Amazon Category:  Action/Thriller Publisher: A&M Publishing ISBN-10:  1943957053 Pages: 379 Copyright: August 2017 ISBN-13: 9781943957057 Price: $9.99 (eBook) A veteran of the Iraq war is appointed Under Secretary of Defense in order to penetrate a secret government purposely black-shelving zero-point-energy, a clean, abundant energy source reverse-engineered from downed UFOs. A veteran of the Iraq war is appointed Under Secretary of Defense in order to penetrate a secret government purposely black-shelving zero-point-energy, a clean, abundant energy source reverse-engineered from downed UFOs.      >>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNVjTWzLDiA<< Excerpt Zero-point-energy will not just replace fossil fuels; it is the game-changer that will eliminate hunger and poverty, pollution and climate change, disease and war... it will skyrocket the global economy and place every nation on an even playing field. Free, clean energy unlocks the door to humanity's evolution as a species and we've possessed the key for 70 years, only the gatekeepers refused to allow us to use it in order to protect the oil oligarchs and the military industrial complex. It is the new physics that allows us to explore the galaxy and beyond.- -Wait... Are you saying we have the means to travel faster than the speed of light?- -Yes. Only we didn't invent it. We reverse-engineered it.- -Reverse-engineered it? From who?- -Extraterrestrials.- Three years ago, N.Y. Times best-selling author Steve Alten was given access to testimonials from military intelligence regarding the undisclosed TRUTH about UFOs, Extraterrestrials, secret subterranean bases... and zero-point-energy a free, clean source of energy that has purposely been black-shelved since the events at Roswell Army Air Force Base in 1947. All is revealed in the pages of this mind-blowing thriller a novel of -faction- written to provide a glimpse of what awaits us as a species depending upon the path we choose.

BOCA MAG: Interview with Steve Alten
West Palm Beach-based author Steve Alten is no stranger to the supernatural and conspiracy thriller, having penned books on Mayan prophecies, genetic engineering and government secrecy. But his newly released 16th book, Undisclosed, may be his most ambitious yet.

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Inspired in part by his own UFO sighting in 2013—which he describes in the book’s forward—as well as his extensive collaborations with renowned E.T. researcher Steven Greer, Undisclosed is the most rigorous example yet of Alten’s so-called “faction” writing style, which integrates real information into a fiction narrative. The facts, in this case, concern the mysteries and cover-ups behind the 1947 Roswell crash, its implications for a future in free energy, and a government cabal’s attempts to suppress it, all of which was reported to Greer by whistleblowers and insiders from the military-industrial complex and spun into a narrative by Alten. Bill Clinton has a speaking part, President Trump figures into the timely story, and ancillary revelations involve everything from the moon landing to the death of Marilyn Monroe, from psywar experiments to super-secret military bases.

Alten will discuss his book at a free appearance July 20 at the Wellington Barnes & Noble. In the meantime, with the 70th anniversary of the Roswell crash less than a week away, we spoke to Alten about Undisclosed and its nonfiction companion piece, written with Greer, Unacknowledged.

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This book opens with your own experience of seeing unexplained craft for the first time. Would this book exist without it?

Probably not. The truth of the matter is that if you had asked me prior to that event if I believed in UFOs, I would have said, I don’t know about UFOs, but I believe there is life on other planets. Mathematically, there are billions of galaxies out there, and trillions of planets. If it was one in a million—the odds of life evolving on another planet and in our own galaxy—there would be millions of species. It was more outlandish to think we could be the only life-form in the universe.

But then when you see these ships, and they’re so majestic, just float by, and then you see them disappear into the ether … that was three days before I was supposed to meet with Dr. Greer. The things that Dr. Greer showed me over the coming years are just unbelievable. The shocking things that have gone on for 70 years since Roswell, it’s mind-boggling. Truth is definitely stranger than fiction, and in this case, I never would have been prepared for it had I not experienced that simple sighting.

This book is predicated on what you call the Disclosure Event of 2017. For those not well-versed in ufology, what do you mean by disclosure?

