The Age of Disclosure

The Age of Disclosure is a 2025 American documentary film which explores allegations that extraterrestrial intelligence exists and has been subject to a decades-long government cover-up.^[1][2][3] The film is produced and directed by Dan Farah. It received mixed reviews.

The film's narrator and main character is former U.S. Department of Defense official Lue Elizondo, who alleges the existence of a secret government program that has investigated and concealed evidence of extraterrestrial intelligence for over 80 years. It features interviews with 34 current and former officials from the U.S. government, military, and intelligence community. According to the Washington Post, several of these interviewees claim "the United States has been secretly working to capture UFOs since 1947."^[4]

The film was showcased at SXSW on March 9, 2025.^[5]

Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 52 out of 100, based on four critics, indicating "mixed or average" reviews.^[6]

Owen Gleiberman of Variety wrote, "The title of the film refers to the idea — or is it merely the hope? — that we now live in an age when the government is being pressured to shed its secrecy. The people want to know, and the film says: We will know. But if that's the case, then when are we actually going to be shown something that looks like more than a dupe of a dupe of an old video game depicting a blurry black dot of an alien spaceship cruising over water at what looks to be about 300 miles per hour? I'll believe it when I see it."^[7]

In a separate Variety article discussing the film, Selome Hailu wrote, "It’s not hyperbole to say that “The Age of Disclosure” — and the conversations it creates — could change the world."^[8]

Writing in The Hollywood Reporter, Daniel Fienberg called the film a "sensationalistic wolf in understated sheep's clothing" and opined that "almost nothing in The Age of Disclosure is 'new,' per se" but that the quality of its production values set it apart from similar films of the genre and that "some viewers will happily celebrate the fantasy, when it looks this legitimate".^[9]

On Collider Nate Richard wrote that the film "delivers some fascinating information" but was "executed in the most bland way possible" and that "the pacing makes the movie feel like you're watching a college PowerPoint presentation". Nonetheless, Richard stated that there have "been far worse docs on the subject of UFOs".^[10]

Christian Zilko of IndieWire called the film "the most convincing argument you can make [for UFOs] without showing any actual evidence".^[11]

Bryan Abrams of the Motion Picture Association wrote that the film "should start a real, sustained conversation about what seems now an obvious fact—we are not alone".^[12]

Joshua Semeter, a professor of electrical engineering at Boston University who served on a NASA panel charged with studying classified evidence for the existence of UFOs, said that, while he watched the film's trailer, he would probably not view the entire movie as he had already seen plenty of "testimony-based documentaries" on the subject. Semeter opined that he felt the film would probably be successful in gaining distribution on "a UFO channel on cable".^[13]

• Disclosure movement

• Official website
• The Age of Disclosure at IMDb