In a highly anticipated development for UFO enthusiasts and skeptics alike, filmmaker Dan Farah has finally spoken out about his secretive, years-long project, The Age of Disclosure, a documentary set to premiere at the South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Festival on March 9, 2025.
Farah’s film promises to deliver a sobering and credible examination of unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs), drawing exclusively from on-record interviews with high-ranking U.S. government, military, and intelligence officials.
The premiere is just days away, on March 5, 2025, and Farah’s revelations are already generating significant buzz.
Farah’s comments, detailed in a recent Hollywood Reporter article published on March 5, 2025, underscore the film’s bold premise: that the existence of UAPs is no longer a matter of debate among the government elite.
“None of the government leadership I spoke to are debating whether this is real,” Farah told the outlet, hinting at the unprecedented access he gained to insiders.
The documentary features 34 current and former senior officials, including newly confirmed Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who reportedly states in the trailer, “Even presidents are operating on a need-to-know basis.”
Other notable voices include former Department of Defense official Luis Elizondo and Jay Stratton, ex-director of the U.S. government’s UAP Task Force, both of whom played pivotal roles in opening doors for Farah’s research.
According to a January 22, 2025, Hollywood Reporter piece unveiling the film’s trailer, The Age of Disclosure contends that an 80-year cover-up has concealed the presence of non-human intelligent life and a clandestine global race to reverse-engineer UFO technology.
The trailer, which has already amassed 18 million views across platforms, half from international audiences, signals the film’s potential to shift public perception on a topic long relegated to the fringes.
Farah’s journey into the world of UAPs began years ago through a chance connection with an anonymous source who introduced him to Elizondo and Stratton.
“I told them I wanted to make the most serious and credible and sober documentary ever made about this topic,” Farah explained in the March 5 Hollywood Reporter interview.
His goal was clear: to rely solely on individuals with direct, legally disclosable knowledge from their government roles.
What followed was a cascading series of introductions to other high-level figures, pulling Farah down what he describes as “the most revelatory and interesting experience of my life.”
This methodical approach sets The Age of Disclosure apart from the countless UFO documentaries that have come before it.
Unlike speculative works or those leaning on unverified eyewitness accounts, Farah’s film promises a narrative grounded in official testimony.
The result, as teased in the trailer, is a compelling case that “disclosure is upon us,” as Farah himself put it in a September 25, 2024, Hollywood Reporter article discussing another upcoming UAP documentary, The Program, by filmmaker James Fox.
The timing of The Age of Disclosure aligns with a broader wave of UAP-related developments. In July 2023, three former Pentagon officials testified before Congress about their experiences with UAPs, while the bipartisan UAP Disclosure Act of 2023 signaled growing legislative momentum.
More recently, a January 23, 2025, post on Boing Boing highlighted the film’s inclusion of prominent figures like Senators Kirsten Gillibrand and Mike Rounds, alongside former National Intelligence Director Jim Clapper, further amplifying its credibility.
Farah hopes his film will serve as more than just entertainment. “I hope I made a film that makes the public aware of a very serious situation that impacts us all,” he told The Hollywood Reporter on March 5.
Multiple senators reportedly believe the documentary could be a powerful tool to push the government toward greater transparency—a sentiment echoed by Christopher Mellon, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, who called UAPs “the biggest discovery in human history” in the film’s trailer.
As Farah’s team seeks a distributor following the SXSW premiere, the film’s international reach is already evident.
The trailer’s 9 million international views suggest a global appetite for answers about UAPs.
This aligns with sentiments expressed in a February 13, 2023, Space.com article about another UAP docuseries, UFOs: Investigating the Unknown, which noted a “heady time for UFO/UAP revelations” extending into 2024 and beyond.
