The Age of Disclosure

Quick Take

The Age of Disclosure is a high gloss UFO / UAP documentary that claims governments have spent roughly 80 years hiding non human craft, bodies, and a secret tech arms race. It puts 30+ current and former officials on camera, wraps it in cinematic storytelling from Hollywood producer Dan Farah, and just got a massive mainstream boost from Joe Rogan.

There is still no public smoking gun on screen.
As a cultural signal, though, this thing is loud.

The Core Signal

The film is built around a few core claims:

• For decades, governments have allegedly recovered non human craft and bodies.
• A covert global race is under way to reverse engineer this technology.
• Whoever cracks it first could dominate the future in ways that make the nuclear age look primitive.
• Key parts of this story have been deliberately hidden from elected officials and the public.

The doc does not try to be neutral. It wants you to walk away believing that a real cover up has happened, and that it is finally starting to crack.

What the film actually is

• Format
  Feature documentary, around 109 minutes, directed and produced by Dan Farah through his company Farah Films.
• Release
  • Premiered at SXSW 2025.
  • Limited theatrical run in New York, Los Angeles, and Washington DC to qualify for the Oscars.
  • Available to rent or buy on Amazon Prime Video.
• Main voices
  The film leans heavily on testimony from insiders rather than random witnesses or blurry clips. You see:
  • Former DoD and intelligence figures like Lue Elizondo and Jay Stratton
  • Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper
  • Members of Congress and the Senate, including Marco Rubio, Kirsten Gillibrand, Mike Rounds, André Carson, and others

The pitch is simple: if these are the grown ups in the room, and they are talking like this on camera, you should at least hear them out.

Who is Dan Farah?

Dan Farah is not a fringe UFO personality. He is a Hollywood producer turning his attention to disclosure.

• Producer pedigree
  Farah produced Ready Player One for Warner Bros and the fantasy series The Shannara Chronicles, along with other film and TV projects. He is used to handling big IP and big budgets.
• Readyverse and tech world links
  He is also a co founder of Readyverse Studios, a metaverse and gaming platform built around the Ready Player One universe and other properties. That puts him in an interesting overlap between Hollywood, tech, and speculative future worlds.
• Directorial debut
  The Age of Disclosure is his first major work as a director. He has said in interviews that he kept the project quiet for years, built it independently, and focused on only putting on record, named individuals with serious government or military credentials.

Farah is essentially using his industry weight and craft to package a very specific narrative: that the cover up is real, the stakes are massive, and now is the time to drag it into daylight.

The advocacy ecosystem around it

The film does not live alone. It sits inside a growing network pushing for formal disclosure and policy change.

You will see or hear about groups like:

• Disclosure Foundation
  A public charity focused on UAP transparency, truth seeking, and policy change, with boards and advisors drawn from national security, legal, and tech circles. Christopher Mellon and other familiar names in the disclosure space are involved.
• UAP Disclosure Fund and related action arms
  A nonpartisan nonprofit that works on the political side of the issue. They emphasize:
  • UAP legislation and oversight
  • Whistleblower protections
  • Public education and outreach

These organizations are not literally “Dan Farah’s foundation” in a legal sense, but they form the advocacy infrastructure surrounding the film.

Think of it like this:

The documentary is the narrative engine pointed at the general public.
The advocacy groups are the machinery trying to turn that public attention into hearings, legislation, and declassification.

Together they try to move the UFO topic from late night punchline into a sustained political and cultural conversation.

The Joe Rogan boost

Very recently, the signal jumped to a much higher level.

• Dan Farah appeared on The Joe Rogan Experience, where they walked through the core claims of the film.
• Rogan then pushed a strong endorsement across his socials, calling The Age of Disclosure one of the most powerful UFO documentaries yet and highlighting the presence of high ranking officials talking about crash retrievals, non human intelligence, and reverse engineering efforts.

For a documentary like this, Rogan is a multiplier. Millions of people who never read UAP articles, never watched congressional hearings, and never followed UFO Twitter now have this film dropped into their feed with a “you should watch this” stamp.

That changes the game:

• It drags the topic further into the mainstream attention stack.
• It guarantees more pushback from skeptics, scientists, and political commentators who watch Rogan closely.
• It forces more people to decide where their personal line is between “intriguing testimony” and “convincing evidence.”

What is actually new here?

If you already live in UAP land, a lot of the individual claims are familiar. The “newness” is mostly about scale and packaging.

What stands out:

• Stacked insider testimony
  Getting dozens of current or very recently departed officials on camera in one place, speaking relatively plainly about non human tech and cover ups, is unprecedented at this production level.
• Framing as a tech arms race
  The film pushes the idea that UAP secrecy is not just about hiding weird sightings. It is about a multi decade, multi nation race to crack physics bending technology first, with massive geopolitical stakes.
• Mainstream reach
  Between SXSW, Prime Video, limited theatrical runs, cross coverage in major outlets, and the Rogan appearance, the doc has a cultural footprint that most UFO projects never touch.

