Brent Friedman

If there’s a secret connection between Hollywood and UFOs, is the goal slow-drip disclosure under the cover of fiction or an elaborate disinformation campaign? This is what I’ll be exploring with my Dark Skies co-creator, Bryce Zabel, in our podcast, “Sound, Light & Frequency.”

RoboCop is back in the news with a new Amazon series executive produced by the original writers, Ed Neumeier and Michael Miner, and I'm pretty stoked for it. Like a lot of kids who grew up around Detroit in the '80s, RoboCop wasn't just another movie. It was part of our culture. One of the things I've been lucky to do throughout my career is help nurture and adapt some of my favorite stories, characters, and franchises into games. A while back, I had the opportunity to help conceive, pitch, and develop a fresh take on RoboCop. We had a great game at the heart of it, but one of the most rewarding parts of the experience was pulling together and running a tremendously talented writers' room with Ed and Michael, alongside friends and colleagues who loved RoboCop as much as I did, including @MattMichnovetz , @Ian_Dominguez, @BFree63, Juli Logemann, and @michaelscalzitt . Sitting around that table, hearing the history of the franchise while dreaming up new stories, was pretty surreal and a total fanboy moment. I'm a bit envious of what must have been a wild writers' room for this new series because we certainly had one. We came up with weird shit, wove in Detroiters-like media references that only locals would catch, quoted Clarence Boddicker A LOT, and even tried convincing management that every in-game purchase should be bought for a dollar. Some ideas were probably better than others. I'm secretly hoping one or two of the good ones somehow find their way into the new series. Like so many projects in our industry, the game ultimately became one that players never got to experience. But that doesn't diminish what made the experience, or this franchise, so special. As I look back over my career, I've realized that some of the most meaningful work you'll ever do happens behind closed doors with people you've just met, people you don't always see eye to eye with, or people you've admired for years. It's easy to forget that when you're racing from one milestone to the next, but every now and then it's worth looking up, taking it all in, and appreciating everyone in the room because before you know it, everyone is off chasing the next adventure. Congratulations to Peter Ocko, Ed Neumeier, and Michael Miner. The future has a silver lining. More details on the show here: variety.com/2026/tv/news/r…

@Parrydox88 @hollywoodufos Thank you! Really appreciate the support.

@hollywoodufos @BFree63 Highly recommend their YouTube channel for those who may not know about it. Same name as the X handle. Brent and Bryce do an amazing job and add so much to the topic from their very unique and interesting perspective. Big time fan. Keep up the great work! 🤘🏼💯🤘🏼

Exclusive unreleased clip from Dean Alioto's The Experiencers: Full Disclosure featuring Travis Walton describing the being he encountered during his experience. Watch the full conversation in our latest Sound, Light & Frequency episode. 👽

@VITOUFO76 @AlchemyAmerican Now that you’ve pointed it out, you are definitely not the only one who sees the parallels. As with everything related to the Phenomenon, it’s hard to know where coincidence ends and causality begins?

I can’t be the only one who notices the similarities in this weird as heck think and the head probes from disclosure day. But we’re to still assume that Spielberg wasn’t given inside information as per the interview @AlchemyAmerican did a few weeks ago with the hollywood producers with @BryceZabel and @BFree63 also the one guy was absolutely being recruited by the fella who worked for Reagan. x.com/overclassified…

@uapsciences @BryceZabel @hollywoodufos Good question. Certain areas have broad similarities, but nothing specific that I can see.

@BryceZabel Brent Friedman: Are any of these symbols similar to what JC wrote for you? I wonder? @hollywoodufos

@WilliamFDrishJr Wow. Excellent post. Our Dark Skies episode featuring Dorothy Kilgallen, “To Prey in Darkness,” is one of my favorites of the series.!

