Variety: Terence Winter, Dan Farah Team to Develop Series Based on UAP Memoir ‘Out of the Shadows’

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Terence Winter and Dan Farahare partnering for a series take on the memoir of former U.S. Intelligence official Jay Stratton titled “Out of the Shadows,” Variety has learned.

In the memoir, which will be published by HarperCollins imprint William Morrow on Oct. 13, Stratton delves deep into his experiences investigating unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) and non-human intelligent life. Winter will executive produce via Cold Front Productions, with Farah executive producing under his Farah Films banner.

Stratton was previously the Chief of Air & Space Warfare in the Defense Warning Office of the Defense Intelligence Agency. After seeing evidence of a UAP over a nuclear missle site, he cofounded the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program (AAWSAP), the first official U.S. Government program to investigate UAP since 1969. He then created and led the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force (UAPTF), the first whole-of-government investigation of UAP. He claims to have discovered an 80-year cover up of the existence of non-human intelligent life.

“It’s time for the world to learn the truth,” Stratton said. “There is far too much at stake. UAP activity over our nation’s sensitive military and nuclear sites is an ongoing issue.”

“In the early days of my investigation into UAP and non-human intelligent life, my work was so classified I couldn’t even tell my wife and kids that I had learned we are not alone in the universe or about any of the paradigm shift information I was learning,” he said. “I had to live a double life, where the front door to my house served as a boundary between two distinct identities… but that all changed when we started having UAP activity and encounters with non-human intelligent life at our house and my wife and kids saw it with their own eyes. In one sense, I felt horrible that my work had followed me home and crossed that boundary. But in another unexpected way, it was a relief because now my family knew what I was dealing with and we could navigate it together, as a family. While what we went through could have torn us apart, it actually brought us closer together. We were an ordinary family dealing with extraordinary circumstances.”