Disclosure means that the government discloses the truth about UFOs, the truth about extraterrestrials, the truth about the technologies that were reverse-engineered from these downed spacecraft that could change our species forever, hopefully for the good.

Does disclosure mean the president holding a press conference, or will this information come out in leaks to the media?

The first thing would be to get the information to the public, so that there’s a groundswell of public opinion about it, so that it becomes dialogue. Otherwise, it’s just swept under the rug as conspiracy theory and nonsense. If you think about it, that’s how we were raised. In a recent interview, I asked a radio host, ‘do you believe in God? And if you do believe in God, why do you believe in a creator that you have no evidence of?’ The reason is because we were taught that way.

We were also raised that if you believe in UFOs, you’re crazy. That was the government’s response, back in 1947, when these things were flying all over the skies and buzzing Air Force bases—and they still are. You have to play it up to the public that if you believe in these things, you’re crazy. What you saw was not what you saw.

Is it just wishful thinking that there will be a Disclosure Event this year, or do you have any insight that this might actually happen before the end of 2017?

Dr. Greer’s and my idea was to create this three-pronged attack, the first being the documentary and the book Unacknowledged, which go into far greater detail, which I helped him write and edited for him. Then the third part is my book, Undisclosed, which in a different format helps disseminate the truth to the public in digestible bites.

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This book addresses so much—free energy, alien contact, conspiracies involving a secret government cabal. And it’s bolstered by a good deal of verified information and some conjecture about people who have died mysteriously. Have you come to believe in these ideas and the grand conspiracy to hide them, or are you personally on the fence about any of it?

It’s the difference between not seeing those UFOs and seeing them. Had I not seen them, I’d probably still be on the fence about it. Having seen it, and talked to Dr. Greer, and listened to the testimonials of his eyewitnesses, I’m 100-percent convinced it’s all true. We not only name names of people that were assassinated, but we name locations of subterranean bases. We don’t pull any punches.

Talk about your lead character, Adam Shariak, a war veteran and aerospace engineer who is covertly contracted by well-meaning officials to expose the shadow government and reveal the truth about ETs. He seems to be a surrogate for the average reader, learning of these hidden worlds with much skepticism and gradually coming around to belief.

What Adam represents to the reader is their doubt. And they’ll continue to have their doubt until they go far enough into the rabbit hole that they start believing these things, and may even be cross-referencing them on the internet. The name “Adam Shariak,” by the way, is a derivative of Shari Adamiak, who was Dr. Greer’s right-hand person, his assistant, who was killed. There were three people who were psychotronically embedded with cancer, if you can believe that. Dr. Greer was one of then, Shari was another, and then the senator, Steven Schiff, from New Mexico, who was working on investigating Roswell for them. From these extraterrestrials, we actually have the knowledge to transfer disease through wavelengths or whatever it might be. Dr. Greer was saved only because when he was hit, his dog was next to him, and the dog absorbed some of it and ended up dying of cancer.

President Trump factors into the story, at least tangentially. You must have been writing this book during the presidential campaign. Would the novel be different if Hillary Clinton had won?

Actually, the novel was written about a year earlier and edited. I had Hillary winning. I had scenes with Hillary in it, where she was arguing with Bill because she found out he was the one who met with Adam Shariak. I had to change all that and put Trump in there.

You have some powerful statements about climate change in this book, and particularly Trump’s attitude toward environmental issues. How does the environment factor into the narrative?

It’s huge, and of course, the book was written before Trump pulled us out of the Paris Accord. Climate change is the biggest thing we’re facing as far as a threat to our civilization and survival. The fact that people have made this a political statement is ridiculous. It’s not a political issue. It’s a survival issue. But they’re tying it to the livelihoods of the fossil fuel industry, who themselves realize we need to have these rules, or we’re going to choke off the planet. So for President Trump to put up a gauntlet in front of climate talks is absolute insanity.

The threat of climate change is not just the Earth heating up. It’s that when that ice melts, where is it going to go? That’s freshwater. It’s not saltwater. And that freshwater, if it inundates the North Atlantic Current, will send us into an ice age, because it will stop the conveyer belt of warmth that has kept our planet warm. That’s how ice ages happen. We have evidence of that. Once it happens, we’re in trouble.

