News flash! There’s a new documentary about to be released, telling us the truth about UAPs (those spaceships formerly known as UFOs). And this one is for real!

I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve heard that before. But, being a fairly open-minded individual, I decided to check it out.

First, in case you hadn’t received the updated memo on Washington acronyms, UAP stands for Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena — much more official-sounding than just some random flying object. And this newest film has been put together over the course of three years by legitimate documentary and sci-fi film producer Dan Farah — films such as 2018’s “Ready Player One,” when Earth is on the brink of collapse in the year 2045, but finds salvation in an expansive virtual reality universe; and the 2016 drama series “The Shannara Chronicles,” a fantasy about three heroes in someplace called the Four Lands on a quest to stop an evil Demon army from destroying the universe.

Perhaps Farah has been watching too many of his own productions. But devoting three years of his life to research and interviews is a strong indication that he must believe in his latest project. And he does have the most beautiful eyes and smile . . . so let’s give him a fair hearing.

This newest documentary — streaming in the U.S. and U.K. on TBC, and soon to be available on either Netflix or Amazon Prime (it’s not yet clear which) — is titled “The Age of Disclosure,” and is based on interviews with a number of “involved sources” in an “attempt to make the most definitive, credible film on what can be legally disclosed.” [Selome Hailu, Variety, March 9, 2025.]

Those sources include Jay Stratton, former Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) official and director of the U.S. government’s UAP Task Force (which I didn’t even know existed!); and Lue Elizondo, a former Defense Department (DOD) official and member of the government’s Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP).

According to Farah, both Stratton and Elizondo have spent nearly two decades “navigating highly secret avenues of government to figure out as much as possible about UAPs and disseminate everything that isn’t classified.” [Id.]

And they’re allegedly saying that, in addition to the information they’ve uncovered, there is actual evidence of non-human beings among us, along with their advanced technology. And that there has been a massive cover-up dating back nearly 80 years.

Which brings up an interesting question: How have all of the people who must have been involved in this alleged cover-up managed to keep their mouths shut for the past three generations? Anyone have an answer to that? No?

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Anyway, Farah included in his film interviews with or comments by some 34 people with direct knowledge of the subject, and says he met with about ten others who agreed to talk with him but declined to be filmed. He says that:

“Some high level politicians were afraid of how it might taint their reputation or impact them politically. And some intelligence officials legitimately believed that their lives would be in danger if they participated in the film. After long conversations with their significant others, they decided it just wasn’t worth it. That was eye-opening for me. The more you go down the rabbit hole, it becomes clear really fast that this 80-year cover-up of the truth has been enforced with threats.” [Id.]

Yeah . . . I can see how they’d be concerned about their reputations. It’s a good thing they checked with their significant others about this highly classified matter.

Farah’s documentary has at least one skeptical reviewer: Daniel Fienberg of The Hollywood Reporter, who wrote that “Almost nothing in The Age of Disclosure is ‘new,’ per se.” What sets it apart, in his opinion, is that it looks more legitimate:

“Over 109 minutes — and it feels much longer — The Age of Disclosure tackles its topic with utmost certainty and sincerity, its interview subjects treating everything they say like it’s established fact, not requiring corroboration or confirmation.” [Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, March 9, 2025.]

I’m quite sure that diehard UFOlogists (UAPogists?) would insist otherwise.

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As for myself, I maintain what I consider to be a healthy level of skepticism, until such time as I see solid proof. But I keep an open mind to the possibility that — out of all of the solar systems in our Universe, and the infinite number of universes out there — ours may not be the only inhabited planet in existence.

And do I believe that the U.S. government — or any other government on Earth — might know something they’re not telling us?

Well, let’s face it — that’s what governments do best . . . isn’t it?

I just hope that, if these other-worldly visitors do walk among us, they’re here — not to destroy us — but to use their greater powers to save us from ourselves. Because we really need saving.

Just sayin’ . . .

Brendochka
3/11/25