The Basement: Bryce Zabel | Disclosure Day, Dark Skies, and Hollywood UFO Deals
The Why Files: Operation Podcast
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ποΈ 13 June 2026
β±οΈ 178 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This show is supported by Odu. When you buy business software from lots of vendors, the costs |
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| 0:36.1 | Today we're talking with Bryce Sable. |
| 0:37.8 | He created five primetime TV series, ran the Emmys, and was a CNN correspondent before his Hollywood career. |
| 0:44.0 | CNN correspondent to switch to writing fiction. |
| 0:47.0 | That's not a career change. |
| 0:49.0 | That's a lateral move. |
| 0:50.8 | In 1996, Bryce made an NBC show called Dark Skies. It was about a secret government cover-up of UFOs. |
| 0:57.0 | I remember the show. |
| 0:59.0 | And it's amazing how many things it got right 30 years ago. |
| 1:02.0 | And while he was making it, the cover-up came to him. |
| 1:05.0 | Men who said they were Navy intelligence showed up at his house and his office. |
| 1:10.0 | They wanted to feed him real secrets to write into the show. |
| 1:13.3 | Yeah, when the government shows up at my door, all they want is back taxes. |
| 1:18.1 | Yeah, join the club. |
| 1:19.6 | Today we're covering his career, his books, and his new podcast, |
| 1:23.3 | which asks whether the government has been hiding the truth about UFOs inside our movies |
| 1:27.4 | for 70 years. There's one more thing those men asked him to do. Meet a stranger at a cemetery at midnight. Wild story. After our talk, I'll come back for a quick analysis of our conversation. Let's go down to the basement. |
| 1:53.4 | Hey, you can watch the Wi-Files on Spotify, new video episodes every Monday and Friday, |
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