Bill Clinton has a significant speaking part in your story, using some old-fashioned spy techniques to deliver information to Adam. How do you think he would feel about his portrayal in this book, and his role in the narrative?

He would first deny that he had been briefed by Dr. Greer. But when he goes on Jimmy Kimmel and pretends that these things haven’t happened, he’s doing that out of fear, because he doesn’t want to be assassinated. So you sort of understand that. The same thing with President Obama: He was threatened as well.

I’ve seen Obama and Clinton discuss this issue—and you never see presidents more uncomfortable than when they’re asked about this issue.

And kudos to Jimmy Kimmel for asking the questions. You asked if 2017 is the year of disclosure. It can be. If these books do well, and the documentary does well, then it enables Jimmy Kimmel to invite Dr. Greer on as a guest, and then you are mainstream. That’s how disclosure happens. It’s not going to be the president who comes forward. The truth of the matter is, if Trump came forward and said, ‘There’s a new energy source, zero-point energy, and we’re going to bring it out, and it was reverse-engineered from UFOs,’ this is not the guy who can say that. He’s the boy crying wolf.

One of the bombshells revealed in these books is that Marilyn Monroe was murdered, because of knowledge she gained from her relationship with Kennedy.

Yeah, pillow talk about Roswell, and that he’d seen the alien bodies and the ships. She decided that that’s how she’d get him at back for dumping her.

That she would reveal that information?

Yeah, because it happened at a time when both JFK and Bobby Kennedy had broken off their relationships with her. So she was pissed off. Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned, and she decided this is what she would go public with, to teach them a lesson.

I’d never heard that before these books. Have you or Greer received blowback from that?

Not at all, because the document is in Unacknowledged—the CIA document that shows right there that she said it.

Sections of this book begin with flash-forwards several decades into the future, and this is where you most get to flex your sci-fi muscles to create a world quite different than this one. What’s your objective with these sequences?

I needed to show the world that this is what it could be. If you want the public to move the world to where it needs to be, first they need to know where it’s going. I wanted to paint the picture that with zero-point energy, this is the way the world can be: no pollution, no poverty, no hunger, jobs for everybody, nobody worried about having enough money to pay for this and that. It’s an entirely different world, and I didn’t even get into travel across the star systems. We already have the ability to “bring E.T. home.” That’s a pretty powerful statement from Ben Rich, former CEO of Lockheed’s Skunk Works. That means we can travel the stars.

Another shocking thing I learned is that the ETs have quarantined us, because we are not spiritually mature enough—we’re still trying to kill ourselves. And until we get over that, we’re going to remain quarantined. All this talk about exploring Mars … they’re not going to let us go. There’s reasons the Apollo moon missions we’re canceled, and that these Mars things never got off the ground, and that we don’t have space hotels on the moon. We’ve got the technology to do that.

Do you feel that the mainstream media is asleep at the wheel on the issues you discuss in this book?

No, I think, like Dr. Greer says, the CIA controls every mainstream media outlet—newspapers, magazines, TV. They control it all. If a UFO landed on the Capitol lawn, don’t expect to see the story in the newspaper the next day.

See Alten read from Undisclosed at 7 p.m. July 20 at Barnes & Noble, 10500 W. Forest Hill Blvd., Wellington. The book is also available now at amazon.com.



