Written by Andrew K. Arnett

I was prepared not to like “The Age of Disclosure” (directed by Dan Farah) for all the obvious reasons and to be sure, there were flaws. Mostly though, the lack I felt was from things I was hoping for. But let’s face it, Santa Claus isn’t real. The fact of the matter is that we have to earn our dislosure. With that mind set, I have to admit that there were moments where I was pleasantly surprised and even moved by the documentary.

If you’re a rabid ufologist or even, have a passing interest in the subject, many of the people that matriculate through the film will be familiar to you. Indeed, Luis Elizondo is in fact an executive producer. Like tropes, we’ve all heard what these experts have trotted out: UAPs run on zero point energy, they can stop and turn on a dime and accelerate at inconceivable speeds, etc.

It is ufology 101 and the film even has Luis Elizondo standing in a classroom in front of a blackboard lecturing on the “five distinct performance characteristics” of UAPs. Or as AATIP calls it, The Observables. Check the boxes:

  1. Hypersonic Velocity
  2. Instantaneous Acceleration
  3. Low Observability
  4. Transmedium Travel
  5. Anti-Gravity
  6. Biological Effects

It may be old hat for those with a PhD in Disclosure but what about everyone else? My feeling is that the man in the street needs to know about this stuff. If enough people get hip and start asking questions, that can only put more pressure on the government to do some actual disclosing.

With that being said, I never get tired of hearing former Defense Intelligence Agency official Jay Stratton say to the camera, “I have seen, with my own eyes, non-human craft and non-human beings.” Stratton goes on to explain one of the obstacles to disclosure is the ongoing arms race between Russia, China and the U.S. which began in the 1940s with the discovery of crashed UAPs.

Each Super Power wants to be the first to reverse-engineer extraterrestrial technology. And the one who does wins. But what happens then? In the wrong hands, we may all be fncked. As Stratton points out, “You can’t tell your friends without telling your enemies.”

The film actually works as a history lesson, taking the viewer back to Roswell, President Truman, then up through the decades and subsequent Presidential brushes with the UFO problem. The meat of the documentary of course focuses on the events starting in December 16, 2017 with the publishing of The New York Times article “Glowing Auras and Black Money–The Pentagon’s Mysterious U.F.O. Program.” The now famous article revealed the existence of a secret Pentagon program to study UAPs.

This NYT story kicked off the “disclosure” movement as we know it, the one referenced in the title of the documentary. This is differentiated from previous attempts at disclosure, from past decades, with a different cast of characters, etc. Will the public find out more this time around, or will we be Blue Booked into submission once again?

To be honest, it was impressive to see, on the big screen, Dr. Eric Davis speak about the Soviet Union’s recovery of four extraterrestrial bodies from a UAP crash site in 1989. At the site, they discovered an advanced directed energy weapon. U.S Air Force Security Forces (RET.) Jeffery Nuccetelli, described a massive matte black rectangular UAP the size of a football field hovering silently over Vandenberg Air Force Base before shooting off into space at thousands of miles per hour.

The film is being lauded by some and slammed by many. One critique that surprised me came from The New York Times itself. The review, written by Ben Kenigsberg, accuses “The Age of Disclosure” of slipping from the arguments of officials into “the realm of pure speculation.” He writes:

“If you don’t believe that extraterrestrials surveil our planet in bubbles that can warp time and space, the movie suggests that you’ve simply fallen victim to a government disinformation campaign intended to make people skeptical of U.A.P.s. (Hasn’t Hollywood, described as part of that effort, done precisely the opposite?) Question the film and you’re a chump, it implies. But anyone who sits through its nearly two hours of unprovable claims is a chump of a different sort.”

Calling someone a “chump” for sitting through the film is a low blow, even if he were talking about a mediocre film. This film is quite exceptional. What is most surprising about the hit piece though is the fact that the core premise of the film is actually based on The New York Times article that essentially made this all happen.

The bottom line is that any disclosure we’ve had came from hard work, investigative journalism, filing FOIAs, brave whistleblowers speaking up, and politicians with balls. The Pentagon isn’t just going to automatically open the vaults and give you a free tour. As far as the film is concerned, I was hoping to see more convincing clear video footage of UAPs. Maybe I’ll ask Santa that for Christmas.

REFERENCES

A Film About Unidentified Phenomena Gets a Congressional Audience

The Age of Disclosure (on Amazon)

Andrew K. Arnett is a writer for New Dawn Magazine and author of the book The Crowley Conspiracy available on Amazon.