A recently launched non-profit initiative seeks to help bring Hollywood and the UAP field together. The Hollywood Disclosure Alliance, based in Los Angeles, Calif., is the brainchild of co-founders Dan Harary and Stephen Bassett.
The group seeks to unite the realms of entertainment and extraterrestrial research to pave the way in fact-based storytelling for what they believe is the impending disclosure of alien life by U.S. government and military leaders. This media-centric endeavor seeks to create a cohesive voice through feature films, documentaries and TV programming.
Harary, a long-time Hollywood entertainment industry publicist, and owner of the Asbury PR Agency in Beverly Hills, Calif., told the Roswell Daily Record in a recent phone interview that his own experiences had led to his fascination with UAP.
“In March 1970 when I was almost 14 years old, and this is near Asbury Park, New Jersey, my hometown, my dad picked me up from school one day and was driving me home. It was maybe three or four in the afternoon and there was a giant silver V — like Victor — shaped craft that was hovering over my father’s car, maybe 200 feet in the air. It was silent.”
This would be the first of multiple sightings for Harary, who went on to write his second book, “After They Came,” inspired by these sightings and his discovery of top secret military work done by his father. “My dad worked for the Army for 45 years. He was an electronics engineer and a physicist for the U.S. Army at Fort Monmouth Army Base in New Jersey. All I ever knew about my dad was that he on worked on and invented missiles, radar systems and drones.
“My dad worked at Fort Monmouth, from 1951 to 1996,” Harary continued. “1951 is only four years after Roswell. So keep that in mind. In the early ’50s, my mother said they took my dad into the vaults at Fort Monmouth — deep into the vaults. They showed him something top secret. They said you can never tell anyone as long as you live, then he came home. She said he was white, pale and shaky. My mother said, ‘Honey, what’s wrong?’ He said, ‘I saw something today I can never tell you about or anyone ever and he never did.’ My father never did. So that’s one part of this puzzle.”
As a result of writing his book, he would end up meeting Bassett at a UFO convention in March 2023. “I gave Steve a copy of my book and I gave him my card, and I said, ‘You know, if you’re ever in L.A. let’s have lunch.’”
“That was March.” Harary continued, “So at the end of May 2023, he was in L.A. He and I had lunch in Hollywood, and he said, ‘You know, Dan, I’ve been a UAP activist for all these years, you’re a publicist, you’re interested in this topic.’
“He said to me, ‘what can we do together?’ And I just looked at him. I said, ‘Steve, why don’t we create the Hollywood Disclosure Alliance (HDA)?’ I pulled that out of the sky.“
Bassett, a political activist, Disclosure advocate and the executive director of Paradigm Research Group, said the new group is similar to the Environmental Media Association, another group with which Harary was involved in the launch.
“The idea of the Environmental Media Association was to bring the film industry in all its aspects and connect its network to the environmental activist movement, the whole thing, which of course, is a vast movement of many, many issues.”
Bassett sees their new group as having a similar role in bringing together entertainment and extraterrestrial activism. “The disclosure and the truth embargo of extraterrestrial issue is a fairly defined spectrum of activism. Whereas the environment, the environmental activism is all over the place. I mean, it just covers hundreds of issues. But this issue needs desperately for the people in the film industry, to be able to interact with the people all the way up to research activists and journalists that have done all the work, and that is the reporting and the studying and the writing and everything else, but really we’re shut out.”
Members from the Entertainment side of the HDA include TV producer Sean Jablonski, actress Dee Wallace, actor Thomas Jane and MTV Co-Founder Les Garland. Researchers, authors, and experiencers in the UAP/ET field include researcher and author Richard Dolan, talk show host George Noory, Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) Southern California Chapter Director Earl Grey Anderson, and MUFON Media Relations Director Ron James.
“Now this issue is about to break huge on the world,” Bassett said. “So it’s critical that all these people that carried this water for all these decades have access to the media and vice versa. So that when the content is going to be created, the post-disclosure world reflects the work of everyone as much as possible and everyone benefits. And so the Hollywood Disclosure Alliance was created and structured to do exactly that.”
For more information on the HDA, visit www.hollywooddisclosurealliance.org