Press Conference Transcripts of live Interviews
with the filmmakers of ALIEN SECRETS:
Joseph Barmettler (Director/Writer/Producer)
and Brandon Scott (Producer/UFO Investigator)

MOD: Why is the film called Alien Secrets?

J. J. BARMETTLER: For years people have been trying to figure out why the aliens are coming to visit us, and why they are abducting people.

BRANDON: In our film “Alien Secrets”, we reveal this reason and go right to the core of what their agenda has been.

MOD: Is it a narrative film, or a documentary? Some reviewers are calling it a mock-umentary. What is it?

BRANDON: Its all of the above it’s a hybrid. First of all it all started as a documentary, how it evolved into a narrative film, I will share with you a little later.
Alien Secrets is the creative result of Director Joseph Barmettler and myself innovative combining an actual documentary with a narrative story inspired by my investigative journals. Its kind of like “What the !#@! (Bleep) Do We Know” meets “X files”
As for it being called a mock-umentary? Well… yes, I heard someone call it the “ Spinal Tap of UFO’s”.

J. J. BARMETTLER: I can understand why some people see it as such.
The subject matter is so taboo, so outrageous, that I understand most people’s skepticism and that they can only relate it to it as an outrageous make believe premise.

BRANDON: The definition of a mock-umentary is “ a fictitious story told documentary style”. Well in our case, it’s a story based on a truth and real events, shot documentary style, with a real documentary interwoven. But don’t get bogged downs by definitions and classifications. Just enjoy it.

J. J. BARMETTLER: What we don’t do is make fun of anyone. We went through great efforts to honor the integrity of all the real people in the film who are playing themselves. The abductees, the UFO experts, what they say in the movie never made fun off.

BRANDON: But I do make fun of both myself, and the whole UFO subculture, not because it’s ridiculous, but because, it is fun in a Sci-Fi reality kind of way. The movie has a lot of humor, primarily because I am an optimistic happy person who looks at the lighter side of life. But we are aware that the subject matter we are talking about is sensitive, it’s serious, and to many people, it’s traumatic. I think the film has a perfect balance of the ups and downs of life, the serious and the off kilter. It also presents what could otherwise be a very dry and boring clinical documentary in an entertaining and commercial style.

MOD: Why did you make Alien Secrets in the first place?

BRANDON: For the longest time, centuries actually, the mysticism behind UFOs was an “occult” science. Small groups gathered in private and few Parapsychologists and UFO investigators where taken serious. And then in the 90’s it all broke loose and the extraterrestrial awareness gained a mainstream household presence.
I noticed that a whole subculture of UFO artists from all over the world were creating a abundant amount of art work depicting UFOs, abduction scenarios and visitations. I was fascinated by what I was perceiving would be a historic record of this phenomena as it had occurred in the second half of the 20th Century; foreshadowing the prophesied arrival of extraterrestrial intelligence in the new millennium. The aliens, specifically the gray alien’s image had infiltrated into mainstream merchandising. Everything imaginable, form T-shirts, coffee cups to an alien autopsy game for kids, could be found in every mall in America. I took this, as a significant sign in the evolution of human consciousness and that it was time to make a film about it.

After years of investigation and after interviewing over 100 people who had been abducted, I had come to my own conclusions. Then I met a real human/hybrid who was in dire need of resolving some very unusual medical issues. My findings were so startling; it had to be presented to the public.

J. J. BARMETTLER: During the development of the film, we also created an interactive web site of Gen-Y paranormal investigators who search the planet for unusual phenomenon regarding UFOs and Alien encounters. This team is a high tech group of super intelligence teens and young adults who put a new spin on the phenomenon and present it in an entertaining MTV format that operates strictly in cyberspace. Emails from the world over become the premise for their stories. You can check them out at www.aliensecrets.com. These investigators are sprinkled throughout Alien Secrets the movie and help Brandon on his quest to find an alien/human hybrid.

MOD: But the film Alien Secrets is also a lot about your personal life. How did that come about?

