Unidentified flying objects may no longer be science fiction, according to a new documentary set to be released in November.
The film, “The Age of Disclosure,” presents claims from current and former high-ranking U.S. officials about unexplained aerial phenomena and longstanding government secrecy.
In the trailer, Secretary of State Marco Rubio tells director Dan Farah, “We’ve had repeated instances of something operating in the airspace over restricted nuclear facilities — and it’s not ours.”
Rubio is one of 34 senior officials from both parties featured in the documentary, which will stream globally on Prime Video beginning November 21 and have an Oscar-qualifying theatrical run in New York City, Los Angeles, and Washington, D.C.
The film explores what producers call “an 80-year global cover-up of non-human intelligent life” and a “secret war among major nations to reverse-engineer advanced technology of non-human origin,” as the Conservative Brief reported.
Rep. André Carson (D-IN), a member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, said, “These are otherworldly things that are performing maneuvers that haven’t been seen.”
One of the most startling claims comes from Jay Stratton, identified as the former head of the government’s Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Task Force.
He says, “I have seen with my own eyes non-human craft and non-human beings.”
Rubio added, “Even presidents have been operating on a need-to-know basis, but that begins to ramp out of control.”
Director Farah told Entertainment Weekly, “This is the biggest disinformation campaign in the history of the US government. Clearly, the facts around this topic have been covered up for 80 years and kept from the public, and every single high-level, credible person I interviewed did not think that was right.”
Farah said the top officials interviewed did not question whether UFOs exist. “Are we alone in the universe? Does the US government know more than it’s told us? Those weren’t questions,” he said.
Instead, the questions were about national security: “What happens if an adversarial nation with bad intentions reverse engineers this technology and weaponizes it before we can figure it out?”
The documentary also includes interviews with Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., Mike Rounds, R-S.D., former DNI James Clapper, and other prominent officials.
Farah hopes the film will educate viewers and help government leaders bring more transparency. “Actually be helpful to people in a position of power within our government to bring more transparency to the public,” he said.
Meanwhile, Rubio is taking action on national security. A career State Department foreign service officer, Daniel Choi, was fired after secretly dating the daughter of a Chinese Communist Party affiliate.
Choi admitted on hidden camera, “I defied my government for love,” acknowledging he concealed the relationship despite rules requiring disclosure of personal contacts with foreign nationals.
The firing was approved by President Trump after Rubio ordered an internal review. The investigation revealed Choi’s girlfriend’s father “could have been a spy” and was “straight-up Communist Party,” raising national security concerns.
