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Speaker 2: Ped Welcome back to Coast to Coast George Norri with
Speaker 2: you our special guest, Dan Harrari. His book is called
Speaker 2: After They Came. His website is linked up at Coast
Speaker 2: tocoastam dot com. Dan, you were talking about your trip
Speaker 2: to James Gillilan's wrench in the state of Washington. I'll
Speaker 2: let you finish that.
Speaker 3: Up exactly right. So again to just to recap it
Speaker 3: a little bit, he had given a lecture at Muffon
Speaker 3: La about his ranch and showed very convincing videos and
Speaker 3: films of UFOs and the sky there. So I took
Speaker 3: a girlfriend and I we spent the three day weekends there.
Speaker 3: This was the fourth of July weekend eight, two thousand
Speaker 3: and eight. And again during the days there were guests,
Speaker 3: speakers and films and slide shows and things. And then
Speaker 3: at night, George, they built a bonfire in the field
Speaker 3: there and people, men and women would be dancing around
Speaker 3: a bonfire, playing guitars and playing tambourines. And believe it
Speaker 3: or not, at O eight, I still had one of
Speaker 3: those heavy video cam quarners. You know, they have on
Speaker 3: with the VHS, the VHS tape, so you know, they
Speaker 3: weighed what eight ten pounds, So I had that on
Speaker 3: my shoulder and we're looking up in the sky. The
Speaker 3: first night, Friday night, were for hours and hours and
Speaker 3: we're looking up in the sky. Nothing. Nothing happened. Okay,
Speaker 3: that's fine. The next day, Saturday, same thing, lectures, guests, speakers, seminars,
Speaker 3: all those things. The Saturday night, the bonfire, the guitars,
Speaker 3: the tambourine on my camcuarder on my shoulder. We're looking
Speaker 3: up hours and hours into the sky. Nothing and I'm
Speaker 3: getting a little nervous, like, you know, I don't think
Speaker 3: this is going to happen. The third and final day
Speaker 3: was a Sunday. More lectures, films and seminars, build the bonfire.
Speaker 3: I have the carder. I said to my girlfriend, I go,
Speaker 3: barber Igo, you know what, if we leave early, we
Speaker 3: can beat the traffic because there were probably three hundred
Speaker 3: cars there. No sooner, George did I say that? Than
Speaker 3: out of absolutely nowhere, I'd say, a medium sized craft,
Speaker 3: maybe fifty sixty feet long, appeared above our heads from
Speaker 3: out of absolutely nowhere. It was like a black teardrop.
Speaker 3: Shaped craft. It was very dark, but it was directly
Speaker 3: over our heads. And then the most amazing thing ever
Speaker 3: happened in my one of the most amazing things in
Speaker 3: my life. Under the craft, a very bright, dark emerald
Speaker 3: green light came on under the craft, bright as bright
Speaker 3: could be. It was the color like from the Wizard
Speaker 3: of Oz Emerald City, and it flashed on and off
Speaker 3: above our heads, maybe a dozen times, on and off,
Speaker 3: as if to say, hello, we're here, we love you,
Speaker 3: and we know you've been waiting for U. We're in
Speaker 3: the neighborhood. We wanted to say hello. And then George,
Speaker 3: the thing it just took off. It vanished, It just
Speaker 3: took off. I cried. I cried, everyone there cried, hugging, kissing,
Speaker 3: dancing thing. It was a profound moment in my life.
Speaker 3: And I can still feel in my heart the warmth
Speaker 3: and the love and feeling that I got from whatever
Speaker 3: that was. And I'm telling you that was not a
Speaker 3: man made craft. That was that was not man made,
Speaker 3: that was them.
Speaker 2: No wonder you can get addicted to UFOs.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, when you have an experience that touches you.
Speaker 3: I mean, I honestly feel that I've become Since that experience,
Speaker 3: I've become a warmer person, a more open minded person,
Speaker 3: more caring person. I was maybe more selfish than before
Speaker 3: that happened. I feel dramatically changed as a human being
Speaker 3: because I had that experience. And what I would tell
Speaker 3: people young people now out there, you know, don't look
Speaker 3: at your phone all the time. Don't look down at
Speaker 3: your phone. Maybe take it afternoon to look up sometimes,
Speaker 3: you know, you never know.
Speaker 2: Any look out that's right. Yeah. What do you think
Speaker 2: of these balloons that we claim that we have shot
Speaker 2: down over the last several months?
Speaker 3: All right, so I have very strong opinion about this,
Speaker 3: and thank you for asking me that one. Okay, in February,
Speaker 3: as we all know, there was a Chinese, man made,
Speaker 3: Chinese balloon that flew over the United States, got on
Speaker 3: TV every night.