Thought you might find this post of mine interesting: UFOs (1955)/JFK (1965) Dorothy KILGALLEN Reported on FLYING SAUCERS in 1955 Then Just Before breaking a JFK Revelation in 1965 ... She Died ... Was She a Reporter Who Knew Too Much? _____ NOTE. In their 1996-1997 NBC TV series DARK SKIES, Bryce Zabel and Brent Friedman make the UFO/JFK connection a major theme of their great UFO saga. _____ Dorothy Mae Kilgallen (July 3, 1913 – November 8, 1965) was an American journalist and television game show panelist. After spending two semesters at the College of New Rochelle, she started her career shortly before her 18th birthday as a reporter for the Hearst Corporation's New York Evening Journal. In 1938, she began her newspaper column "The Voice of Broadway", which eventually was syndicated to more than 140 papers. In 1950, she became a regular panelist on the television game show WHAT's MY LINE? continuing in the role until her death in 1965, just before she was about to break a revelation regarding the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy. Kilgallen's columns featured mostly show business news and gossip, but ventured into other topics, such as politics and organized crime. She wrote front-page articles on the Sam Sheppard trial and later the John F. Kennedy assassination. On February 15, 1954, Dorothy Kilgallen commented in her syndicated column, "Flying saucers are regarded as of such vital importance that they will be the subject of a special hush-hush meeting of the world military heads next summer." In a May 22, 1955, report from London, syndicated by the INS, Kilgallen stated, "British scientists and airmen, after examining the wreckage of one mysterious flying ship, are convinced these strange aerial objects are not optical illusions or Soviet inventions but are flying saucers which originate on another planet. The source of my information is a British official of Cabinet rank* [probably UK Defence Minister Duncan Sandys] who prefers to remain unidentified. 'We believe, on the basis of our inquiry thus far, that the saucers were staffed by small men—probably under four feet tall. It's frightening, but there is no denying the flying saucers come from another planet.'" This article, which was separate from Kilgallen's column, appeared on the front pages of the New York Journal American, the Cincinnati Enquirer, and other newspapers. The Washington Post ran it on page 8. _______ *The "British official of Cabinet rank" that was Dorothy Kilgallen's source may very well have been UK Defence Minister DUNCAN SANDYS, who in 1952 had been convinced that Flying Saucers were REAL by the RAF "Saucer Sam" encounter with a Flying Saucer. Herewith that story. _______ SAUCER SAM – the UFO story that convinced a government minister On 30 July 1952, 23-year-old Flight Sergeant Roland Hughes was on a training flight over West Germany in a de Havilland Vampire FB9. He was in one of four aircraft from No. 20 Squadron, of the RAF’s 2nd Tactical Air Force, returning to RAF Oldenburg, in northern West Germany, flying in formation at high altitude in clear visibility. As the flight was returning back to base, Hughes reported being intercepted by a ‘gleaming silver, metallic disc’ which flew alongside his aircraft before speeding off. The mystery object was also detected by RAF radars on the ground, which recorded it travelling at speeds far in excess of any known aircraft: approximately 3000 MPH. Hughes reported seeing a sudden flash of “silver light” in the sky high above him which rapidly descended towards him until he could see that it was a “gleaming silver-metallic disc”. He said its surface was shiny, “like tin foil”, and “without a single crease or crinkle in it”. He could see, with “astonishing clarity”, the aircraft’s “highly reflective and absolutely seamless metallic-looking surface”. He estimated its size at 100ft across – “about the wingspan of a Lancaster bomber”. It flew alongside him for several seconds before flying off at great speed. None of the other three pilots saw the object – it is thought because they were all executing a “banking turn” at the time and would not have been looking in the right direction. But the mystery object was also detected by RAF radars on the ground, which recorded it travelling at speeds far in excess of any known aircraft: approximately 3000 MPH. After the sighting, Hughes – who was known as Sam, after a character created by Stanley Holloway, the actor and comedian – was nicknamed “Saucer Sam” by colleagues, who painted a cartoon of a flying saucer on his jet. Hughes reported the sighting to his senior officers. Six days later, Hughes was sent to RAF Forsberg, another base in northern West Germany, to give his account to senior RAF officers and Duncan Sandys, the then aviation minister, who was visiting the base at the time, to brief him personally. Following the meeting, Sandys went on to tell senior civil servants he was convinced by the airman’s story. A few days after the interview with Hughes – Sandys told the government’s chief scientist, Lord Cherwell, about the meeting and stated that he found the airman’s account and the supporting evidence from radar “convincing”. The sighting came shortly after a number of similar “flying saucer” reports from US airmen and Sandys added: “I have no doubt at all that (Hughes) saw a phenomenon similar to that described by numerous observers in the United States.” Lord Cherwell had dismissed the US sightings as “mass psychology”, but in his memo Sandys took him to task for this attitude and made it clear his position on the existence of UFOs. Sandys, who was later promoted to Defence Secretary, went on: “Until some satisfactory scientific explanation can be provided, it would be most unwise to accept without further question the view that ‘flying saucers’ can be dismissed as ‘a mild form of hysteria’.” Sandys also wrote that there was “ample evidence of some unfamiliar and unexplained phenomenon”. NOTE. In 1951, Air Force pilot Gordon Cooper, who later in the 1950s became a NASA Project Mercury Astronaut, had his first UFO experience in German airspace, a year before Saucer Sam's encounter. _______

Dean’s story in UFOlogy, from the fictional found footage of “The McPherson Tape” to the legit doc “The Experiencers: Full Disclosure,” is incredibly compelling.

After Dr. Phil told Bryce that Trump had sent him UFO materials with a note — "Have fun with this" — Bryce and Brent did just that. Check it out, just for fun! youtu.be/q1x2EzAbXgc?si…

Remember the Alien Autopsy film? It was presented as real, then later revealed to be a hoax. Then there's The McPherson Tape by Dean Alioto. It was always intended as fiction, yet many viewers believed it was genuine found footage. Dean eventually had to publicly explain that it wasn't real. It's an interesting contrast. One story was sold as fact and later questioned. The other was made as fiction and mistaken for fact.

