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Produced by Ross Coulthart and Bryce Zabel in association with  7NEWS Australia, this documentary has already been watched on YouTube or listened to on podcast platforms over one million times and still going strong.  In this video, Ross and Bryce meet in person for the first time (even though they'd been hosting the Need to Know podcast for eight months). This is their first road trip w/ a camera crew, and a taste of what they hope to do in future television episodes. 

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Australian journalist Ross Coulthart stands in front of a military jet in the desert.

Ross Coulthart is currently riding a powerful wave of interest in his work, having a best-selling book on the topic — In Plain Sight — written after his intensive three year probe into the subject. The U.S. version comes out this summer. 


His documentaries on the UAP topic, for Australia’s Channel Seven, has been seen millions of people worldwide.


Ross has won every significant award for investigative reporting that Australia offers — from the coveted Gold Walkley to the Australian equivalent of the Emmy, the Logie. 


He's reported stories that include terrorist murders, medical scandals, Aboriginal rights, militia killings, organized crime, and even outlaw motorcycle gangs. 


His work as an investigative reporter has been featured on the popular news program 60 Minutes on Channel Nine, the Sunday Night news program, and Channel Seven Australia. 


He has spoken to hundreds of eyewitnesses and military insiders.


Besides In Plain Sight, he is the author of five other non-fiction books.


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Bryce Zabel

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American journalist Bryce Zabel is interviewed by television reporters.

Bryce Zabel edits Trail of the Saucers, a fast-rising Medium publication on today's UAP issue, and is currently writing the non-fiction book, Close Encounters of the Hollywood Kind. 

He co-authored A.D. After Disclosure, a classic non-fiction book about the coming post-Disclosure world.


As a Hollywood writer/producer, Bryce made Syfy’s first original film, Official Denial, and the primetime NBC hour drama series Dark Skies. He has film and TV projects in development now based on original research he's done into the Betty and Barney Hill case, Lost Honeymoon; the Roswell investigation, The Crash; and  a one-hour dramatic series U.A.P.


As a broadcast journalist at PBS, Bryce won several awards for  investigative reporting including the Golden Mike from the California AP TV-Radio Association. He began his national broadcast career as an on-air CNN correspondent in Los Angeles.


 Bryce has created five primetime television drama series and written three limited series. He won the Writers Guild award for Pandemic. His feature credits include Mortal Kombat and Atlantis. 


Bryce is a former CEO of the Television Academy, the first writer to hold the position since Rod Serling. He has been an adjunct professor at the USC School of Cinematic Arts.


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IN PLAIN SIGHT | A.D. AFTER DISCLOSURE

Both Ross and Bryce have authored books on the UAP/UFO mystery.


Ross Coulthart's "In Plain Sight" is the result of a three-year investigation that comes to startling conclusions.


Bryce Zabel's "A.D. After Disclosure" (co-authored with Richard Dolan) is a ground-breaking work of speculative non-fiction.

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Five Years Since 12-17-17 NYT Report

The UAP report is still not in and Bryce and Ross are not amused. Even so, they soldier on to reflect on the five years it's been since the New York Times broke the story that the U.S. government  had been investigating UFOs all along. 12/01//22

The Government's Report is Late!

The  USG whiffed on the congressionally-mandated Halloween deadline of October 31. Screw 'em, we did a show anyway! Two guests: Cristina Gomez, Ryan Robbins. 11/2/22

Reading the Wilson-Davis Memo Out Loud

People are busy, and even people who are interested may not have found the time to read the controversial Wilson-Davis Memo. So they read it out loud here. Coulthart reads Wilson, Zabel reads Davis. 10/21/22

Military Sighting in Ukraine

Our guest is a British member of an elite squad of soldiers who encountered a UAP while operating behind enemy lines. We let him tell his story in detail.  10/051/22

The issue that was hushed up by one generation, then turned into an object of derision by another, now demands to be heard straight up in ours."

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NTK Covers the Congressional Hearing

It was an underwhelming hearing but it was the first since 1968. And we got Lue Elizondo reacting minutes after they gaveled the meeting to a close.

A Profane Rant about Modern Ufology

In the style of George Carlin, here's a comedic analysis of the state of modern ufology with all the swear words left in.

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Ross Coulthart and Bryce Zabel finally met in person in July 2022 after doing 17 episodes of Need to Know together. They became friends during the pandemic when getting together was prevented by both the lockdown and the fact that they lived 7,490 miles from each other. In one Zoom after another, they discovered all they had in common. Both are trained broadcasters, award-winning investigative reporters, and authors of critically-acclaimed UFO books. Both have been on-air talent for network news programs.


The idea is to keep the shows  focused and to the point —  energetic, informed, and conversational. 


In addition to keeping it live, impromptu and surprising, the series is an investigation that transparently lets the audience be a part of breaking the greatest news story of all time.

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