This is the year for UFOs. The truth is finally coming out. Donald Trump is contemplating “going to the mic” to tell the public about extraterrestrial life.
At least, that’s the view of Dan Farah in the documentary, The Age of Disclosure. And it’s compelling enough that Age of Disclosure has broken all streaming records for the first 48 hours of release.
“Elements of the U.S. government are in a high-stakes secret Cold War race with adversarial nations to reverse engineer this technology of non-human origin,” says Farah.
Age of Disclosure’s difference from a standard YouTube conspiracy mash-up is its access in Washington DC. Its chief appearance is from current National Security Advisor and former Republican Senator for Florida, Marco Rubio.
“We have had repeated instances of something operating in the airspace over restricted nuclear facilities, and it’s not ours and we don’t know whose it is,” Rubio says measuredly. “That statement alone deserves inquiry, deserves focus.”
New York Democrat Senator Chuck Schumer also appears. “The United States government has gathered a great deal of information about UAPs over many decades, but has refused to share it with the American people,” Schumer says. “That is wrong and additionally it breeds mistrust.”
Schumer and Rubio have previously tabled legislation for “disclosure” of US government information on the issue. Schumer says he was inspired to investigate Navy and Air Force pilots’ reports of unexplained aerial phenomena by former Senate majority leader, Harry Reid.
The film also features Christopher Mellon, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defence. Mellon was the source of the videos leaked from the Pentagon to The New York Times, which led to their “Glowing Auras and Black Money” article in 2017.
The videos, the Pentagon later said, are “part of a larger issue of an increased number of training range incursions by unidentified aerial phenomena in recent years”. In fact, in its evidentiary basis Age of Disclosure is downstream of those Pentagon videos.
As a production, the documentary’s trick is to blend claims that are moderate – the US military has recorded unidentified aerial phenomena that are, at least publicly, unexplained – with those that are immoderate – “we are not alone in the universe.”
Most frustrating of all is Garry Nolan, Chair in Pathology at Stanford School of Medicine. Nolan invokes evidence of “medical harm” suffered by military personnel in extraterrestrial encounters. Yet the evidence never appears in the documentary.
Yet as an unapologetic credentialist, I can’t quite close the book on Age of Disclosure. Skeptics responded to the Pentagon videos of “unexplained” phenomena with their own explanations – drones, distant commercial airliners, parallax error – as if those possibilities never occurred to the US Air Force pilots sighting the phenomena, some with over a decade of flying experience.
The cameo appearances in the documentary – like Brett Feddersen, Director of Aviation Security in the National Security Council, and 1-star Admiral Tim Gallaudet (PhD) – clearly know more about these phenomena than you, I or any Snopes poster. If they can’t explain what these things are, can you?
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