@nashienet @DeanAlioto Totally agree. Knowing Tobe as well as I did, seeing him at work on the Dark Skies pilot, he was a damn good director. As if the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre wasn’t evidence enough!

@BFree63 @DeanAlioto Dunno how I feel about the whole myth of Spielberg and Poltergeist. Mick Garris is very clear that Tobe directed it and he was frequently on set.

Super fun and fascinating conversation with @DeanAlioto

Very interesting conversation!

Can’t wait to dive in!

🚨BREAKING🚨: The UFO cover-up is controlled by a secret society, founded in 1945 by the American and British spymasters who ran Allied intelligence in WWII, funded by dynastic banking money and built on the Nazi technology they smuggled out of a collapsing Europe. The organization is the World Commerce Corporation, registered in Panama to bury its origins, its board reading like a spymasters' reunion: Bill Donovan, Allen Dulles and Britain's William Stephenson. It was born from a secret 1944 meeting in Paris where the Nazis, seeing the war was lost, planned to smuggle their scientists, technology and gold out of Europe. Researcher Jason Samosa (@jason_samosa ) argues it's the real-world model for the “Maynard Consortium” in Tom DeLonge's Sekret Machines, the novels inspired by conversations he had with General William McCasland. McCasland (who ran the Air Force lab where the Roswell wreckage was supposedly taken) vanished from his New Mexico home earlier this year, days after Trump announced a wave of UFO disclosure. Ben Rich, who built America's most secret aircraft at Lockheed, admitted near the end of his life that the UFO issue was governed by an international board sitting above even him. The conversation also runs through the 1952 CIA program that quietly studied whether UFOs weren't aliens but demons. The devout Catholics threaded all the way up the CIA, enough that the Vatican may have a hand in controlling the UFO secret itself. Many coming out of this original CIA research group embedded themselves as bulwarks against further UFO research because they thought it was demonic. This loose network became known as the Collins Elite. It all circles back to Jacques Vallée's Messengers of Deception: UFOs, while literal objects, are incomprehensible as nuts-and-bolts spaceships, and the phenomenon's real product may be belief itself, an apocalyptic mythology built to keep a whole planet docile. This was one of the most cerebral episodes we've filmed. Live now.

@QuantumMimzy Amazing idea! There is definitely a strong correlation between artists of all kinds, but especially musicians, and the UAP phenomenon. Dare I say it has something to do with sound, light & frequency?

@BFree63 JTE is run out of my office. If only I can convince the firm Partners we need to make a doc of all of our Artist's associations with UAP and the phenomenon .... ✴️

Did you know David Bowie saw many UFOs in his younger days? Check out our new SLF episode to hear that story and more.

🛸 The 1996 "Formula" Just Dropped: Sound, Light & Frequency = Secrets of the Universe & NHI Tech? In 1996, right after Dark Skies premiered on NBC (Sept 21), creators Bryce Zabel and Brent Friedman were approached at the Hollywood premiere party by a man claiming Office of Naval Intelligence ties. He offered insider UFO truths for help with slow drip public acclimation, and scribbled a cryptic hieroglyph-like formula on paper (or a bank envelope), calling it "Sound, Light and Frequency, secrets of the universe." Told them to hold it for years as proof. Now, in their Feb 2026 iHeart podcast Sound, Light & Frequency, they're finally unpacking the full saga, including follow up office visits, Moon secrecy claims, a strange gold like substance, and a proposed midnight cemetery "deal" with an Admiral. Tesla nailed the physics: "If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration." (Sound = vibration; light = EM frequency.) This could be the operating system behind NHI/UAP craft, resonant frequencies and plasma/light manipulation enabling anti gravity, cloaking, instant acceleration (Tic Tac style), or even consciousness interfacing. UAP reports constantly describe humming sounds, pulsing orbs, and EM effects. Cymatics and advanced wave physics show frequency literally shapes reality. 30 years later, as congressional pressure builds, the note is vibrating louder. Is this the real key they've been hiding in plain sight (and pop culture) all along? What if disclosure isn't documents, it's tuning the right frequency? The universe is humming. Are we finally listening?

@Lean46794432 That would be my guess.

@BFree63 what is your opinion on Dr Phil given access to the 4th drop before the public?? Do you think it may have something to do with a psychological impact on the public’s mental health perception? I’m curious..

@andrea1analog I had not heard this theory 🤔

@_Mithraic Would not surprise me

@BFree63 Maybe he was one of “them” among us

@RyanPerrella Agree. The movie was very well made, but I meant awful in terms of how I felt watching that movie and learning how insidious “Public Relations” is.

@BFree63 Curious what you mean by great/awful? Awful that this has happened? @BFree63 if we want to awaken the world to possibilities beyond Earth life, the world is going to have to elevate itself from the INFORMATION control system which has kept us dumb & chasing shadows on the walls🩵