Dan Farah is a mainstream Hollywood producer (Ready Player One) who spent three and a half years making The Age of Disclosure, a documentary featuring 34 senior military, government, and intelligence officials confirming that the US government has covered up the existence of non-human intelligent life and recovered non-human technology since the 1940s. The film became the vehicle that senior Senate Intelligence Committee staff and officials had been looking for to disclose the truth publicly without individual politicians having to stand alone.
How the documentary came together
Farah grew up on 1980s pop culture (Close Encounters, ET, X-Files) and always wanted to make a credible, non-sensational documentary interviewing only people with direct government knowledge of the topic.
After producing Ready Player One with Spielberg, he began researching UAP for a scripted project and was connected to senior intelligence officials who confirmed the situation was real.
He pivoted to making the documentary he had always wished existed, and as he socialized the project, momentum built through introductions from one official to the next.
Crucially, at the same time, senior Senate Intelligence Committee staff (serving under Chair Warner and Vice Chair Rubio) had independently uncovered the cover-up in classified settings and were looking for a way to get the facts out. Farah’s film became their plan for disclosure.
The Senate Intel Committee staff vetted Farah’s interview subjects, sometimes steering him away from people and introducing him to credible witnesses, effectively ensuring the film was definitive and accurate.
The cover-up and the “legacy program”
Since the 1940s, a covert program (referred to as the “legacy program”) has controlled recovered non-human craft and bodies, operating entirely outside congressional oversight.
The CIA acts as the operational command (“quarterback”), the Air Force handles retrievals and operations, defense contractors perform reverse engineering, and the Department of Energy contributes nuclear expertise and uses its own ultra-secret classification system.
The program is not monolithic. It involves career bureaucrats at the CIA (specifically the head of Science and Technology), Air Force, and DOE, working alongside defense contractors like Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and Raytheon.
When technology is given to defense contractors to reverse engineer, those contractors become permanent holders of that knowledge while government overseers rotate out, creating a dynamic where private industry holds many of the cards and even senior generals cannot access the programs.
The CIA deliberately created the cultural stigma around UFOs in the late 1940s and early 1950s as a “security wrapper” to ensure no journalist, scientist, or member of the public would take the topic seriously. This stigma has now become a national security liability because it prevents the scientific community from engaging with a real technology race.
Funding comes from misappropriated government funds (as David Grush testified) and off-book funding from wealthy private individuals who hope to benefit from technological breakthroughs.
The technology and the race with adversaries
The recovered craft tap into an energy source not currently understood (possibly zero-point energy or quantum entanglement), creating a localized bubble of warped spacetime around the vehicle. This allows craft to move at impossible speeds, operate underwater, and appear to defy physics, all while remaining within known physics inside their own spacetime bubble.
This same technology could theoretically solve the energy crisis or enable a bad actor to deliver a weapon of mass destruction without needing nation-state resources, which is the core argument gatekeepers use for secrecy.
Multiple officials in the film frame the situation as a “Manhattan Project on steroids” technology race with China and Russia. Because adversaries can simply direct their scientists to work on recovered technology while the US scientific community is kept in the dark by stigma, the US risks falling behind.
Farah argues the base facts can be disclosed without revealing everything: that we are not alone, that the US has retrieved non-human technology, and that adversaries have too. This would rally the scientific community without giving away classified details.
There was historically some information sharing between the US and Russia about UAP activity near nuclear weapons sites (to prevent misinterpretation as an attack), but this reportedly broke down about 15 years ago. No one has told Farah that active coordination currently exists.
Key figures in the film
Jay Stratton: Former director of the government’s UAP Task Force, co-founder of the original investigation (AAO/ATIP). He was the head of air and space warfare at the Defense Intelligence Agency, meaning he was read into all US black programs and could confirm the Tic Tac and other sightings were not man-made. He is Farah’s central guide in the film and is publishing a memoir later this year.
James Clapper: Former Director of National Intelligence and head of Air Force Intelligence. In the film, he confirms UAP activity over Area 51 is real and reveals the Air Force had an active UAP investigation program despite publicly claiming otherwise since Project Blue Book. Farah notes Clapper did this interview while his wife was dying in the hospital, underscoring his sincerity.
Marco Rubio, Tom Cotton, Gillibrand, Rounds: Senior senators who participated, with Rubio being the most detailed in explaining how defense contractors gained control of the technology.
Dr. Hal Puthoff and Eric Davis: Senior scientists involved in classified UAP programs. Puthoff ran the CIA/DARPA Stargate remote viewing program and advocates for treating disclosure as a humanitarian issue. Davis provides the energy calculations showing the Tic Tac’s performance would require energy outputs far beyond US capability in 2004.
David Grush: Former UAP Task Force member whose congressional testimony about misappropriated funds and recovered materials is featured in the film.
Evidence and sightings described
Nuclear site encounters: Multiple witnesses describe UAP hovering over nuclear weapons sites. At Vandenberg Air Force Base, security guards saw a matte black object the size of a football field hover silently above a missile site. In another incident at the same base, a UAP was filmed zapping a dummy missile out of the sky.
