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WEIRD THINGS IN THE SKY
By Gideon Shmorak

GENRE: Thriller / Suspense, Science Fiction
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When a young reporter takes on her late father's mission to expose the truth about Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAPs), a shadow government agency devises a sinister plan to push her over the edge as they did to her father before his tragic death.

SYNOPSIS:

The life and career of LA Times reporter JILL KAGAN (30) are about to radically change when her

estranged grandfather passes away and leaves her a house on a desolate

ranch in the Arizona desert. Inside it, Jill finds piles of boxes

containing classified documents about U.S. military encounters with UAPs

and technologies ripped from alleged extraterrestrial crashed vehicles.

Jill learns that her grandfather used to work for a secret government

agency that researches and monitors UAP activity.

This becomes a golden opportunity for Jill to write an exposé that would

kick off her career as an investigative journalist. However, Jill's

demanding boss, the LA Times' Editor in Chief, MARGARET DUGAL (50s),

demands that Jill first find a reliable source that can authenticate her

grandfather's documents. With the help of an LA Times photographer and

former Green Beret, LEO COSTELLO (42), who's also her unofficial

boyfriend, Jill embarks on a search for that source.

As Jill starts reaching out to people who worked with her grandfather,

she gets on the radar of SPECIAL AGENT TOWNSEND (50) who's in charge of

ensuring that the agency's activities and what it knows about UAPs are

kept behind a wall of secrecy. It happens that back in the early 2000s

Jill's grandfather was suspected of leaking secret documents to his son

Bruce, Jill's father, who was an investigative journalist. However, this

was never substantiated. Townsend reopens the case and is tasked with

finding out what Jill is up to.

With the help of Leo, Jill manages to stay one step ahead of Townsend

and even turns the tables on him. Utilizing tactics that Leo picked

during his military service, they surveil Townsend and his men, during

which a shocking revelation about Jill's father, Bruce Kagan, comes out.

When Jill was a child, her father was about to publish an article that

would expose the agency and UAP cover-up. However, he committed suicide

before his article saw the light of day.

Unwittingly, Townsend leads Jill and Leo to Railhead Air Force base in

Nevada. Leo finds an aerial photo of the Railhead base on the dark web.

In it, he locates a giant hangar with a roof that remarkably resembles a

hangar in an old mysterious photo that Jill's grandfather left in his

will, in which he poses with three comrades. Jill and Leo take a gamble

that Jill's grandfather left her a clue that something is hidden in that

hangar.

The two con their way onto the Railhead airbase under the cover of

reporters who are coming to interview the base's commander. Upon their

arrival, they sneak away, locate the hangar, and slip inside. They

discover a boomerang-shaped vehicle the size of a football field covered

with a tarp. As Jill takes a video with her phone of Leo lifting the

tarp, soldiers storm in. Just before Jill and Leo get arrested, Jill

sends the clip to Margaret and her LA Times colleagues.

Join Jill and Leo as they regain their freedom and launch an

investigation into a shadowy government agency that has secretly studied

Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) for half a century. They uncover

the agency's efforts to reverse-engineer technologies obtained from

crashed UAPs and its connection to the tragic death of Jill's father.

Discover more in the upcoming episodes of WEIRD THINGS IN THE SKY.

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