Speaker 2: And one may have just done it over Hawaii today too.
Speaker 3: I just heard that shortly. Yeah, I heard that a
Speaker 3: few hours ago. Yeah, I wonder what that was. Well,
Speaker 3: the one that flew over the United States was clearly
Speaker 3: man made, and they our government said it was Chinese.
Speaker 3: And I don't know about you, but I saw them
Speaker 3: on CNN. I saw them fishing it out of the
Speaker 3: Atlantic ocean. Still, you know, yeah, that was shown. Okay, fine,
Speaker 3: Chinese man made balloon fished out of the ocean. Okay,
Speaker 3: that's fine. We know it was man made. The week later,
Speaker 3: as you know, George and most of your listeners probably know,
Speaker 3: three days in a row, February tenth, eleventh, and twelfth,
Speaker 3: Three days in a row, the American military shot down UAPs.
Speaker 3: The first one was over Alaska, the second one was
Speaker 3: over Canada, third one was over Lake three days in
Speaker 3: a row. The pilots reported the first one as being
Speaker 3: the size of a car, of a small car. I
Speaker 3: believed the second or third one was cylindrical. And for
Speaker 3: whatever reason, the media and even President Biden I watched
Speaker 3: them on TV. Balloons balloons, balloons, well you know yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: well the China balloon, the China balloon, and yeah, the
Speaker 3: other three, yeah, were probably balloons. I don't think so.
Speaker 3: I think the other three were remarkable craft. And George,
Speaker 3: they've never shown us the debris. They've never shown us
Speaker 3: the video from the pilots that shot them down. I'm
Speaker 3: sure there was video of the.
Speaker 2: Pilot shooting, and you know they've recovered.
Speaker 3: This stuff, of course. Yeah, that's another thing people say, oh,
Speaker 3: you know, they probably couldn't have recovered it. They got
Speaker 3: the China balloon out of the Atlantic Ocean. As far
Speaker 3: as I know, the Atlantic Ocean is pretty deep. They
Speaker 3: couldn't get at least one or two or three of
Speaker 3: the other three. Of course they did, they got them.
Speaker 3: President Biden went on TV and said, you know, yeah,
Speaker 3: there's been a lot of balloons going on, and then
Speaker 3: you know, the China balloon, and you know, and then
Speaker 3: the one over Alaska. I saw him do this. He said,
Speaker 3: the one over Alaska, we believe was a balloon hobby
Speaker 3: group out of Montana, and you know, and the other
Speaker 3: ones were probably balloons as well. George, you know, a
Speaker 3: good magician, a good magician does a magic trick and
Speaker 3: has the audience looking at his right hand. Meanwhile he's
Speaker 3: doing the magic with his left hand. And I felt
Speaker 3: that way. And Georgia was watching President Biden, who I
Speaker 3: actually admire, and I was thinking, Toman, Joe, you can
Speaker 3: do this, you can do this. All you have to
Speaker 3: say right now to the world, Joe is just say,
Speaker 3: we believe these three UAPs may not have been man made.
Speaker 3: That's all he had to say, may not have been
Speaker 3: man made those few words, he would have become the
Speaker 3: disclosure president, and so many wonderful things could have happened.
Speaker 3: He said, No, it's balloons, balloons, balloons. I don't believe
Speaker 3: they're balloons. A lot of people in upology that I've
Speaker 3: been meeting the last three months, nobody believes that those
Speaker 3: were balloons.
Speaker 2: But you're right, it has been very quiet after they
Speaker 2: went down.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and you know, where's the New York Times, where's CNN?
Speaker 3: Where's even Fox or MSNBS? Where are the major outlets?
Speaker 3: Why don't they go? Mister president? Okay, here's the thing
Speaker 3: that's two months ago, almost three months ago, mister president,
Speaker 3: you know what happened to those UAPs? Or here's the thing, George.
Speaker 3: A few weeks ago, as you know, doctor Sean Kirkpatrick
Speaker 3: did a talk that's right Senator Gillibrand, and I watched
Speaker 3: it and I was waiting for I'm like, come on,
Speaker 3: ask them about the UAPs. Just ask them, you know,
Speaker 3: did we recover the UAPs? Have they been studied? Do
Speaker 3: you know what? There's not one question, George, not one
Speaker 3: question about three UAPs that had just happened a few
Speaker 3: weeks ago. Why aren't the media or a politicians following up.
Speaker 3: There's no follow up China balloon, China balloon. These other
Speaker 3: three were not China balloon. So I'm very very annoyed
Speaker 3: and upset about that.
Speaker 2: You know, these other three objects could have been UFOs
Speaker 2: following the Chinese balloon.