Q&A Steve Alten
Best-selling author Steve Alten just threw us a curve ball. Next year, his first book, MEG: A Novel of Deep Terror (1997) is slated for an August 10 release date as a summer blockbuster movie event! Currently, the film is in post production and it features a phenomenal cast that includes Jason Statham, Ruby Rose, Li Bingbing, Jessica McNamee, and Rainn Wilson. It also stars a megalodon. If you’re unfamiliar, that’s a prehistoric shark that is big enough to call Jaws an hors d’oeuvre.
Over the past two decades, Steve has written about giant sharks and other remarkable deep water creatures such as the Loch Ness Monster, so you might think this summer he’d publish another book about fearsome behemoths. Not so. Alten’s thematic scope encompasses an expanse far greater than the oceans of our world.
In his latest novel, UNDISCLOSED, Steve includes a number of elements he has touched upon in previous stories. There’s the technology from Goliath, the sci-fi from The Domain Trilogy, the cautionary tale found in The Shell Game and Grim Reaper: End of Days, and the philosophical pondering that fuels The Omega Project.
One of the components that makes Steve’s work stand out is his mind-boggling diligence when it comes to research. Alten unearths countless facts, data, and historical footnotes, and manages to embed them all in a fantastic context so they work together to support an epic tale. He mingles fact with fiction to create stories he calls “faction.”
Additionally, Steve excels at depicting the myriad of complexities which comprise the human condition.
When these fragments are crafted together, you get a narrative rich in emotion that is set in a high-stakes world… which might actually exist! UNDISCLOSED is a story about greed, cover-ups, and an alien technology that could save the human race from extinction by its own hand. As you read his latest book, remember, the story was conceived after Alten was given access to testimonials from military intelligence regarding the truth about UFOs and extraterrestrials.
Steve was kind enough to answer our questions about this compelling novel.
Entertaining Options: What is UNACKNOWLEDGED? How does UNDISCLOSED tie-in to it?
Steve Alten: UNACKNOWLEDGED is Dr. Steven M. Greer’s new book, which I co-wrote and edited. It is the definitive bible of UFOs, ETs, secret subterranean bases, and the advanced energy technologies this planet desperately needs which were reverse-engineered from downed interstellar craft. UNDISCLOSED is my thriller that uses this incredible info to tell a story.
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EO: How did you get to know Dr. Steven Greer?
SA: I discovered Dr. Greer’s work in 2010 while writing my eleventh novel, Phobos: Mayan Fear. I write “faction” — fictional thrillers woven in fact, and I sweat the details. Extraterrestrials played a small part in the storyline I had been working on and during my research I had come across a YouTube video of The Disclosure Project. I was blown away by both the encounters and integrity of these eyewitnesses, many of whom held top security clearances in the military. I emailed Dr. Greer seeking permission to use excerpts of these testimonials between chapters as a means of entwining fact with fiction. The Greers generously agreed. I thanked them in the acknowledgment and sent a signed book when the novel was published a year later. In August of 2013, I received an email from his wife, Emily. She loved the book and said Steven would like to meet me — perhaps we could have dinner together when they came down to Miami Beach in mid-December.
On Saturday, December 14, 2013 at approximately 11:10 p.m., 3 DAYS BEFORE WE WERE SCHEDULED TO MEET, my wife, Kim and I were returning home from dinner and a movie. As we drove through our neighborhood, I noticed something bizarre moving toward us in the night sky — pale amber lights like nothing I had ever seen. There were eight to twelve of them flying in staggered pairs, approaching from the south less than a thousand feet (estimated) above Route 441/State Road 7 in Palm Beach County. They were far too silent and smooth to be helicopters and they were definitely not planes. As they came closer and passed almost directly overhead we could see the outline of a… well, their saucer-shaped vessels.
By this time, I had parked the car. Kim and I stood and watched them, the two of us incredulous as they moved north through a cloudless night sky… until, pair by pair, they simply faded into the ether. Let me be clear here, they didn’t move out of range or shut off their lights or disappear into a cloud bank, they slipped out of existence. My wife and I were both fifty-three at the time, and neither one of us in our combined one-hundred-plus years on this planet had ever seen a UFO. Far from being scared, we felt exhilarated, like we had just been treated to something very special.
Three days later, we drove to Miami Beach and had dinner with Dr. Steven M. Greer and his wife, Emily — the first time the four of us had ever met. Of course, the first thing we spoke about was our UFO experience three nights earlier. Dr. Greer explained that these close encounters happen to many of the people he is going to meet for the first time, the ETs “checking us out.” I’ve since learned that advanced species communicate through consciousness; it was during meditation that Steven Greer discovered how to initiate his own close encounters.

