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2025 · SXSW, then Prime Video

The Age of Disclosure

On the record
Strength B · 8/10 · 6 independent
Evidence 2/4 · Witnesses 3/3 · Backing 3/3

Dozens of named senior officials and military pilots speak on camera, but the film's central claim of a legacy crash-retrieval program rests on their statements with no released records.

Plausibility Very high
Score 15 · 8 factors for, 0 against

Dozens of named senior officials and pilots speak on camera, including a sitting Secretary of State on nuclear-site incursions; the legacy-program claim rests on their statements.

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Theatrical poster for The Age of Disclosure (dir. Dan Farah, 2025). · Farah Films / Amazon Prime Video; via English Wikipedia
WhenMarch – November 2025
WhereSXSW, then Prime Video
Backing6 independent
Witnesses2 named
Evidenceofficial records

Dan Farah's documentary premiered at SXSW on March 9, 2025 and was released in theaters and on Prime Video on November 21, 2025. It assembles dozens of current and former officials. Its core claim: the U.S. has known about non-human intelligence and been retrieving its technology since at least 1947, under a secret 'legacy program' hidden even from presidents and Congress, while a race with rival nations to reverse-engineer the technology goes on.

Evidence, in date order (6)

  1. 2025Marco Rubio (Secretary of State; Senate Intelligence)official
    repeated incursions over restricted nuclear facilities, "not ours"
  2. 2025James Clapper (former DNI)official
    appears on camera as a former intelligence chief
  3. 2025Christopher Miller (former acting Secretary of Defense)official
    speaks on camera about the subject
  4. 2025Rear Adm. Tim Gallaudetofficial
    speaks on camera as a former senior Navy officer
  5. 2025David Fravor, Alex Dietrich and Ryan Graveswitness
    Navy pilots describing their own encounters
  6. 2025Robert Salas and Robert Jacobswitness
    Air Force veterans describing nuclear-site and missile-test events

How plausible · Very high

Dozens of named senior officials and pilots speak on camera, including a sitting Secretary of State on nuclear-site incursions; the legacy-program claim rests on their statements.

  • ●●
    Access Former senior officials.
  • ●●
    Cost of speaking Named on camera.
  • ●●
    Consistent over time Matches their sworn accounts.
  • ●●
    Character record A Secretary of State, generals, intelligence officers.
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    Independent convergence Dozens independently.
  • ●●
    Fits the documented skeleton AATIP, AARO, hearings documented.

Plausibility weighs how well an account fits where secrecy hides the documents by design, so missing records never count against it. Strength measures what is documented. Assessed 2026-10-23.

On the record

  • On camera: Marco Rubio, former DNI James Clapper, former acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller, Christopher Mellon, Rear Adm. Tim Gallaudet.
  • Pilots David Fravor, Alex Dietrich and Ryan Graves, and Air Force veterans Robert Salas and Robert Jacobs.
  • Members of Congress Kirsten Gillibrand, Mike Rounds, Tim Burchett, André Carson, Dan Crenshaw, Mike Gallagher, Anna Paulina Luna.
  • Also Luis Elizondo (central figure), Hal Puthoff, Eric Davis, Karl Nell, Garry Nolan, Mike Gold.

Claims

An 80-year cover-up, the legacy program, and a secret arms race over recovered craft.The Age of DisclosuresecondhandSourced, unconfirmedThe Age of Disclosure
We've had repeated instances of something operating in the airspace over restricted nuclear facilities, and it is not ours.firsthandSourced, unconfirmedMarco Rubio (in the film, replayed on Fox News Special Report, October 2026)
The UAP activity surrounding nuclear weapons is not a historic issue; it is an ongoing issue.firsthandSourced, unconfirmedJay Stratton (in the film)

In The picture

They came when we split the atomIt is not history. Jay Stratton says his own involvement began with a DIA video of a black triangle over nuclear missile silos, and that when his team parked a nuclear submarine off the East Coast as bait, with a P-3 Orion standing by, a UAP appeared on the very first mission. Marco Rubio says there have been 'repeat…
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