A FILMMAKER INFILTRATED THE UFO SECRET: What 34 Government Officials Told Him On Camera

After three years of covert production, Dan Farah’s documentary reveals testimony about craft retrievals and non-human bodies that senior officials claim they’ve personally witnessed.

Someone spent three years assembling what might be the government’s worst nightmare. Not footage of flying saucers or green creatures, but something far more damaging: 34 senior officials from U.S. government, military, and intelligence communities speaking their names on camera about what they claim to know about unidentified aerial phenomena and the programs studying them.

The Documentary That Stayed Hidden

Dan Farah kept his documentary production completely secret while spending three years tracking down sources with direct knowledge of government UAP work. The initial trailer released in January reached more than 20 million views across YouTube and social media before the film premiered at SXSW in March.

Farah’s previous work includes producing the science fiction film Ready Player One and the fantasy series The Shannara Chronicles. His new film, titled “The Age of Disclosure,” explores what he describes as an 80-year global cover-up of non-human intelligent life.

The documentary features Secretary of State Marco Rubio among its 34 interviewees. In the trailer, Rubio states that the U.S. has experienced repeated instances of something operating in airspace over restricted nuclear facilities that isn’t theirs.

The Race Most People Don’t Know About

Farah claims his film reveals how the U.S. government is engaged in a secret Cold War race with China and Russia to reverse-engineer technology of non-human origin. Jay Stratton, a former Defense Intelligence Agency official and director of the government’s UAP Task Force, states in the trailer that the first country to crack the code on this technology will be the leader for years to come.

Some are calling it “the Manhattan Project on steroids,” according to Farah. He explains that the fear centers on how another nation winning this race could fundamentally change global power dynamics.

The documentary singles out China and Russia specifically as adversaries in the competition to study UAPs. At the same time, many high-ranking figures believe that the government has taken an antiquated approach to the disclosure of information about UAPs.

Bodies and Craft

Farah states that people in the film who are respected in their fields claim they have seen both the recovered craft and non-human bodies. The documentary reveals highly compartmentalized and top-secret programs within the U.S. Government that have been conducting research on recovered UAP material, including biological bodies of humanoid life-forms.

The key voices in “The Age of Disclosure” are Jay Stratton and Lue Elizondo, a former Department of Defense official and member of the government’s Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program. The Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program was a Pentagon program that pursued research and investigation into unidentified aerial phenomena, with Elizondo confirmed as having a leadership role by Senator Harry Reid.

The program was initially funded with $22 million, with most of that money going to Robert Bigelow’s Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies. AATIP generated a 494-page report documenting alleged worldwide UFO sightings over several decades, though this report has not been released to the public.

Jay Stratton states in the film that he has seen nonhuman craft and nonhuman beings. Rubio notes the secretive nature of the project in the film, saying that even presidents are not fully read into the program and are briefed on a need-to-know basis.

Congress Wants Answers

Senior lawmakers have been increasingly demanding that military and government officials provide them with information about intelligence on UFOs, with Senator Marco Rubio stating that if there are objects operating over restricted air space that aren’t ours and we don’t know whose they are, that’s a problem that needs to be investigated.

During congressional hearings, Representative Anna Luna stated that over 20 percent of Americans have reported seeing UFOs or UAPs. She also noted that many service members fear coming forward about their experiences due to concerns about retribution or being taken off flight status.

Rubio has stated that people who have come forward to share information with the Senate Intelligence Committee over the last couple of years have held very high clearances and high positions within the government. He added that many of them are fearful of their jobs, their clearances, and their careers.

Senator Chuck Schumer and Senator Mike Rounds co-sponsored an act called the UAP Disclosure Act that attempted to pass laws to declassify facts around the recovery of non-human bodies and non-human technology.

Could Trump Be the One?

Farah thinks President Donald Trump could be the first president to speak openly about this unexplained phenomenon. He states that it’s only a matter of time before a sitting president steps to the microphone to tell humanity that we’re not alone in the universe and that the United States intends to lead the way.

High-level officials in the film claim the issue was moved away from presidential oversight, with defense contractors gatekeeping information. However, Farah notes that members of Congress and the Trump administration are working to uncover answers.

Lue Elizondo emphasizes in the film that fundamental truths about our universe should belong to everyone, not just one organization or government. At the end of the documentary, Elizondo says he feels tremendous pressure to share what he can now because he knows there will come a time when people will wish they knew the truth sooner.

Whistleblowers Changed Everything

Farah explains that for a very long time, the public, Congress, and even the president have been kept out of the loop on this subject. In the last few years, senior members of Congress and the administration have found out what’s been going on thanks to whistleblowers, and they are now pursuing the truth for themselves and the American people.

Farah states that every single person he interviewed made it clear that it was no longer a question of whether this was a real situation, saying it’s a very real situation. Each person he spoke to had direct knowledge of this issue and extreme credibility, according to the director.

Regarding skepticism, Farah argues that joking about the topic is equivalent to laughing at a terrorist threat. He asks who would laugh if someone said there’s a constant terrorist threat with terrorists penetrating the airspace over nuclear weapons sites.

The documentary reveals that UAP activity in and around nuclear sites and military bases sometimes interferes with nuclear capabilities. The experts assembled in the film agree this behavior reads as a coordinated effort on the UAPs’ part to conduct reconnaissance and research on U.S. capabilities.

Mixed Reviews

The film premiered at SXSW on March 9, 2025, and was scheduled for release on November 21, 2025, on Amazon Prime with a limited Oscar-qualifying theatrical release in New York, Los Angeles, and Washington, D.C.

Critics gave the film mixed reviews, with Metacritic assigning a score of 52 out of 100 based on four critics. Daniel Fienberg of The Hollywood Reporter called it a sensationalistic documentary with fancy production values, noting that nothing is proven and thus nothing can be refuted.

However, scientists rejected the film’s premise, with physicist Charley Lineweaver telling the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in November 2025 that the film is full of people who are not scientists talking about a topic that is very scientific but is just baloney.

The Pentagon’s response to these claims has been consistent, with spokesperson Susan Gough stating that the department has not found any verifiable evidence that any UAP observation represented extraterrestrial activity, nor has it discovered any verifiable information to substantiate claims that programs regarding possession or reverse-engineering of extraterrestrial materials have existed in the past or currently exist.

Farah said he hopes the film will serve as the evidence many believe doesn’t exist, noting that on-the-record interviews are even more important in this digital age when many people dismiss everything as fake or artificial intelligence.

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NOTE: Some of this content may have been created with assistance from AI tools, but it has been reviewed, edited, narrated, produced, and approved by Darren Marlar, creator and host of Weird Darkness — who, despite popular conspiracy theories, is NOT an AI voice.