EO: Where does the fact end and the fiction begin in UNDISCLOSED?
SA: Most of the story’s information is factual, in fact much of the hero’s story happened to Dr. Greer. The only liberties I take are with descriptions in the subterranean bases and in the “future” B story.
EO: How long did it take to research and plot this book? Did the story change as you researched?
SA: It took close to 2 years. The results of the 2016 Presidential Election forced me to go back and change the Hillary scenes to Trump scenes.
EO: How much fun was it to write the scene with Bill Clinton?
SA: The scene I had to rewrite between Bill and Hillary was more fun. She was not a happy camper when she learned Bill was the one to initiate the hero’s journey down the rabbit hole.
EO: Is there any added pressure when writing a story that basically takes place right now?
SA: Not really. If anything, you have to be more careful.
EO: Did you know Jessica Marulli? What made you name one of your main characters after her?
SA: I had never met her, but I met her father while she was battling cancer. Sadly, Jessica passed away after a hard-fought battle. At his request, I used her as the female protagonist.
EO: You are incredible at taking a maelstrom of facts and figuring out how they all fit together to make sense (e.g., The Loch). Does a story start to blossom as you research, or do you do research to support a story?
SA: Actually both. During the plotting stages, the research identifies the puzzle pieces. When I start writing, the research continues in the form of getting the smallest details correct. As an example, there is a chapter in UNDISCLOSED that brings the hero to a mentor character who must pass on vital historical information. I decided to set it in a Chinese restaurant in the back room. So now I am researching restaurants in a certain area of Virginia, and I want it to be real, so I need directions for the hero, the interior set-up, what’s on the menu, etc.
EO: The pace of this story is like a roller coaster ride. At the beginning, there is a big build, the story progresses slowly as all the elements are inserted and knowledge is imparted. Then, it crosses the threshold — the summit of that first hill — and just whips along at a breakneck pace filled with unexpected thrills. How do you create/control the pace of a novel?
SA: I think you described it accurately — you need to insert key knowledge into the hero’s journey that keeps him moving down the rabbit hole before you unleash the confrontations with the villains.
EO: Many of your novels involve incredible vehicles/machines. Do you have a fascination with them?
SA: I am fascinated by them, but use them because they are necessary to advance the plot. Kinda hard to tell a story about giant sharks without a submersible to get you down there.
EO: In Dean Koontz’ Ashley Bell, one of the characters states, “Fiction could be a search engine where you find elusive truths.” Do you think that is true?
SA: Absolutely. UNDISCLOSED functions as a Trojan Horse for truth, delivered in digestible bites.
EO: There is an interesting observation in UNDISCLOSED. Without revealing anything, do you believe sociopaths rise to power?
SA: There is a significant number of sociopaths who rise through the ranks because they are ruthless, with no moral boundaries.
EO: Is that psychological element part of what it takes to be a ruler?
SA: Not a good ruler. Society rises through caring about others, not by cutting away its lowest rungs.
EO: UNDISCLOSED talks a great deal about zero-point-energy, a clean, abundant energy source. Is it real?
SA: Absolutely.
EO: When did you first learn of it?
SA: The more important question is when did man first learn about it? Not through reverse-engineering UFOs, but from brilliant scientists like Nikola Tesla, T. Townsend Brown, and Professor John Searle, among others. Tesla had his work confiscated when J.P. Morgan decided the world shouldn’t have free, clean energy. Townsend was denied patents, and they attempted to poison Searle.
EO: At any point during the writing of UNDISCLOSED and/or UNACKNOWLEDGED did you feel paranoid or concerned that maybe the story and/or information contained within would anger certain factions?
SA: The thought has occurred to me. Fortunately, the books are out.
EO: Do you consider UNDISCLOSED to be a wake-up call or is it merely entertainment?
SA: It is both. Whether or not it succeeds as a wake-up call is correlated by the success of the book.
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SA: I’m focused on promoting UNDISCLOSED while I am writing MEG: Generations, so the MEG movie excitement is tempered. As the publicity machine heats up and trailers begin hitting theaters, I’ll grow more excited.
EO: You are incredibly gracious. Are fans initially surprised when they learn you are so giving of your time?
SA: They are surprised when they email me and receive a personal reply back…. every time. I think they deserve that.
UNDISCLOSED is available in all bookstores and on Amazon.com. For more information, or to contact Steve Alten, go to www.SteveAlten.com.
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UNDISCLOSED Book Muse review
Cover story, on top of a cover story, on top of a cover story, retold until truth and fiction become indistinguishable. Why or how does this happen? Is it by design? Could it be truth IS intentionally hidden, stories distorted, made-up, and some simply left in “plain sight” so we are too confused to discern facts from nonsense?

