here's our response to your interview that we recorded last night. https://t.co/l2qYtT9M98 https://t.co/VFUq1o5l7P

[Retweeted] Jesse Michels gave John Herrington every opportunity to tell his story and be taken seriously. For 32 years, I've felt in my bones that Brent was laying out the story exactly as it happened. He's never wavered in his telling, nor have the essential details changed. Herrington, however, seems to have evolved his story literally before my eyes. https://t.co/2DCxAHlaVx

Brent & Bryce show receipts in this one. A must watch. https://t.co/zvTQmXo9tG [Quoted] There are two possibilities in this case. 1) John Herrington is lying, or 2) Brent Friedman is lying. Listen to Brent's immediately taped response after the Jesse Michels American Alchemy episode was released. You decide. https://t.co/zqb1XysIog https://t.co/WEUJocGbnR

There are two possibilities in this case. 1) John Herrington is lying, or 2) Brent Friedman is lying. Listen to Brent's immediately taped response after the Jesse Michels American Alchemy episode was released. You decide. https://t.co/zqb1XysIog https://t.co/WEUJocGbnR

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