Dark Skies
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Nov 1, 2026
Brent FriedmanGUEST
now flash forward to 2026 and it feels like it's all starting to come out finally
Bryce ZabelGUEST
and arrow just uh we have some personal experience that is kind of mind-blowing in in retrospect we created a tv series about an alien invasion called dark skies for nbc and we're having a premiere party And a guy crashed the party.
Bryce ZabelGUEST
The only guy out of 200 people in my backyard I didn't know.
Bryce ZabelGUEST
And he identified himself as being from the Office of Naval Intelligence.
Brent FriedmanGUEST
Ultimately, we did not take the deal.
Brent FriedmanGUEST
But as Bryce mentioned, we're finding that there were other people in Hollywood that were offered the deal.
Brent FriedmanGUEST
And in our second episode of our podcast, we take another personal experience we had, which was during the making of the Dark Skies pilot.
Brent FriedmanGUEST
Our director was a very good friend of Steven Spielberg's.
Eddy WebbHOST
It's also... you can draw parallels to Men in Black but we'll we can talk about that if we want to
Chris SpiveyHOST
or Dark Skies if you remember that series right like it's two seasons that was out
Eddy WebbHOST
so yeah so like to your point that's good it's good in terms of reverse it's a good shout out because like in the 90s everyone's like no aliens don't exist and that and then the conspiracy and the cover-up were kind of the the zeitgeist at the time whereas here believing in the existence of alien life was not a weird fringe belief like it was in the 90s Lots of people in very respected parts of society were openly interested in talking about alien life, and a lot of – ufo sightings were considered noteworthy enough to make you know the pages of newspapers right so um yeah this is the kind of cultural snapshot we're in we're talking about this show an organization devoted to uncovering these strange sightings and trying to find out this alien life and making sure they're protecting planet would not seem infeasible especially because they are a secret organization in the same way that GI Joe is a secret organization.
Eddy WebbHOST
Um, uh, so yeah, it's an interesting point of time.
Brent FriedmanGUEST
now flash forward to 2026 and it feels like it's all starting to come out finally
Bryce ZabelGUEST
and arrow just uh we have some personal experience that is kind of mind-blowing in in retrospect we created a tv series about an alien invasion called dark skies for nbc and we're having a premiere party And a guy crashed the party.
Bryce ZabelGUEST
The only guy out of 200 people in my backyard I didn't know.
Bryce ZabelGUEST
And he identified himself as being from the Office of Naval Intelligence.
Brent FriedmanGUEST
Ultimately, we did not take the deal.
Brent FriedmanGUEST
But as Bryce mentioned, we're finding that there were other people in Hollywood that were offered the deal.
Brent FriedmanGUEST
And in our second episode of our podcast, we take another personal experience we had, which was during the making of the Dark Skies pilot.
Brent FriedmanGUEST
Our director was a very good friend of Steven Spielberg's.
Jeff MooreHOST
This is another one.
Jeff MooreHOST
He directed the pilot episode of Dark Skies, too.
Crystal ClevelandHOST
Oh, I like Dark Skies.
Crystal ClevelandHOST
Yeah,
Bill MulliganHOST
he seemed to have better luck with TV than film toward the end.
Bryce ZabelHOST
And going back to the active investigation part of this whole thing, what was really interesting is I think at the beginning, you and I knew at the very least we have a spine here.
Bryce ZabelHOST
The spine is what happened to us on Dark Skies, right? And at the beginning, I had written the foreword for a book called Silver Screen Saucers a few years back, written by Robbie Graham.
Bryce ZabelHOST
And so it was a great book about...
Bryce ZabelHOST
UFOs and the late Robbie Graham.
Bryce ZabelHOST
Brent, I know you've got one of your theories.
Bryce ZabelHOST
I've got one.
Bryce ZabelHOST
that we started Dark Skies as the grand unified theory of conspiracy.
Bryce ZabelHOST
I've got a unified theory of a couple of things I want to float.
Bryce ZabelHOST
about who got briefed, what they represented, all this great stuff that is part of the historical record and super, super important about OSAP and AATIP and UAP Task Force.
Bryce ZabelHOST
all these things and there you know there's there's the cia in there and there's the air force and he works at the office of naval intelligence which has a special place in my heart because of what happened at dark skies so i mean there's just a lot of that stuff going on um and but but before we get into any of that i just want to clear up one thing rich and and i'd love us to talk about this for just a second Because it applies more than just to Jay Stratton.
