’80 years of lies and deception’

A new documentary is causing a stir for claiming that we are not alone. 

“The Age of Disclosure,” which premiered March 9 at SXSW in Austin, Texas, interviews 34 military and intelligence government officials who admit to the existence of “UAP”s, or Unexplained Anomalous Phenomena — a new term for UFOs.

Although the movie’s participants refuse to disclose classified information, some of their statements elicited “audible gasps” at the premiere, according to a report in The Guardian.

A few vets boldly state on the record that they are directly aware of alien life existing on earth right now, and suggest that spacecrafts have been traveling here since the 1940s to spy on our technological capabilities.

They add the government’s secrecy around these happenings has grown into what they consider to be a a grave national security threat.

One whistleblower is Luis Elizondo, a member of the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, who says in the film that the concealment of this knowledge from the American public represents “the most successful disinformation campaign in the history of the US government.” 

He added that the alleged coverup amounts to “80 years of lies and deception.”

Former government officials also say that they have witnessed UAPs flying more than ten times the maximum speed of the fastest known human aircraft. That means upwards of 50,000 miles per hour.

Adding credibility to the film, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand both participated. Somewhat skeptical Gillibrand says that the UAPs, which some scientists in the film assert could not have been made by humans, could actually be overseas experiments.

“It could be China, it could be Russia, it could be any adversary,” she said.

Elizondo believes, without providing concrete evidence, that extraterrestrial civilizations are studying the world’s military.

“This is the biggest story there is,” director Dan Farah told Yahoo. “What’s a bigger story than an 80-year-old cover-up of the existence of nonhuman intelligent life and revealing there’s a secret Cold War race among nations to reverse-engineer technology of nonhuman origin?”  

“We’ve had repeated instances of something operating in the airspace over restricted nuclear facilities, and it’s not ours,” US Senator-turned-Secretary of State Rubio says in the doc. “And we don’t know whose it is. That alone deserves inquiry, deserves attention, deserves focus.”

Jay Stratton, a former Defense Intelligence Agency official and director of the government’s UAP Task Force, says in the movie, “I have seen with my own eyes nonhuman craft and nonhuman beings.”

Stratton has a tell-all memoir on the way from HarperCollins.

Congress has been increasingly interested in the government’s alien data.

In 2023, New York Senator Chuck Schumer and South Dakota Senator Mike Rounds sponsored the  Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Disclosure Act to increase transparency. It ultimately did not become law.

That same year, retired Maj. David Grusch — a former member of the Pentagon’s UAP Task Force — told the House Oversight Committee’s national security subcommittee that the US has taken “non-human” biological matter from crashed crafts. 

“That was the assessment of people with direct knowledge on the [UAP] program I talked to, that are currently still on the program,” Grusch said.

He added: “Based on interviewing over 40 witnesses over four years and where, I know the exact locations [the UFOs are kept],” he said. “And those locations were provided to the inspector general.”

Elizondo insists in “The Age of Disclosure” that we’re on the verge of a watershed moment.

This information “could change the trajectory of our species,” he said.