Speaker 3: Can imagine? Could you imagine? Woudn't that be something? Yeah?
Speaker 3: I mean, whatever they were. Now, if they were Chinese
Speaker 3: or Russian, I believe our government would have said these
Speaker 3: were Chinese or Russian. Some people I've heard said, well,
Speaker 3: maybe they were our own craft. I don't think our
Speaker 3: military is going to shoot down our own craft. That's
Speaker 3: a stretch to.
Speaker 2: Me, not intentionally at least.
Speaker 3: Right right, Although whoever runs the UFO cover up black
Speaker 3: ops out of Washington, or if the descendants of Majestic twelve,
Speaker 3: or whoever it may be, perhaps they just fly Willy
Speaker 3: Nelly and didn't tell anybody else. I can't I personally,
Speaker 3: just in my heart, I can't believe that those were
Speaker 3: man made objects. We shot down three extraterrestrial craft, and nobody,
Speaker 3: including our president, had the courage to tell us about it.
Speaker 2: As a publicist, who would you say? Dan has been
Speaker 2: with some of the most influential people in Hollywood dealing
Speaker 2: with UFO movies and things like that.
Speaker 3: Well, my buddy Steven Spielberg would certainly come to mind.
Speaker 3: I actually had the honor of meeting him at an
Speaker 3: event in twenty ten.
Speaker 2: And it's a genius, just just.
Speaker 3: A remarkable guy. Let me tell you about that if
Speaker 3: I can. In twenty ten, Universal Studios had a rededication
Speaker 3: of their back lot because in two thousand and eight
Speaker 3: the backlot had been destroyed by a fire. So in
Speaker 3: twenty ten there was a big press conference. I was
Speaker 3: one of the publicists for that. Arnold Schwarzenegger was the
Speaker 3: governor at the time. He was the guest speaker, and
Speaker 3: Steven Spielberg was the other guest speaker, and George. We
Speaker 3: had media from all over the world. It was unbelievable,
Speaker 3: Like it was like the Oscars, and it's just tons
Speaker 3: and tons of and they cut a ribbon. You know.
Speaker 3: They reopened the backlot at Universal after the fire. After that,
Speaker 3: all this press, this huge line of press. Arnold Arnold,
Speaker 3: aren't Governor Arnold Swartz, Arnold over here, Arnold, let me
Speaker 3: talk to you, Arnold Arnold. Everyone there. George wanted Arnold.
Speaker 3: I'm standing there next to Stephen Spielberg. No one else, George,
Speaker 3: no one else was even looking at He wasn't literally
Speaker 3: standing in a shadow like he was shy, he wasn't
Speaker 3: talking to anyone. I'm like, there's Stephen Spielberg and me.
Speaker 3: So I went up to him that this is a
Speaker 3: funny story. Stephen's late mother, Leah Adler, had a kosher
Speaker 3: dairy restaurant a block from my house, literally a block
Speaker 3: from my house. It's called the Milky Way. And when
Speaker 3: my mother used to come to town to visit me
Speaker 3: in La my mother and I would have lunch with
Speaker 3: Leah Adler at the Milky Way many times, and she'd
Speaker 3: sit with us and tell us by Stephen did this,
Speaker 3: and my Stephen did that, and she would regale us
Speaker 3: with stories about her Stephen. So I went up to
Speaker 3: Spielberg in twenty ten, and as I'm walking up to him,
Speaker 3: I'm like, what do you say to Stephen Spielberg. Schindler's
Speaker 3: list was a masterpiece. Okay, he knows that I loved
Speaker 3: et all right, he knows that the Jurassic Park was scary.
Speaker 3: He knows that I go up, I go Stephen, my
Speaker 3: name is Dan. I said, your mother makes the best
Speaker 3: Blintzes I've ever had in my life. And George, he
Speaker 3: took my hand and he goes, you know what, You're right,
Speaker 3: she does makes the best blinz. And Stephen and I
Speaker 3: had a moment and that's when we bonded.
Speaker 2: I mean, he came up with some great UFO movies,
Speaker 2: Close Encounters of the Third kind et just remarkable work.
Speaker 3: Close Encounters. I watched that movie once or twice a year.
Speaker 3: I just thought again two weeks ago. And George, every
Speaker 3: single time I've seen it, I figure at least fifty
Speaker 3: or sixty times.
Speaker 2: Honestly, where's Dreyfus, by the way, hasn't in a movie
Speaker 2: in a while?
Speaker 3: Boy, that's a good question. That's a really good question.
Speaker 2: When I is he okay healthwise?
Speaker 3: I don't know. I don't know. I do know that
Speaker 3: I don't know if I should say this. I do
Speaker 3: know that Jack Nicholson is not doing well.