Bryce ZabelHOST
It also applied to Lou Elizondo.
Bryce ZabelHOST
It applies to Likatsky.
6 MINS LATER
Richard DolanHOST
Yeah, well, that's typical though, right?
Bryce ZabelHOST
Yeah, yeah, it is.
Bryce ZabelHOST
And by the way, the war thing really hits home to me because that's the guys that approached Brent Friedman and myself at Dark Skies said they were from the Navy and that they wanted to talk to us because the Air Force wasn't talking to anybody.
Bryce ZabelHOST
So if there has been a war, it's been going on for a very long time.
Bryce ZabelHOST
I'm Bryce Zabel.
Bryce ZabelHOST
Later, when we were producing Dark Skies, an NBC TV series about an alien invasion, we were approached by men who said they were from the Office of Naval Intelligence, and they wanted to give us inside information in exchange for access to our show.
Brent FriedmanHOST
We didn't take that deal, but we have never stopped thinking about it.
Bryce ZabelHOST
That's why we do this podcast.
14 MINS LATER
Brent FriedmanHOST
Yeah.
Bryce ZabelHOST
"We're gonna build some of that and sell some of that, and we're gonna change the world with that.
Bryce ZabelHOST
In the meantime, we're gonna try to tell people what's really going on, and has been going on in the UFO field." And by the way, you and I will appreciate this, "By using the cover of fiction we said we were doing with Dark Skies back in 1995."
Brent FriedmanHOST
Yes.
AstralHOST
Sure, sure.
AstralHOST
Yeah, I think for those not familiar with the story, Brent Friedman was a Hollywood producer that worked on Dark Skies, worked with Bryce Sable on that show.
AstralHOST
They were approached, you know, by a naval intelligence officer at the party for Dark Skies.
AstralHOST
But way before that, when Brent was a teenager – he tells a story in which he had a neighbor, John Harrington.
AstralHOST
And John Harrington ended up working for the Reagan administration and also being the secretary of the Department of Energy.
16 MINS LATER
AstralHOST
What the hell? Like you were drunk out of a back porch and telling them about the aliens.
AstralHOST
Like, so to me, a lot of it is like, maybe this is reactionary to people finding out like, oh shit, people are actually taking this serious where John Harrington back in the day thinking he's like, talking to an 18 year old that isn't going to turn into a Hollywood producer and even take this that far.
AstralHOST
Like imagine back in the, like he's not, there's no, there's no like plot for Brent Friedman to take this information and turn it into dark skies back when he's 18.
Christopher GraybillGUEST
That's okay.
Christopher GraybillGUEST
Was it the creators of Dark Skies or-
Ty RobertsHOST
Creators of Dark Skies, yeah.
Ty RobertsHOST
Bryce Zabel.
Ty RobertsHOST
Thank you.
Ty RobertsHOST
...
Ty RobertsHOST
Brent I'll be having on.
Ty RobertsHOST
Um, but, um, yeah, so Dark Skies, X-Files.
Patrick Scott ArmstrongHOST
And you may know Bryce Zabel from, uh, the Need to Know podcast, right? Originally with Ross Coulthart, now it's with Richard Dolan.
Patrick Scott ArmstrongHOST
Um, he also helped produce, uh, Dark Skies, right? A famous TV show from the '90s, coincidentally with Brent Friedman, which is why they have the show Sound, Light, and Frequency.
Patrick Scott ArmstrongHOST
Now, there's a lot to get into because this brand-new Jesse Michels interview just came out, and Jesse brought the bombshells.
Patrick Scott ArmstrongHOST
All right? So there's a lot to get into, and to help me explain what's going on, here's Bryce Zabel.
Bryce ZabelSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And he's a man we've been talking about all season here at Sound, Light, and Frequency.
Bryce ZabelSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Harrington, of course, is the former Reagan administration official who Brent says sat him down in 1981 when Brent was 18 years old and told him something extraordinary: that aliens were real, the government knew it, and Harrington has seen them.
Bryce ZabelSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Now, that story helped inspire Dark Skies, our TV series.
Bryce ZabelSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Brent told it to me in 1994.
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