Aliens are here. Not “maybe,” not “someday,” not “let’s wait for more data.” According to 34 American military and intelligence veterans, extraterrestrials have been present on Earth for decades—and the U.S. government has spent 80 years burying the truth.
This isn’t some tinfoil-hat fever dream. It’s the core claim of *The Age of Disclosure*, a new documentary featuring former intelligence officials, military personnel, and—just for a little extra spice—a bipartisan mix of politicians. All of them insist the world has been spoon-fed lies while behind closed doors, the race to capture and reverse-engineer alien tech has been in full swing.
Luis Elizondo, former senior intelligence officer and the film’s central figure, calls it “the most successful disinformation campaign in the history of the U.S. government.” Which is saying something, considering history has no shortage of those. If true, this would mean the public has been systematically misled about UFOs—rebranded as UAPs (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena) because the government loves a good rebrand—since at least World War II.
The film, directed by Dan Farah, premiered at SXSW in Austin, Texas, and immediately sent conspiracy forums into overdrive. Some viewers saw it as undeniable proof. Others, ever skeptical, wondered if the documentary simply repackaged old claims with dramatic editing. Either way, it’s got people talking.
One of its most unsettling claims? That the U.S. has been locked in a secret technological cold war with Russia and China, scrambling to outpace each other in reverse-engineering alien craft. So, if you’ve ever wondered why military budgets seem to disappear into black holes, maybe they’re actually funding research into ships that defy physics.
The documentary revisits infamous cases like the ‘Tic Tac’ video—a 2004 encounter where Navy pilots tracked an object moving in ways that should be impossible. The same footage that the Pentagon, in a rare moment of transparency (or controlled damage control), admitted was real in 2020. The film argues this wasn’t just an anomaly but part of a long-standing pattern of encounters the government has desperately tried to suppress.
Even politicians are getting in on the act. Trump’s new Secretary of State Mark Rubio and Democratic senator Kirsten Gillibrand appear in the film, backing the call for full disclosure. The message: it’s time for the government to come clean about what it knows.
Skeptics will argue this is just another rehash of the UFO-industrial complex—where every few years, insiders step forward with “new” revelations that somehow never quite blow the lid off the whole operation. But if even a fraction of these claims are true, we’ve been living in a reality far stranger than anyone wants to admit.
Did You Know?
- In 1952, UFOs buzzed the White House, triggering a full-blown military response. The official explanation? “Temperature inversions.”
- Project Blue Book, the U.S. government’s official UFO investigation, dismissed over 12,000 sightings—yet quietly admitted 701 cases were “unexplained.”
- The U.S. has a law (Title 14, Section 1211 of the Code of Federal Regulations) that once made it illegal for citizens to have contact with extraterrestrials. Just in case.
