Age of Disclosure?

Maybe Not So Soon

There has been palpable excitement over the arrival of a new voice – a new vision – in the crowded universe of UFO documentaries. The Age of Disclosure, directed by Dan Farah, premiered recently at SXSW 2025, sets itself apart from the usual fare by assembling a stellar cast of insiders from the highest echelons of defence, intelligence, and politics.

Among its line-up of 34 senior members of the US Government, military and intelligence community: Marco Rubio, the current U.S. Secretary of State; General James Clapper, former Director of National Intelligence; and Luis Elizondo, the former director of the Pentagon's Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP). Such credibility isn't typical in UFO documentaries, which is why this one matters, or should matter, to those who hunger for authenticity – and a breakthrough admission by people who supposedly ‘know’: that there is ‘a phenomenon’ underpinned by the presence of a non-human intelligence on Earth that has been covered up by successive governments and officials for 80 years or more.

Within days of its premiere, the UFO community was electrified, breathlessly whispering that perhaps – finally - real disclosure was right around the corner. A mainstream audience might just sit up, take notice, and demand transparency from their governments.

All of which is understandable. After decades of dismissive laughter, ridicule, and misinformation, who wouldn't feel vindicated when respected officials openly discuss reverse-engineering alien technology? You can get a sense of all this from the trailer here, which even includes a moment in which Jay Stratton, a former senior intelligence official and former Director of the US Government’s Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force says “he has seen with his own eyes non-human craft and non-human beings.”

Powerful, visceral stuff.

Yet, as exciting as the premiere at SXSW in Texas proved to be - as highlighted in a vivid and appreciative review by the Motion Picture Association of America - the anticipated wave of disclosure hasn't materialised. In fact, even more curiously, the film hasn’t secured (as of this writing) a distributor, despite its explosive subject matter and high-profile participation. Which begs the question: how come?

If the film truly delivers on its promise - offering credible testimony of senior government officials acknowledging a covert history with non-human intelligence -why hasn't Hollywood, always eager for sensational, ground-breaking content, snapped it up?

The silence, in this case, is as intriguing as the disclosures themselves.

So here we stand, once again, at an oddly familiar crossroads. Despite the Trump administration’s recent fanfare about releasing the long-classified JFK files, much, if not all the recent momentum behind genuine UFO disclosure has stalled. You only have to look back to the end of last year – to the supposed ‘drone-wave’ that beset the state of New Jersey and US military bases further afield – including the UK and Germany – to be reminded of how imminent everything felt then.

As I’ve previously written, there is no way that all those ‘drones’ were drones – unmanned aerial vehicles – as we commonly understand them – certainly as I understand them as a long-time aerospace and defence analyst. Speculation, therefore, on why the slowdown towards supposed disclosure has occurred is inevitable. Has the Trump administration unearthed something within the classified UAP data it deems too volatile or troubling to share publicly? Or has it simply shifted its priorities elsewhere - towards ending the conflict in Ukraine, stabilising the economy, or navigating the contentious choppy waters of domestic and international politics?

Perhaps it's simpler, more human, and less conspiratorial. Perhaps UFO disclosure, as tantalising as it is, remains too radical, too disruptive a narrative for mainstream culture and politics to comfortably absorb. After all, governments rarely relish public admission that they're not in complete control – as the US government clearly wasn’t during the New Jersey drone wave - or worse, that they're completely in the dark.

It's worth reflecting here that this isn't the first time expectations for imminent disclosure have been raised and dashed. History is full of episodes - from Roswell to Project Blue Book to the 2017 New York Times revelations - that have tantalised the public, only to retreat back into the shadows of ambiguity. Each time, hope rises anew, only to be tempered again by institutional caution or bureaucratic inertia.

But here's the deeper lesson - and perhaps the real disclosure hidden beneath the headline-grabbing testimonies and political posturing.

Disclosure isn’t going to arrive neatly packaged with a ribbon and a bow on it, handed down by high-ranking officials from podiums in the White House, the Congress or the Pentagon. Instead, it will - and is - arriving slowly, steadily, woven subtly into the fabric of public consciousness. It's being driven as much by ordinary people diligently pursuing the truth as by the phenomenon itself, a phenomenon intricately tied to the very architecture of consciousness and human perception.

This, perhaps, and certainly for me, is the greater story - the profound shift in our collective understanding about what it means to be conscious, to perceive, and ultimately to comprehend our place in a universe that feels increasingly less familiar. UFOs, UAPs, whatever label we attach to them, might just be the stepping stones toward a larger, more fundamental awakening.

Indeed, the intersection of consciousness and the UFO phenomenon might be precisely where genuine disclosure resides.

What if – as we are exploring together every fortnight in The Light Beyond The Mountains - the phenomenon itself isn't purely or exclusively about extraterrestrial technology or otherworldly beings, but something even more profound that’s entwined deeply with our own consciousness? Perhaps this explains why disclosure remains so elusive: because revealing it involves confronting deeply held assumptions about the nature of reality and our own minds.

In the end, The Age of Disclosure might not yield immediate answers. Instead, what it does do – and does effectively - is nudge us to ask deeper, more challenging questions about our own nature, reality, and the boundaries of our collective consciousness. The journey towards disclosure, it seems, isn't merely about revealing what our governments know. It's also about understanding what we - as human beings - are ready to accept about ourselves and the world around us.

So, while we wait for official channels to catch up, perhaps our energies are best spent on personal exploration, open dialogue, and rigorous inquiry into the nature of perception itself.

Maybe the real disclosure is already happening, quietly unfolding within us.