Speaker 2: No, I heard that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I have a client who's one of his best friends.
Speaker 2: You know, Michael Levine, the publicist.
Speaker 3: I know who he is. We've crossed path.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's a good guy too.
Speaker 3: Yeah. But Steven, Yeah, with close Encounters. I mean, every
Speaker 3: time I watch that movie, I cry at the end.
Speaker 3: It's so wonderful and so imaginative. I love when doctor
Speaker 3: j Allen Heinech you know you you know that when
Speaker 3: he's there with his pipe.
Speaker 2: Yep, the real one, that's right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, he was in that movie. I recently met
Speaker 3: Paul Heinek at Alien Conn.
Speaker 2: Paul's a great guy. His son, Yeah, yeah, yeah. Have
Speaker 2: you met Jacques Valet, No, no, I've not. He is
Speaker 2: the one where in the movie Close Encounters, the French
Speaker 2: guy Lecombe right played his parts right right.
Speaker 3: Earl Gray Anderson is reading. I think it is a
Speaker 3: Jock la something volume five or some book that he
Speaker 3: just put out recently. It's supposed to be the ultimate
Speaker 3: book on the history of uthology.
Speaker 2: He does a great job. Well, let's tak some time
Speaker 2: to talk about after they came. It's a novel. But
Speaker 2: set us up. What's it about?
Speaker 3: Okay? So when I came up with this premise, I
Speaker 3: wanted to do something with benevolent aliens and a lead
Speaker 3: character who discovers that his late father was involved with
Speaker 3: the UFOs. That's the germ that came into my brain.
Speaker 3: So I came up with a guy. I based this
Speaker 3: guy on myself, but like an opposite land, like this
Speaker 3: guy turning seventy years old. The lead character in the book,
Speaker 3: his name is Jonathan Tuckerman. He lives in Los Angeles.
Speaker 3: He has a business that's failing. His children don't speak
Speaker 3: to him. He's unlucky in love, and he decides to
Speaker 3: commit suicide on his seventieth birthday by swimming out to
Speaker 3: the sea, the lp of Malibu. He goes to Malibu,
Speaker 3: takes a swim to kill himself. That's the opening of
Speaker 3: the whole book. He just wants to die and George.
Speaker 3: As he's drowning, an enormous UFO comes up from the
Speaker 3: Pacific Ocean right above him. Huge enormous, beautiful diamond shaped
Speaker 3: craft multicolored beams him on board slowly, then hovers over
Speaker 3: all of Los Angeles and arrives at Dodger Stadium. There
Speaker 3: it's met by media and police and fire trucks and ambulances,
Speaker 3: military vehicles because they've been following this craft across Los
Speaker 3: Angeles and at Dodger Stadium. Two magnificent tall, white Nordic
Speaker 3: beautiful alien seven feet tall, male and female slowly and
Speaker 3: gently beamed down to the Earth, long white, long, white hair,
Speaker 3: pale skin, blue eyes, shimmery robes, and they say, people
Speaker 3: of Earth, don't be afraid. We're here to help you.
Speaker 3: We love mankind. We've been coming to Earth for ten
Speaker 3: ends of thousands of years. We helped your civilization advance.
Speaker 3: We are your allies. We want to help you cure
Speaker 3: your insurmountable problems. And then they point to the guy
Speaker 3: that they just saved out of the Atlantic Ocean. They
Speaker 3: beam him down and he's naked and flopping around like
Speaker 3: a fish, and they say, believe it or not, we
Speaker 3: have a relationship with this man. This man is our
Speaker 3: conduit to mankind. We are going to work solely through
Speaker 3: him to cure your problems. So any problems you have
Speaker 3: on the Earth go to this guy. He's going to
Speaker 3: be your ambassador to us, and we'll use our technology
Speaker 3: to help you. The beautiful aliens get on the ship,
Speaker 3: the ship vanishes, this guy is lowered down to second base,
Speaker 3: and now he's the most famous man in the world.
Speaker 3: He's been on live global TV because of this craft
Speaker 3: and these aliens, and everyone goes, who are you? Who
Speaker 3: the hell are you? And he goes, I have no
Speaker 3: idea what's happening. I don't know. They take him to
Speaker 3: the White House. He meets the President, George. When I
Speaker 3: first wrote the first draft of this book twenty seventeen,
Speaker 3: Oprah Winfrey there was a rumor she was going to
Speaker 3: run for president. You might recall that.
Speaker 2: I remember that, Yeah, remember.
Speaker 3: So when I was first writing the outline, I thought,
Speaker 3: you know what if Oprah Winfrey was the president, wouldn't
Speaker 3: She's such a war wonderful person and everyone loves her.
Speaker 3: So I based my president on on on Oprah.
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