The new documentary The Age of Disclosure takes a hard look at decades of unexplained sightings and claims a long-running secrecy campaign has kept the public and elected leaders in the dark, while a scramble among nations to unlock otherworldly tech quietly ramps up. Director Dan Farah interviews a raft of former officials and lawmakers who say this is now a national security issue, not science fiction. The film argues the United States must reclaim oversight and lead the conversation, and it arrives in theaters and on demand on Nov. 21.
Stories of fast-moving craft and baffling radar blips have been piling up for years, often shrugged off or labeled misidentifications. Pilots, radar operators, and everyday people have all reported encounters that refuse tidy explanations. Farah spent over three years talking to defense, intelligence, and political figures who say the problem is real and persistent.
“For a very long time, the public, Congress, and even the President have been kept out of the loop on this subject,” Farah said. “In the last few years, senior members of Congress, senior members of the administration, thanks to whistleblowers, have found out what’s been going on, and they are now in pursuit of the truth for themselves and for the American people.” Those are not idle accusations; they are the framing for a film that pushes for transparency on a matter of strategic importance.
The movie claims an “80-year global cover-up” and describes a modern competition to reverse-engineer tech of non-human origin. Former officials and contractors appear on camera describing recovered materials and sightings near sensitive sites. The implication is stark: whoever masters this technology could gain an enormous advantage.
“Every single person I interviewed made it very clear that it was no longer a question of whether this was a real situation,” he said. “It’s a very real situation.” That blunt assessment is repeated by multiple interviewees who speak on record, trading the usual rumor and innuendo for named witnesses and credentials. The tone is meant to move the debate from tabloid to national priority.
“We’ve had repeated instances of something operating in the airspace over restricted nuclear facilities, and it’s not ours,” Rubio said in the trailer. When senior lawmakers and ex-intelligence officers raise alarms about airspace breaches above critical infrastructure, the conversation shifts from curiosity to defense planning. Americans should expect their leaders to respond with seriousness, not jokes.
“The first country that cracks the code on this technology will be the leader for years to come,” said Jay Stratton, a former Defense Intelligence Agency official and director of the government’s UAP Task Force, in the film’s trailer. That warning frames the whole piece as a geopolitical wake-up call. It pushes the viewer to think in terms of competition and deterrence, not just mystery.
Farah describes the effort to understand these events as akin to a new, urgent scientific race. He said some are calling it “the Manhattan Project on steroids.” The point is clear: whoever controls novel capabilities first writes the rules of the next era, and that demands a U.S. response rooted in transparency and capability.
“Who would do that?” he said. “It makes no sense when you think about it. You know, if someone said, ‘Hey, there’s this constant terrorist threat. Terrorists are penetrating the airspace over our nuclear weapons sites.’ Who would laugh at that? It makes no sense.” The film presses that logic hard, arguing dismissal equals risk, and risk has consequences for national security and public safety.
Farah points out that some officials are now willing to go on the record, despite the career risk that entails. “Some officials go on record claiming to have seen craft and non-human beings with their own eyes, and these are people who are putting their reputation and their names on the line,” he said. That willingness to speak openly is central to the film’s pitch: that evidence lives in testimony and documents, not just in anonymous tips.
Farah expects a sitting president will eventually address this publicly. “I think it’s only a matter of time at this point before we have a sitting president step to the microphone and have the biggest moment a leader can possibly have, which is telling all of humanity that we’re not alone in the universe and that the United States intends to lead the way,” Farah said. Whether that moment arrives this year or later, the movie aims to make it politically and strategically impossible to ignore.
The film opens in select theaters and will be available to buy or rent on major streaming platforms beginning Nov. 21. For those watching from Capitol Hill to the hangar floor, the message is straightforward: treat these reports as a matter of defense and clarity, and demand the kind of leadership that secures American interests and keeps the public informed.