So even if the underlying stories have floated around for years, the way they are being presented here, to this audience, at this moment, is new.

Where the evidence feels strongest

Strong does not mean proven. It means the signal is hard to shrug off.

• Pattern of testimony
  The most compelling part of the film is the consistent pattern across witnesses. Different people, different backgrounds, but similar contours:
  • craft over sensitive military sites
  • classified programs with restricted access
  • elected officials blocked from full briefings
  • long running efforts to keep key data siloed
• Overton window shift
  The fact that sitting or recently retired officials are comfortable saying phrases like “non human intelligence” on camera for a global audience tells you a lot about how far the conversation has moved. Fifteen years ago this would have been career suicide.
• The policy ecosystem
  The presence of formal nonprofits, think tank style groups, student organizations, and bipartisan legislative pushes around UAP issues shows this is no longer just hobbyist energy. There is real organizing power trying to drag the subject into daylight.

From a Signal Check perspective, this is solid evidence that UAP is now a genuine political and cultural issue, not just a pop culture trope.

Where the case is weak

This is where many scientists and skeptics plant their flag.

• No public smoking gun
  The documentary does not show clear, testable physical evidence of crash recovered craft or bodies. There are no declassified technical reports that can be independently examined. The public still gets stories, not data.
• Classification as a shield
  Much of the argument relies on “I have seen things I cannot show you because they are classified, but trust that they exist.” That does not mean the witnesses are lying, but it does mean the audience cannot actually inspect the key materials.
• Limited scientific pushback on screen
  The film mostly centers believers or at least pro disclosure voices. Scientists and engineers who are deeply skeptical, or who argue for more mundane interpretations, mostly show up in outside commentary and reviews, not inside the cut itself.

So you still end up in a familiar place:

How far are you personally willing to go on testimony
when the underlying evidence is still locked behind clearance walls?

How critics and commentators are reacting

The reaction is sharply split and that split is part of the story.

• Some reviewers call the film “really convincing” or “the strongest case yet” for people who have not followed the hearings or leaks.
• Others describe it as slick, repetitive, and one sided, a high quality briefing for a case that still has not met basic scientific standards.
• A few scientists quoted in coverage use words like “baloney” or “science fiction in documentary clothes” because the claims leap far beyond what has been publicly demonstrated.

You can almost map reactions to prior beliefs: people already tilted toward disclosure see this as proof, and people already skeptical see it as polished confirmation bias.

Signal Strength Meter

(How The Galactic Mind reads the signal, not a verdict on aliens themselves.)

• Cultural Impact: 5 / 5
  Between SXSW, Prime, Capitol Hill screenings, and Joe Rogan, this is the flagship UFO documentary of the moment. If the disclosure conversation has a cinematic face for 2025, this is it.
• New Information vs Repackaging: 3 / 5
  For deep UAP watchers, many names and claims are familiar. The new piece is the scale and coordination of who is on camera together, and how widely it is being broadcast.
• Hard Evidence Shown On Screen: 1 / 5
  High status testimony, yes. Publicly testable evidence, no. That is the gap the film cannot close.
• Future Watch Signal: 4 / 5
  The real story may be what this film enables. Does it fuel more aggressive legislation, additional whistleblowers, or new leaks and declassifications. Or will it be remembered as the peak of testimony based disclosure before things stall.

Overall Signal Check: 3.5 out of 5
High impact. Medium proof. Great for newbies.
Worth watching, but not the final word.

How to watch it as a Signal Check person

If you hit play, here are a few lenses to keep on:

1. Sort the claims by risk level
   Separate:Those are not equally demanding claims. The higher you go, the more you should demand in terms of evidence.
   • “UAP exist and sometimes outperform our current tech”
   • “There are secret crash retrieval and reverse engineering programs”
   • “There are non human bodies and a coordinated global cover up”
2. Watch who is speaking for what
   Pay attention to who is speaking from direct experience and who is relaying things others told them. A lot of testimony quietly slides between “I saw this myself” and “I was told this by someone I trusted.”
3. Track the ecosystem, not just the film
   Notice how advocacy groups, lawmakers, commentators, and media outlets use this documentary. Do they cite it in hearings. Use clips in lobbying. Build campaigns around key lines. That is where you see whether the signal is truly moving the needle.

Why this matters right now

The timing here is not random. It lands in a world where:

• UAP hearings have already pulled the subject into formal government channels.
• Legislation around whistleblower protection and UAP reporting has started to move.
• Public trust in institutions is low, which makes large scale cover up narratives both more plausible to some and more dangerous if wrong.

The Age of Disclosure is less about convincing you that aliens are real and more about forcing a question:

If this many insiders are willing to risk reputation to say
“there is more, and it is being hidden”
what kind of public process would you need
to either validate that claim or shut it down for good?

From The Galactic Mind perspective, this doc is a major waypoint, not a destination. Expect follow up Signal Checks, Dossiers, and Deep Thinks that zoom into specific people, programs, and laws that orbit this film.