BRANDON: For years I had been keeping a journal of my UFO investigations and paranormal experiences. I disclosed some personal experiences that paralleled the film. We decided at that time to write a film based on my journals, my experiences, of how I became the host of “ Out There” and incorporate the documentary as it occurred. We invited Ayers Baxter to co-write a story and help us encapsulate the human condition and then put it all together, the documentary, the behind the scenes stories, my personal quest, all assembled into what people are now calling a “ hybrid film”; very appropriate don’t you think?

MOD: What exactly was Out There?

BRANDON: As a paranormal documentarian I hosted a Los Angles based TV show called “Out There with Brandon Scott”. At first I was exploring the overall UFO craze. I found many individuals who had actually been abducted by aliens and continued to have experiences. After doing in-depth research on their experiences, I would ask them to come on my show and talk about it. To be honest, most of them were too intimidated about going public and often times it took a lot of the convincing. It was on “ Out There” that many of the popular abductees you may now see on television specials, talks shows and news programs, first broke their story. I then started discovering women who had offspring from their alien encounters.
Out There was a very serious but wacky UFO show. On the one hand, I would do in depth one on one interviews with contactees, abductees, hypnotherapists and UFO experts, and then there was my off-the-wall UFO Variety Show. In these segments I would feature artists, painters, musicians, dancers, who where expressing their UFO/Abduction experiences through Art. The show was, as its name says, Out there, way Out There. But both the general audience and the UFO community respected it.

MOD: Did you make a living being a UFO investigator?

BRANDON: Well, not exactly, I would say, “my other living” financed my investigations.
I had been a host for a TV series called VIPTV where I interviewed famous celebrities at film premiers and press junkets. But I also supplemented my income with my personal appearances as a magician. I have worked all over the world entertaining thousands of people. It was very rewarding and gave me a chance to do my investigations in foreign countries.

MOD: Magician? What does that have to do with UFO’s?

BRANDON: Actually, a lot. I was trained as a magician in the art and science of being able to fool people. At a very young age when I first began my studies as a parapsychologist, I would join investigative teams in the field with the contribution of being able to detect whether a phenomena was real or fraudulent.

MOD: So that scene in the movie where you cut someone in half is for real, that is you?

BRANDON: Yes, it is. It's actual footage from my performance at the Coliseum in Quebec, Canada. It was part of Mark Wilson’s International Magic Festival. And, he is also in the movie, because, in real life, he has been like a mentor to me.
There are numerous moments in the movie that is actual real-life footage. Moments when I interviewed celebrities like Jennifer Lopez, Steve Martin and Eddie Murphy on the red carpet, scenes from my magic and stand up acts, as well as real events in my life that aired on the news. There are some scenes we had to go back and recreate because there weren't’t any cameras there when something outlandish happened.
(During this interview Brandon is interrupted by a phone call. It turns out to be an abductee calling him for help)

MOD: What was that about?

BRANDON: Oh, well…. You see… I am sort of a hot line to people who have been abducted. I get calls from everywhere. If someone sees a UFO or somebody thinks they were abducted, they call me. Usually it’s just as they are waking up and sorting it out, or many times it is conscious. It’s through this work that I see this phenomenon is very real and disturbing… I am not a trained therapist, nor do I give them psychological advice. But I have a real clear grasp of what’s going on and most of the time I can help them put it into perspective. If something major happens where they have scoop marks, I try to go over and document them if they are in the area. Otherwise, I talk to them on the phone or email. The film launches my persona as UFO Man, where I get urgent emails from all over the planet. So if you have anything to share, email me at ufoman@aliensecrets.com

MOD: Scoop marks? What’s that?

J. J. BARMETTLER: Watch the movie and you will find out.

MOD: So what’s next for you?

BRANDON: Well at the moment, a lot of my time is taken up, with talk shows and interviews like this one. I am being asked to turn my journals into a book. The most important thing is to continue my investigations. We are developing a sequel of “Alien Secrets” and instigating a planet wide search for hybrids. I still want to help people become aware of this phenomenon and ultimately help the hybrid I mentioned earlier find a way to gain medical knowledge and live a comfortable, pain free life while on this planet. And oh, I do want to do one other thing. These aliens, the grays, they are supposed to have no emotions, no humor. Part of why they are allegedly here is to understand human emotions. My self appointed challenge, is to try to make them laugh. If they laugh they may understand “ love” and love is the path to peace among all races.