I was sent a screener of Dan Farah’s “The Age of Disclosure,” which I saw earlier in the year. Quite honestly, if there’s any documentary that can convince you that UFOs do exist, then it’ll probably be this one.
It’s been announced that “The Age of Disclosure,” which has been causing ripples in Hollywood and Washington, will receive an Oscar-qualifying theatrical run in New York and Los Angeles beginning November 21, alongside a simultaneous Amazon Prime Video release.
A new trailer dropped today, and it’s the kind of trailer that practically dares you to call it science fiction. Of course, this is very much conspiracy theory territory — but hot damn if Farah doesn’t make a good case here. He provides the receipts.
The doc, Farah’s debut feature, dives headlong into what it calls “an 80-year global cover-up of non-human intelligent life,” alleging a decades-long arms race among world powers to reverse-engineer extraterrestrial tech. The film isn’t shy about its ambitions — or its sources. “The Age of Disclosure” features testimony from 34 members of the U.S. government, military, and intelligence communities, all asserting that humanity’s biggest secret has been hiding in plain sight.
Among the talking heads is Jay Stratton, the former director of the Pentagon’s UAP (Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena) Task Force. Stratton claims:
I have seen, with my own eyes, non-human craft and non-human beings.
That’s not even the boldest claim in the doc. Some of the revelations are so outlandish, to the point where it makes you wonder if the intelligence officers being interviewed might have some ulterior motives.
Farah reportedly spent three years crafting the film under heavy secrecy, chasing down insiders willing to go on record. This is the same territory that Joseph Kosinski will be tackling in his forthcoming UFO whistleblower drama for Apple TV — that one’s based on former United States Air Force officer David Grusch, who testified before Congress that the government has been studying the spacecraft and bodies of aliens while suppressing the information from reaching the public.
“The Age of Disclosure” turned heads at SXSW in March. Its initial teaser went viral almost instantly, racking up over 20 million views across social platforms and stoking speculation about whether this could be the documentary that changes the narrative.
Watch the new trailer below —
The theatrical version runs 108 minutes, so we're talking a nearly 2-hour-10-minute cut of a movie that works because it's lean, and I'm not sure anyone needs that.