“The CIA owns everyone of any significance in the major media.”
—former CIA Director William Colby.

Consider that today all forms of social media are used to disseminate, distract, dismay and disinform us about what is really going on in the world. On top of a plethora of news and “click-bait” headlines, our heads spin trying to understand it all until we simply shut down - tune it out.

UNDISCLOSED promises to keep you tuned-in - your mind on-fire.

Have you wondered, if you found out something truly important to mankind and frankly unbelievable is being hidden - covered up - could you keep it a secret? Would you lie to keep your job? What if it is a clean source of energy that would literally change the world? And, it is purposely being hidden by the government? Would you leak it? "There's no such thing as Zero-point-energy." Right. Or is there?

"It's a state secret," replied d'Artagnan, bluntly: "and as you know that, according to the king's orders, it is under the penalty of death any one should penetrate it, I will, if you like, allow you to read it and have you shot immediately afterwards.”
—The Vicomte of Bragelonne (~1850)

Most of us think we know ourselves, but do we really? What's the test? Do we simply believe and accept, without reservation or further investigation? Trust but verify. How far would you go to to find out what’s real? Is “truth” ultimately subjective and not objective?

Are conspiracy theories “fake news?” As one who worked for, USAPs (Undisclosed Special Access Programs) and told cover story on top of cover story, I can attest this practice is totally real and goes on every day. Ask yourself, "What would I do?" What is your life worth? What can you live with? Are YOU, was I, being told a "cover story?"

UNDISCLOSED, A Novel by Steve Alten is a fictional work, a sci-fi novel based in today’s politics with all its deceptions and hidden agendas. A page turner to be sure, it’s certain to keep you intrigued and conflicted as you unravel a tale of advanced technologies and top secret programs. Attempts to discern fact from fiction will challenge every reader. It is a clear companion to UNACKNOWLEDGED, An Expose of the World's Greatest Secret by Steven M. Greer, M.D. whose book advances controversial theories of calculated governmental obfuscation and secrecy of interstellar beings and visits - current and historic.



If you like to be challenged in your thinking and conclusions I wholly recommend you get both books. Read UNDISCLOSED, the fictional first, then pour over UNACKNOWLEDGED - decide for yourself where fiction ends and truth begins. I challenge you to figure that out and let us know where you stand on UFO’s and secret cover-ups.

My appreciation to Steve Alten for allowing me to review this new science fiction thriller, UNDISCLOSED, and to Dr. Steven M. Greer for his pursuit of the truth in UNACKNOWLEDGED.

Available where books are sold.



Reviewer Post-Script:

I recently read a Snopes.com article in which the author states,

“Infused throughout almost all these claims, behind their successful dissemination, is confirmation bias: the fuel that drives the spread of all propaganda and false or misleading claims among otherwise sensible and skeptical people. Confirmation bias is the tendency to look for, find, remember and share information that confirms the beliefs we already have, and the tendency to dismiss, ignore and forget information that contradicts those beliefs. It is one of the keys to why clever people, on all sides of every disagreement, sometimes believe stupid things that aren’t true.”
—Dan MacGuill Jul 12th, 2017 [different subject]

Because cover stories are real. Because phenomenon happens everyday that cannot be rationally explained. Because you have a midbrain... Explore UNDISCLOSED, A Novel and UNACKNOWLEDGED - even if you don't think Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) are real - especially if you do.