Underwater activity: Navy officials have reported craft moving at hundreds of miles per hour underwater, far exceeding submarine capabilities (40-50 mph). One submarine captain tracked an object 10 times the size of his submarine approaching at missile speed, stopping on a dime, and vanishing. Officials have concluded there are likely underwater bases.
Tic Tac incident (2004): Jay Stratton personally investigated and confirmed it was not man-made. Eric Davis calculated the energy required for its observed performance (sea level to 80,000 feet in seconds) would exceed the entire energy output of the continental United States many times over, ruling out any US black program in 2004.
Foo fighters in WWII: Pilots reported glowing orbs accompanying aircraft during World War II, suggesting the phenomenon predates any possible modern human technology.
Rendlesham Forest (1980s): At a joint UK-US base with the largest nuclear stockpile in Europe, multiple craft were observed hovering over nuclear weapon sites. Base security guards witnessed them up close, and some suffered biological effects. The next day, unmarked planes arrived with Air Force OSI and CIA personnel who interrogated witnesses and reportedly administered a serum (possibly for memory erasure).
Ariel School, South Africa (1994): Over 100 children at an international school independently reported a craft landing and beings communicating telepathically, warning that humanity must not become “too technologized” or face destruction. Harvard child psychiatrist John Mack investigated and concluded the children were telling the truth. The children, now adults, have never monetized their story and consistently recount the same details.
Brazil incident (Moment of Contact): James Fox documented a crash/retrieval in a Brazilian town involving a creature that died and was taken by military forces. A surgeon at the hospital reported telepathic communication with the being, describing an overwhelming feeling of love. Senior Brazilian military officials have shared evidence of this with US intelligence contacts.
Ocean missile recovery: A special forces team was recovering a test missile from the ocean when a giant classic saucer-shaped UAP emerged, took the missile (described as being pulled like by a magnet), and departed. The witness would not go on camera.
Consciousness, remote viewing, and the mind-UAP connection
The CIA/DARPA Stargate program was real and declassified. It trained individuals with psychic abilities to use “remote viewing” (mind’s eye wandering to remote locations) and produced actionable intelligence used by multiple presidents, including Jimmy Carter.
Multiple credible officials told Farah that some people can communicate with non-human intelligence using the power of their mind, referred to as “space intelligence communications.”
An intelligence official Farah calls “Scott” had a UAP encounter as a child near a body of water. The next day, Air Force OSI showed up to question him. Years later, after brain surgery triggered recovered memories, he discovered hidden files showing he had been enlisted in the US Air Force as a child with a service code for “Space Communications Intelligence.” He found evidence of a program that recruited children after UAP encounters, and his life was threatened when he began investigating his own past.
The connection between consciousness and UAP is a recurring theme: children report a disproportionate number of sightings, left-handed individuals and those “more tied to nature” have been identified as having abilities to interface with the technology, and the Ariel School children received telepathic warnings.
Why the film stopped short of the “bridge too far”
Farah interviewed multiple credible witnesses who described encounters with non-human beings at their homes or on bases after investigating UAP for the government. These personal accounts were consistently the parts audiences in test screenings found hardest to accept, even when they fully believed the same officials discussing classified programs.
He removed a scene showing officials experiencing orbs and craft at their homes because it caused audiences to disengage from the rest of the film’s credibility.
He chose to focus the film on the base facts: cover-up confirmed, non-human technology recovered, technology race underway. He believes the next bridge (direct contact with beings, abductions) can be addressed in a follow-up film once the public has absorbed the current revelations.
One deleted scene describes an Air Force security guard at a nuclear base who, after witnessing a UAP, was hit by a bright light, became catatonic, and saw three non-human beings approaching his vehicle (one tall humanoid with a device resembling a cattle prod, two smaller different-looking beings). He blacked out and woke up with his truck relocated to the bottom of a reservoir. He and his partner were interrogated by Air Force OSI and CIA, told never to speak to each other again, and the partner was shipped overseas. A separate witness on a different base in a different decade described an almost identical aftermath.
The current state of disclosure
Four weeks before this conversation, President Trump issued a presidential directive to declassify evidence of non-human intelligent life and UAP.
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and DNI Tulsi Gabbard are leading the effort to identify what can be safely declassified, but are receiving pushback from career bureaucrats and defense contractors who have gatekept this information for decades.
Some intelligence officials tasked with this effort were recently given demonstrations of how UAP can be lured in (using nuclear footprints, such as placing a nuclear submarine and a vessel with a nuclear weapon in proximity) and reportedly saw UAP with their own eyes as recently as a couple of weeks before this interview. Congressman Burlson confirmed this on a podcast.
Farah believes the equivalent of Kennedy’s Rice University “space race” speech is needed: a clear, high-level statement that we have recovered non-human technology, our adversaries have too, and winning this race is a national priority. He believes this will happen relatively soon.
He is most proud that his film has effectively ended the stigma around the topic, making it socially acceptable to discuss UAP as a real phenomenon in mainstream America.
Jay Stratton’s upcoming memoir and Spielberg’s new film Disclosure Day (June 2025) are expected to further accelerate public awareness and acceptance.
